We are a staffing agency that help support other facilities for proving a safe enviroment for the mentally disabled.

To create lifetime opportunities for persons with disabilities to reach their fullest potential by providing advocacy, education, employment, residential and recreational services.

Services offered: Adult Residential Treatment Facilities ; Special Education ; Disability Programs ; Development Disabilities Programs ; Residential Treatment Facilities
Other information: State-approved special ed program

Camp Starfish fosters the success
and growth of children with emotional,
learning and behavioral problems by
providing individualized attention as
part of structured, nurturing, and fun
group programs.

Board Certified Behavior Analyst available by appointment for Behavior Assessment, Modification, and Supervision. Over 7 years working with mental health/ developmental disabilities populations aging from 2.8 - 87 years old.

HMEA (Horace Mann Educational Associates, Inc.) is a leading non-profit provider of community-based supports to children and adults with significant developmental disabilities. Incorporated in 1961, we provide exceptional special education, residential, employment and case management services recognized in cities and towns throughout Massachusetts.

We have long believed in the "power of dreams": helping people to realize their dreams and to become active and productive members of their community.

HMEA offers a wide variety of supports that are individually designed to meet the unique needs of each individual and their family. In the following pages you will read descriptions of these services, as well as where our programs are located.

Thank you for your interest in HMEA and our mission to promote the values, dreams and potential of people with developmental disabilities.

JRC is a special needs residential school in Canton, Massachusetts that treats 230 of the most severely behavior-disordered or autistic students in the country.

League School is a year-round, day and residential program for students ages 3-22 with diagnoses on the autism spectrum, including a program for Asperger's Syndrome.

May Center for Adult Services provides day and residential services to adults with developmental disabilities throughout the Greater Boston area. We offer a variety of residential models and support services. In addition to day and residential services, the May Center provides employment training for more than 50 individuals.

May Center for Adult Services provides day and residential services to adults with developmental disabilities throughout the Greater Boston area. We offer a variety of residential models and support services. In addition to day and residential services, the May Center provides employment training for more than 50 individuals.

For nearly 50 years, the caring professionals at May Institute have set a national standard for providing comprehensive, research-based services to children with autism, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities. The May Center in Chatham provides educational services to children (3-22) using the principles of applied behavior analysis. We offer supported employment and training, family support services, school- and home-based consultation services, and community-based residences. Other services include a collaborative early childhood program with Sandwich public schools.

For nearly 50 years, the caring professionals at May Institute have set a national standard for providing comprehensive, research-based services to children with autism, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities. The May Center in Braintree provides educational services to children (5-22) using the principles of applied behavior analysis. We offer a 12-month, extended day program, supported education and employment, family support services, and community-based residences. Other services offered include occupational, physical, and speech/language therapies.

Melmark New England is a private, not for profit, community based organization dedicated to serving children and adolescents within the autism spectrum disorders, with acquired brain injury, with neurological diseases and disorders, dual diagnosis, and severe challenging behaviors.

The program uses an interdisciplinary team approach based upon the principles of applied behavior analysis and positive behavioral supports. In close communication with families, Melmark New England, works to develop and enhance the confidence and abilities of these students by providing a safe, motivating, challenging and nurturing environment that is clinically proficient and whose overriding goal is personal welfare of the students served.

Our mission at Minute Man Arc is to support people with developmental disabilities throughout their lives.

We strive to promote inclusion in the greater community, to maximize personal choice and decision-making and to help individuals reach their full potential in all areas of their lives.

Toward Independent Living and Learning (TILL), Inc., is a private, not-for-profit human service agency established in 1980. Its mission is to develop and operate innovative programs and services to meet the needs of individuals of all ages who have unique needs, including mental retardation, mental health, physical handicaps, learning disabilities, Asperger's Syndrome, emotional problems, brain injury, autism, and other developmental disabilities.

The residents of Riverbrook are exceptional indeed, not because of their developmental disabilities, but because of their will to succeed.

Here at Riverbrook in the Berkshires we nurture that will with personal care 24 hours a day and a variety of activities from skating to singing lessons, to jobs at the local inn and nights at the symphony.

The result is a group of women who are more accomplished and confident with each passing day.

If you know an exceptional woman who could benefit from all that Riverbrook has to offer, call for a brochure, or better yet, come for a visit.

The Mission of Seven Hills Foundation and Affiliates is to promote and encourage the empowerment of people with significant challenges so that each may pursue their highest possible degree of personal well-being and independence.

The Arc is a private, non-profit membership organization committed to providing creative, flexible and diversified supports for people with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities and their families. Founded in 1966 by parents and volunteers dedicated to promoting the dignity of and improving the opportunities for children with developmental disabilities, the Arc has grown into a dynamic organization which provides services and supports for over 550 individuals and over 1,000 families in Southeastern Massachusetts.

The Arc of the South Shore is guided by a mission to provide the highest quality services and advocacy for children and adults with mental retardation, and cognitive, physical, and developmental disabilities. The Arc of the South Shore is a family oriented, community-based non-profit agency, which believes that all individuals have the right to participate fully in their community.

The Arc of the South Shore holds the principle that communities have a responsibility to accept and support their members who face developmental challenges, and to help them exercise their skills and abilities. In practice, The Arc of the South Shore strives to provide services that fully integrate individuals into the life of the community, that are responsive to the full range of individual, family and community needs, and that incorporate effective systems of family support.

The Arc of the South Shore also undertakes a broad range of legislative advocacy, information and referral, parent networking, community education, consultation and outreach activities. These activities are designed to increase public awareness of the needs of persons with developmental disabilities and the availability and quality of resources to serve them. The Arc of the South Shore has been providing services since 1951.

The Evergreen Center is a residential school serving children and adolescents with severe developmental disabilities.