This Brewster Cares website is a learning and giving portal to the health and human service agencies supported by the Town of Brewster as voted by the residents of Brewster at the Brewster Town Meeting.

The Brewster Cares Project is brought to you by the Brewster Health and Human Services Committee. You can email the committee using Contact@BrewsterCares.Org.

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• AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod

  
  • AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod (ASGCC) provides care, support and housing in order to foster health, independence and dignity for people living with HIV/AIDs and Viral Hepatitis.
  • Aids Support Group of Cape Cod, in addition to offering free screenings and an overdose prevention program, served 5 Brewster residents with medical case management with a conservatively estimated total cost of $10,572 per year. Recommended Funding For FY2021: $3,000
  • You can personally SUPPORT the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod.

• Alzheimer's Family Support Center of Cape Cod

  
  • Alzheimer's Family Caregiver Support Center (AFCSC) provides free supportive counseling, care consultation, education, support groups, caregiver interventions, telephone support and outreach services.
  • Alzheimer's Family Support served 117 Brewster residents on average each month with support groups, ongoing phone support, counseling, care consultation, memory screenings, education, outreach and social and cultural events with a conservatively estimated total cost of $60,900 per year. Recommended Funding For FY2021: $10,000
  • You can personally SUPPORT Outer Cape Health Services.

• Cape Abilities

  
  • Cape Abilities provides residential, social, therapeutic and employment support to individuals with disabilities so as to empower them to achieve meaningful and valued roles in society.
  • Cape Abilities served 28 Brewster residents with vocational training, supported employment, day habilitation, life skills, community-based day supports, residential services, adult family care and shared living with a conservatively estimated total cost of $2,268,618 per year. Recommended Funding For FY2021: $7,000
  • You can personally SUPPORT Cape Abilities.

• Cape Cod Children’s Place

  
  • Cape Cod Children's Place (CCCP) provides high-quality care, support and advocacy for families with young children, in order to sustain a healthy community for Cape Cod's future.
  • Cape Cod Children's Place served 473 Brewster residents with family support visits, play groups and parenting education classes with a conservatively estimated total cost of $22,140 per year. Recommended Funding For FY2021: $9,000
  • You can personally SUPPORT Cape Cod Children's Place.

• Consumer Assistance Council

  
  • The Consumer Assistance Council (CAC) provides consumer information, consumer advocacy and mediation for consumer complaints.
  • Consumer Assistance Council served as consumer advocate for 9 Brewster cases with a total dollars recouped and/or saved of $27,915 per year (averaged over the last two years). Recommended Funding For FY2021: $500
  • For the sake of impartiality, the CAC does not accept individual donations.

• Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands

  
  • Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands (ESCCI) provides essential services to older citizens in the 22 towns of Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties.
  • Elder Services delivered 9,357 Meal-on-Wheels to 88 Brewster residents with an estimated total cost of $87,020 per year. Recommended Funding For FY2021: $8,600.
  • You can personally SUPPORT Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands.

• Gosnold on Cape Cod

  
  • Gosnold on Cape Cod provides addiction and mental health treatment, serves men, women and families affected by these illnesses, and promotes lasting recovery.
  • Gosnold served 122 Brewster residents with 3,904 units of inpatient and/or outpatient services including Outpatient Therapy for Substance Use, Outpatient Therapy for Mental Health and Ambulatory Medical Services with a conservatively estimated total cost of $390,400 per year. Recommended Funding For FY2021: $12,000
  • You can personally SUPPORT Gosnold on Cape Cod.

• Homeless Prevention Council

  
  • The Homeless Prevention Council (HPC) combats and prevents homelessness in the eight towns on the Lower Cape.
  • Homeless Prevention Council provided case managers for 80 Brewster families with a conservatively estimated total cost of $49,440 per year. Recommended Funding For FY2021: $15,000.
  • You can personally SUPPORT the Homeless Prevention Council.

• Independence House

  
  • Independence House provides help to domestic violence and assault victims, survivors and their children through crisis intervention, advocacy, counseling, referral, prevention, outreach, education and inspiring change in our community.
  • Independence House provides an array of services including counseling, advocacy and basic needs to 90 Brewster survivors and 136 units of service to Brewster children through the Child Witness to Violence Program and Child Sexual Assault Services with an estimated total cost of $82,046 per year. Recommended Funding For FY2021: $7,300
  • You can personally SUPPORT the Independence House.

• Lower Cape Outreach Council

  
  • The Lower Cape Outreach Council (LCOC) provides emergency assistance of food, clothing and financial support to individuals and families in Brewster, Chatham, Eastham, Harwich, Orleans, Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet which will lead to healthy, productive and self-sustaining lives as part of the Cape Cod community.
  • Lower Cape Outreach Council served 245 Brewster households through cash assistance, food, clothing, Thanksgiving baskets and holiday toys with an estimated total cost of $482,218 per year. Recommended Funding For FY2021: $9,500
  • You can personally SUPPORT the Lower Cape Outreach Council.

• Nauset Together We Can Prevention Council

  
  • The Nauset Together We Can Prevention Council (NTWC) provides programs and activities that support, empower and engage the youth of our community.
  • Nauset Together We Can served 20 Brewster middle schoolers over 144 visits to the free Youth After School Program which provides a safe, healthy, social environment for students to do homework, play and relax with adult supervision and mentoring for a conservatively estimated total cost of $3,600 per year. Recommended Funding: $3,000
  • You can personally SUPPORT Nauset Together We Can.

• Nauset Youth Alliance

  
  • Nauset Youth Alliance (NYA) provides after-school care, homework support, and activities as well as summer programs for Brewster children and working parents.
  • Nauset Youth Alliance served 112 Brewster children by providing after-school care and summer programming with an estimated total cost of $369,797 per year. Recommended Funding For FY2021: $10,800.
  • You can personally SUPPORT Outer Cape Health Services.

• Outer Cape Health Services

  
  • Outer Cape Health Services (OCHS) provides a full range of primary, specialty, and preventable health care and supportive social services that promote the health and well-being of all who live in or visit the eight outermost towns of Cape Cod.
  • Outer Cape Health Services provided 833 Brewster residents 3,173 billable visits and 9,964 non-billable encounters (including uninsured patients and phone, web, lab, pharmacy etc.) with an estimated total cost of $774,212 per year for billable visits only. Recommended Funding For FY2021: $15,000
  • You can personally SUPPORT Outer Cape Health Services.

• Sight Loss Services

  
  • Sight Loss Services (SLS) provides peer support, information and referral, education and awareness, outreach/home independence training, and adaptive aids to people who are learning to cope and function safely and independently with the loss of sight.
  • Sight Loss Services provided 487 units of service (support groups, education, referrals, home independence, adaptive aids and advocacy) to 105 Brewster residents with an estimated total cost of $9,145 per year. Recommended Funding For FY2021: $1,500
  • You can personally SUPPORT Sight Loss Services.

• South Coastal Counties Legal Services

  
  • South Coastal Counties Legal Services (SCCLS) provides community based legal advocacy in order to achieve equal justice for the poor and disadvantaged.
  • South Coastal Counties Legal Services provided free legal services to 23 low-income and/or elderly Brewster residents with an estimated total cost of $27,853 per year. Recommended Funding For FY2021: $4,120
  • You can personally SUPPORT South Coastal Counties Legal Services.