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Overview

At Boston Children's Primary Care at Longwood and Primary Care at Martha Eliot, we know that health is more than just medical care. Through our Primary Care Social Work Department, we know, too, that parenthood — and life — can be hard sometimes. If you are concerned about your child's behavior or mental health, if you are struggling as a parent, or if you need help finding resources and support for your family, call us. We have a team of bilingual Spanish speaking social workers and the ability to help families who speak many different languages access the care they need.

Our team of licensed clinical social workers can help with your child’s mental health and behavioral needs. We provide crisis assessments, behavioral consultations, brief interventions to address situational or developmental stressors, parental supports, and referrals for counseling at our clinics, in schools, and the community. We work closely with staff in the behavioral health department at Martha Eliot, which has a full team of bilingual Spanish psychologists, social workers, nurse practitioners, and social workers who can provide therapy, psychiatry evaluations, and medication management. Our staff is familiar and able to respond to the needs of families from diverse backgrounds.

Our patient navigators, or resource specialists, and social workers are available to help with a variety of resource needs such as help with housing, and emergency financial and food needs.

Please talk with your child’s doctor or call or ask the on-call social worker to help you with resource and behavioral health concerns.

Workshops

We offer monthly workshops for our families in English and Spanish about how to access affordable and subsidized housing in Boston. We also offer a monthly childcare and Employment workshop. Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. partners with us to offer financial planning at the housing workshop and to provide the childcare and employment workshop.

The clinic also offers a monthly car seat workshop. Periodically, we offer workshops about immigration, insurance, benefits, utilities, special education, autism diagnoses, and free tax services. Information is available on waiting room computers or on the Martha Eliot Facebook Page.

Useful links for our families