Judge Baker Childrens Center

Community-based programs at the baker center consist of camp baker, next step: college success & independent living, and the massachusetts child abuse emergency line. Camp baker is a six-week summer treatment day camp for children (ages 6 to 12) with adhd and other related challenges which combines traditional summer camp activities with learning social, academic, and life skills. Next step: college success is a college preparatory program for students (ages 16-20) with social learning and anxiety challenges, or related learning differences, and acts as a simulation for independent living while in college. The massachusetts child abuse emergency line, operated by the baker center on behalf of the massachusetts department of children and families, provides a statewide emergency response system protecting the commonwealth's children from abuse and neglect.

Research and training programs at the baker center consist of the professional training program, the quality care initiative, and the implementation research division. The baker center provides professional training programs to current and future psychologists, social workers, early childhood specialists, special education teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, and mental health counselors through the professional training program. The quality care initiative partners with community-based mental health agencies, schools, and healthcare organizations in across the country to increase access to high quality, scientifically proven, services through training, organizational development, and advocacy. The implementation research division, based in hawaii, focuses on improving the lives of those with behavioral health conditions through community-based participatory research approaches.

Outpatient clinical programs at the baker center consist of the center for effective therapy, an outpatient mental health treatment center that provides high-quality, evidence-based care for children and families who are dealing with problems related to anxiety, depression, trauma, disruptive behavior, and parenting. The center for effective therapy has two clinic locations: boston, ma and waltham, ma.

The new england association of child welfare commissioners and directors is a consortium of child welfare agency leaders and staff from connecticut, maine, massachusetts, new hampshire, rhode island, and vermont working to improve the safety and wellbeing of children and their families. Parent and youth leaders are provided with opportunities for skill development and engage as agents of change across the region. Through a myriad of events, trainings, and policy initiatives, the association facilitates work between child welfare agencies and parent and youth leaders with the goal of better outcomes for children and families.