Clinical & Family Support

Child and Family Counseling Center
The Child and Family Counseling Center (CFCC) is a licensed outpatient mental health clinic. CFCC has a primary site in Roslindale, an office site in downtown Boston, and many other outreach sites. Multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural staff of the CFCC offer an array of assessment, treatment, consultation, and prevention services to children, adolescents, and their families. We treat children and families experiencing a variety of stresses including: relationship problems, school problems, single parent family issues, depression, anxiety, behavior disorders, attentional problems, substance abuse issues, family violence, and emotional traumas. Staff provide individual, group, and family treatment; substance abuse counseling; psychological testing and neuropsychological testing; medication evaluation, prescription, and follow-up; specific treatment for trauma survivors; specialty counseling services for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender clients and families; and community and school consultation on mental health, substance abuse and prevention issues. CFCC services are provided at our two clinic sites, in over 20 area schools, in clients' homes, and in other community settings. The treatment and prevention services are designed to promote healthy development and improve mental health functioning of children, adolescents, young adults and families, increase parental competency, and increase individual and family connection to the local community.

Home-Based Family Support
Home-Based Family Support offers families that are facing some of life’s most difficult challenges the support they need to keep their families on track. Through a breadth of family mentor and respite programs, Home-Based Family Support elevates these fragile families from their current status by providing mentors and aids. From something as simple as taking an HIV-infected boy to a baseball game, to helping a cognitively limited parent look for an apartment, to helping a 16-year-old mother leave an abusive relationship, the program aims to help families create a healthy, stable home.

Safe-at-Home
Safe-at-Home is a team of therapists who work intensively with a child, and his or her family, in the home for a period of 3 weeks to 3 months. We offer a diverse staff fluent in Spanish, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and Armenian. Safe-at-Home is dedicated to helping families further assist children and adolescents who are in psychological, behavioral or emotional distress. This is a voluntary program that needs the family to join in the process in order to be successful. A child, and their family, may be referred to the Safe-at-Home team during a time of crisis as an alternative to placing the child in a hospital, foster care or residential program. A crisis worker, from a psychiatric emergency service, or through the Department of Children and Families, may suggest Safe-at-Home when they feel that the child or teenager can safely live at home but needs to be seen by a therapist more frequently than once a week. Work with children and families includes helping families devise safety plans, helping create effective behavioral plans, fostering better communications and aiding in the development of clear and safe limit setting through building on families' strengths. The Safe-at-Home team is made up of master's level mental health professionals and bachelor's level community clinicians who work for The Home for Little Wanderers, while also working in collaboration with Boston Medical Center, Cambridge Hospital, Carney Hospital, Children's Hospital and the Department of Children and Families. Some of the staff are bilingual in Spanish.

Therapeutic After School Program
The Therapeutic After School Program (TASP) is based in Roslindale. TASP provides Boston-area youth aged 10 to 18 with a community-based after school treatment environment. The program offers a therapeutic milieu with educational support, therapy and psychoeducational groups, and recreational and social skill building activities, as well as individualized treatment planning. TASP clients are referred by the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Children and Families, and other state and community agencies. For many of the participating youth, TASP serves as an alternative to out-of-home placement. For others, the program serves as a crucial step in the process of rejoining their families. TASP offers family events and activities as a way of involving families in the youth's lives and treatment.