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