 Society
of St. Vincent De Paul
Stow
Conference
Quick Reference Numbers
Emergency
Assistance
Ambulance, Fire, &
Police 911
Emerson Hospital
(24-hour emergency service) 978-369-1400
Poison 800-682-9211
Psychiatric 800-540-5806
Samaritans 508-875-4500
Samariteens 800-252-8336
Food & Clothing (also see SVDP “Food” reference)
Day care & after
school meals 800 645-8333
Expanded Food &
Nutrition Education Program - Univ Mass 800-622-3637
(free
nutrition education for low-income families with young children)
Food Stamps Hotline
- Mon – Fri 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 800-645-8333
to get application 800-249-2007
Food Stamps - 116
Main Street, Marlboro 508-481-4726
Food Source
Hotline 800-645-8333
Free or low-cost
school breakfast & lunch or call child’s school 800
645-8333
Needy Closet –
St. Elizabeth Church (Barbara Smith) 978-263-5429
Project Bread Food
Source Hotline - statewide pantry referral 800-645-8333 TTY
800-377-1292
617-523-7010 617-723-5000
SERVE New England –
for site near you call 888-742-7363
(do 2 hours of
community service for low-cost food)
Stow Food
Pantry 978-897-4230
SVDP Thrift Store -
Framingham 508-879-7873
SVDP Thrift Store -
Lowell 508-453-7750
Summer Food Service
(Under 18 – breakfast, lunch, snacks) 800-645-8333 or site
locations
Val’s Project
(Henry & Sylvia Estabrook,
259 Great Rd, Stow) 978-897-2844
WIC –
Supplemental Food Program (nutritional
risk - low & 800-942-1007
moderate income women -
pregnant, breast-feeding, or child under 5)
Worcester First Call
for Help 508-755-1233
General or Financial Assistance
American Red Cross
- fire & disaster assistance 800-462-9400
Catholic Charities
(Tina Marie Clark) 508-647-5638
Consumer Assistance
Office 508-651-8812
Consumer Credit
Counseling 617-426-6644
Consumer Credit
Counseling of Southern New England 800-282-6196
(counseling, education, debt management plans)
Foreclosures 617-523-8010
Framingham Welfare
Office (info, Food Stamps, Medicaid) 508-628-1200
Immigration -
Mass Office of Refugees & Immigration 617-727-7888
Marlboro Resource
Center (Smoc Behavioral Health, 133
E Main St) 508-480-0092
MA Division of
Employment & Training 877-626-6800
MassHealth
(Medicaid) - enrollment centers 888-665-9993 TTY: 888-655-9997
customer service (information & questions) 800-841-2900 TTY:
800-497-4648
Medicare 800-MEDICARE
Salvation Army
Emergency Unit (12 Concord Rd, Acton) 978-264-9693 978-263-9643
Social Security
Administration (SSI, SSDI) 800-772-1213
Stow Social Worker –
Board of Health 978-897-4592
Unemployment
benefits & Job Training 617-626-6800 877-626-6800
United
Way 617-624-8000
Veteran’s
Services 617-727-3578
Welfare -
Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) 800-841-2900 client
services
(TAFDC, EAEDC, FS, EA, SSI, etc.) application assistance 800-249-2007
Health
Acton Public Health
Nursing Service (home health care) 978-264-9653
Addictions Hotline
(Emerson Hospital) 978-287-3520
AIDS Action
Hotline 800-235-2331
Alzheimer’s
Association 800-548-2111
Alcoholics
Anonymous 617-426-9444
Caring Program for
Children (Health Care) 800-221-2259
Center for Addictive
