A mentor can offer 1:1 support, coaching and guidance to another person by helping them to learn new skills, by sharing what he/she has learned and and by being a good role model. Mentors can help with things like social skills, work skills, community acceptance and working towards goals.
Peer support is getting help from someone who has had common experiences, situations, problems or disability. Peers can help with social and emotional support, daily living and advocacy, for example. It is not meant to replace professional counseling or other services.
Provides children who lack positive adult role models with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships with caring, responsible adults that change their lives for the better, forever. Community-based mentoring relationships involve one-on-one outings and activities, doing things the Big and Little enjoy together.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay
184 High Street 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02110
Phone: 617-542-9090
Email: info@bbbsmb.org
Chapters in Massachusetts offer peer support groups.
Find a Massachusetts Group
Online Support Groups
Therapeutic Mentoring offers structured, one-to-one, strength-based support services between a Therapeutic Mentor and a youth (up to the age of 21) to support a specific goal on the child’s behavioral treatment plan such as developing social skills, interpersonal skills, problem solving strategies, or daily living skills. Offices on Cape Cod, in Fall River, New Bedford, Plymouth, Florence, Lawrence, Waltham, and Worcester.
This special program represents an integrated, holistic way of offering therapeutic mentoring for children in Western MA, including Hampshire and Franklin counties.
A therapeutic mentor works one-on-one with a child or youth who, because of their behavioral-health needs, requires support and coaching to learn social skills, including better ways to communicate and get along with others.
Offers four mentoring programs:
Therapeutic Mentoring offers structured, one-to-one, strength-based support services between a therapeutic mentor and child for the purpose of addressing social, communication and daily living needs.
A therapeutic mentor works one-on-one with a child or youth who, because of their behavioral-health needs, requires support and coaching to learn social skills, including better ways to communicate and get along with others.
Offers advocacy, tutoring and support programs.
130 Bowdoin Street Suite 309
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: 617-742-7452
Through our Therapeutic Skill Development Services (also referred to as Therapeutic Mentoring), we help kids develop the skills they need to reach their full potential.
Listing of mentoring programs in Massachusetts serving children and youths 5-18 years old.
Offers peer support resources, peer mentors and groups
The Schrafft’s Center
529 Main Street Suite 1M17
Boston, MA 02129
Phone: 617-580-8541
FLEX offers one-on one service for youth with significant behavioral, emotional and mental health needs.
Therapeutic Mentoring Program for Youth
Lahey Health Behavioral Services
Northeast Behavioral Health
199 Rosewood Drive, Suite 250
Danvers, MA
Phone: 978-968-1700
Goal is to help young people with disabilities meet their full potential for personal development and independence by matching them with a caring adult mentor.
95 Berkeley Street, Suite 109
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: 617-556-4075
TTY: 617-314-2989
Email: info@pyd.org
Therapeutic Mentoring is designed to give children and teens the opportunity for skill building through experiences that would naturally occur in their everyday life, at their home, foster home, childcare center, or other setting.
Therapeutic Mentors are used in a variety of programs at The Home and are a valuable resource for many children.
Trinity Care Therapeutic Mentoring offers structured, one-on-one, strengths-based support services between a Therapeutic Mentor and a youth to address daily living, social, emotional, and communication needs.
Tufts Health Plan has a list of agencies who provide therapeutic mentoring services for children or teens under the age of 21 throughout Massachusetts
Therapeutic Trackers (also referred to as Therapeutic Mentors) support youth who are experiencing emotional/behavioral issues in their home, school, or community.
Therapeutic Mentoring guidelines, components of service, staffing, treatment planning and more.
Fact Sheet last updated on: 6/6/2024
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