Student & Parent Resources

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RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS, PARENTS, & STAFF

Riverside Community Care: (800) 294-4665

• Call 24/7 for emergency services

Outpatient Behavioral Health/Counseling Services

• Community Impact (Milford): (508) 422-0242
• Center for Adolescent Health: (508) 482-5444
• Riverside Community Care: (508) 529-7000
• Wayside Youth & Family Support Network: (508) 879-9800
• Integrated Psychotherapy: (508) 473-1200
• Blackstone Valley Counseling: (508) 529-3320
• Milford-Franklin Counseling: (508) 473-7400
• FCP (Family Continuity Programming): (508) 879-6252
• Youth Central Intake and Care Coordination: (617) 661-3991
• BU Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders: (617) 353-9610

Suicide, Depression, and Self-Injury

• Text ACT to 741741 from anywhere in the U.S. to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor
• 24/7 Hotline: Samaritans: Suicide Risk Hotline (877) 870-4673
• 24/7 Hotline: Samariteens: Suicide Prevention Hotline (617) 247-0220
• 24/7 Hotline: National Runaway Safeline: (800) 786-2929
• 24/7 Hotline: Hope Center Hotline: (800) -SUICIDE
  • Call 24/7 if thinking about suicide or cutting (800) 784-2433
• 24/7 Hotline: National Suicide Prevention Hotline: (800) 273-TALK

Substance Use Treatment

• MA Substance Abuse Information and Education: 800-327-5050
• Bureau of Substance Abuse Services: (617) 624-5111
• 24/7 Hotline: Alcohol, Tobacco & Substance Abuse: (800) 720-3479
• 24/7 Hotline: Massachusetts Substance Use Treatment Hotline: (800) 327-5050
• 24/7 Hotline: National Alcohol & Substance Abuse Info Center: (800) 784-6776
• 24/7 Hotline: Alcoholics Anonymous (Boston Central Service): (617) 426-9444
• Massachusetts Al-anon and Alateen: (888) 425-2666

• Support for friends and loved ones of people with alcohol and substance abuse problems.

• Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting Finder
• Try-To-Stop Tobacco and Resource Center of Massachusetts: (800) 879-8678

Relationship Violence, Domestic Violence, and Sexual Assault

• 24/7 Hotline: National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline: Love is Respect (508) 331-9474

• 24/7 Hotline: National Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233

• BARCC- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center: (800) 841-8371
  • BARCC offers free, confidential services to survivors as young as 12, their friends, and families.
• Valley Rape Crisis Hotline: (800) 511-5070
  • This is a free, and confidential service for people ages 12 and up.
  • The following number is their Spanish speaking hotline: (800) 223-5001

Nutrition and Eating Disorders

• Massachusetts Eating Disorders Association (MEDA): (617) 558-1881
  • For the prevention and treatment of eating disorders

• Hotline: National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA): (800) 931-2237
  • See link for hotline hours of operation

LGBTQ Resources

• 24/7 Hotline: Gay and Lesbian National Hotline: (888) THE-GLNH (843-4564)
• 24/7 Hotline: Peer Listening Line for LGBT Youth: (800) 399-7337 OR (888) 340-4528
• 24/7 Hotline: Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
  

• PFLAG: Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays: (866) 427-3524
  • National organization that promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through support, education, and advocacy. www.pflag.org
• BAGLY: Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth: (617) 227-4313
  • Youth group (for LGBT youth 22 years and under) meets weekly and sponsors events.
  • Gay group that is especially welcoming to transgender kids.

• WAGLY: West Suburban Alliance of Gay & Lesbian Youth: (508) 875-2122
  • GLBTQ Youth Alliance group
• GLAD: Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders: Legal InfoLine: (800) 455-GLAD
  • New England legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity and expression.
• QAPA: Queer Asian Pacific Alliance  
  • Social, political, and educational environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning women and men of Asian and Pacific Islander (A/PI) heritage in the Boston and New England area. This is inclusive of A/PIs, A/PI Americans and those who are of mixed A/PI heritage.
• MASALA: Massachusetts Area South Asian Lambda Association
  • Safe and supportive social environment for New England based Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning South Asians
• Boston GLASS: Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services/Urban Youth Institute at JRI Health:
  (857) 399-1920
  • Drop-in center for LGBT youth (ages 13-25) offering support and culturally sensitive resources.
• Boston Children’s Hospital: (617) 355-4367
  • Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) and Gender Management Services (GeMS) ​