DCF Medical Social Worker
The Department of Children and Families has 29 Area Office Medical Social Workers, one per area office. This role was created in 2016 and is a resource for DCF offices and for foster and adoptive families, to help support and navigate health care access for foster care youth. The medical social workers work directly with…
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Nancy Baratta
Justice Resource Institute
JRI provides intensive foster care services, adoption supports, after-school supports, and early-childhood training and consultation for families seeking supports around safety, healthy development, and long-term success for their child. Our programs provide youth and families with environments of safety and care that aim to enhance stability and long-term success, through both foster care, adoption supports,…
Read MoreA Home Within
The vision of the national organization is that all children who experience foster care are provided this essential support, ensuring that as they transition from foster care, regardless of which stage of life they are in, they have the inner tools they need to thrive. By matching youth with experienced therapists, we address the trauma…
Read MoreAdoption Journeys
Adoption Journeys, a program of Child & Family Services, Inc., is a multi-faceted service available to families living in Massachusetts who have children through adoption or permanent legal guardianship. All types of adoption qualify, as long as the family currently resides in Massachusetts. There are a range of services available, all provided at no cost to families. Services…
Read MoreKidsNet
MSPCC’s Kid’s Net Program provides a range of services to connect foster, pre-adoptive, and kinship families to the information, resources, respite and support networks they need to address the unique challenges that come with raising foster children. Services are available to foster families throughout Massachusetts. These services include: After-Hours HelpingTraining & Support GroupsOnline Training LibraryFamily…
Read MoreMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE)
MARE serves children and teens in the Massachusetts foster care system who are not able to be reunited with their birth families and need permanent adoptive homes. We provide vital services to these children by working with the Commonwealth’s Department of Children & Families (DCF) and its contracted agencies to register each child that cannot…
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