Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health

Phone: 617-534-3500

Email: dsantana@bphc.org

The Boston Area Health Education Center offers hands-on learning opportunities. It provides year-long and summer programs with a focus on behavioral health careers.

The Health Resource Center provides health education on topics such as youth depression and suicide. It also covers stress and anger management.

Phone: 617-534-2279

Email: mhemeon@bphc.org

Phone: 617-534-5832

Email: hbhc@bphc.org

Phone: 617-534-7968

Email: brsadmin@bphc.org 

Phone: 617-534-5050

Email: mayorshealthline@bphc.org

Mental Health America's 2024 Supporting Young Minds Guides have been created to empower parents, caregivers, teachers, and others to provide support by fostering nonjudgmental environments where young people feel safe expressing themselves. In them, you will find information about facilitating conversations and validating feelings, creating safe spaces and supportive culture in the classroom, and ways to promote peer support. Supporting Young Minds has also created resources to help young people support one another and feel empowered to set and achieve goals.

Support After a Death by Overdose provides resources, information, and assistance to people throughout Massachusetts who have been affected by the death of someone they care about from a substance-use-related cause. Their focus is on increasing the capacity and effectiveness of peer grief support for bereaved people, frontline care providers, and people in recovery or struggling with drug use.

The Massachusetts Peer Recovery Support Centers are free accessible peer-led spaces that provide individuals in recovery from substance use, as well as families and loved ones affected by addiction, the opportunity to both offer and receive support in their community environment. 

Phone: 617-534-5395

Email: ryanwhiteservices@bphc.org

Phone: 617-431-0125

Email: CHRN@bphc.org

The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts is a statewide, nonprofit grassroots organization founded in 1982. The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts is a prominent state voice on mental health issues. They seek to improve the quality of life for people living with mental health conditions, their families, and their caregivers. They work to ensure that all people impacted by mental health conditions receive the support they need when they need it. They use our voices as people and families with lived experience to challenge discrimination and advocate for a more equitable and just world.

Phone: 617-704-6264

Email: compass@namimass.org

Focusing strongly on urban health, Boston Medical Center is a founder of Boston HealthNet, a network affiliation of the medical center, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, and 13 community health centers. Boston HealthNet gives you access to many of the finest doctors and specialized care in New England.

Boston HealthNet is an integrated healthcare delivery system whose partners provide outreach, prevention, primary care specialty care, and dental services at sites located throughout Boston's neighborhoods and Quincy, Taunton, and Winthrop. No matter where you receive your care within the network, you get the same high-quality services from providers who care not just for you, but about you.

The Trevor Project provides information and support to LGBTQ+ young people, 24/7, all year round.

Call, text, or chat with a trained counselor anytime for support. The Trevor Project also offers TrevorSpace, an affirming, online community for LGBTQ young people between the ages of 13-24 years old.

The Network/La Red is a survivor-led, social justice organization that works to end partner abuse in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, kink, polyamorous, and queer communities. Rooted in anti-oppression principles, our work aims to create a world where all people are free from oppression. They strengthen their communities through organizing, education, and the provision of support services.

In keeping with Fenway Health’s commitment to care for the whole person, behavioral health is a fundamental part of our primary care model. We offer individual, group, couple, and family therapy; as well as psychiatric consultation.

Fenway Health can help you deal with a range of personal issues and life events. Whether you are coming out, coping with self-esteem issues, seeking more satisfying relationships, living with HIV, trying to stop drinking or grieving the death of a partner, we provide high-quality care that is sensitive to LGBTQIA+ concerns.

Services include evaluation and referrals; counseling for myriad issues; therapy and support groups; and psychiatric evaluation and treatment. 

Compass is a support, information, and social group for people assigned female at birth who feel that is not an accurate or complete description of their gender.

Compass meets on the first Thursday of every month, from 7 - 9 p.m., in Boston.

We Make Noise Boston (formally Beats By Girlz Boston) harnesses the power of music and technology to advance global gender equity, equipping our communities with tools that cultivate limitless potential.



They are a decentralized and non-hierarchical global organization that supports and works in tandem with our member chapters all over the world. The Boston Chapter is BIPOC, and Queer run bringing intersectional feminism to the center of the work we do.

They provide mental health and bodywork services, feature local artists host community events, and collaborate with community groups and other grassroots organizations.

Inclusive Therapists is a social justice and liberation-oriented mental health directory, community, and resource hub.

They offer a safer, simpler way to find a therapist, counselor, or coach committed to collective liberation and healing: Racial, 2SLGBTQIA+, Neurodivergence, and Disability Justice.

For nearly 50 years, The Boston Alliance of LGBTQ+ Youth has been a youth-led, adult-supported social support organization, committed to social justice and creating, sustaining, and advocating for programs, policies, and services for the LGBTQ+ youth community in Massachusetts.

Phone: 617-227-4313

Email: info@bagly.org

They offer a safer, simpler way to find a therapist, counselor, or coach committed to Racial, 2SLGBTQIA+, Neurodivergence, and Disability Justice.



