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Community Resources North Central Region
North Central Career Centers -
Leominster and Gardner
(Updated 8/8/06)
Information and Referral
First
Call for Help (United Way) 800-551-2021
This is the best, most comprehensive
Information and Referral service in all of
central Mass. After Sept. 15, 2006 just call "211".
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24 Hour Emergency /
Psychiatric Services
North
Central Human Services
31 Lake Street, Gardner
978-632-9400
Emergency evaluations also at Heywood Hospital ER and Athol Memorial
Hospital ER
Lipton Center
45 Summer Street, Leominster
9 – 5 weekdays 978-534-6116
After 5pm, weekends, holidays 800-977-5555
Health Alliance Leominster Campus Emergency Services
60 Hospital Road, Leominster
978-466-2451
Heywood Memorial Hospital
Emergency Services
242 Green Street, Gardner
978-632-3420
Athol
Memorial Hospital Emergency Services
423 Main Street, Athol
978-249-3511
Emerson Hospital
Route 2 Concord
978-287-3510
For 24 hour psychiatric emergency care ask for Behavioral Health
Clinician.
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Suicide
The
Samaritans
978–688-6607
866-912-4673 (toll free)
877-870-4673 (toll free)
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Alcohol / Drug
Abuse
Alcoholics Anonymous
978-840-8416
Al-Anon and Ala-teen
508-366-0556 (statewide #)
Statewide Drug and Alcohol Hotline
800- 327-5050
800-ALCOHOL (800-252-6465)
Narc-a-non
1-800-477-6291
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Domestic Violence
Battered Women’s Resource Center
Leominster: 978-537-8601
Gardner: 978-632-4424
Safe
Link – Statewide Inf. & Referral
877-785-2020
National Domestic Violence Hotline
800-799-7233 bilingual Spanish available
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Rape
Rape
Crisis Program of Central MA
Fitchburg
978-343-5683
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Individuals at
Risk
Child
at Risk Hotline 800-792-5200 / 800-479-6111
Parental Stress Line 800-632-8188
Parents Helping Parents 800-882-1250
File
child abuse DSS 978-466-1500
Disabled Person Protection 800-426-9009
Elder Abuse Hotline 800-922-2275
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Legal
Services
Lawyer Referral Service 800-392-6164 from the MA Bar Association
Legal
Assistance Corp of Central MA
Worcester
508-752-3718
Mass
Justice Project 508-831-9888
Volunteer Legal Services
Issues relating to housing,
domestic relations, benefits, bankruptcy, foreclosure & education.
Bilingual Spanish available.
www.masslegalhelp.org
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Credit
Counseling
Consumer Credit Counseling1-800-208-222;
www.creditcounseling.org
A non-profit consumer credit
counseling service, Bi-lingual Spanish available.
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Food Pantries
Ginny’s Helping Hand Leominster
978-537-1387
T, W, Th and Sat 11-2
Family & Children’s Services of Catholic Charities
Leominster 978-840-0696
Montachusetts Community
Action Center Food Bank
Fitchburg 978-342-8617
Salvation Army
739 Water Street
Fitchburg
978-342-3300
Cleghorn Neighborhood Center
18 Fairmont Street; Cleghorn
residents only, bilingual Spanish available
Fitchburg 978-342-2069
First Baptist Church Food and Clothes Closet
1st and 3rd Saturdays 9 to 11 am
Leominster 978-537-2685
Highland Baptist Church
1st and 3rd Saturdays 9 to 11 am
Fitchburg 978-342-9646
Fitchburg / Leominster Community Action Center 978-342-8617
Dial a ride services, energy services, education, employment and self
sufficiency services, pro-health services, elderly nutrition program, food
pantry, clothes closet and information and referral.
Loaves and Fishes
234 Barnum Road
Devens
978-772-4627
Distribution
Wednesday & Friday 9:45am-12:30pm 1st and 3rd
Saturday of each month 8:45-11:00am
Gardner Community Action Committee
294 Pleasant Street Gardner
Information and Referral 978-632-1350
Community Action Committee 978-632-8700
Toll free 1-800-993-3322
Information and
Referral for Gardner area. Emergency food pantry, shelter information,
fellowship table, medical transportation, prescription services, clothing
closet.
United Methodist Church
Chestnut Street Gardner, Thursday night supper
978-632-1978
Sacred Heart St. Vincent DePaul Society
Gardner
978-632-0405
Our
Father’s Homeless Shelter
978-345-3050
Serve
www.servenewengland.org
1-888-742-7363
Volunteer 2 hours/month for deep discounts on grocery, meat and
vegetable items.
Mass
Resources
www.massresources.org
A web site with
information on a range of assistance programs including energy assistance,
food stamps, housing and health care. Important links to a range of
services.
