MAB Community Services

MAB Community Services is a Brookline nonprofit that has created opportunities for people with disabilities since 1903. It focuses on individualized rehabilitation and family-centered strategies that help people with a range of disabilities live full, independent lives in their communities. The organization works through three divisions: the Ivy Street School, MAB Adult Disability Services and the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, all guided by a commitment to acceptance, inclusion, equality and diversity.

Helen Keller sat on the organization’s first advisory board, alongside other Bostonians who developed some of the earliest community services for blind people. Today the vision division serves more than 1,200 adults across Massachusetts, mostly older adults, through low vision clinics, peer support groups, volunteer help, in-home rehabilitation, counseling and assistive technology training. The adult services division supports people with developmental disabilities and brain injuries with residential, community living, occupational therapy and vocational services.

What to Know

• The adult services division runs more than 25 community residences and a day activity center.
• It supports over 300 people each year in Greater Boston, Southeast Boston and Central Massachusetts.
• The Ivy Street School is a special education residential and day high school.
• The organization is a member of the Charles River Regional Chamber.