Resources
Access Local Community Resources Through Your BMC Social Worker
These are a list of basic resources that may be helpful to you or your family. This does not replace meeting with a social worker as the social worker may be able to provide more information or insight into many of these programs. This listing will give you an overview of some local community resources.
Basic Resources
- Community Violence
- Ethnic Specific Community Resources
- Food
- Financial
- Health Insurance
- Hospital Resources
- Housing
- Immigrant Resources
- Intimate Partner Violence (Domestic Violence)
- Legal Resources
- Medical Education Information
- Mental Health
- Other
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Substance Abuse
- Utility Assistance
Community Violence
Child Witness to Violence Program at Boston Medical Center
The Trauma Center at JRI
Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery
Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance
Victim Witness Assistance Program
Victim Compensation and Assistance Division
Boston Medical Center's Community Violence Response Team
Ethnic Specific Community Resources
African Social Service Agency-Somali Development Center
Asian American Civil Association
Boston Haitian Resource Guide
Brazilian Immigrant Center
Haitian-American Public Health Initiative
Haitian Multi-Service Center
La Alianza Hispana
Latino American Health Institute
Massachusetts Alliance for Portuguese Speakers
Roca Inc.
Viet Aid
Food
Department of Transitional Assistance (Food Stamps)
Families can apply for food stamps at Boston Medical Center on Monday's and Friday's
9 am to 2 pm at the Yawkey Ambulatory Care Center, mezzanine level, with Patient Financial Services 617-414-5155.
Two-Dollar a Bag Sites (Food Resource)
Project Bread Food Source Hotline
Women Infant and Children's (WIC) Benefits
Financial
Social Security Administration
Department of Transitional Assistance (TAFDC and EAEDC)
Fuel Assistance
Health Insurance
Mass Health
MA Health Connector
Hospital Resources
Child Protection Team
Child Witness to Violence Program
Boston Center for Refugee Health & Human Rights
The Good Grief Program
The Domestic Violence Program
Housing
Emergency Shelter (listings of shelters)
Department of Housing and Community Development
Boston Housing Authority
Metropolitan Housing Partnership
Immigrant Resources
Catholic Charities of Greater Boston
Irish International Immigrant Center
Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Center
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Service Agencies
Intimate Partner Violence (Domestic Violence)
Safe link
SAGE Boston
Teen Dating Violence
My Life My Choice
Kim’s Project
Casa Myrna Vasquez
Elizabeth Stone House
Family Justice Center (FJC)
Finex House
Legal Resources
Greater Boston Legal Services
Irish International Immigrant Center
Community Legal Services and Counseling Center
Legal Advocacy and Resource Center
Volunteer Lawyers Project
Medical Education Information
American Cancer Society
Health Care Proxy
New England Pediatric Sickle Cell Consortium
Kidney Transplant Dialysis Association
Mental Health
Boston Medical Center Psychiatry
Social Work Therapy Referral Service
Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership
DBSA-Boston Support Groups
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC)
Other
Project Just Because (multiple basic needs)
Boston Public Schools
Mass Health Transportation
Boston Public Health Commission
Spinal Cord Injury
New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center
- Frequently Asked Questions
Spinal Cord Injury Guide
Substance Abuse
Project Assert
Substance Abuse Assistance
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alanon/Alateen
Institute for Health and Recovery
Adolescent Substance Abuse Program
Smoking Cessation Programs
Utility Assistance
Action Boston Community Development
Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program
Citizens Energy Oil Heat Program
Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance
Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development
Massachusetts Energy Assistance
Good Neighbor Energy Fund
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