I do not have a bad thing to say, about Children Making Strides. My child has received…read more compassionate and effective evidence based therapy from the clinical staff for over 3 years. Our family has been treated respectfully and empathetically by all of the administrative staff as well

Children making strides is an amazing place to work! Great learning opportunity and positive…read moreatmosphere, very happy to work for CMS!!

Wow! If you have an…read moreAutistic child and live on the south shore of MA, Raising Harts is for you! They host weekly caregiver coffee meetups and they are amazing. Raising Harts is created by parents for parents - dedicated to supporting families with Autistic & neurodiverse children through mentorship, workshops and inclusive programs. There's a siblings of Autistic children group in the downstairs kid play area. They also host a monthly open gym at Cheer Factor in Hanover for Autistic kids and their siblings. It's tears of joy inducing awesome to be a part of the Raising Harts community.

CARD is AMAZING! Our son has been to other clinic-based ABA centers, and CARD is head and shoulders…read moreabove everyone else. Sincerely. I can't speak highly of it enough. Our son has made more progress here in 5 months than he did in over two years at other places. We are thankful to every who works here. We are so proud of our son, and, most importantly, he is proud of himself and the arsenal of skills he's acquiring. CARD has a fantastic, well-trained staff of therapists - our son has worked with many of them - as well as administrative staff and BCBAs. You will find everyone to be incredibly knowledge and professional and also kind. We've been involved in autism care for years, and, honestly, CARD is the real deal. Other places in RI refer to themselves as experts, yet they pale in comparison to CARD. If you're looking for clinic-based autism therapy, don't waste valuable time anywhere else .... go right to CARD.

I have been using services at Active Healing for several years and have always been satisfied with…read morethe attention and personalized care I have received. There have been many examples over the years when various symptoms have been relieved with Active Healing's methods. Most recently I was diagnosed with Asthma and prescribed a steroid maintenance inhaler for difficulty breathing and a persistent cough. My lung capacity was at 64%. After I saw Sarge and he put me on the PEMF mat, whole body vibration with oxygen, and suggested breathing exercises to do at home, I no longer required the steroid inhaler and my lung capacity jumped to 82%! I love that Active Healing provides alternative/supplemental care to conventional medicine. Sarge's methods are never invasive, but always helpful! I'm so thankful to have this resource!

As a former dancer, I can no longer exercise due to chronic illness. Western medicine alone has…read morecompletely fallen short of the care I need to function. I was so excited to find Active Healing! The whole body vibration tends to the lymphatic system, while the infrared sauna provides endless health benefits. My father treated cancer patients and always recommended infrared saunas. Sarge and Dawn have stayed late for me when my schedule's unpredictable - they are so accommodating and treat their customers like family. Highly recommend!

Autism Behavioral Center in Northboro MA is an incredible home and center-based organization, that…read morehelps children and their families learn to work Autism Spectrum Disorders. With its insurance based, ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis), and Board Certified Behavior Analyst guided programming, the rapid progress it's clients make, is nothing short of miraculous. I should know, my own child is a client there. In the six months that my son has been a client of ABC, I have seen an incredible change in his behavior, his speech, and his social skills. I feel like his 1:1 or behavioral technician, was handpicked or selected especially for him. She's friendly, patient, and knows my son better than anyone else. The same goes for the other technicians at ABC. They are kind, friendly, and well-trained. But the best part of all, is their Saturday social groups. Their age appropriate 8:30-4:30 programming, covers everything from morning meeting, arts n' crafts, outings, play based therapies, and social skills training. My son loves going to ABC every Saturday to "see friends" and to have an exciting and fun filled day. Thank you George Torbay (owner). Thank you for changing our lives. We couldn't have done it without you and your incredible staff. - Jill Ricardo (parent)

ABC is filled with great people providing terrific services for children with autism spectrum…read moredisorder. I highly recommend them to anyone looking for the best for their children. They are the best. Thank you ABC. We really appreciate everything you do.

The admin staff is terrible. They keep telling me that they will get back to me at a particular day…read moreand never bother to respond. Just tell me what the reality is - do you have staff to provide services or not, dont keep me hanging. Please can you be more empathetic to special needs parents who are already struggling.

