Pam Bolarinho, LICSW

Pam Bolarinho, LICSW, brings two decades of social work and clinical leadership experience to her professional practice. She currently serves as Vice President of Acute Care Services, a role that builds on a long history of direct practice and program development across community and hospital settings. Pam began her career with the Healthy Families Program and as a social worker for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, and she earned a Master of Social Work from Bridgewater State University where she served as Class Representative for her MSW cohort.

Her clinical and administrative background includes work as a Clinical Director for an inpatient psychiatric facility and more than seven years as a Social Work Manager in an acute medical hospital. For the past three years she has also served as the ESP Director, and she has collaborated closely with community partners such as the Suicide Prevention Coalition, Help & Hope Southcoast, Labor & Human Trafficking initiatives, and the Opioid Taskforce.

A proud Portuguese American who immigrated to the United States at age five, Pam has focused her career on supporting vulnerable populations. She helped establish a co-response program with a local police department nearly three years ago, a model that has brought care to over 400 patients in the community and kept more than sixty-five percent of those individuals at home rather than in an emergency room. Known for a patient-centered, strength-based approach, Pam has worked with people affected by trauma, end-of-life concerns, foster care and adoption issues, reactive attachment disorder, elder care, addiction, and a range of ongoing and chronic mental health challenges. Her credential LICSW indicates she is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, qualified to provide clinical social work services at an advanced level.