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Mental Health Services

Child & Family’s mental health programs provide the foundation for the agency’s wide range of services to children, adults, and families. This fully licensed mental health clinic provides therapy and assessments for individuals, families, couples, and groups. We offer psychiatric evaluations, and medication monitoring by a psychiatrist.

Adult Behavioral Health Services (ABHS)
This clinic provides a full range of treatment including individuals, families, and couples therapy with various mental health issues. It also offers medication management by an expert group of psychiatrists.

Child Behavioral Health Services (CBHS)
Because the needs of children are often different than adults, we have therapists and psychiatrists specifically trained to work with children who take into account the emotional, physical and developmental needs of adolescents. These professionals understand the needs of children and work with families to ensure successful treatment.

Adoption Services

Adoption Journey's
Program that offers services and support to families throughout Massachusetts after an adoption is legalized. These services address the unique challenges of adoption and are provided in a family centered manner through partnerships with human service agencies across the Commonwealth. The services include information and referral, advocacy and coordination, regional response teams, adoptive family support network, respite services, and adoption competency training.

Community Support Youth & Family Services

Young Parent Support (YPS)
This program is an open referral service that is designed to provide home based services to pregnant and parenting teens in the Greater New Bedford and Fall River area who are under the age of 24. The services are geared toward high-risk teens that are disengaged from needed services. Our team consists of experienced case managers to assist young parents with the many aspects of parenthood including health care, education, housing, and healthy relationships. Our services are free, voluntary, and confidential. YPS case managers speak English, Portuguese, and Spanish. The goal of the program is to prepare young parents to become self sufficient, healthy, well-informed individuals capable of making responsible decisions regarding pregnancy and parenting. To refer yourself, or to make a referral for someone you know, please fill out our Online Referral Form. A case manager will be in touch as soon as possible.

Sexual Abuse Intervention Network (SAIN)
The SAIN Program is designed to reduce the number of interviews and trauma for children who have been a victim of sexual abuse. A team of professionals work together to try and reduce the amount of “fact gathering” interviews that children have to go through, thereby eliminating further trauma to the child. SAIN team members include the Department of Social Services, the District Attorney’s office, local police departments, the SAIN team coordinator and the social worker and/or therapist working with the family. The team serves 21 cities and towns throughout the Bristol County. This program serves over 300 children per year. FAQs...

Parent Mentor Program
Parent Mentor is a comprehensive educational and advocacy program for families referred by the Department of Social Services. Parent Mentors work with families to learn new and better ways of coping with the challenges of every day life. The focus of the program is to strengthen families at risk for child abuse or neglect. To bring about constructive change, Parent Mentors use a range of methods that include support, guidance, instruction and treatment. The goal is to keep children with their families in order to spare them the trauma of separation and loss. FAQs...

For information about any of these services or other Child and Family Services Programs, we encourage you to contact our office.

66 Troy Street
Fall River, MA 02720

508-676-5708