Westfield, MA Please Click the Link Below to Learn More About Upcoming Events The Carson Center for Human Services helps people achieve greater health and well-being in everyday life. We bring compassionate expertise to behavioral health, wellness and education services for people of all ages and abilities throughout western MA. Children, teenagers and adults come to us for help with all sorts of problems--some that are brief, others that are chronic or severe. We help with mental health and substance abuse problems, developmental disabilities, and traumatic brain injuries. We help educate and support people of all ages in their everyday lives. We help parents who are having trouble with their children. We help teenagers who are having trouble with school or friends or drug use. We work with those who have developmental or behavioral health challenges to provide support and services aimed at maximizing these individual's participation and satisfaction in school, work, family, and community life. 2nd Annual "Cars for Carson"     Presented by   The Carson Center   and   The Westfield Cruise     Sunday, June 2... click for more The Carson Center/Kamp for Kids 37th Annual Golf Tournament     The 37th Annual Carson Center/Kamp for Kids golf tournament was held on Monday, May 20, 2013.  The we... click for more FACES OF CARSON Celebrating 50 Years of Real Help with Real Life 1963-2013   The Carson Center for Human Services... click for more Carson Center Privacy Policy In accordance with state and federal law, we are offering you a copy of the Carson Center s Notice of Privacy Practice... click for more Carson Center Mission and Vision Our Mission Statement   The Carson Center for Human Services helps people achieve greater healt... click for more Carson Center Celebrates Anniversary As appeared in the Westfield News 1-8-2013 by Carl Hartdegen, Staff Writer     The Carson Center has been a source for social services in the city and the nearby communities for decades.  Staff and clients of the agency will celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the center with "Fifty Faces of Carson", a series of 50 columns to be published in The Westfield News throughout the year, illustrating the center's programs and successes.   The agency was born shortly after President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Community Mental Health Act in 1963. The legislation, the last signed by Kennedy, enabled the birth of The Westfield Area Child Guidance Clinic which, after almost 50 years, has grown into a diversified social service agency providing help to both children and adults in a wide variety of arenas.   Known after 1973 as the Westfield Area Mental Health Clinic, the name was changed to The Carson Center in 1996 to honor a dynamic director, Peg Carson.   The Center's mission statement states that the agency "helps people achieve greater health and well-being in everyday life" and brings "compassionate expertise to behavioral health, wellness and education services for people of all ages and abilities."   The current CEO, Susan West, said in a recent interview that the weekly columns will, with details disguised to preserve confidentiality, "tell the community more about our work in a very personal way" by relat... click for more