Palliative care helps patients with serious illness live as well as possible and provides compassionate care to relieve the range of physical and emotional symptoms that often accompany serious illness or the side effects of treatment. Helpful links are provided here:
Catholic Health Association of the United States
Examining Diverse Perspectives of Catholics on Advance Care Planning, Palliative Care, and End-of-Life Care in the United States
Riverside Community Care is a locally based non-profit organization that serves children, adolescents, and adults with mental healthcare,, addiction treatment, trauma response, domestic violence services and more. They partner with local hospitals and physicians, and work with most insurers and MassHealth.
Riverside Youth Emergency Services - For children experiencing a mental health or behavioral crisis
The Youth Emergency Services team provides services to children (under 21) who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis with a mobile, face-to-face response. The team can meet with youth and their families at a community-based location or they can travel to homes, schools, and other locations with the goal of avoiding a hospital emergency room visit and unnecessary hospitalization. Care can extend with the family for up to a week for continued crisis intervention and to help the family connect with on-going behavioral health services and supports.
Medfield Cares About Prevention is a made of various community groups that work together to promote mental health and prevent alcohol, marijuana, and other drug use amongst youth. Their website offers parents and teens a variety of local and general resources, substance abuse and mental health resources.
The Medfield Youth Outreach Program is located under the auspices of the Medfield Board of Health and provides help and resources in the areas of mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention. The purpose of the office is to serve youth from infancy to age eighteen and their families with a host of social services. Staff provide free and confidential individual and family counseling, assistance with access to financial assistance programs, information and referral, community programming, and crisis intervention to Medfield residents.
Alcoholics Anonymous is a group of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking and there are no dues or fees for A.A. membership. St. Jude hosts a group 11:30 AM - 1:15 PM Monday through Saturday, and there are also groups in Medfield and Walpole. Click the link for further details.
A bereamement program is usually offered at Blessed Sacrament Church in Walpole and is held in Fall (Oct/Nov) in the evenings, mid-winter (Feb/ March) during the day and spring (April/May) in the evening. Call Blessed Sacrament Church for more information.