Services Overview
Vinfen delivers a broad range of services to people with mental illness, developmental disabilities, and behavioral health disabilities, as well as to their families, neighbors, and communities.
Programs include:
- Residential
- Respite
- Day rehabilitation
- Outpatient
- Crisis Intervention
- Day habilitation
- Family support
- School-based clinical services
- Clubhouse
- Vocational training
- Supported employment
- CBFS (Community Based Flexible Supports)
- Programs for Assertive Community Treatment
- Transition Age Youth
Day and Vocational Services
Vinfen offers a variety of day and work services, including adult day habilitation, art-based rehabilitation, pre-vocational training and supported employment. Each program focuses on developing skills, self-esteem, and confidence — the foundations of a successful life in the larger community.
Residential Services
Vinfen offers a continuum of residential services, ranging from independent living to highly supervised settings for people with mental illness, mental retardation and/or developmental disabilities, HIV/AIDS, hearing or vision impairment and other disabilities. Residential services focus on creating a home environment while building skills needed for greater independence.
Child and Family Services
Vinfen serves children and adolescents whose emotional, developmental, and/or behavioral challenges affect their ability to learn, grow, and function in school. Services include on-site therapy for young people in need, as well as training for public elementary and middle-school teachers and administrators.
CBFS (Community Based Flexible Supports)
CBFS services utilize evidence-based or evidence-formed practices and focus on providing effective rehabilitative and clinical services to persons served.
Clubhouse Services
Vinfen’s Webster House and Webster House II in Brookline, Mass., offers a welcoming and supportive clubhouse for people with psychiatric disabilities.
Club members participate in various activities that stimulate gradual mastery of self-care and social skills.
Webster House offers individuals a chance to achieve a greater level of independence by creating educational and employment opportunities.
Gateway Arts
Gateway Arts serves more than 100 talented artists with a variety of disabilities, including developmental disabilities, autism, head injury, visual and hearing deficits, cerebral palsy, significant learning disabilities and mental illness. It is the only studio arts/arts rehabilitation program on the East Coast offering a studio art program, clinical supports, gallery/exhibition space, and a retail outlet (the Gateway Crafts Store). Gateway Arts is a nationally-recognized leader in the use of the arts to rehabilitate persons with developmental and psychiatric disabilities.
Metro Boston Recovery Learning Community
The Metro Boston Recovery Learning Community (MBRLC) an entirely peer-run organization dedicated to providing support, education and advocacy by providing opportunities and resources to assist individuals in finding their own path to mental health recovery. We operate four recovery centers including Vinfen’s Cambridge/Somerville Recovery Learning Center and a warmline for peer support over the phone.
Each recovery center has no barrier of access for people who self-identify as having a mental health issue in the past or present and/or having substance abuse issues. All the services of the Recovery Centers are free of charge. Our doors are open to everyone and anyone who feels they belong and wants to join a recovery community.
Visit our Accessing Services page to find out how to access services.