Advocates is committed to helping people with autism, brain injuries, mental health challenges, intellectual disabilities, or substance use issues live healthy, happy lives in the community.
Location Directory Connect with Advocates staff at one of our office or clinic locations in Massachusetts.
Advocates champions people who face developmental, mental health, or other life challenges. We partner with individuals and families to shape creative solutions to even the greatest obstacles. We envision communities in which every person has a full life, decent and affordable housing, meaningful work, satisfying relationships, and good health.
At Advocates, we believe that people in mental health recovery are the foremost experts on their own lives. Ultimately, we strive to help people harness that expertise to lead healthy and fulfilling lives of their own design. Through our residential and outreach programs, community-based counseling and psychiatry services, and peer supports, Advocates promotes hope, recovery, and communities ...
Too often people experiencing mental health or emotional crises feel alone, but Advocates Adult & Youth Mobile Crisis Intervention (MCI) team is always available to offer skilled, compassionate support and connections to resources and services during difficult times. Our multidisciplinary staff provides mobile crisis intervention where it’s needed, when it’s needed – 24 hours a day, 365 ...
Advocates’ Behavioral Health Supports for Justice Involved Individuals (BH-JI) program offers transitional case management, care coordination, and community support services for justice-involved adults who are returning to, or residing in, Middlesex or Essex Counties.
Children's ABA Services Applied behavior analysis services in home, school, and community settings, as well as Advocates ABA Center and The Darnell School.
About Advocates Outpatient Counseling and Psychiatry Services If you’re experiencing difficulties in life, Advocates’ team of experienced therapists and clinicians can help. We provide a full range of outpatient services at our locations in Framingham, Harvard, Lawrence, Marlborough, Peabody, Plymouth, Waltham, Whitinsville, and Worcester, as well as via telehealth. We provide therapy for ...
Corrections advocates and families of incarcerated people are wanting more oversight for the Missouri Department of Corrections. During Family Advocacy Day on Tuesday, advocates and loved ones of ...
The Hill: Health advocates call for passage of Safe Step Act, two other bills to better treat migraines
Healthcare advocates are urging Congress to pass a trio of bills to better understand and treat migraines. The first, and most urgently needed bill, is the Safe Step Act which would change common ...
Health advocates call for passage of Safe Step Act, two other bills to better treat migraines
Which Pocahontas dolls are best? Pocahontas is one of the more unique Disney princesses because she is the only one based on a real-life figure. Adventurous and fearless, Pocahontas could not wait to ...
On Friday, 27 February 2026, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) gathered 50 of its longest-serving veterans at the Kgoši ... The echoes of a golf legend’s voice, usually reserved for champion greens, resonated within the walls of Pollsmoor Correctional Facility ...
Corrections refers to the supervision of persons arrested for, convicted of, or sentenced for criminal offenses. Correctional populations fall into two general categories: institutional corrections and community corrections. Correctional officers play a pivotal role in protecting public safety.
For more than 155 years, the American Correctional Association has championed the cause of corrections and correctional effectiveness.
Pocahontas (1995), a Walt Disney Company animated feature, one of the Disney Princess films, and the most well known adaptation of the Pocahontas story. The film presents a fictional romantic affair between Pocahontas and John Smith, in which Pocahontas teaches Smith respect for nature.
Pocahontas, Powhatan woman who fostered peace between English colonists and Native Americans by befriending the settlers at the Jamestown Colony in Virginia and eventually marrying one of them. Learn more about Pocahontas’s life and her legacy, including her portrayal in popular culture.
Most notably, Pocahontas has left an indelible impression that has endured for more than 400 years. And yet, many people who know her name do not know much about her. Pocahontas was born about 1596 and named "Amonute," though she also had a more private name of Matoaka.
Pocahontas might be a household name, but the true story of her short, powerful life is buried in myths that have persisted since the 17th century. First, Pocahontas wasn’t her actual name.
The True Story of Pocahontas Is More Complicated Than You Might Think
Despite her short life, Pocahontas was a key figure in the beginnings of English America. Here's what to know about her story.
The Real Story of Pocahontas: Her Life, Death and Meaning - TIME
An iconic figure in American history, Pocahontas is largely known for saving the life of the Jamestown colonist John Smith and then romancing him—although both events are unlikely to be true.
Pocahontas (l. c. 1596-1617, also known as Amonute, Matoaka) was the daughter of Wahunsenacah (l. c. 1547 - c. 1618, also known as Chief Powhatan), leader of the Powhatan Confederacy in the region of modern-day Virginia, United States.
Among the most famous women in early American history, Pocahontas is credited with helping the struggling English settlers survive.
Pocahontas was a Native American woman born around 1595. She was the daughter of the powerful Chief Powhatan, the ruler of the Powhatan tribal nation, which at its strongest included around 30...
Distinguished national and international speakers led discussions on what Pocahontas has come to represent as a cross-cultural ambassador, the role of religion and faith in her story, and the myths and realities that surround her.