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Services Overview

Vinfen delivers a comprehensive range of services to people with mental illness, mental retardation, and behavioral health disabilities, as well as to their families, neighbors, and communities.   
   
Programs include:   
   
 
  • Residential
  • Family support
 
  • Respite
  • School-based
  • Day rehabilitation
  • Clubhouse
  • Outpatient
  • Vocational training
  • Crisis intervention
  • Supported employment
  • Day habilitation
 

Below are brief descriptions of Vinfen services.

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.


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 mental retardation, 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.