Your Donations at Work: Child & Adolescent Services

With your donations, Willis Center's Child & Adolescent Services provides support for families of children with emotional disturbances, places children in loving homes with foster parents, and operates the Starting Point home for adolescent boys.


Staff recognize individual needs and support each child and family in a culturally competent manner as they work towards overcoming emotional issues and becoming happy families. Your donation supports three programs for children and adolescents:

Four young boys of different ethnicities

The Family Care foster care program is an intensive program that provides the necessary support for children and families to ensure that children with a history of abuse and neglect can begin to heal in a loving and stable home. 

Families and Communities Together uses a wraparound approach with help from care coordinators and family partners to target the needs of families with children with  emotional disturbances. The program is a collaboration of Willis Center, Community Healthlink and LUK, Inc to support families and create a plan for the child's future.

Starting Point is a residential program for boys 12-18 who have been removed from their homes by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.  The program supports adolescent boys, focusing on their strengths and building strong bonds within the program, with the family, at school, and in the community.

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Models and photographs used on this website are featured here for illustrative purposes only. Photographs do not indicate that a person has substance abuse, physical or mental health, or disability issues and do not suggest that a person has recieved housing or food assistance.Willis Center does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, housing status, gender, age or disability. Willis Center is committed to the full participation of persons with disabilities in our programs.