Behavior 800-334-5512
Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services 877-267-2323
Children’s
Medical Security Plan (children &
adolescents) 978-369-7715 800-531-2229
Clearing House for
Drug & Alcohol Abuse 800-729-6686
Commission for Deaf
& Hard of Hearing 800-882-1155
Concord Area Council
on Alcohol Use & Abuse 800-531-2229
Concord Family
Services - information, referral, counseling 978-369-4909
Dental 800-342-8747
Disabilities -
Mass Network of Information Providers 800-462-0249
Eliot Community
Health Services (includes Mental Health) 978-369-1113
Emerson Hospital
Support Groups
Alcohol & substance abuse hotline 978-287-3520
Breast cancer 978-287-3178
MOMS (Mothers Offering Mothers Support) 978-287-3176
Parkinson’s 978-287-8200
Emerson Hospital
Services
Alzheimer’s information 978-287-3170 800-548-2111
Cardiac Rehabilitation 978-287-3732
Chronic Lung Disease & Heart Failure Programs 978-287-8300
Gambling Problems 978-287-3520
Home Care 978-287-8300
Home Health Care 978-287-0122
Lifeline 800-543-3546
Pediatric Intervention Team 978-287-3422
Social Services (counseling+) 978-287-3170
Woman’s Health 888-488-9161 978-287-3452
Healthy Start
(low-income uninsured women - prenatal care) 800-531-6667
MA Commission for
the Blind 800-392-6450
MA Network of Info
Providers for People with Disabilities 800-642-0249
MA State Association
for the Deaf 781-388-9114
MassHealth (low &
moderate income people) 888-665-9993
Mass Medical
Society 800-322-2303
Medicare - Blue
Cross & Blue Shield 800-882-1228
Mental Health -
Emerson Hospital/Elliot Community 978-369-1400 978-369-113
Minuteman Home
Care 978-263-8720
Samaritans (lonely,
depressed or suicidal persons) Boston 617-247-0220
Framingham 508-875-4500
SMOC Behavioral
Service 508-879-2250
Substance Abuse -
Drug & Alcohol Hotline 800-327-5050
VA Health
Care 617-727-3578
Visiting Nurses Home
& Health Care Association 800-332-3500
Housing & Household Goods
Affordable Housing
(Pilot Grove Apts, 11 Warren Rd, Stow) 978-897-0313
Athol-Orange Family
Inn, 88 E Main St, Orange (shelter) 978-544-8245
Central
Massachusetts Housing Alliance (shelters) - Worcester 508-791-7265
Community HealthLink
- Homeless Outreach & Advocacy Project 508-860-1079/1080
Community Teamwork
(CTI) - Shelter -167 Dutton St, Lowell 978-453-9128
Emergency Shelters
for Women (Safelink - multi-lingual)) 877-785-2020
Friendly House, 87
Elm St, Worcester (shelter) 508-792-1799
Habitat for Humanity
978-897-0945 978-348-2749
Housing Authority –
Acton 978-263-5339
Housing Authority –
Bolton 978-779-2297
Housing Authority -
Hudson & Stow 978-562-9268
Housing Authority –
Marlboro 508-624-6908
Housing Authority -
Maynard 978-897-8738
Household Goods
Recycling Ministry - HGRM (by referral
only) 978-635-1739 978-635-1763
(need to call
ahead to make appointment) facility 978-635-1710
Individual
Self-Sufficiency Program (ISSI) 617-727-7130 ext. 655
Lowell Shelter
System (extensive) Lowell only? 978-459-0551 X219
Marlboro Resource
Center (Smoc Behavioral Health, 133
E Main St) 508-480-0092
Marlboro Shelter, 57
Mechanic St, Marlboro (Walker Building?) 508-460-6226 (508-481-7847?)
