Delivering the highest quality behavioral health services for children and families
Our programs
We help children with a range of mental health challenges and learning difficulties. Through evidence-based treatment and programs tailored to the unique challenges they face, children and families can thrive.
Healthy communities start with healthy families. We are a preeminent voice and active resource on issues of children's mental health and advocate for change through our policy and advocacy initiatives.
We work with both students and established professionals to educate and apply the principles of evidence-based treatments. We offer a wide range of different training opportunities across our programs.
What an amazing Mental Health Awareness Month! We were so thrilled to be able to offer multiple community events, resources, and more this year. Read on for some highlights and ways you can get still get involved!
Whether you’re a parent, friend, family member, teacher, peer - we’re encouraging you to share your story, picture, video- anything uplifting to empower others and contribute to a more open and accepting dialogue around children’s mental health.
REPORT - Mental Health and Schools: Best Practices to Support Our Students
It's more important now than ever that our schools and communities are equipped to identify and respond to the needs of youth and families, and that those strategies are equity-driven and rooted in research.
Shorter treatment time for clients being treated with an evidence-based practice at our clinics
40+
Cities and towns represented within students at the Manville School
$1 mil+
Raised to support mental health in Waltham and the MetroWest Boston area
Making A Difference
Success Stories
I’ve never seen my son so excited about going to school and seeing his teacher and friends.
Manville Parent
It's amazing how many successes my daughter has had in a relatively small amount of time. I've gone from worrying whether she'd survive high school and graduate to how am I going to afford four years of college. It's a good worry!
Next Step Parent
Camp Baker was filled with people who met my child where he was at that moment, heard him and understood him, appreciated him. Coming from an environment in which he was barely tolerated, this was exactly the therapeutic setting he needed.
Camp Baker Parent
I have never experienced or heard of a more effective treatment program than the one at the CET. It addresses behavioral and mental health issues in children with a unique blend of practicality and empathy.
Your support of the 17th Annual Golf Tournament brings life-changing mental health and special education programs like Camp Baker, Center for Effective Therapy (CET), Manville School, and Next Step:…
Join us as we explore key findings and recommendations from The Baker Center's new report, Mental Health and Schools: Best Practices to Support Our Students, discuss how to support our students in the…
Put on your capes and get ready to walk so that kids in need can fly! Our inaugural community walk takes place May 6, 2023 at the Charles River Esplanade.
