Riverside Community Care, Inc.

With services spanning mental health, addiction, disabilities, and early childhood, Riverside Community Care is a broad-based Massachusetts nonprofit human service provider. Its approach is described as compassionate, evidence-based care aimed at lasting change. Programs are organized around the people they serve, from youth and adults with mental health or substance use challenges to children and adults with autism and intellectual or developmental disabilities, and the organization also provides brain injury services.

Riverside’s work extends into schools and workplaces. It offers suicide education, trauma response, and crisis help and consulting for schools, communities, and workplaces, and it operates Riverside School for students who need extra care. Its Life Skills program for teens has helped young people such as one who had moved between emergency rooms and residential facilities before finding steadier footing. The organization also runs employment collaboratives that connect clients with meaningful work.

What to Know

• Life Skills Centers operate in Needham and Milford.
• Riverside School enrollment is open.
• Riverside has received a state grant to support its services.
• The organization describes itself as an award-winning workplace.