Counseling Services
Family Services
The Family Intervention Program aims to provide counseling services in a flexible way in order to accommodate the needs of those youth and families who often have not had much success connecting with more traditional outpatient settings. The program provides office-based services as well as home and school-based visits. Services include individual, child, family, parent/child, and group counseling.
The Family Intervention Program is a program of Catholic Charities Labouré Center in South Boston. For more information, call 617-268-9670.
Outpatient Counseling
Individuals, couples, and family counseling is available for children, adolescents, and adults to help with difficulties including depressed or anxious feelings, troubling behaviors, life changes, trauma, and relationship issues. Most insurances are accepted including Mass Health. For those uninsured, payments are available on a sliding scale.
For more information, call:
Catholic Charities North in Lynn and Salem - 781-593-2312
Family Counseling and Guidance Center in Brockton - 508-587-0815
Family Counseling and Guidance Center in Danvers - 978-774-6820
Merrimack Valley Catholic Charities in Lawrence and Lowell - 978-452-1421
Counseling services are available for youth and adults in order to help them overcome barriers that may prevent them from achieving their educational goals. Counseling may help them deal with instability in their living arrangements, lack of support from family members, absence of structure in their lives, stress, or depression. Often, counseling will improve their self-esteem and help them move further towards self-sufficiency.
For more information, call:
Catholic Charities El Centro del Cardenal in the South End - 617-542-9292
Substance Abuse Prevention
A program of the Boston Public Health Commission, this campaign exists to inform students, their family members, and other South End residents of the problems of substance abuse, especially heroin and other opioid use. The program empowers parents to address the problems of substance abuse with their children, fosters open dialogue among parents and children about the harmful effects of addiction and substance abuse, and helps parents and teens develop drug resistance skills. El Centro del Cardenal is a member of the South End No Drugs Coalition along with several agencies, neighborhood associations, teens and young adults, South End residents, and community centers, all committed to ending substance abuse.
Substance Abuse Prevention is a program of Catholic Charities El Centro del Cardenal in Boston's South End. For more information, call 617-542-9292.
Young Parent Services
Latino Outreach
The Latino Outreach program of Merrimack Valley Catholic Charities provides culturally sensitive, bilingual pregnancy counseling and parenting education and through individualized case management and parenting groups to low income, primarily Spanish-speaking teen and adult parents in the Greater Lawrence area. It is the only program in Lawrence that provides crisis pregnancy counseling to pregnant teens and adults who are trying to sort out their feelings and consider their options for dealing with their pregnancies.
Services offered through the program include crisis pregnancy counseling, long-term case management, outreach to family members, home visits, advocacy, parenting and education support groups, and baby supplies. Targeting teen and adult Latinas, goals of the program include the following: healthy pregnancies and births, improvement in parenting and life management skills, a change in attitudes and behaviors to avoid the risk of unwanted pregnancies and exposure to sexually transmitted diseases, and the avoidance of repeat crisis pregnancies to establish stable living situations.
Latino Outreach is a program of Merrimack Valley Catholic Charities. For more information, call 978-685-5930.
Young Parents Program - North
Catholic Charities Young Parents Program provides counseling and case management services for pregnant and parenting teens and young adults, 23 years or younger. The program assists young parents in gaining the knowledge and skills needed to set goals for their lives, to develop self-sufficiency, and to provide a nurturing, safe environment for themselves and their children. Services include counseling for individuals, couples, families, and groups; case management; parenting skills education; household management and budget training; education and job planning; advocacy referral for medical care; housing; child care; and adoption counseling.
The Young Parents Program is a program of Catholic Charities North. For more information, call 781-593-2312.
Young Parents Program - El Centro del Cardenal
The Young Parents Program (YPP) provides comprehensive services to pregnant and parenting teens. The program’s goals include supporting young parents in building the strength, skills, and knowledge necessary to become nurturing and self-sufficient caregivers to their children and to reduce welfare dependency among young parents, ages 14 through 21, who have not achieved a high school diploma or equivalent. The comprehensive service plan may include counseling, support groups, parenting education, referrals, life skill development, and education and vocational planning. The Young Parents Program at El Centro del Cardenal primarily serves the Latino population; those with a very high risk of living in poverty; and those who may have experienced domestic violence, abuse, neglect or parental substance abuse.
For more information about the Young Parents Program at El Centro del Cardenal, call 617-542-9292.