Welcome to South Shore Mental Health

Welcome To South Shore Mental Health

South Shore Mental Health is a private, non-profit comprehensive behavioral healthcare organization providing mental health and substance abuse services for people of all ages throughout the South Shore, Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod and Nantucket.

Our continuum of services includes outpatient counseling, medication management, early intervention, residential services, twenty-four hour emergency services, crisis stabilization and employee assistance services (EAP).

Our multidisciplinary staff of over 550 full and part time professionals offer expertise in meeting the needs of children and families, adults, people with long term mental illness and people with development disabilities.

At South Shore Mental Health, we have a long tradition of working together with community partners to help over 12,000 individuals per year.

Step One Early Intervention Initiative

South Shore Mental Health is embarking on an exciting initiative to expand the Step One Program so that we can help more children with developmental delays each year. In order to do this we will be renovating two buildings, the Mollie Hirshberg and Hilda Mahoney Learning Centers located in Squantum, Quincy MA.

The new campus will enable us to expand our services and increase the quality of care we provide. Children will now be able to play, and interact with their peers in four new classrooms. A music room and indoor and outdoor play areas will help children develop and exercise their motor and sensory skills. There will also be a family training room and consultation areas for parents to meet with clinicians. Click here to read more . .

Legislative Report

by Harry Shulman
President & CEO

                                                                                                                                         State Legislative Update
                                                                  The past Legislative Session provided three important laws that will have a positive impact on individuals who receive mental health services in                                                                   the Commonwealth.
                                                                  Mental Health Parity Bill
                                                                  An Act Relative to Mental Health Parity was enacted by the Legislature and signed by the Governor. The bill will significantly expand the state’s                                                                   existing parity law by:

· Eliminating the distinction between “biologically-based disorders” and other mental health and substance use disorders listed in the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), so that most health plans would be required to cover treatment of mental health and substance abuse disorders in the same way that they cover other medical conditions.
· Removing arbitrary limits on mental health and substance abuse services so that nondiscriminatory coverage is provided for mental disorders.

The law requires that the treatment of mental illnesses, emotional disorders and substance abuse disorders should be rendered on a basis equal to general health care. (Continued)

Lend-A-Hand is the Patriot Ledger newspaper's charitable foundation. The goal is to help real people in need. Only clients residing in the Patriot Ledger readership area are eligible for participation. This area includes South Shore Communities and Plymouth.

Each year during the holiday season the newspaper publishes articles telling the stories of clients from human services agencies in the area. Readers are asked to donate cash to the foundation and the newspaper inturn distributes these donations to the participating agencies. This year South Shore Mental Health, Quincy Community Action Program and South Shore Community Action Council will be the agencies who will receive funds and have participated since the inception of the program a decade ago.