Mass Affordable
Housing Alliance 617-822-9100
Mass Alternate
Housing Vouchers - local housing authority or 617-727-7130 ext. 655
Mass Coalition for
the Homeless 617-737-3508
Mass Housing &
Shelter Alliance 617-367-6447
MassHousing Rental
Properties - Program Information 617-727-7130
List of
MassHousing rental properties 617-854-1185
Our Father’s
House, 53 Lunenburg St, Fitchburg (shelter) 978-345-3050
Pilot Grove - mixed
income housing 978-897-0313
Plantation
Apartments 978-897-4404
Public Housing -
Mass Union of Public Housing Tenants 617-825-9750
Smoking Cessation –
American Lung Association 781-890-4262
South Middlesex
Opportunity Council (SMOC) in Framingham 508-872-4800
300 Howard St
(includes homeless shelters & much more) 508-620-2300
SMOC Pathways Family
Shelter, 70 Pearl St, Framingham 508-879-5047
Wheat (Clinton) -
shelter according to Jean Demilia 978-365-6349
Willis Center
(shelters) 21 Catherine St., Worcester 508-755-8088
Worcester Community
Action Council (WCAC)
Legal
Assistance
Lawyer Referral
Service of MA Bar Association 800-392-6164
Legal Advocacy
Resource Center (free legal assistance) 800-342-5297
Mass Law Reform
Institute - legal services referral 617-825-9750 617-357-0700
Mass Office on
Refuges & Immigration 617-727-7888
Middlesex County Bar
Association 617-494-4150
National Consumer
Law Center -- Foreclosures 617-523-8010
Victim/Witness
Advocate (Middlesex DA) 978-369-0225
Senior Citizens (refer to Stow Council on Aging)
Elder abuse
hotline 800-922-2275
Emerson Home Health
Care 978-287-0122
SHINE (Serving the
Health Information Needs of Elders) 978-263-8720
Stow Council on
Aging (Linda Graves – Director) 978-897-1880
St. Vincent De Paul Conferences
Stow Conference (St.
Isidore Church) 978-897-2710
Hudson Conference
(Hugo Guidotti) 978-562-6501
Maynard Conference
(St. Bridget Church) St. Bridget’s 978-897-2171
Transportation
FISH 978-443-2145
MassRIDE 888-426-6688
Utilities
Citizen’s
Energy Oil Heat Program (one-time help with oil bill) 877-563-4645
Consumer Discounts
(eligible if receiving Food
stamps, SSI, TAFDC, Call Utility Company
EAEDC, Medicaid, veteran’s
benefits, or fuel assistance
Fuel Assistance -
State Office of Fuel, Healing & Weatherization 508-620-1230
(fuel, weatherization, heating
system repairs, water, & sewer bill help) 800-632-8175
Good Neighbor Fund
(one-time help with utilities) Local Salvation Army
MassEnergy (for low
annual fee reduces heat/gas/elec costs) 800-287-3950
NYNEX ($9.50/month
discount & 50% installation charge) 800-498-0158
Verizon LifeLine
Service & Link-Up America800-870-9999
(eligible
if receiving food stamps, SSI, TAFDC, EAEDC, Medicaid, veteran’s benefits, or fuel assistance)
Woman, Children or Family
Big Brother/Sister –
South Middlesex County 888-879-7762
Boys & Girls
Club of Assabet Valley 978-461-2871
Child At
Risk 800-792-5200
Child Care
Search 978-897-6400
Child Support - MA
Dept of Revenue 800-332-2733
Concord - Assabet
Family Services 978-369-4909
Concord Family &
Youth Services (Teens+) 978-263-3006
Department of Social
Services 508-424-0100
Domestic Abuse
Hotline (REACH) 800-899-4000
Domestic Violence
Assistance Program 888-399-6111
Domestic Violence
Hotline 508-626-8686
Domestic Violence -
Jane Doe, Inc. 617-248-0922
Domestic Violence -
Network for Woman’s Lives 978-287-4089
Domestic Violence
Victims . 888-991-4639
Domestic Violence -
Voices Against Violence 508-626-8686
Eliot Community
Health Services 978-369-1113
Family Day Care
Program. 781-935-6495
Minuteman Early
Intervention 978-369-3524
National Missing &
Exploited Children 800-843-5678
National Runaway
Switchboard 800-621-4000
Parents Helping
Parents 800-882-1250
Parental Stress
Hotline 800-632-8188
Pediatric
Intervention Team (Emerson Hospital) 978-287-3422
Pregnancy Hot
Line 800-322-5014
Runaway Hotline --
National Runaway Switchboard 800-621-4000
Stow Area Parents
Network 978-634-1006
Stow Boy
Scouts 978-897-1242
Stow Cub
Scouts 978-897-6925
Stow Girl
Scouts 978-461-4991
Sylvia’s
Haven, Inc (129 Macarthur Ave, Ayer) 978-772-0925
Teen Parent -
Alliance for Young Families 617-482-9122
Wayside Harbinger
House (teens) 508-972-5665
Women’s
Protective Services (Voices Against Violence) 508-820-0834
Church of Saint Isidore
Rectory 978-897-2710
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