Riverside Meeting Place

By Riverside Community Care

Meeting Place provides a secure setting for children and parents to interact when there are concerns about the emotional and/or physical safety of a child or their parents during parent-child contacts

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This is an ongoing program.

Ages: 1 to 18 and Adults.

All referrals accepted. Sliding scale fee.

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Contact

Howard Yaffe
Program Director: Children and Family Services
hyaffe@riversidecc.org
617-354-2275

No application or registration needed.

Free!

Location

  • Both in-person and virtual (online or over the phone).

117 Summer Street
Somerville, MA 02143
United States

Additional information

Meeting Place Serves:

• Families with concerns about safety because of a history of domestic violence
• Children whose contact with a parent has been interrupted for a variety of reasons
• Families where parental conflict is extreme and ongoing
• Children for whom unsupervised contact with a parent may be unsafe due to a parent’s substance use, mental health, or poor judgment, or due to a history of physical or sexual abuse