Offers $2.00 per month basic cable discount for low income Brookline seniors. Website: www.rcn.com Phone: 1-800-746-4726
Talk with a counselor Website: www.rainn.org Phone: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) x1 Contact: info@rainn.org Address:
Provides low interest cash loans to people with disabilities and their families for assistive technology devices such as adaptive computer equipment, hearing aids, wheelchairs, vehicle modifications and more Website: www.massatloan.org Phone: 1-800-244-2756 Contact info: Catherine Bly or Kristi Peak-Oliveria Address: 89 South St. Boston, MA 02111
Non-partisan organization committed to defending individuals’ and groups’ civil rights and liberties, including immigrants’ rights, voting rights, religious liberty, free speech, equal opportunity, racial justice, LGBT rights, and criminal justice. Website: www.aclum.org Phone: 617-482-3170 Address: 211 Congress Street, 3rd Floor Boston, MA 02110
Long-term housing to 23 women in two locations; counseling, 3 meals/day, clothing, Spanish, handicap accessible, nurse and doctor once/week, day programs, workshops, storage facilities, mail, showers and laundry, job placement; sober Website: www.rosiesplace.org Phone: 617-442-9322 Address: 889 Harrison Avenue Boston, MA 02118
Brookline Community Mental Health Center and Police Department program. Bracelet with a transmitter to locate family member. Subsidies available based on income. Website: www.brooklinepolice.com Phone: 617-730-2786 Address: 350 Washington St, Brookline, MA 02445
Breakfast and lunch, showers, laundry, and clothing are available to young women as well as their children. Connection to other needed services. Staff often accompany an individual to her destination and facilitate self-advocacy. Website: www.womenslunchplace.org Phone: 617-267-1722 Contact: Nancy Armstrong, Operations Manager Address: 67 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116
Website provides information on fall prevention and handy home safety checklists. Website: www.stopfalls.org
Workshops and educational programs to individuals with and without disabilities. Combining music and movement, the workshops generally lead to theatre productions written and choreographed by the children, teens, and young adults in the group Address: P.O. Box 29 Winchester, MA 01890 Phone: 781-975-3024 Email: info@briotheatre.org Website: www.briotheatre.org
Adolescent/young adult clinic, HAPPENS HIV service program, Primary Care, STI and viral hepatitis screening, family planning, substance abuse treatment and counseling, GYN services, vaccinations, and mental health services Address: 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 Phone: 617-355-7181 (Adolescent Clinic line): 617-355-2727 (Substance abuse line) Website: www.childrenshospital.org