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Mayor of Peabody Participtes in Ribbon Cutting Ceremony |
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Peabody's Mayor Michael Bonfanti, State Rep. Joyce Spiliotis and Family Continuity's CEO, Skip Stuck, cut the ribbon to officially open our new Peabody Outpatient Mental Health Clinic on September 23rd. The facility is now the home for our Home-Based team, Therapeutic Home Care team and the Clinic staff.
To learn more about the services we provide in Peabody, click here. |
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Hyannis Open House
Date: Monday, November 2, 2009
Time: 4-6pm
Location: 60 Perseverance Way, 2nd floor, Hyannis
Family Continuity's Home Based Team will be holding an Open House on Monday, November 2nd from 4-6pm to introduce a new service: In-Home Therapy Services.
Come and meet staff, network and learn more about the programs we offer families and individuals.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Program Highlight-
Therapeutic Mentoring Services |
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A therapeutic mentor works one-on-one with a child or youth who, because of their behavioral-health needs, require support and coaching to learn social skills, including better ways to communicate and get along with others. Services are provided in any setting where the youth resides, such as the home (including foster homes and therapeutic foster homes), and in the other community settings such as school, child care centers, respite settings and other culturally and linguistically appropriate community settings.
Specific areas of support include:
~ Structured, one-to-one, strength-based support services for the purpose of addressing daily living, social, and communication needs
~ Coaching and training the youth in age-appropriate behaviors, interpersonal communication, problem-solving and conflict resolution, and relating appropriately to other youth and adults
~ Designed to support age-appropriate social functioning or ameliorate deficits in the youth's age-appropriate social functioning
Referrals
Through local Community Support Agencies (CSA) or by self- referral to Family Continuity.
Cost
Service rates are payable under the benefit plans through any of the Managed Care Organizations for Mass Health (MBHP, BMC, Beacon Health Strategies, Network Health, or Neighborhood Health Plan). Private pay rates available.
Contact
Call 1-866-219-3320
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Macy's Shop for a Cause |
Since 2006, Macy's Shop For A Cause Event has partnered with non-profit organizations nationwide to raise more than $28 million for their ongoing charitable efforts. This is your chance to be part of this monumental event on Saturday, October 17, 2009. Shop For A Cause gives you the opportunity to help Family Continuity by purchasing a $5 ShoppingPass* for exclusive savings and special offers in every Macy's store on Saturday, October 17th. As a participating charity we keep 100% of the proceeds from the sale of each pass. Plus, you can enter to win a $500 Macy's Gift Card! Come together with Macy's and us, and while you're out enjoy a day of shopping and great savings, you'll be helping our community at the same time. *Some exclusions apply. For more information or to order a shopping pass, call contact Ginny Irving at 508-815-5120 or girving@familycontinuity.org.
For other ways to support Family Continuity, click here. |
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Wish List |
We are in need of the following items. If you are interested in donating an item, please call Ginny Irving at 508-815-5120 or email girving@familycontinuity.org.
Volunteer Leadership
Office furniture-desks, tables, chairs, filing cabinets
Sporting Equipment
Wheelchair
Gift Cards for Holiday Gifts for Residential Clients
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Thank you! |
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Huge thank you to
for donating over $7,000 worth of
office furniture to our Lawrence office!
We are grateful for their support of our programs.
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Real Stories |
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Real Stories are submitted by clients who want to share the success they had thanks to the support and services provided by Family Continuity.
Mary's Story  Sometimes life can throw you a curve ball, and luckily for me and my three children we were introduced to Family Continuity's Children and Adolescent Service System Program (C.A.S.S.P.) to help with the effects of that curve ball.
Three years ago, after 15 years of marriage, I became a single parent. I had to leave my children's father due to his addiction and abusiveness in the relationship. I rented an apartment and had to work two jobs because there was no child support. Six months into our new apartment, I came home to find that we had been broken into by my ex-husband, who destroyed half of our home. Moving back to my parent's home was a temporary safe solution, but we lived in an over-crowded situation where none of the kids had a room or any of their belongings during the summer of 2007. I had to keep a positive attitude telling them not to worry; that we would have our own place before the school year started. My words were not enough. I could not afford to keep up with dancing lessons or football or all the extra confidence building activities that the kids enjoyed. Read the rest of Mary's Story. | |
Family Continuity's Mission Statement:
Supporting family success in every community by empowering people, enhancing their strengths, and creating solutions through partnerships to achieve hope, positive change and meaningful lives.
Agency Values: Family, Community, Advocacy, Leadership, and Change Treatment Philosophy, founded on the belief that positive change is always possible:
* The most effective treatment provides a continuity of care, acknowledging that connected, relevant supportive services to clients/client families promote recovery, stability, self advocacy and permanency in the midst of changing needs.
* Therapeutic change occurs in the context of a dynamic treatment partnership between clients and helpers that is founded on choice, respect, honesty, and a shared responsibility for and participation in the development of solutions.
* Effective treatment is empowering and strength-based, recognizing that all clients possess resources for change and that change is possible when these resources are utilized.
* Creating meaningful lives starts with identifying goals and connecting that to individualized, flexible and creative treatment planning that incorporates a client's family/community relationships, culture, and context. |
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The Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis.
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