Support Groups/SEPACs

Parent Support

SPEDWatch 978-433-5983. Working to secure the educational rights of all Massachusetts schoolchildren with disabilities, ages 3-21.

Parents Helping Parents/24-hour helpline 1-800-632-8188 www.parentshelpingparents.org

Sibling Support

Brockton Area Arc
Family to Family Support Center
Brockton,
508-583-8030, ext. 224.Arc
Family to Family Support Center
Brockton,
508-583-8030, ext. 224.

North Shore Children's
Hospital Family Resource Center.
http://nsmc.partners.org/
cmsLibrary/documents/
Sibshop2008-2009.pdf

Wayside Youth & Family
Support Network, Marlborough,
http://waysidepp.org/SibClub.aspx
508-620-0010 x 308 ljd0428@aol.com

The Foundation for Children
With Behavioral Challenges (FCBC),
Andover Youth Services and "Baskets"
plan to start a teen sibling support group
for ages 13 - 16, on Sundays, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
For more information, contact
Beth Edelstein Beth@fcbcsupport.org @

SibParent: Sponsored by the Sibling Support Project,
is a listserv where parents can discuss their
typically developing children.
Visit www.siblingsupport.org or
groups.yahoo.com/group/SibParent/join www.aane.org,
or contact Christine Studley,
781-619-1570, education@iccdpartners.org

Sib Clubs/Kennedy Donovan Center
: For DDS eligible Families:
Contact the Family Support Program
Coordinator, Kennedy-Donovan Center,
Inc., Milford, MA 01757,
508-473-5700, maria_phillips@kdc.org

School SPED PACS (SEPAC)

Submit updated SPED PAC (SEPAC) addresses to: info@spedchildmass.com

Cities and Towns A-L

Acton/Boxboro
www.abspedpac.org
Acushnet
www.acushnetschools.us/aps/Documents
/Special%20Education/Acushnet%
20Fairhaven%20PAC.htm
Agawam
www.geocities.com/agawampac
Amesbury
www.ci.amesbury.ma.us/home.
nfs?a=amesbury&s
=special&group=226
Amherst/Pelham
www.arhsparentcenter.org
/?q=node/22
Andover
www.andoversepac.org
Arlington
www.arlington.k12.ma.us/sepac
Ashland
www.ashpac.org
Attleboro
www.asepac.netfirms.com
Auburn
www.auburnsepac.org
Ayer
www.ayer.k12.ma.us/sped/pac.cfm
Barnstable
www.barnstablesepac.org
Bedford
httwww.bedford.k12.ma.us/
sped/index.html
Bellingham
http://bellinghamsepac.clubspaces.com
Belmont
http://www.belmont.k12.ma.us/bseac
Billerica
http://bpacsp.org/index.html
Boston
http://bostonpublicschools.org/node/226
Boxborough
http://www.bsepac.org/index.html
Braintree
http://www.braintreesepac.org
Bridgewater/Raynham
www.brsepac.org
Brockton
http://www.brocktonpublicschools.com
/page.cfm?p=1273
Brookline
http://brooklinesepac.org
Brookfield
www.brookfield.k12.ct.us/page.cfm?p=4723
Burlington
http://www.burlington.mec.edu/
homepage.html
Canton
http://cantonma.org/cpacss/
Carver
www.carver.org/page.php?=204
Cambridge
http://cambridgespedpac.org.
googlepages.com
Chatham
www.chatham.k12.ma.us/sepac/sepac.html
Chelmsford
http://murdochschool.net/devolpment
/sscig.php
Concord/Carlisle
http://concordspedpac.org
Dartmouth
www.geocities.com/dartmouth_pac/index.htm
Dedham
www.dedham.k12.ma.us/SEPAC/
Duxbury
www.duxburysepac.org
Dover/Sherborn
www.doversherborn.org
East Bridgewater
www.ebps.net/SEPAC/index.html
Easton
www.easton.k12.ma.us/
SpecialEducation/esepac.html
Falmouth
www.falmouth.k12.ma.us/index.php/home/
programs-departments/spedpac
Foxborough
http://teacherweb.com/MA/
Foxborough/FSEPAC/index.html
Framingham
www.f-sepac.org
Franklin
www.franklin.ma.us/auto/schools/
FPS/pps/sepac/default.htm
Freetown/Lakeville
www.freelake.org/OfcOfSPED.php
Greater Lowell Technical
www.gltech.org/SpecialEducation.htm#PAC
Georgetown
www.georgetownspedpac.org
Grafton
www.graftonspedpac.org/
Groton/Dunstable
www.gdspedpac.org
Hanover
www.hanoverschools.org/pac.htm
Harvard
www.harvardsepac.org
Holbrook
www.holbrook.k12.ma.us/SPEAC/index.htm
Holliston
http://teacherweb.com/MA/Holliston/PAC/index.html
Hopkinton
www.hopkinton.k12.ma.us/SPEAC/index.htm
Hull
www.town.hull.ma.us/Public
Documents/HullMA_sped/sped
Hudson
http://hudsonsepac.com
Lenox
www.lenoxpublicschools.org/morris/pac.php
Leominster
www.leominster.mec.edu/program-sped.htm
Lexington
www.lexingtonspedpac.org
Lincoln
www.lincnet.org/SPED/PAC.shtml
Lowell
www.lowell.k12.ma.us/administration
/special-education/special-education
Lunenburg
www.geocities.com/pacsal766
Lynn
www.lynnschools.org/Announcements.htm
Lynnfield
www.lynnfield.k12.ma.us/education/
components/scrapbook
/default.php?sectiondetailid=6607&sc
_id=1156571498

