The Brookline Center for Community Mental Health

09/04/2025

Run for mental health! Applications are now open for Team Brookline, the town's Boston Marathon team and charity program, managed by The Brookline Center.

Help us make a different in mental health care. Submit your application and learn more about the team at teambrookline.org! 🔗💚

09/02/2025

Do you serve youth in the state of Massachusetts?

We invite you to join us for a day-long symposium on the Brookline Center’s School-Based Telebehavioral Health Pilot, a collaborative initiative funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

At the intersection of education, technology, and behavioral health, this pilot expands access to youth-centered services for K–12 students. The symposium will highlight key lessons, promising practices, and strategies for advancing sustainable school-based mental health care. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Join us Monday, November 17 at 9am - 4pm, at The Hogan Center at Holy Cross College. Register now! 🔗 https://ow.ly/bK6o50WPH8M
We can't wait to see you there.

08/28/2025

The Brookline Center School-Based Telebehavioral Health Pilot Learning Collaborative is hosting a free virtual training for school and behavioral health staff on "Noticing and Responding to Signs of Crisis: Clinical Tools for School-Based Providers." This training will be facilitated by Stephanie VanAlstyne, LCSW on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 3:30-5:00 pm ET. Register now! https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zaJq5Y69Rj-t2hKa12nxsA

The Brookline Center's School-Based Telebehavioral Health Pilot Program hosts a Learning Collaborative with synchronous and asynchronous trainings to bolster the professional development of the school and clinical workforce in Massachusetts. Asynchronous trainings can be accessed from the Learning Collaborative website: https://lms.maschoolbasedtelebh.org/login/index.php

08/25/2025

One of the fundamental challenges we face in innovating mental health care is the way funding works in the nonprofit world. There just isn’t the same risk/reward equation you see in the private sector.

Read on in our newest edition of the Innovation Perspective Newsletter, and be a part of the conversation. We'd love to hear your thoughts: What would make innovation in this space more possible?

Ian Lang, CEO One of the fundamental challenges we face in innovating mental health care is the way funding works in the nonprofit world. There just isn’t the same risk/reward equation you see in the private sector.

08/21/2025

Announcing our next Mediator and Conflict Resolution Training: October 20-30!

Metropolitan Mediation Services (MMS), a program of The Brookline Center, is offering a 32-hour Mediator and Conflict Resolution training this coming October 2025. MMS Mediator Trainings teach skills that can enrich your interactions personally, professionally, and in your community. Some trainees go on to join MMS' panel of volunteer mediators, an exciting way to serve our communities.

Plus, early registrants (prior to September 15th), automatically receive a $115 discount. Don't wait to register! Learn more here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/cu/fB8obpP

08/19/2025

The Brookline Center is hiring! Open positions include Youth Conflict Resolution Program Coordinator, M-PATH Family Partner, Clinician: Neuropsychological Testing Service Expert, and more! Visit our website for more information and apply now! ✍ https://www.brooklinecenter.org/careers/

08/14/2025

A reminder: You deserve love and compassion, including from yourself. 💙

08/12/2025

"Too often, health care starts and stops with pathology: diagnose symptoms quickly, prescribe medication, and move on. But symptoms rarely tell the full story, they are just the first clue—the entry point. If we only see patients through the narrow lens of a diagnostic checklist, we risk overlooking what is really going on in a person’s life."

In our newest edition of "The Innovation Perspective," Jessica Stern, MD, Chief Medical Officer and board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, shares how The Brookline Center and our CEDAR program are centering whole-person, relationship-based mental health care. Read on here!

Jessica Stern, MD, Chief Medical Officer and board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist Too often, health care starts and stops with pathology: diagnose symptoms quickly, prescribe medication, and move on. But symptoms rarely tell the full story, they are just the first clue—the entry point...

07/31/2025

This year marks 20 years of bryt, The Brookline Center’s groundbreaking in-school program that’s transforming how schools support students returning from serious mental health challenges. What began at Brookline High School has grown into a national model now operating in 250+ schools across seven states.

Read about bryt’s two decades of supporting thousands of students in healing, reconnecting, and thriving here: https://www.brooklinecenter.org/our-impact/our-stories/twenty-years-of-transforming-lives/

And watch our video to learn more about bryt's impact! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENwk3RJ1_Fg

A program of The Brookline Center, bryt (pronounced “bright”) provides transformative support to students who have experienced a mental health disruption to ...

07/28/2025

As part of our LinkedIn Newsletter, The Innovation Perspective, we are starting a new “Meet the Innovators” series! We’re sitting down with the minds behind The Brookline Center’s Innovation Institute to explore the insights, challenges, and knowledge they bring to the work of transforming mental health care. This edition features Carla Gonçalves, Director of our School-Based Telebehavioral Health Program. Read it now!

In our “Meet the Innovators” series, we’re sitting down with the minds behind The Brookline Center’s Innovation Institute to explore the insights, challenges, and knowledge they bring to the work of transforming mental health care. This edition features Carla E.

07/28/2025

We are excited to share announce the publication and validation of the Healthy Lives 5 Axis Scale (HL-5), a concise, multidimensional tool designed to help providers better assess and support individuals living with complex health and social challenges. Published in BMC Health Services Research, the peer-reviewed study confirms the HL-5’s high levels of reliability and strong validity, filling a critical gap in the field of complex care management.

Read more about Healthy Lives and the HL-5 here! https://www.brooklinecenter.org/who-we-are/news/healthy-lives-press-release/

07/25/2025

The Brookline Center is hiring! Open positions include Director of Communications, Service Coordinator, Youth Conflict Resolution Program Coordinator, and more! Learn more and apply now! ✍
https://www.brooklinecenter.org/careers/