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
  • Family support
  • 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 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.

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.

Visit Gateway’s website!

Visit our Accessing Services page to find out how to access services.