Harbor Counseling

The Harbor Counseling Center, located at our Westwood campus, offers direct behavioral and psychological counseling and psychiatric support specifically for people diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In 2022, Harbor Counseling served more than 300 individuals with the highest quality mental health services including outpatient psychiatric services, psychiatric evaluation, and psychopharmacological treatment.

The Center specializes in individual and group behavioral health care supports and uses a variety of evidence-based approaches to therapy for adults including, but not limited to, art therapy, music therapy, and psychopharmacological supports. In addition to providing office-based therapeutic services, Harbor Counseling clinicians also provide home- and work-based services for treatment support and consultation.

Autism & Law Enforcement Coalition (ALEC)

The Autism & Law Enforcement Education Coalition (ALEC) educates and enlightens first responders on how to respond to crises involving individuals with autism spectrum disorders using a nationally recognized and specialized training.

Lifeworks’ ALEC team collaborated with Bristol County Arc to train 119 Bristol County police officers. ALEC also expanded its campus police training with sessions held at Merrimack College, Lasell University, and Northeastern University in Massachusetts and at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. We also conducted trainings for police agencies throughout New England with funding from Bailey’s Team. And by establishing an online program, we were able to conduct ALEC training through the Utah Valley University for police officers in Utah and Wyoming.

Since its launch in 2003, the ALEC program has trained 52,600 first responders.