The Department of Children and Families (DCF) works in partnership with families and communities to keep children safe from abuse and neglect. In most cases, DCF is able to provide supports and services to keep children safe with parents or family members. When necessary, DCF provides foster care or finds new permanent families for children through kinship, guardianship or adoption.
The Society’s objective is to provide aid, through volunteer services and through raising funds, for local charities, non-profit organizations and other groups that serve the people of Winchester.
We are a non-profit support network for Winchester families with infants to young children, we facilitate connections between families, offering local parenting resources and hosting playgroups, children's events, and parent events. Members number 200–300 families.
Winchester First Baptist is a welcoming church in the heart of Winchester, Massachusetts, where history and faith come together in a spirit of openness and community. Since the 19th century, our church has stood as a place of refuge and renewal, its beautiful architecture and stained-glass windows bearing witness to generations of worship, reflection, and service.
First Congregational Church is part of the United Church of Christ (U.C.C.), which is a liberal Protestant denomination. We embrace that identity enthusiastically. It is not a political designation but a theological one. Our congregation is made up of people who were raised in a variety of religious traditions including the UCC. We affirm the ideal that Christians do not always have to agree, in order to love God and live together in communion.
A nonprofit organization to promote the conservation, appreciation, and sustainable enjoyment of the Middlesex Fells Reservation. We envision a Middlesex Fells Reservation where nature and people thrive in harmony, supported by a diverse and caring community conserving it for future generations.
The Friends of Winchester Hospital is an auxiliary group that for more than 60 years has given time and financial support to improve the lives of patients and their families in our community. Two of the group’s most unique projects are the Holiday Rose distribution, where the Friends hand-deliver a rose to every hospital patient on Christmas Eve, and the Read to Me Program, which since 1997 has given tens of thousands of storybooks to new parents to share with their newborns, as a way to emphasize the importance of reading to children.
Manage and fund efforts to preserve Winter Pond for future generations, including watershed education and promoting responsible recreational use.
Any youth in grades K-12 in Winchester, Massachusetts is welcome to join a troop or participate as an independent Juliette in our Girl Scout program. We have more than 30 troops in all the following Levels:
We are a non-denominational, evangelical, Bible-based church founded by Winchester residents in 1993. We come from many different backgrounds including from no religious background at all. We’re from different countries and different cultures, but one thing binds us all together: we strive to follow Jesus Christ, in whom we have placed our faith as Savior and Lord. A key part of our faith is the belief that the Bible is the word of God and holds within it God’s revelation of Himself, His nature, His purpose, His plans, His expectations for all people, and His glorious gospel.