Mass
Coalition for the Homeless
www.mahomeless.org
1-781-595-7570 8 am - 4 pm
For a complete listing of
shelters in MA. A newsletter with information on a range of assistance
programs including energy assistance, food stamps housing and health
care. Important links to services.
Worcester County Food Bank
www.foodbank.org/immediate_help/immediate_assistance.html
Listing of programs in
your community that can provide food assistance to you year-round (soup
kitchens / emergency food pantries / shelter and transitional programs)
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Fuel
Assistance
Mass
Resources www.massresources.org
Information on LIHEAL (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program), the
Citizens Energy Oil Heat Program, The Good Neighbor Energy Fund, Utility
Protection Laws and Utilities Directory with customer service numbers and
web sites.
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Food Stamps
Department of Transitional Assistance
978-665-8700
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Spanish
Speaking Services
Spanish American Center
112 Spruce Street
Leominster, MA 978-534-3145
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Low Cost
Mental Health Services
Community Health Connections Family Health Center
www.chcfamilyhealth.org
275 Nichols Road
Fitchburg (Burbank Hospital) 978-665-5901
Provides primary care health services including dental. Mental Health
services for non-insured (free care) and MassHealth, Located on the
fourth floor of Burbank Campus of Health Alliance Hospital.
Community Health Connections Family Health Center
Gardner
978-665-5980
Provides referrals and transportation to the Fitchburg campus from
Gardner.
Gateway Health Access Program GHAP
Leominster Hospital
60 Hospital Road Leominster, MA
978-466-2308
Health Access
Program to connect uninsured people access to affordable healthcare.
Includes medical, mental health, dental. Reduced fees are payment in
full.
Gateway Health Access Program GHAP
Heywood Hospital
242 Greene Street Gardner, MA 01440 978-630-6562
Health access program to connect uninsured people access to affordable
healthcare in the Gardner area.
Lipton Center/Community Healthlink
Outpatient mental
health
Central intake for all
locations, except Gardner, call 978-840-9329
Clinton (978) 368-018
Gardner 978-630-4740
Leominster (978) 537-0956
Fitchburg (978) 343-6957
Family Counseling Center Children’s Aid and Family Service, Inc.
915 South Street Fitchburg
978-345-4147
Offers individual, couple, family counseling
YOU,
Inc. Counseling Center North
66 Parker Street Gardner
978-632-2321 x 0
Individual, group, and family counseling.
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Addictions
Spectrum Health Systems
76 Summer Street Fitchburg
978-343-2433
Intake: 508-831-0045 x161
Clinic,
outpatient services; Programs in both Fitchburg and Gardner.
L.U.K.
Crisis Center
545 Westminster St. Fitchburg
978-345-0685
/ 978-829-2200
Outpatient Behavioral Health clinic for adults as well as an array of
services for young adults. DMH funding available for some clients.
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Prescription Assistance
MassMedLine
www.massmedline.com
19 Foster Street
Worcester, MA 01608
866-633-1617
A one-stop resource to understand medications and
find ways to reduce costs. Sponsored by the Mass College of Pharmacy and
Health Science and the Pharmacy Outreach and Education Program.
Needymeds.com
www.needymeds.com
Provides on-line information about patient
assistance programs which provide no cost prescription meds to eligible
participants.
Partnership for
Prescription Assistance
www.pparx.org 1-888-477-2669
Connects uninsured and under-insured patients with prescription
medicines. Sponsored by pharmaceutical research companies.
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Medical
Resources
Health Care Access Program H-CAP
Meet with a representative from HCAP at the North Central Career Center
in Leominster on Tuesday evenings from 3:00pm-5:00pm. Walk In.
Community Health Connections Family Health Center
www.chcfamilyhealth.org
275 Nichols Road Fitchburg (Burbank Hospital)
978-665-5901
Provides primary care health services including dental. Mental Health
services for non-insured (free care) and MassHealth, Located on the
fourth floor of Burbank Campus of Health Alliance Hospital.
Community Health Connections Family Health Center
Gardner
978-665-5980
Provides referrals and transportation to the Fitchburg campus from
Gardner.
Gateway Health Access Program GHAP
UMass / Health Alliance (formerly Leominster Hospital)
60 Hospital Road Leominster
978-466-2308
Health Access Program to connect uninsured people access to affordable
healthcare. Includes medical, mental health, dental. Reduced fees are
payment in full.
Gateway Health Access Program GHAP
Heywood Hospital
242 Greene Street Gardner
978-630-6562
Health access program to connect uninsured people access to affordable
healthcare in the Gardner area.
Mass
League of Community Health Centers
www.massleague.org
1-800-475-8455
Free Care for uninsured
Mass
Health Service Center 1-800-841-2900
Medical Security Plan 1-800-908-8801
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Updated 8/8/06
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