Organization - Community Care Services

Community Care Services' Mission

To provide the highest quality counseling, prevention, behavioral health, education, mediation, advocacy, community living and elderly services to all of our clients in a safe and caring environment in order to maximize the potential in all of us.

Description:
Community Care Services is a nonprofit human services agency with over 55 years of service in Southeast Massachusetts.

The agency serves over 7,500 people each year through their 30 diverse programs. Our sites include teen parenting and adolescent residential programs, alternative schools, after-school programs, homelessness prevention and shelter, foster care and adoption, outpatient counseling, mediation and advocacy.

The agency employs 430 people and has over 250 volunteers and interns. During fiscal year 2009, volunteers and interns contributed 17,150 hours to Community Care Services. These valued members of our team introduced new skills and fresh ideas, allowing our programs to improve the quality of service to our clients without extra cost. Another benefit to the agency is that our staff supervising volunteers and interns are challenged to teach and learn. It brings out the best in us!

To view Community Care Services' many volunteer and intern opportunities, visit our website, www.communitycareservices.org. On the Home page, click on the link "Volunteer/Intern" in the blue box. This will take you to our web page that contains many position descriptions and programs' contact information. Any of these people will be happy to arrange for an informational interview.

History:
Our History

Community Care Services evolved from grassroots efforts launched in 1950 by a group of citizens who wanted to help their neighbors in need. The result is an ever-widening array of family-focused, community-based, high-quality services for children, families and elders who face multiple challenges related to behavioral health or psychiatric illnesses.

Working in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, we offer a broad continuum of care, including:

• Comprehensive home-based treatment
• Outpatient behavioral health clinics
• Intensive foster care and adoption
• Private therapeutic day schools for adolescents with emotional/behavioral
disorders
• Full continuum of adolescent and adult residential programming
• Continuum of services for the homeless including prevention, as well as shelter
• Educational advocacy
• Therapeutic after-school programs
• Day care mental health consultation
• A range of services for pregnant and parenting teens
• Innovative preventative programs for adolescents at risk of entering the juvenile justice system
• Day services for frail and disabled elders
• Specialized transportation

Contact person: Heather DePalma, Program Director, (phone), (email)

Address:

70 Main Street Taunton, MA 02780 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.communitycareservices.org

Directions:

From Boston and Points North: Take Route 3 South to Route 128 South to Route 24 South * Take Route 24 South until Exit #13 - Route 44. Take Route 44 West (Taunton). Follow Route 44 for approximately 2 ½ to 3 miles until you come to a large stone church on left. Our parking lot is on your right black wrought iron fence. The Community Care building is on same side of street as parking lot about 1 block away to your right as you exit the parking lot. From Points West: Take Route 495 South to Route 24 South Follow above directions * From Providence and Points South: Take Route 195 East to Route 24 North Take Route 24 North until Exit #12 - Taunton, take a right onto Route 140, toward Taunton. Go approximately 3 4 miles until you come to a set of lights at Main Street. Take a left onto Main Street and you will see 70 Main Street (a brick building) on your right. We are right across the street from the New York Lace Store. From Points East: Take Route 495 North to Route 44 West (Taunton) Follow Route 44 for approximately 2 ½ to 3 miles until you come to a large stone church on left. Our parking lot is on your right black wrought iron fence. The Community Care building is on same side of street as parking lot about 1 block away to your right as you exit the parking lot.   Nearest Bus Stop: Gatra, 5 minute walk

Miscellaneous Information

What is the type of this organization?
	501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization
Does the agency conduct CORI checks?
	Yes

Last updated on June 4, 2012