Residential Services
Advocates provides residential support services to over 600 people with disabilities living in 40 separate communities. These programs range from high-intensity group homes to supported apartments and shared living situations for people diagnosed with:

• Mental illness
• Developmental disabilities
• Prader-Willi Syndrome
• Deafness or hardness of hearing and a disability
• Chemical dependency
• The need for Dialectic Behavioral Therapy
• Any combination of the above

Services are also provided for youth in transition from foster care.

Housing options include:
• Group homes that provide around-the-clock support
• Supported living in which individuals live on their own and receive services
• Shared living situations where community residents welcome our clients into their homes as family members

Psychiatric Emergency Services
Over 6,000 individuals and families are served each year by our Psychiatric Emergency Service and respite programs, and by the Advocates Community Counseling service. We collaborate with the MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham , MA to provide substance abuse and mental health services to under-insured and uninsured individuals and families, including a large low-income, bi-lingual immigrant population.

Outpatient and Emergency Services include:
• 24-hour psychiatric emergency services
• Urgent outpatient psychiatric care
• Crisis stabilization
• Psychiatric and medication services
• Outpatient mental health counseling
• Substance abuse counseling
• Dual diagnoses counseling and consultation
• Child and family home-based services
• School outreach programs
• Bi-lingual outreach services
• Elder support services
• Respite care

Vocational and Day Support
Advocates also provides supportive employment and day supports to 235 adults with Developmental Disabilities through its:
•  Day Habilitation Program – Active, therapeutic services for individuals who can benefit from structured learning and recreation.
• Vocational and Day Support Services – Assessment, supported employment and job placement for individuals with disabilities.

Advocacy & Benefits Services
Since 1995, Advocates has been assisting the homeless and individuals and families at risk of homelessness in finding affordable housing, gaining entitlements, and seeking supportive services, and has also provided legal assistance in all entitlement and housing issues.

Advocacy and Benefits Services include housing, disability income, health insurance, food, clothing, legal aid, financial subsidies for the payment of utilities, healthcare, and treatment for mental health or substance abuse issues.

Community Justice Services
Advocates' Community Justice Services provide case management and linkage to treatment at any point in the criminal justice continuum, from police departments, pre-trial agencies, the courts, jail treatment programs, probation/ parole agencies, and community corrections agencies involved in intermediate sanctions. Services are designed to both prevent incarceration and to reintegrate ex-offenders into their communities.

In conjunction with the Framingham , MA Police Department, Advocates' Jail Diversion Program is designed to divert individuals with mental illness, substance abuse or behavioral issues from the criminal justice system to the human services system for useful, appropriate treatment and case management. The program, which has become a model for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , is funded by the state; additional state funding has been approved to replicate the model in other cities in the Commonwealth.