RESPITE and FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMS

1 RESPITE and FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMS . Community-based PROGRAMS that provide a variety of RESPITE and SUPPORT opportunities for families of children and adults with disabilities. Statewide The Home for Little Wanderers Children's Happiness Foundation (BEIRCP) Helps to make wishes come true for children Provides trained person to provide hourly 3-18 who are chronically or terminally ill. or overnight care for children who are HIV. infected or affected. Box 266. Marshfield, MA 02050. 271 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Phone: (781) 837-9609. Phone: (617) 427-0657, (617) 927-0699 (TTY). Fax: (617) 267-8142. Website: Michael Carter Linsow RESPITE Starlight Children's Foundation of Center New England Short-term RESPITE care for medically fragile Starlight Children's Foundation is an children and adults.

2 Also has infant daycare. international non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for seriously ill 112 Main St. children and their families. Working with more Hopkinton, MA 01748 than 650 hospitals worldwide, the Foundation provides an impressive menu of both Phone: (508) 435-1222 in-hospital and outpatient PROGRAMS and Fax: (508) 435-9849 services. A leader in delivering distractive Email: entertainment therapies, over 74,000 children benefit from Starlight's PROGRAMS each month. 529 Main St., Suite 608. Boston, MA 02129. Phone: (617) 241-9911, (888) 291-9474. (888) 291-9474 (TTY). Fax: (617) 241-0066. Email: Website: Boston Boston Pediatric and FAMILY AIDS Toward Independent Living and Project RESPITE Care Learning (TILL). Provides money for a friend or relative to care Assists with creative supported living options for children of HIV positive parents on for young adults and adults with special needs.

3 Short-term basis Available supports through RESPITE / FAMILY . SUPPORT , PCA, Children's intensive supports, 55 Dimock St. information and referral through our autism Roxbury, MA 02119 program. We also run Strattus Mental Health Center. Phone: (617) 442-8800. Fax: (617) 442-1702 20 Eastbrook Rd., Suite 201. Dedham, MA 02026. Phone: (781) 302-4600. Fax: (781) 329-4254. Website: 93. Project RESPITE Care Project RESPITE Care is a research project through Children's Hospital in Boston. The project matches undergraduate and graduate students with children with special health care needs and/or disabilities. The students are trained to provide RESPITE care or personal care assistance in families' homes. The project serves children ages birth through 18 years. Nine languages are spoken within the pool of providers.

4 C/o Harvard Children's Initiative 126 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge, MA 02138. Phone: (617) 496-6881. Fax: (617) 495-1994. Email: Central MA Callan RESPITE House Fitchburg RESPITE House A regional RESPITE house, serving children Serves adults ages 18 and up. ages 4-18 from the Worcester area. 648 Fifth Mass Turnpike 168 Richmond Ave. Fitchburg, MA 01420. Worcester, MA 01602. Phone: (978) 342-0931. Phone: (508) 791-0981 Fax:(978) 665-9654. Website: MalBoeuf RESPITE House Southbridge RESPITE House A regional RESPITE house, serving adults from A regional RESPITE house serving children from the Worcester area. ages 4 18. 796 Pleasant St. 140 Chapin St. Worcester, MA 01603 Southbridge, MA 01550. Phone: (508) 798-4270 Phone: (508) 765-1633. Fidelity House Seven Hills FAMILY Services, Inc. Offers RESPITE or flexible funding to families.

5 In-home RESPITE care and residential RESPITE Runs a FAMILY SUPPORT group. Provides SUPPORT services for individuals with special needs of to individuals with disabilities living all ages in Worcester County. independently and in group homes. 81 Hope Ave. One Parker St. Worcester, MA 01603. Lawrence, MA 01843. Phone: (508) 755-2340. Phone: (978) 685-9471 Fax: (508) 849-3882. Fax: (978) 687-0147 Website: Email: Website: 94. MetoWest Kennedy Donovan Center Delta Projects, Inc. Offers a wide range of SUPPORT (assistance for Provides long and short term RESPITE care families through education, advocacy and options for children and adults with flexible services) and RESPITE developmental disabilities, plus an array of options (Emergency RESPITE Care, Specialized supports for individuals with disabilities and Foster Care) for children and adults with their families.