I recently brought my newly diagnosed son to CARD in Woburn. My son is 2 years, 11 months old…read more Within the first fifteen minutes of our meeting, I was told that my son would need 40 hours a week of ABA and that he should skip preschool and do ABA only. I was told he should do this for three years and then enter kindergarten a year late, at age six. There are a few incidents that I feel upset about. I was told that my son was "the worst ever" seen when it came to changing his diaper. He did cry and try to turn over but I imagine at a center for autism, that there might have been more challenging behaviors observed. Also, the BCBA who was working with my son made comments on how he was one of the worst in not following a direction and using his words. The BCBA grabbed a toy truck from my son and my son said, "Let it go." She gave it back and said that was an appropriate response and then grabbed it from him again. My son lost it and tried to pull it away from her and cried for probably 2 minutes until we asked her to redirect his attention to something else. I was told then that this was "one of the worst she seen" as far as his ability to hold out for something. Finally, the BCBA asked whom my son was close to in the family and I told her that is my father (who has been taking care of my son, while my husband and I work.) She made a comment that, "Oh, it is usually the mother." I felt these incidents show a lack of empathy and care. This experience felt like a sales pitch. I felt like I was being told how awful my son was so I would need to sign up for 40 hours (which was not recommended on his IEP or from his doctor.) I don't feel such a strong recommendation should be made within meeting my child for 15 minutes. . Fortunately, my son has started preschool and is being praised for what he can do while working on his needs. I do not doubt the need and wonderful things ABA does or that 40 hours might be the appropriate thing for my child or another, it was just the method in which this BCBA went about it. I am currently waiting for home services through another agency. There also might be more kind BCBA's at CARD but it felt like I would get the push for 40 hours no matter what my son did. Which by the way, my son is awesome, loveable, and kind and didn't deserve any of these things said about him.

I personally was admitted here on a voluntary circumstance after having a mental colapse from…read moremalnutrition. I will say their food regiment is top notch, I gained 20lbs from being allowed to eat all sorts of good food. My only gripe is that these guys embody the phrase "land of the free, home of the brave". Your free to go here, but good luck not being milked into a prolonged stay. COVID restrictions make family rescuing you very difficult. The human rights officer thankfully was my only saving grace and ironically was the only legally obligatory role at a mental institution (their words, not mine). The whole experience felt like it was crafted to feed into psychosis, at one point 2 "employees" walked together and one came toward the patient area after mentioning a drug's name (basically curated to make patients think they were in a controlled setting) -- the admission for her being 99% not ordinary compared to other patients. The other patients there for adults seemed rather nice despite varying levels of social disorders/disconnect. During my stay I literally felt that I was growing as a person despite the mentally taxing circumstances. The oddest thing was my mental circumstances being such that I could do things that under normal circumstances I physically would never be able to do. If you go in with psychosis, you will definitely go to the extreme of thinking that you are special and then be brought back to earth to behave like a normal person solely to be discharged. If you go in thinking that paranormal activity is a hoax, you will definitely leave believing that paranormal things have happened to you. Overall I actually wish I could go back to confirm things. Their staff (mental health technicians) are all very good in different ways, thus the good rating. Their drawback is the questionable methods used to keep people there for prolonged times (I was literally coerced into taking a new drug as a condition of discharge --the drug proceeded to make me unable to function normally and I had to emotionally breakdown into tears to make myself able to sit down and fill out discharge paperwork, the drug then proceeded to give me blurred vision when I failed to remember to go to the Pharmacy to get meds that would have fought the side effects... I was subsequently brought to another mental health establishment because I was too restless to sleep).

Do not send your children here. It is very disorganized and we received little to no communication…read morefrom this place. They threatened my 7 year old with a needle and told him that his parents said that they could use one if needed, when we did NOT and would never agree to that. They messed up his medication twice, and gave him other medication to calm him which again was NOT approved by his parents first. There was no communication about what was going on during the entire time my son was at this hospital, and it took two months to get records sent to us once he was discharged.

Such a solid and refreshing treatment motif! The staff all go beyond to meet you where your at and…read morethe best way to support you in all the ways that they can. Relief Recovery Center really wants you to succeed. Thank you guys for all that you do.

From the owner: Relief Recovery Center is an outpatient addiction treatment center located on beautiful Cape Cod,…read moreMA with devoted staff that has created a comprehensive approach to achieve long-term recovery. Committed to providing a safe and structured setting for adults dealing with alcohol and substance use disorder, the treatment center provides evidence-based and individualized treatment to help meet the needs of each individual that walks through doors. Treatment includes partial hospitalization programs (PHP), intensive outpatient programs (IOP), outpatient care and relapse prevention planning as well as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).