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Franciscan Children’s is a participating provider in the Medicare and Medicaid insurance programs, as well as Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield and the majority of HMO and Commercial plans. We also work with non-participating insurance plans on a case-by-case basis to ensure that all of our patients’ financial needs are adequately met.
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About Franciscan Children’s
Located just outside Boston in Brighton, Massachusetts, near St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and easily accessible by public transportation, this center supports children and adolescents with complex medical, emotional, and developmental needs. It offers inpatient mental health care, rehabilitation, outpatient therapy, and medical services for youth from infancy through age 22 in a warm, child-focused setting.
Their care is guided by a trauma-informed, family-centered model that encourages healing and long-term growth. Children receive individual and group therapy, mindfulness and self-regulation practice, expressive arts, occupational therapy, and psychiatric support. These approaches help reduce distress, teach coping skills, and improve emotional and behavioral stability across a range of conditions.
One creative feature is the LEGO-based social skills group, where children participate in a structured game by building LEGO sets together. Each child plays a role as an engineer, supplier, or builder which requires teamwork, communication, and turn-taking. This playful yet purposeful therapy helps develop peer interaction, frustration tolerance, and emotional control in a fun, hands-on environment.
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Provider's Policy:Franciscan Children’s is a participating provider in the Medicare and Medicaid insurance programs, as well as Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield and the majority of HMO and Commercial plans. We also work with non-participating insurance plans on a case-by-case basis to ensure that all of our patients’ financial needs are adequately met.
Medicaid
<p>Signed into law through the Social Security Act in 1965, Medicaid is a United States government program that offers health insurance to those with limited income.</p>
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<p>A leading healthcare provider serving over 100 million Americans as one of the largest insurance companies in the country.</p>
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A simple coverage option for Americans without health insurance and disabilities. Many private insurances incorporate Medicare to expand its coverage options.
See rehabs that accept this provider.Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
Treatment for children incorporates the psychiatric care they need and education, often led by on-site teachers to keep children on track with school.
At this center, you receive personalized care for mental health conditions. They provide therapy and tailor treatment to your unique needs, diagnoses, and preferences.
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Creative processes like art, writing, or dance use inner creative desires to help boost confidence, emotional growth, and initiate change.
With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Providers involve family in the treatment of their loved one through family therapy, visits, or both–because addiction is a family disease.
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
Creative processes like art, writing, or dance use inner creative desires to help boost confidence, emotional growth, and initiate change.
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
This method combines treatment with education, teaching patients about different paths toward recovery. This empowers them to make more effective decisions.
This cognitive behavioral therapy teaches patients to accept challenging feelings and make the appropriate changes to reach personal goals.
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that causes hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.
ADHD is a common mental health condition caused by dopamine imbalance. Common symptoms include inattention, hyperactivitiy, and impulsivity.
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
An eating disorder is a long-term pattern of unhealthy behavior relating to food. Most people with eating disorders have a distorted self-image.
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
The act of intentionally harming oneself, also called self-injury, is associated with mental health issues like depression.
With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
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