The Brookline Center for Community Mental Health

Join us for a night of service with a social twist at this year's Hand in Hand! On Wednesday, April 30, come together with friends and community members to create custom care packages filled with your hand-selected items that will nurture and bring joy to caregivers throughout the Brookline community and beyond. 💙🌻 Register now! https://lnkd.in/eKbymUzf

The 2025 bryt Symposium & Learning Institute last week was a huge success! Over 400 educators and partners came together to share knowledge and learn. The Symposium featured our incredible keynote speakers, Dr. Amy Laurent and Dr. Jac Fede (Autism Level UP!), who shared insightful knowledge on reframing our understanding of young people's challenging behaviors through a lens of regulation. To celebrate 20 years of bryt, we recognized four special honorees at the Symposium—Adam Diliberto, Courtney Balacco, Lindsey Yamaguchi, and Stephanie Glenn, LMHC—as well as a larger group of early pioneers of bryt, to whom we are deeply appreciative for their long-term support. Other speakers included John Crocker, Courtney Jo Balacco, Tracy Floeckher, Trish Schramm, Adam Diliberto, Trisha Bruck, Kerry Whiterell, Lisa Winner, Aviva Kafka, and Stephanie Glenn. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us!

"Every mile I run is for the kids that I work with. Their resilience, their courage, and more than anything their joy really fuels me," says Team Brookline runner Haley Medeiros. "Every child deserves to be happy and healthy, and I'm running to help make that a reality." Haley is a school psychologist-in-training specializing in children's mental health. Running the Boston Marathon has been a dream of hers for years, and Haley is proud to be running and fundraising for a cause she cares so deeply about. Support Haley here! https://lnkd.in/eknUfqj7 https://lnkd.in/e9DKZwTT

The Brookline Center is hiring! Open positions include Mental Health Clinicians, M-PATH Family Partner, Data and System Implementation Specialist, and more. Learn more and apply now! ✍ https://lnkd.in/en4P2wyg

"For many of these youth, it’s about getting the right care at the right time from someone they already trust,” said Dr. Emily Gagen, Director of M-PATH. In partnership with the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, The Brookline Center’s M-PATH program has launched a groundbreaking initiative to help primary care providers (PCPs) better identify and support young patients showing signs of early psychosis. Learn more about this exciting initiative! https://lnkd.in/gNsgZkfE

We are excited to announce that four Brookline Center staff members were accepted into a free, virtual Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) program at Framingham State University! The program provides a fully funded pathway to a master’s degree and licensure, while allowing students to remain employed full-time. Congratulations to our accepted staff members, Jamal Caraballo, Jacob Knight, Brianna Dewalt, and Julia O’Brien! 🎉 Read more in our press release here: https://lnkd.in/gY5RN_JH

The Brookline Center School-Based Telebehavioral Health Pilot Learning Collaborative hosts free virtual trainings for school and behavioral health staff every month! Check out the offerings for the first 2 weeks of April, and register now! Understanding and Tackling Youth Mental Health Challenges: https://lnkd.in/dXXHVh5Q Developmental Neurobiology and the Impact of Substance Use on the Developing Adolescent Brain: https://lnkd.in/dfpvN2x6 How do I use Motivational Interviewing to Engage Students?: https://lnkd.in/eUUPnRFm The Brookline Center's School-Based Telebehavioral Health Pilot Program hosts a Learning Collaborative with synchronous and asynchronous trainings to bolster professional development of the school and clinical workforce in Massachusetts. Asynchronous trainings can be accessed from the Learning Collaborative website: https://lnkd.in/ewrWe_Y3

We're #hiring a new Training Coordinator in Massachusetts. Apply today or share this post with your network.

Twelve years ago, a group of passionate Brookline Center board members with a bold vision to support women’s and girls’ mental health launched Women at the Center to champion mental wellbeing in our community, raise funding for the Center's work, and foster connections among local women. "Our initial idea was to bring women from the Brookline community together—not just to support women and girls receiving care at the Center, but to create a network that could nurture women supporters of the Center, as well," shared long-standing WAC leader Michele Fishel. Learn more about WAC's origins and its remarkable growth now: https://lnkd.in/eBgdpe6E

We're #hiring a new M-Path Family Partner in Brookline, Massachusetts. Apply today or share this post with your network.