Local Support & Organizations
Local and National Family Resources
Ipswich Birth to Three Family Center (B23)
Located at the Ipswich Town Hall, B23 provides a variety of free programming and resources for parents and children to age nine. Their mission is to “increase children’s potential for healthy development and well-being. B23 coordinates a local infrastructure of supports and services that ensures all families with young children have access in their community to high-quality, accurate and readily available information; strength based family education and early literacy activities; coordinated resources; leadership opportunities; and integrated and aligned network of parents and providers.”
Ipswich Special Education Parents Advisory Council (SEPAC)
Ipswich SEPAC is a group of parents and guardians of children with special needs. They advocate for special education programs in Ipswich by “advising the School Committee on matters that pertain to the education and safety of students with disabilities and meeting regularly with administrations to participate in planning, development, and evaluation of special education programs.” Ipswich SEPAC also educates parents on the special education process, hold workshops, and training and support each other.
Healing Abuse Working for Change (HAWC)
HAWC (Healing Abuse Working for Change) strives to help abused women, children, men, and nonbinary people live free from violence and fear. As a leading domestic violence agency in Massachusetts, HAWC provides a domestic violence helpline, emergency shelter, legal services, advocacy and counseling services to more than 2,500 families in the North Shore area each year.
Local & National Food/Housing Assistance
Local Youth Sports & Extracurricular Activities
Massachusetts MassHealth: Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Regional and National Hotlines & Treatment Centers
Alcoholics Anonymous is an informal meeting society for recovering alcoholics whose primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety.
Hopeline (Text/Online Chat Based Suicide Prevention)
IMAlive is the world’s first virtual crisis (online chat/text based) center where 100% of the volunteers are trained in crisis intervention. They provide help and hope through online crisis chat, educational college events, and awareness campaigns with a focus on suicide intervention, prevention, awareness, and education.
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We’re committed to improving crisis services and advancing suicide prevention by empowering individuals, advancing professional best practices, and building awareness.
Narcotics Anonymous, similar to AA, is an international, community-based association of recovering addicts.
Northeast Addictions Treatment Center
Northeast Addictions Treatment Center is a Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment Center in Quincy, Massachusetts. Our team has been helping individuals with Drug or Alcohol Addiction live a life of Recovery since 2016. Visit their site to learn more about various types of addictions and the multiple types of therapy out there to combat them.
A community-based association for individuals struggling with self-mutilation.
Trans Lifeline is a trans-led organization that connects trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive. Trans Lifeline was founded in 2014 as a peer-support crisis hotline. The Hotline was, and still is, the only service in the country in which all operators are transgender. Because of the particularly vulnerable relationship transgender people have with police, it is also the only service in the country with a policy against non-consensual active rescue.
Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25 years of age.
This site provides resources regarding college student mental health. A directory of resources is available for college students — take a self-assessment test; or find your college psych services center.