Support Groups and Self-Help
Alcoholics Anonymous: Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship of men and women who support each other in achieving and maintaining sobriety. There are several meetings available locally everyday.
Alanon and Alateen: Al-Anon/Alateen is for families and friends of those suffering from addiction to share their experience, strength and hope in order to solve common problems. Its program of recovery is based on the 12 steps adapted from AA. Several meetings are offered weekly in our area.
Learn to Cope: Learn To Cope is a peer-led support group for families dealing with addiction and recovery. It meets every Thursday evening at Providence Hospital.
Parent Support Group of Western Mass: This group offers peer support and information for parents of teens and adult children using drugs or alcohol. It meets every Wednesday evening at Mira Vista in Holyoke. Contact (413) 626-9889 or visit Parent Support Group of Western Mass on Facebook for more information.
Outpatient Counseling
Local A-CRA (Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach) Programs: brief, intensive evidence based outpatient treatment for 12-24 year olds to support substance use recovery.
Joshua Center, Enfield, CT: Joshua Center Provides assessment, individual and group outpatient services.
New Directions, Enfield, CT: Provides adolescent individual and group outpatient services.
Boston Children's Hospital ASAP (Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program): in person or tele-health outpatient program that will evaluate and support teens and their families with a full range of substance use problems and disorders.
Massachusetts General Hospital ARMS (Addiction and Recovery Medicine: outpatient program supporting teens and young adults and their caregivers as they deal with substance use and related problems, available via tele-health.
Access to Acute, Inpatient and Residential Treatment in Massachusetts
Contact Youth Central Intake and Care Coordination for information about services available in Massachusetts at (866) 705-2807/TTY (617) 661-9051.
Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS) Youth and Young Adult Substance Use Services Directory Please note this directory does not reflect the most recent cuts, which have eliminated Goodwin House (residential for teen boys) in Chicopee and MYR (acute detox and stabilization for teens) in Worcester.