MetroWest: Waltham

General Resources

Waltham Partnership For Youth, whose mission is “To enhance the quality of young lives in Waltham by identifying the needs of all Waltham youth and coordinating resources to help meet those needs.”

Agencies and Organizations in Waltham

Families for Depression Awareness
www.familyaware.org
Specialties: Depression
395 Totten Pond Road
Waltham, MA 02451
781-890-0220
781-890-2411 x fax

Founded in January, 2001, Families for Depression Awareness is a non-profit, tax exempt 501 (c) (3) organization, dedicated to helping families recognize and cope with depressive disorders.

Families for Depression Awareness helps families, especially family caregivers and friends, recognize and cope with unipolar and bipolar depression. The organization provides education, outreach, and advocacy to support families and friends. Families for Depression Awareness is made up of families who have lost a family member to suicide or have watched a loved one suffer with depression, with little knowledge about how to help.

Jewish Family Children's Services
www.jfcsboston.org
Specialties: Family-Related Issues — Jewish Organizations
1430 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451
Waltham: 781-647-5327
Boston: 617-227-6641

Family & Children's Services of JFCS offers a comprehensive group of programs designed to strengthen families and support individuals through challenging times. Services include: Adoption Resources, such as pre-adoption consultation, home studies, domestic and international placements, educational workshops, clinical services and community outreach; Center for Early Relationship Support, promoting the healthy development of families at the earliest stages; Family Mental Health, providing assessment and treatment by a multidisciplinary team of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists for a range of emotional problems; and Family Circle, supporting parents of severely neurologically impaired children.

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
www.pflag.org
Specialties: GLBT Support
85 River Street, #5A
Waltham, MA 02453
local: 866-427-3524
office, Greater Boston: 781-891-5966
national: 202-467-8180

PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity. Meetings in the Greater Boston area are in Arlington, Concord, Easton, and Reading.

Reach Beyond Domestic Violence
www.reachma.org
Specialties: Violence
P.O. Box 540024
Waltham, MA 02454
Hotline: 800-899-4000
Main Phone: 781-891-0724
Fax: 781-891-3861

REACH is committed to advancing the safety, healing, and empowerment of those who experience domestic or relationship violence, through direct services and education while promoting social justice for individuals and families of all backgrounds.