We center the needs of BIPOC and Queer, Trans, Nonbinary, Intersex, ACE+ intersections. We amplify the voices and expressions of Neurodivergent and Disabled Communities of Color.



They are a mental health liberation movement creating change through decolonial education, collective care, and activism. Celebrating marginalized identities, abilities, and bodies!

InnoPsych’s mission is to bring healing to communities of color by changing the face and feel of therapy! We strive to make therapists of color more visible in the community by creating a path to wellness-themed business ownership; making it faster (and easier) for people of color to match with a therapist of color; and creating a major shift in how communities of color view therapy.

InnoPsych provides a directory to Find a Therapist of color, support for therapists of color to launch their own private practice, and a Group Coaching Program for "The Thriving Therapreneur"

PureSpark uses social media and our web interface to provide resources and daily coping mechanisms that would otherwise be out of reach for someone who is unfamiliar with the mental wellness system. While open to providing information for everyone, the organization’s focus is on Black women. Mental illness is often stigmatized in the black community, and it is common for black women to put themselves, as well as their mental wellness, last in order to help others.

We Are Better Together Warren Daniel Hairston Project (WAB2G)

We Are Better Together Warren Daniel Hairston Project connects and heals women and girls affected by homicide and incarceration to prevent the cycles of violence and victimization.

Phone: 617-818-1477

Email: info@wab2g.org

They abide by those who have suffered trauma and loss by bridging the multiple systems of care and offer:

• a safe sacred space for the sharing of painful stories.
• increased awareness and understanding of trauma.
• relief from traumatic stress.
• mental health support.

Phone: 617-945-6629

Email: info@rpcsocialimpactctr.org

The Loveland Foundation is the official continuation of this effort to bring opportunity and healing to communities of color, and especially to Black women and girls. Through fellowships, residency programs, listening tours, and more, ultimately we hope to contribute to both the empowerment and the liberation of the communities we serve.

The Holding Space Foundation offers group healing spaces, professional training, and community education, all aimed at providing culturally responsive services that empower Black women and girls to tend to their mental well-being and combat sexism and misogynoir.

The Triggered Project Believes Self-care for the Black community is a political act, which is the first step for social change.

The Triggered Project utilizes art programs as a method to express, and liberate the trauma stories of many men, and boys whose stories have not been told and deserve to be discovered and appreciated.  

The Triggered Project works to nurture healing for black and brown men which we hope provides options to redefine masculinity and end the use to toxic ways of defining manhood.  

Phone: 617-442-2002

Email: info@osirisinstitute.com

Your mental health is a priority. Wellness among Black communities is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Click the link above to find tips and resources to support yourself, a loved one, and other members of the Black community.

If you are in need of support, you can call, text, or chat with 988. We are available 24/7. 988 works to ensure that all people have access to the support and resources reflective of their own needs. We are always here for you.

The MGH Center for Cross-Cultural Student Emotional Wellness creates high-quality, evidence-based resources and services focused on mental health education and prevention for parents, students, educators, and clinicians. They also conduct pioneering research regarding the populations we serve. Finally, we facilitate access to culturally sensitive care for those who need it.

Japanese Bostonians Support Line was established on October 26, 2010, to help Japanese immigrants and their families, who currently reside in New England and address problems they encounter in their lives.

The National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote and redefine the mental health and well-being of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander individuals and communities in the United States through training, programs, policy, and advocacy, centering those with lived experience. 

Saheli Boston 

Today Saheli is a non-profit that offers many cultural and language-specific services to South Asian and Arab domestic violence survivors and their children. South Asian and Arab women with diverse religious, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and varying English language proficiency often find it difficult to find vital culturally sensitive services. 

As a grassroots non-profit, we offer comprehensive support, including refugee resettlement, counseling, outreach, education, and various social services. They’re all about fostering cultural development, socioeconomic growth, and self-sufficiency.

For appointments, call the Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Center at 617-238-2430.

For after-hour clinical emergencies, call 617-261-2034.

Building a movement of parents of children with intellectual disabilities and autism to understand the symptoms and accept potential therapy methods to improve the lives of their children, to stand up and advocate within their own Somali society to be a part of the community and stop the shaming, the shunning, and the internal discrimination going on in order to learn how to take control of their environment to improve the access to quality services available for them and their children.

Native American Lifelines applies principles of trauma-informed care to provide culturally centered behavioral health, dental, outreach, and referral services.

We R Native is a comprehensive health resource for Native youth, by Native youth, providing content and stories about the topics that matter most to them. They strive to promote holistic health and positive growth in our local communities and the nation at large.    

StrongHearts is a lifeline to Native Americans and Alaska Natives impacted by domestic and sexual violence.

StrongHearts offers culturally-appropriate, anonymous, and confidential services available 24/7 nationwide. 

Chat online at strongheartshelpline.org: survivors, family, friends, and partners questioning their own behavior can connect with StrongHeart advocates.

