Eliot Community Human Services
Eliot Community Human Services is a private, non-profit human services organization providing services for people of all ages throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Our continuum of services includes diagnostic evaluation, twenty-four hour emergency services, and crisis stabilization , outpatient and court mandated substance abuse services, individual, group and family outpatient counseling, early intervention, specialized psychological testing, day, residential, social and vocational programs for individuals with mental illness and developmental disabilities, ombudsman services, outreach and support services for the homeless, batterer intervention, consultation, education and training for the lay and professional community.
Our multidisciplinary staff of over 1,480 full and part-time professionals serve over 28,000 adults, children and families each year. We have extensiv
Originally a child guidance institute called the Walden Clinic, Eliot was founded by Abigail Eliot, a Concord resident and well known innovator in early childhood education.
In the 1970’s, with the passage of the Community Health Act and the deinstitutionalization of adults in state mental hospitals, the agency received state and federal funding for expanding its service delivery system to include community programming for adults with severe and persistent mental illness. As a result, the agency changed its name to the Eliot Community Mental Health Center and further amplified its scope of services to include residential and day treatment services for individuals with mental illness as well individuals with developmental disabilities.
In 1992, Eliot merged with Community Human Services, a mental health agency founded in 1957, forming Eliot Community Human Services.
In 1995, the Department of Youth Services awarded Eliot its first contracts to provide residential treatment for adolescents. In 1997 Eliot also received funding to serve children referred by the Department of Children and Families. Since that time, our youth programming has experienced significant growth in scope and size through additional contract awards.
In 2007, Tri-City Mental Health Center, a statewide non-profit organization providing behavioral health and other specialized services, merged with Eliot.
In 2008, Bread & Jams, Inc., a non-profit organization that has been serving the homeless in Cambridge, Massachusetts since 1989, merged with Eliot. Today our network spans the entire Commonwealth providing services to over 30,000 individuals each year.
e experience working with insurance and managed care companies, and a long history of working together with public and private partners to serve the most vulnerable and at risk populations, 24 hours a day.