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Waverley Place

The Community Support Program of McLean Hospital

Paul Barreira, MD, Program Director
Dana Holley, LICSW, Program Manager

McLean Hospital's Waverley Place is a community program offering comprehensive, coordinated care and support for adults with chronic psychiatric illness.

Program Features

Once an individual is accepted into the program, staff review the person’s current life circumstances, including housing, employment, education, psychiatric services, spiritual and social needs. The individual and staff then collaborate to design a rehabilitation and living program based on the unique needs and goals of the person. Each member of Waverley Place has access to all members of the multidisciplinary staff, including social workers, a rehabilitation counselor, an occupational therapist and peer counselors. Peer counselors are individuals who are living healthy and productive lives managing their psychiatric illness.

Resource and Support Center

The program offers a place for members to gather to socialize, gain support, use computers and phones, attend skill-building groups, participate in creative and social activities, or just be. Members can use the center as much or as little as they choose.

Program Services

Job skills assessment and training; job search, placement and on-the-job support; volunteer work opportunities.
Assistance in locating and evaluating all levels of supported and independent housing.
Assistance in accessing benefits and other resources.
Skills training in the areas of money management, personal health and household activities.
Assistance with accessing and coordinating medical and psychiatric care.
Opportunities for activities and social contact to provide structure and reduce isolation.

Waverley Products

Waverley Products is a component of the vocational program that provides opportunities for members to engage in real and productive work. Experiences in creativity and competence support recovery and assist members who wish to enter or return to work. Waverley Card Productions incorporates members into various aspects of greeting card design, production and marketing/sales. At the Community Greenhouse Project, members help design and manage a greenhouse business, produce horticulture products year-round and sell products directly to customers. Members can move from pre-employment readiness to outside competitive placement if they choose or continue participating as a working member of a consumer-initiated cooperative business.

Information and Referral

Members can be self-referred, referred from programs and providers at McLean, or referred by outside programs and providers. There is a monthly membership fee of $200, but because the program is funded in part by an endowment, a reduction in fees is available for those who qualify. For more information, contact Dana Holley, LICSW, at 617.484.0193.

Location

12 Church Street, Belmont, MA 02478
Phone: 617.484-0193 Fax: 617.484-0651

Program hours

9 am to 5 pm weekdays and 10 am to 2 pm Saturdays.

About McLean Hospital

U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks McLean Hospital the nation's top psychiatric hospital. McLean is the largest psychiatric clinical care, teaching and research facility of Harvard Medical School, an affiliate of the Massachusetts General Hospital and a member of Partners HealthCare.