Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS)

Description

MAPS, a private, nonprofit, community-based agency, has provided a wide range of health and human services to Portuguese speakers and other eastern Massachusetts residents since 1970. The agency in its present form was created on July 1, 1993 from the merger of the Somerville Portuguese Language League (SPAL) and the Cambridge Organiza­tion of Portu­guese Americans (COPA), two nonprofit agencies serving the Portu­guese-speaking community since the early 1970s.

Current services include Immigrant Social Services; ESOL, Citizenship and Portuguese Classes; Elder Services; Translation Services; Partner Agency Services (PAS) and Family-Based Services (FBS)--including Adolescent Intensive Services and Family Support Services for Mass. Dept. of Social Services-referred cases--Home Ownership Assistance; Domestic Violence Prevention and Batterer Intervention; HIV Prevention; HIV/AIDS Case Management; Youth Programs including HIV, Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention, Mentoring, and more; Driver Alcohol Education; and the Healthy Mind/Healthy Body Program, which promotes good health through nutrition and regular physical activity.

• 1046 Cambridge St. (Admin.)-- Cambridge, MA 02139 Ph: (617) 864-7600
• 92 Union Sq. -- Somerville, MA 02143 (Open evenings by appointment only.)
• 569 Cambridge St. -- Allston, MA 02134 (617) 787-0557
• One Stoughton St. -- Dorchester , MA 02125 (617) 825-5897
• 11 Mill Street -- Lowell , MA 01852 (978) 970-1250
• 129 Concord Street, Suite 23 -- Framingham , MA 01702 ( Assistance in Portuguese, 508-397-9051; in Spanish, 508-259-9889)