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20 Martha Eliot Health Center 75 Bickford St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 617-971-2100 www.childrenshospital.org/locations/site1395/mainpageS1395P57sublevel8.html Description: Martha Eliot Health Center is a community center offering medical care, health education and social and mental health services including substance abuse programs, HIV/AIDS education and testing, violence prevention, and prenatal and infant health support. Referrals for specialty care are also available and eye care and dental are provided on site. A physician is available by phone 24-hours a day. Uphams Corner Health Center – Teen Clinic 500 Columbia Road, Dorchester, MA 02125 617-287-0786 www.uphamscornerhealthctr.com Description: The Teen Clinic provides comprehensive health services to teens between the ages of 12-21 without regard to their ability to pay. The teen clinic offers medical and nursing health services, mental health services, social services, reproductive health services, health education, nutrition counseling, as well as an on-site laboratory. HIV Counseling and Testing at Children’s Hospital 333 Longwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02115 617-355-8127 www.childrenshospital.org Description: Free, confidential, anonymous HIV testing and counseling is available for both men and women without age restriction. Services are available in Spanish and English, Hours: Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Thursday 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Women’s Clinic for Health & Safety Caritas Carney Hospital, 2100 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, MA 02124 617-296-4000 ext. 4911 www.caritascarney.org/OPage.asp?PageID=OTH000044 Description: The Women’s Clinic offers counseling and medical services for adult women, their children, and teen women who have suffered abuse or violence in either personal or family relationships. The clinic provides a space for discussion, medical treatment, support groups and individual support services, as well as future safety planning. The clinic also offers referrals to a complete range of community and legal services. Adolescent Center at Boston Medical Center One Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118 617-414-4086 www.bmc.org/pediatrics-adolescentcenter.htm Description: The Adolescent Center offers primary care, counseling, and family planning. The Center also provides assistance with housing and immigration issues, and offers continuing education and career counseling. Adolescent Life Options Program at Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center 435 Warren Street, Roxbury, MA 02119 617-442-7400 ext. 379 2010-2011 COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE | MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES | COMMONWEALTH CORPORATION
Dimock Community Health Center 55 Dimock Street, Roxbury, MA 02119 617-442-8800 www.dimockcenter.org Description: Dimock Community Health Center offers medical care including adult and pediatric care, women’s health services, mental health services including adolescent counseling, HIV testing and counseling and case management. Latin American Health Institute 95 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116 617-350-6900 www.lhi.org Description: LHI offers an array of services and interventions to Latin American and other minority communities. Our programs are guided by the understanding that Public Health interventions that emphasize health promotion and disease prevention are the most important tools to reduce and eliminate disparities in health status. LHI’s prevention approach transcends the limitations of deficit-oriented models frequently used to design health interventions with disenfranchised populations. Prevention requires: changing the conditions in which people live, improving the quality of the environment, and reforming public policy. SOCIAL SERVICE SUPPORT RESOURCES: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/RAPE/SEXUAL ASSAULT The Elizabeth Stone House P.O. Box 300039, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 617-522-3659, 617-427-9801 ext. 409 24-hour hotline: 617-522-3417 www.elizabethstonehouse.org Description: Programs at the Elizabeth Stone House include the Therapeutic Community, which provides five months of supportive housing for women and children; The Battered Women’s Program, which shelters women and children fleeing violence; and The Transitional Housing Program, available to women and children seeking a bridge between shelter and permanent housing. There is also a 24-hour hotline providing emergency advocacy and referrals. Elizabeth Stone House also offers Support Groups and referrals for both residents and non-residents, a Personal Economic Planning Program, which offers classes on economic literacy and personal financial planning, and a Women’s Business Opportunity Program which includes training and education on all aspects of micro enterprise development, from market research within the community, to funding and starting up a business venture Jane Doe Inc. 617-248-0922 Safelink: 1-877-785-2020 www.janedoe.org Description: Jane Doe offers counseling services, support groups, and advocacy services for women experiencing domestic violence. The hotline is 24-hours a day, free and multi-lingual. 2010-2011 COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE | MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES | COMMONWEALTH CORPORATION 21
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