Palliative care helps patients with serious illness live as well as possible and provides compassionate care to relieve the range of physical and emotional symptoms that often accompany serious illness or the side effects of treatment. Helpful links are provided here:

Catholic Health Association of the United States
 
 Examining Diverse Perspectives of Catholics on Advance Care Planning, Palliative Care, and End-of-Life Care in the United States

Riverside Community Care is a locally based non-profit organization that serves children, adolescents, and adults with mental healthcare,, addiction treatment, trauma response, domestic violence services and more.  They partner with local hospitals and physicians, and work with most insurers and MassHealth.  

Riverside Youth Emergency Services - For children experiencing a mental health or behavioral crisis
The Youth Emergency Services team provides services to children (under 21) who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis with a mobile, face-to-face response. The team can meet with youth and their families at a community-based location or they can travel to homes, schools, and other locations with the goal of avoiding a hospital emergency room visit and unnecessary hospitalization.  Care can extend with the family for up to a week for continued crisis intervention and to help the family connect with on-going behavioral health services and supports.
Youth Emergency Services are available to children under the age or 21, regardless of their insurance plan, including those who are uninsured.
Youth Mobile Crisis Intervention   South and West of Boston: 800-529-5077
Medfield Cares About Prevention  is a made of various community groups that work together to promote mental health and prevent alcohol, marijuana, and other drug use amongst youth.  Their website offers parents and teens a variety of local and general resources, substance abuse and mental health resources.  

The Medfield Youth Outreach Program is located under the auspices of the Medfield Board of Health and provides help and resources in the areas of mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention. The purpose of the office is to serve youth from infancy to age eighteen and their families with a host of social services. Staff provide free and confidential individual and family counseling, assistance with access to financial assistance programs, information and referral, community programming, and crisis intervention to Medfield residents.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a group of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking and there are no dues or fees for A.A. membership.  St. Jude hosts a group 11:30 AM - 1:15 PM Monday through Saturday, and there are also groups in Medfield and Walpole.  Click the link for further details.

A bereamement program is usually offered at Blessed Sacrament Church in Walpole and is held in Fall (Oct/Nov) in the evenings, mid-winter (Feb/ March) during the day and spring (April/May) in the evening. Call Blessed Sacrament Church for more information.

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Several food collection bins have been set up in the narthex of the church for donations to the Medfield Food Cupboard. Interested parishioners are encouraged to make a donation when attending Mass. At this time, the Medfield Food Cupboard is serving 85 adults, 17 senior citizens and 44 children, and your donations would help feed our Medfield neighbors in need. Last year enough food was supplied for 60 households to make 3-4 meals per week; this was made possible by donors’ financial and food contributions to the Food Cupboard. All unexpired, unopened and non-perishable donations are deeply appreciated. Food Cupboard is especially in need of juice boxes, kid friendly cereal (example: Cinnamon Toast Crunch), lunch size boxes of raisins, peanut butter, jam, canned pasta and sauce, bags of rice, tuna (in water preferred), and cookies/crackers/salty snacks. (Please leave your donations in the bins provided).

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The New Life Furniture Bank collects high-quality gently-used furniture, appliances, and household goods that are then made available at no cost to veterans, refugees, and families transitioning from homelessness. If you are downsizing, renovating or disposing of a loved one’s property, New Life is a meaningful option to turn unwanted furniture and household essentials into an opportunity to help others. Items needed include: Pots and pans, Sheets/bed linens, Towels, Silverware, Drinking glasses. Donations can be dropped off on Saturdays between 9 and 11:30 at the donation center at 105 Elm Street in Walpole. New Life can also to do a pickup for more than one large furniture item. Visit newlifefb.org and click on “Donate" to request a time for a furniture pickup (sometimes 2 weeks out). Please also see the website for acceptable and unacceptable items for donation.

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The Norfolk Food Pantry accepts donations of food, paper goods and staple donations. Collection bins are available on an ongoing basis, at the side and front entrances of the church. Specific items needed are as follows:
Cereal (non-generic) macaroni and cheese, tuna, peanut butter, jelly (no grape), spaghetti sauce, crackers, toiletries like soap and toothpaste, paper goods like toilet tissue and paper towels, condiments, canned fruit, canned pasta like Spaghetti-o's, coffee, sugar, baked beans.
Please no glass containers, no open packages, no expired dates, no packages without expiration dates appearing. These cannot be accepted. Your contributions are greatly appreciated!

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Gilly's House is a residential program for young men who have struggled with addiction and want to continue their recovery. It offers a stable, structured, supportive and safe environment to achieve personal goals while attaining the transitional life skills necessary to reintegrate into community life. Caring for the needs of each individual, Gilly's House collaboratively works with each young man to develop personal goals and a plan to reach them. Please visit their website to see how you can help.