Support for Communities, Youth, & Families
About MASS Help
Massachusetts Access to Support Services
MASS Help is a Massachusetts-based community support organization focused on strengthening access to practical, prevention-centered support for children, teens, adults, and families.
Our work is grounded in one core belief: support should be easier to find before people feel alone, overwhelmed, or in crisis.
MASS Help brings together community care, youth connection, family support, education, prevention, wellness, resource navigation, and future health-related access initiatives. The goal is to create programs, partnerships, and community spaces that help people feel supported, connected, and better able to navigate the systems around them.
Our Mission
MASS Help exists to improve access to community-based support through prevention-focused programs, youth and family resources, education, mentoring, wellness initiatives, and resource navigation.
We focus on the gaps people often experience between school, healthcare, mental health care, social services, and everyday community life.
Sometimes support looks like a safe place for a young person to go after school. Sometimes it looks like a family finding the right resource. Sometimes it looks like a teen gaining confidence and purpose through leadership. Sometimes it looks like a parent finally having somewhere to ask for help.
MASS Help is built to make those supports feel more accessible, practical, and connected.
Founder
MASS Help was founded by Victoria Mansfield, a healthcare professional, educator, and community-focused leader with more than 15 years of experience across healthcare, clinical education, teaching, mentoring, student support, business finance, and community support systems.
Victoria’s background has shaped MASS Help’s focus on prevention, access, safety, education, and practical community support.
Her work combines healthcare knowledge, educational leadership, financial planning, and community-centered problem solving to build support systems that are organized, responsible, and accessible.
Support should not be hard to find.
— Victoria Mansfield, Founder
Victoria Mansfield | Founder, MASS Help | Healthcare Professional | Educator | Director of Clinical Education
Our Approach
MASS Help is built around a community-based support model that focuses on access, prevention, and connection.
Community Support
Creating spaces and programs that help people feel less isolated and more connected to local support.
Youth & Family Connection
Supporting children, teens, parents, and caregivers through structured programs, mentoring, education, and community events.
Prevention & Wellness
Promoting belonging, confidence, healthy habits, bullying prevention, vaping prevention, emotional wellness, and early support before crisis.
Education & Skill-Building
Offering pathways for homework support, tutoring, computer access, life skills, peer learning, and leadership development.
Resource Navigation
Helping individuals and families better understand and connect with health, mental health, behavioral health, social support, and community resources.
Future Health Access Initiatives
Developing pathways for future community health, family health, pediatric, behavioral health, mental health, wellness, and resource navigation programs or centers with appropriate licensing, staffing, privacy, insurance, safety, and professional standards.
Our Values
Belonging
People need places where they feel seen, included, and valued.
Access
Support should not depend on income, transportation, or ability to pay.
Prevention
Communities are stronger when support starts before crisis.
Youth Purpose
Young people need safe ways to lead, work, teach, help, and build confidence.
Family Support
When families are supported, children and communities are stronger.
Safety
Programs serving children, teens, and families must be structured, supervised, and built with clear safety expectations.
Community
Real support happens when families, schools, businesses, healthcare professionals, volunteers, and neighbors work together.
Building Stronger Support Systems
MASS Help is focused on building practical, community-based support systems that can grow across Massachusetts communities while staying grounded in the same mission: helping people access support before they feel alone, overwhelmed, or in crisis.