Cities and Towns M-Z

Mansfield
www.mansfieldschools.com/SPEDPAC
Marlblehead
www.seacomonline.org
Marshfield
www.mpsd.org/CENTRALOFFICE/
Specialed/Parent%20Advisory%20Council.htm
Mashpee
www.mashpeesepac.org
Maynard
www.maynardschool.org/spedpac
Medfield
medfield.net/central/pupil/sepac.html
Medway
www.medwaymapac.org/home.html
Mendon/Upton
www.geocities.com/mendonuptonpac/index.htm
Merrimac
www.mec.edu/collab/pac.cfm
Metheun
www.methuen.k12.ma.us/special_education.shtml
Middleboro
www.middleboro.k12.ma.us
/SpecEd/SPED%20Web08.htm
Milton
www.edline.net/pages/Milton_Public
_Schools/Special_Education_Administrati
Nashoba Regional
wwww.nashobaspedpac.googlepages.com
Nashoba Valley Technical High School
www.nashobatech.mec.edu
Natick
www.naticksepac.org
Needham
www.needhamsepac.org
New Bedford
www.newbedord.k12.ma.us/sped/spedindex.htm
Newton
www.newtonpac.org/Home_Page.html
North Andover
http://napac.northandoverpublicschools.com
AttleboroughNorth
www.naschools.net/snac/index.html
Northbridge
www.northbridgespedpac.org
Northborough
www.nspac.org
Northhampton
www.nps.northhampton.ma.us/
pupil_services/parent.html
North Middlesex
www.nmspedpac.org
Norton
www.daitch.com/pac
Oxford
www.geocities.com/oxfordspedpac/
OxfordSPEDPAC.html
Peabody
www.peabody.k12.ma.us/Parents/spedpac.htm
Pentucket
www.prsd.org/sped/parent%20resources.htm
Plympton/Silver Lake
http://town.plympton.ma.us/ed/slsc.html
Quincy
www.quincypublicschools.com/parent
/parent_spec_ed.shtml
Raynham/Bridgewater
www.brsepac.org
Revere
www.reveresepac.bravehost.com
Rockport
http://teacherweb.com/MA/RockportPublicSchools
/SPEDPAC/apt8.stm
Salem
www.salemspedpac.org
Scituate
www.scituatespedpac.org
Sharon
www.ssepac.org
Somerset
www.somersetpace.org
Somerville
www.somerville.k12.ma.us/spedpac
Springfield
www.sps.springfield.ma.us/pac/
Stoughton
www.stoughtonschools.org/Stoughton/parents.html#
Stoughton%20Parent%20Advisory%
20Council%20on%20Special
Sudbury/Lincoln
www.sudbury.k12.ma.us/~sseac/index.html
Swampscott
http://seaboard.wordpress.com
Taunton
www.tauntonschools.org:16080/
sped/spedpac/index.htm
Topsfield
www.topsfieldschools.org/SPED
%20PAC/sped%20pac.htm
Uxbridge
www.uxbridgeschools.com/pupilservices_pac.shtml
Wachuset
www.wrsd.net/sepac
Waltham
www.city.waltham.ma.us/SCHOOL/
WebPAge/spedpac.htm
Wayland
www.wayland.k12.ma.us/sepac.html
Wellesley
www.wellesleypac.org/index.php
Westborough
http:westboroughsepac.org
West Bridgewater
www.wbridgewaterschools.com/sped.html
Weston
http://westonpac.org
Westwood
www.westwoodsepac.org
Weymouth
www.weymouthschools.org/home.
aspx?categoryID=10008
Wilmington
www.wilmington.k12.ma.us/WoburnSt/PAC.html
Winchester
www.winchesterspedpac.org
Woburn
www.woburnspededpac.iwonpages.com
Worcester
www.worcesterspedpac.org

www.somerville.k12.ma.us/spedpac

Aspergers/Autism

Autism Resource Center
West Bolyston, MA. 508-835-4278|
www.arccm.org
- Moms and Tots Support Group
- Autism Support Group
- Aspergers Support Group
- Sibshops
- Music and Swim Programs
- Vacation Week Programs

Support Group for Grandparents of Children with AS and Related Disorders. AANE, Watertown. Connect with others facing the same challenges. Meetings will be co-led by a clinical social worker and a mental health counselor. There will be a charge for the meetings payable to AANE. Contact Mary Ann Monheimer at (617) 926-7001 or maryan13@comcast.net.

Greater Waltham ARC Parent to Parent Support Groups, 56 Chestnut Street, Waltham, RSVP Anna Thorpe, Family Support Manager, 781-899-3144, ext 4120, or email athorpe@gwarc.org

State Government

Massachusetts Department of Developmental Disabilities (Formerly the Department of Mental Retardation/DMR) http://mass.gov/dmr

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The Attachment Institute of New England. Parent Support Groups
www.attachmentnewengland.org