Help For You
Support Services for the Community and Elizabeth Stone House Residents
The Elizabeth Stone House offers a wide range of services to families in our community as well as to women and children who live in our facilities. We have a team of advocates who work with women one-on-one to define goals and work toward them. All residents are assigned an advocate when they move in to our facilities, and all community members who participate in our programs are eligible for advocacy services if they need them. Our facilitated support groups help women overcome isolation and learn to rely on their peers, while providing substantive information that is useful in daily life. Our classes teach women and men personal, financial and parenting skills. Our transportation and child care subsidies make it possible for our adult residents to attend school or go to work.
The Elizabeth Stone House is committed to doing more than simply providing a safe space for women and children in need. If for example, a woman comes to us fleeing a batterer, it isn't enough for us to provide her with emergency shelter. We have to help her regain her sense of self, support her in her efforts to remain sober if she is struggling with substance abuse, provide help with her children, and guide her as she tries to straighten out her finances. Her difficulties are related to one another, and one problem cannot be resolved without addressing them all. Additionally, the Stone House has an extensive network of professionals to whom we refer people who need services that are not available at our facilities.
For more information on the programs and services of the Stone House (in English and Spanish) please contact:
Evelyn River Beaudreault at (617) 427-9801 ext. 404 or erivera@elizabethstone.org