StrongHearts advocates provide support and advocacy including:

• Crisis intervention

• Assistance with safety planning

• Domestic violence education and information

• Referrals to Native-centered domestic violence and sexual violence service providers

• Basic information about health options

• Support finding a local health facility or crisis center trained in the care of sexual assault survivors and forensic exams

• General information about jurisdiction and legal advocacy referrals

They are a bilingual and bicultural behavioral health center that specializes in serving the Latine community in Massachusetts.

Phone: 617- 445-1123

Email: info@casaesperanza.org

Sociedad Latina works in partnership with Latine youth and families to create the next generation of Latine leaders who are confident, competent, self-sustaining, and proud of their cultural heritage.

Statewide Advocacy for Veterans Empowerment Program

Statewide Advocacy for Veterans Empowerment Program's primary mission is to prevent suicide and mental health distress by identifying issues veterans encounter when returning from service and proactively providing access to benefits and services. This support helps veterans transition positively back to civilian life.

Home Base is a national nonprofit dedicated to healing the invisible wounds of war for Veterans of all eras, Service Members, Military Families, and Families of the Fallen through world-class, direct clinical care, wellness, education, and research – all at no cost to them – regardless of era of service, discharge status or geographical location

Phone: 617-724-5202

Email: homebaseprogram@partners.org

Want to grow your own food—right in your yard? The Food Project believes that everyone who wants to grow their own food should have access to adequate, toxin-free growing space. The Food Project’s Build-a-Garden initiative supports low- to moderate-income households in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan and organizations who want to grow their own food.

The Good Grief Program at Boston Medical Center provides therapeutic support to pediatric patients of Boston Medical Center who have experienced an important loss such as the death of a significant person, divorce, or separation from a primary caregiver. After a loss, children need the support of caring adults to help them make sense of their loss, support their grief, and strengthen their strategies to cope. The Good Grief Program offers a steadying and supportive force for children who are grieving as they respond to their loss or losses.

The program accomplishes this work through a variety of efforts, including:

• Offering consultation appointments to caregivers searching for the best ways to support their grieving children.
• Providing grief therapy.
• Providing grief-sensitive training and consultation to community agencies
• Connecting individuals to grief resources. 

The Wildflower Alliance supports healing and empowerment for our broader communities and people who have been impacted by psychiatric diagnosis, trauma, extreme states, homelessness, problems with substances and other life-interrupting challenges.

Wildfire Alliance do this through:

• Peer-to-peer support and genuine human relationships
• Alternative Healing Practices
• Learning Opportunities
• Advocacy

Phone: 413-539-5941

Email: info@wildfloweralliance.org

The Massachusetts Clubhouse Coalition is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people with long-term mental illness find and secure employment, housing, education, services, and support in the community. Massachusetts Clubhouse Directory membership includes over 15,000 Massachusetts residents who have mental illness and the 20+ quality accredited recovery and rehabilitation centers called "clubhouses" that help to sustain them. 

The thirty-six Clubhouses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts each serve their surrounding community. 

They are a peer-run community in the Metro Boston Area for people who have been impacted by trauma, oppression, discrimination, addiction, mental health struggles, extreme emotional states, psychiatric diagnoses, and encountered other challenges.​ They seek to offer non-clinical, mutual peer-to-peer support in an inclusive and trauma-informed environment.

National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Massachusetts is a statewide, nonprofit grassroots organization founded in 1982. The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts Massachusetts is a prominent state voice on mental health issues. They seek to improve the quality of life for people living with mental health conditions, their families, and their caregivers. They work to ensure that all people impacted by mental health conditions receive the support they need when they need it. They use our voices as people and families with lived experience to challenge discrimination and advocate for a more equitable and just world.

Phone: 617-704-6264

Email: compass@namimass.org

Project LETS is a national grassroots organization and movement led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness/madness, Disability, trauma, and neurodivergence. We specialize in building just, responsive, and transformative peer support collectives and community mental health care structures that do not depend on state-sanctioned systems that trap our folks in the medical/prison-industrial complex. Their work for and with multiply marginalized folks in their communities to provide access, political education, and material resources that are needed to survive and thrive.

Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice and Disability Justice lens. They support the emotional wellness of all people and center Queer, Trans, BIPOC folks in our internal leadership, programs, and resources.

Their work seeks to disrupt the harm of systems of abuse and oppression, often reproduced by the mental health system. Our model for understanding ‘severe mental illness’ is community and relationship-based and divests from the prison industrial complex and psych wards.

Phone: 617-742-4911

Toll-Free: 800-832-1901

Community Healing Response Network

Phone: 877-733-7563

Seven days a week:

4 - 7:45 p.m.

Phone: 508-688-5898 

Monday - Friday:

8 p.m. - 12 a.m.

A peer support line (sometimes referred to as a ‘warmline’) is a private phone line that you can call to:

• Get support
• Ask about resources
• Connect with another person who can relate or has ‘been there’
• Just talk

Phone: 888-407-4515

Monday - Thursday:

7 - 9 p.m.

Friday - Sunday:

7 - 10 p.m.

Phone: 617-875-0748

Seven days a week:

5:30 - 9:30 p.m.