TABLE OF CONTENTS
Asthma/Emphysema/Chronic Bronchitis
CHRONES DISEASE/ULCERATED COLITIS
GAY/LESBIAN/BISEXUAL/TRANSGENDERED
HEALTH ORGANIZATION WEB ADDRESSES
Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA)
Whitinsville 508-234-7901
St. Michael’s Church
Tuesday 8:00 pm
Christian 6-Step Program 508-842-9947
S. Grafton
Co-Dependents Anonymous 508-842-2707
Decisive Recovery 508-798-2399
Self-help for addictions
Mental health and substance abuse counseling
Northbridge 508-473-0862
Connection Support Group 508-366-1766
Westborough or
508-366-9131
Family Services of
Athol
Athol
2nd Monday of the month 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Last Thursday of the month 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Programs for patients and families
Women’s Health Center of Marlborough
1st Wednesday of the month 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Programs for patients and families
Harvard
Contact Elizabeth Tyson Smith
Prostate Cancer
Temporary housing for patients and their families
4th Tuesday of the month 6:30 pm
Prostate Cancer 508-856-2114
Other cancer programs 508-856-2843
Patients and families 508-334-6286
Children’s cancer
Exercise/Cancer Support
Athol
NEADS trains and places dogs to assist
those who are deaf or physically disabled.
Center for Living and Working 508-363-1226
Programs and services for the disabled
In-home mental health counseling for the elderly and disabled
Daybreak Resources 508-755-9030
Shelter, advocacy, support groups for battered women
and their children family & friends
of victims 508-755-5371
Men’s Educational Workshop 508-856-3346
Rape
Devens
Gay/Lesbian or 617-927-6250
Counseling programs for addicts
Support for hospital professionals 800-345-3552 x3040
Funded by DPH. 6-month recovery home program for male substance abusers. Resident must work or do volunteer service
Mental health and substance abuse counseling
St. Catherine’s Church
1 Wiser
Monday 8:30 pm
Webster 508-943-2944
YOU,
Meals on wheels, long-term care ombudsman, senior companion program, adult social daycare program.
Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 4:30pm
Covers much of
Assessment services, in-home services, transportation, protective services.
Central Mass Agency on Aging 508-852-5539
Information and referral service for seniors and caregivers.
In-home mental health counseling for the elderly and disabled
At
Montachusett
66 Day St.,
Senior programs, elderly nutrition programs, 978-345-8501
In-home and on site
Nursing, home health, rehabilitation and physical therapy
Focal point center offering social, Main
# 508-799-1232
educational, advocacy and
healthcare programs to senior citizens in the City of
UMass Memorial Health Care 508-856-4147
Thursday 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Food Pantry Wednesday & Thursday 9:00 – 12:00 noon
Two meetings, one for parents of children with eating disorders, one for adults (19+)
Overeaters Anonymous 508-754-7722
For
Automated line gives info
on times and places
Overeaters Anonymous 508-799-9000
Tuesday 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Friday 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Overeaters Anonymous 508-798-8653
Jewish
Wednesday 7:00 pm
Overeaters Anonymous
St. Matthew’s Church,
Monday, Wednesday &
Friday 7:00 am
Overeaters Anonymous 508-366-7095
Westboro Good Shepherd Lutheran,
Tuesday 7:30 pm
Overeaters Anonymous
Thursday 7:00 pm
Overeaters Anonymous
Monday 7:00 pm
Overeaters Anonymous 508-754-7712
University Campus
Monday 4 – 5 pm Tuesday 1 – 5 pm Wednesday 6 – 8 pm
Clients only
Monday thru Friday 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
Wednesday and Thursday 9:00 am – 12 noon
Monday thru Friday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Webster Sq., Worcester
Tuesday 1:00 – 4:00 pm and Friday 9:00 am – Noon
Streets in immediate neighborhood only
Whitinsville
Must have referral from pastor, Catholic Charities or social worker
9:30 – 11:30 am