6 "Delta House" provides short developmental disabilities and their families. term RESPITE for children ages 5 - 15. Provides Over 20 sites throughout eastern and south after school care as well as overnight, central Massachusetts. weekend and school vacation stays. 1 Commercial St. 123 Highland Ave. Foxboro, MA 02035 Needham, MA 02494. Phone: (508) 543-2542, (800) 537-4707, Phone: (781) 449-8545. (508) 698-3926 (TTY) Fax: (781) 449-8544. Email: Email: Website: Website: Southeast MA Growthways FAMILY SUPPORT Network (AD-SUM, Inc.). Provides FAMILY and individual SUPPORT for Provides information and referral, educational people with mental retardation, including advocacy, RESPITE referrals and a variety of RESPITE , flexible SUPPORT and information or FAMILY supports to families of children with referral.

7 Mental retardation, ages 3-22, in the greater Fall River area. 1330 Main St. Brockton, MA 02301 240 Elm St., Box 1511. Fall River, MA 02722. Phone: (508) 941-6505. Fax: (508) 585-7651 Phone: (508) 678-6550. Email: Fax: (508) 673-3061. Website: Email: Website: Options Agape Inn Provides conduit for PCA program. Short and long term RESPITE program for children with special needs. Center based day 30 Taunton Green, Unit 8 program on Saturdays and school vacations. Taunton, MA 02780 Also provides an evening program for persons 17 and older. Phone: (508) 880-7577, (800) 924-7570. Fax: (508) 880-3218 217 Plymouth St. Holbrook, MA 02343. Phone: (781) 767-4358. Fax: (781) 767-4358. Mayflower Pediatric Center Long and short term RESPITE care for children with highly specialized medical needs. 123 South St.

8 Plymouth, MA 02360. Phone: (508) 746-4343. 95. Western MA Massachusetts Society for the FAMILY Empowerment Program Prevention of Cruelty to Children: Flexible cash assistance for families who have FAMILY Counseling Center (MSPCC) a FAMILY member with developmental Offers parent education and SUPPORT groups, disabilities living in most Hampshire county Chapter 766 trainings, intensive flexible FAMILY cities and towns. SUPPORT , limited RESPITE , advocacy, information and referrals. In a project overseen by DMR, 243 King St., Suite 48. two case managers are available to provide SUPPORT Northampton, MA 01060. and assistance to Latino families in the Holyoke area. Phone: (413) 586-8196, (8000 337-7791. Fax: (413) 582-9098. 113 Hampden St. Email: Holyoke, MA 01040 Website: Phone: (4130 532-9446. Fax: (413) 533-1598.))

9 Website: Association for Community Living Berkshire FAMILY and Individual Variety of supports and RESPITE options for Resources, FAMILY Resource Program families and individuals with developmental (BFAIR). disabilities. Offers a variety of RESPITE options, skill development classes, SUPPORT groups to 1 Carando Dr. families of teens and adults with special Springfield, MA 01104 needs. Service providers are bilingual. Phone: (413) 731-7625, (800) 834-2333 74 North St., Suite 406. Fax: (413) 732-1168 Pittsfield, MA 01201. Email: Website: Phone: (413) 443-9147. Fax: (413) 443-4460. Email: West Street Inn Vanguard, Inc. RESPITE house for children ages Provides assistance, supports and recreational all of Western Mass. opportunities to persons with disabilities in order to integrate them into their communities.

10 197 West St. Services include flexible planned RESPITE , Ludlow, MA 01056 advocacy, FAMILY SUPPORT group, young adult program and FAMILY broker program. Phone: (413) 547-6333. 1 Springfield St. Chicopee, MA 01013. Phone: (413) 594-2126, (413) 544-7036 (TTY). Fax: (413) 594-5610. Hampshire County FAMILY Network (HCFN) Hampshire Community Action A coalition of over 50 human service, health Commission (HCAC). and education providers. Access information A community center for families with children about health insurance, FAMILY SUPPORT , child aged birth through five. Offers parent development, childcare, advocacy, FAMILY education and SUPPORT , information and literacy, nutrition and transportation with one referral services, and professionally staffed call. Services available to families in Hampshire classrooms and play groups for children.