Walden Community Services continues to accept referrals and offer consultations, evaluations and appointments on a remote basis during the Covid-19 pandemic.
We offer linguistically and culturally specialized wraparound behavioral health services for deaf and hard of hearing children, adults, and their families.
Inside Walden Community Services
Community Service Agency (CSA) Wraparound
Walden Community Services provides the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) services of Intensive Care Coordination/Family Partners (Wraparound). We provide linguistically and culturally competent services for families with a deaf or hard of hearing member, whether it is the child who is deaf/hard of hearing or the parent who is deaf or hard of hearing.
Community Based Services
Walden Community Services is committed to providing culturally and linguistically appropriate treatment for families with a deaf and/or hard of hearing family member. Our strength-based, individualized, and evidence-based approach supports youth with significant behavioral, emotional, and needs and their families. We provide in-home therapy and therapeutic mentoring to ensure the youth has optimal opportunities to thrive in their community.
Family Support and Stabilization (FSS)
Walden Community Services works with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) to provide family stabilization via Family Networks for families with a deaf or hard of hearing child or for families where the parents are deaf or hard of hearing.
Referral
Walden Community Services offers services that can help your child or family to be successful in home, school, community, and throughout life.
If your child is insured through MassHealth, schedule a consultation by calling the main office at 508-875-9529 or email us.
- Community Service Agency (CSA) Wraparound
- Community Based Services
- Family Support and Stabilization (FSS)
- Referral
Community Service Agency (CSA) Wraparound
Walden Community Services provides the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) services of Intensive Care Coordination/Family Partners (Wraparound). We provide linguistically and culturally competent services for families with a deaf or hard of hearing member, whether it is the child who is deaf/hard of hearing or the parent who is deaf or hard of hearing.
Community Based Services
Walden Community Services is committed to providing culturally and linguistically appropriate treatment for families with a deaf and/or hard of hearing family member. Our strength-based, individualized, and evidence-based approach supports youth with significant behavioral, emotional, and needs and their families. We provide in-home therapy and therapeutic mentoring to ensure the youth has optimal opportunities to thrive in their community.
Family Support and Stabilization (FSS)
Walden Community Services works with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) to provide family stabilization via Family Networks for families with a deaf or hard of hearing child or for families where the parents are deaf or hard of hearing.
Referral
Walden Community Services offers services that can help your child or family to be successful in home, school, community, and throughout life.
If your child is insured through MassHealth, schedule a consultation by calling the main office at 508-875-9529 or email us.
May is Children's Mental Health Awareness Week and National Mental Health Month
Since 1949, Mental Health America and our affiliates across the country have observed May as Mental Health Month. After the last two years of pandemic living, many people are realizing that stress, isolation, and uncertainty have taken a toll on their well-being.
NAMI: Together for Mental Health
Mental Health & Crisis Resources
The 10 Essential Elements of Wraparound
- Based in the community.
- Services & supports are individualized, built on strengths, & meet the needs of children & families across life domains.
- The process is culturally competent.
- Families are full & active partners in every level.
- The approach is team-driven, involving the family, child, natural supports, agencies, & community services working together to develop, implement, and evaluate the individualized service plan.
- Child and family teams have adequate, flexible approaches & flexible funding.
- Plans include a balance of formal services & informal community & family resources.
- An unconditional commitment to serve children & families is essential.
- Plans are developed & implemented through an inter-agency, community-based collaborative process.
- Outcomes are determined & measured for the system, for the program, & for the individual child & family.
I'm a mother of an 18-year-old daughter with mental health issues. WCS changed me by helping me become a strong mother and helped me through the struggles of my daughter’s mental health issues. THANK YOU!
Key Staff
Elisa Valles is the CBHI/DCF Program Director. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with certifications in clinical mental health counseling and writing and literature. She has previously presented to the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association (ADARA) about trauma-informed care for parents in the home and is trained in the GROW curriculum. In her spare time, Elisa enjoys baking.
Selah joins TLC with more than 20 years of experience in advocacy, psychotherapy and consultation. She holds a Master’s in Social Work: Innovation, Community, & Policy, and has a passion for workforce and community development to promote employee excellence, social equality & disability rights.
As Community Clinical Director, Selah will provide overall guidance to the WCS’s quality of care, compliance, and direct services.
Prior to joining TLC, Selah successfully engineered and implemented a clinical internship program for the Deaf and hard of hearing at Felton Institute. She also presented at the 2022 ADARA conference, with a focus on post-traumatic stress disorder and neuroplasticity training.
When she is not working, Selah enjoys hiking or camping and with her family, attending jazz concerts, and journal scrapbooking,
The Latest
TLC has welcomed Selah Davison, LICSW, as Community Clinical Director.
SMART appropriately assesses and provide resources for deaf youth who have experienced trauma.
Funding will support working with deaf and signing youth and local Deaf stakeholders of color.