01607 zip only – income verification
United
Tuesday and Thursday
Federal income guidelines
Monday 3:00 – 5:00 pm Wednesday 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Monday thru Friday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Winchenden residents only
Monday 6:30 pm
or 508-366-8576
Parents/Friends of Lesbians & Gays
(14-22 years old)
UMassMemorial Health
Care – Bereavement 508-754-0052
VNA Care Network 508-756-7176 x6888
You Are Not Alone 508-752-4200
or 978-342-6109
ALS
Association (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) www.als-ma.org
Alzheimer’s
Association www.alzmass.org
American
Cancer Society www.cancer.org
American
Diabetes Foundation www.diabetes.org
American
Heart Association www.americanheart.org
American
Liver Foundation www.liverfoundation.org
American
Lung Association www.lungusa.org
Amer Parkinson Disease Assn www.apdaparkinson.org
Arthritis
Foundation www.arthritis.org
Centers
for Disease Control & Prevention www.cdc.org
CFIDS
Assoc of
Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation www.cff.org
Huntington’s Disease Soc www.hdsa-ne.org
Lupus Foundation
Mass www.lupusmass.org
Lyme Disease Assoc www.lymehelp.org
Mass
Brain Injury Assoc www.mbia.net
Muscular
Dystrophy Foundation www.mdausa.org
National
Hemophilia Foundation www.hemophilia.org
National
Kidney Foundation www.kidneyhealth.org
National
Multiple Sclerosis Soc www.nmss.org
National
Osteoporosis Foundation www.nof.org
National
Stroke Assoc www.stroke.org
SIDS
United
Cerebral Palsy Assoc www.ucpa.org
Hard of Hearing Support Group 508-799-1232
2nd Friday of the month 2:00 pm
Hearing Aid Program for Infants & Toddlers 800-882-1435
Free Hearing aids based
on income.
Free hearing exams, hearing
aids for uninsured or underinsured individuals.
Eligibility is determined on a case by case
basis. Service or healthcare provider
should call for an application form.
Free eye exams, eyeglasses,
and eligibility as above.
Eye & Ear Clinic at 508-799-4191
Wesley United
Eyeglasses or hearing aids for adults and children, uninsured or underinsured. Walk in, no appointment necessary.
Hearing Evaluation: 2nd & 4th.
Monday of the month 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Eye
care and hearing testing programs. Call on
Monday 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm for more information.
Eyeglasses: $15.00 single lens,
$25:00 bifocals, children’s glasses are free.
Ear care program: For hearing screening and referral to low
cost hearing aids ($25.00 - $50.00 depending on aid)
Optometry Exams: Monday 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Ophthalmology: Glaucoma
& Diabetic Retina Exams, 1st Monday of the month 6:00 pm – 8:00
pm
Case management for persons with HIV, on site substance abuse counseling, support groups, free legal services, buddy program, home delivered meals, family support and education.
West Boylston
Comprehensive services for children, youth and families living with HIV
Mendon 508-473-0862
Northbridge
508-473-0862
Westborough 508-366-1766
or 508-366-9131
American Cancer Soc. Look
Good-Feel Better 800-227-2345
American Lung Association 508-947-7204
Bereavement Support Group (
Child Advocacy Hotline 800-870-5905
Child Abuse Mandated Reporting 800-792-5200
Child at Risk Hotline 800-792-5200
Child Help Hotline 800-422-4453
Chronic Fatigue/Fybromyalgia 508-865-6257
Citizen’s Health Drug Discount
Plan 800-563-5409
Cocaine Hotline 800-262-2463
Domestic Violence Family/Friends
Support 800-345-3552
Elder Abuse Hotline 800-922-2275
Emergency Mental Health Hotline 508-856-3562
Emergency Shelter (
Epilepsy 617-542-2292
Food Source Hotline 800-645-8333
Gam-Anon(Family & friends) 888-644-8462
Gamblers Anon Central MA 888-644-8482
Hearing Education for
Infants/Toddlers 800-882-1435
Llamanos
Hotline (Battered women) 800-223-5001
Mass. Attorney General’s Elder
Hotline 888-243-5337
Mass Brain Injury Association 800-242-0030
Mass Commision
for Deaf & Hard of Hearing 800-882-1155
Mass Consumer & Care
