Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Massachusetts & Rhode Island

Devereux Massachusetts is a private, not-for-profit organization established in 1965 at the request of the Commonwealth. The main campus is located on a beautifully wooded 160-acre site in the New England countryside that provides a peaceful setting for treatment and education, along with ample recreational activities. Devereux has long recognized that planned, gradual transitions are key to successful treatment, and we have developed a continuum where clients move through environments that become increasingly more community-based and home-like. As clients learn the skills they need to function more effectively, they move from our campus residential intake units, to cottage units, and then to community group homes located within a few miles of the campus. Clients who go into crisis at any point along our continuum can be temporarily “stepped up” to a more intensive level of care for stabilization. In addition, we have Behavioral Treatment Residences (BTRs) on campus and in the community.

Our goal is to help clients return to the community and reunite with their families. Clients who no longer need residential care may transition home or to one of our therapeutic foster homes throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island. At that time, clients may continue attending our special needs day school or return to their local public schools.