Complaints for Elders 800-243-4636
Mass Council on Compulsive
Gambling 800-426-1234
Mass Dept. of Mental Health 800-221-0053
MassHealth 888-665-9993
Mass Heat Line 800-632-8175
Mass
Rehabilitation Hotline (24hrs.) 800-327-5050
TTY 617-536-5872
Mass Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty 508-799-3136
To Children
Muscular Dystrophy 800-289-8805
National
Parents Helping Parents 800-882-1250
(Have condition, age, weight of victim
name of product, ingredients, amt. Ingested
and time of ingestion)
Spanish 800-223-5001
SIDS (Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome) 800-641-7437
Stroke
800-787-6537
Suicide Hot Line 508-875-4500
UMassMemorial
Emergency Mental Health 508-334-3562
US Veterans Administration 800-827-1000
Violence Recovery Program
(Gay/Lesbian) 800-834-3242
Wayside Victim Services (Milford & Marlboro)
800-511-5070
Why Me – Children’s Cancer 800-221-2141
24 hours a day, 365 days a year after 5:00 pm 508-757-1242
English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Polish and others
Provides free civil legal assistance to
low-income and elderly residents of
Focal point center offering social, Main # 508-799-1232
educational, advocacy and
healthcare programs to senior citizens in the City of
Support Group
& Depressive Assoc. of
In-home mental health counseling for the elderly and disabled
Diagnostic, treatment and medication plans for ages 0 – 22 years
Monday 7:30 – 9:00 pm
Mental health programs
Mental health and substance abuse counseling
Psychiatric, social, educational, vocational, employment and housing services for people with mental illness
Teen Clinic, Counseling
or 800-221-0053
Central Mass 508-886-6669
Fitchbury
978-433-7910
North
YOU, Inc.
Psychiatric testing and evaluations
Hill Health Center 508-533-8726
Montachusett
Elderly nutrition programs on-site and in-home
or 800-891-2300
UMassMemorial Health
Care 508-721-1397
or 508-856-6492
St. Anne’s Center Parish,
Alternate Tuesdays at 6:30 pm
Wachusett Region 508-829-3161
or 978-422-8838
or 508-755-1257
Barre, Grafton,Marlboro 800-882-1250
Sterling 978-422-2325
Webster 508-765-3430
Monday Noon
Monday 7:00 pm
Thursday 5:30 pm
School Age Mothers Program 508-334-6388
Youth Guidance Center 508-791-3261
Thursday 6:30 pm
Young Parents Program 508-767-2525 x3028
YWCA Worcester
GED prep and support
Adult Male Survivers of Sexual
Assault 508-852-7600
Adult Survivors of Childhood/Sexual Abuse
508-476-2873
Adult Women Survivors of Rape
800-870-5905
Llamanos Spanish Hotline 800-223-5001
Worcester (English)
Spanish 800-223-5001
Sturbridge
191 May
2nd & 4th Thursday of the month 6:00 – 7:00 pm
59B
Individual, group and family counseling. Parent-toddler and teen adventure programs. High school and middle school programs
Diagnostic, treatment and medication plans ofr age 0 – 22 years.
Multi-lingual, on bus line, sliding fee scale
Teen Health , Counseling
Teen Clinic, Counseling
Flexible fee schedule. Pregnancy testing and counseling, family planning, pregnancy termination, health education, walk-in clinic for the testing and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases
2nd & 4th Tuesday 3:00 – 6:00 pm preventive health exams and education
Call to place name on sign-up sheet.
Teen
Family, individual, marital, school, drug and alcohol counseling. Psych testing and evaluation. Sexual abuse, HIV, grief, depression, juvenile programs. Sliding fee scale. Multi-lingual
Provides current information from daily and weekly national, regional and local newspapers; broadcasts papers, magazines and books 17 hours a day; produces special programs, shopping guides, book readings, theater, children’s programs and music
Social services, rehab teaching and mobility training
Information & referral for vision and adaptive equipment
www.worcpublib.org/talkingbook
Professionally recorded books, readers’
advisors, Braille/large print books (children and adults), descriptive videos,
adaptive equipment, pc systems, embossers, reading machines. Serving all of