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<div class="hero"><div class="hero-inner"><span class="location-badge">New Hampshire Resources</span><h1>Your NH Area Agency: Who They Are, What They Do</h1><p>New Hampshire runs developmental services through 10 nonprofit Area Agencies, each covering its own region. They handle eligibility, service coordination, family support, and access to Medicaid waivers. They do not run ABA sessions.</p></div></div>
<div class="quick-info"><div class="info-item"><div class="info-label">Agencies</div><div class="info-value">10 regions</div></div><div class="info-item"><div class="info-label">Oversight</div><div class="info-value">Bureau of Dev. Services</div></div><div class="info-item"><div class="info-label">They Do</div><div class="info-value">Coordination</div></div><div class="info-item"><div class="info-label">They Don't</div><div class="info-value">Deliver ABA</div></div></div>
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<section><p>An Area Agency is a designated nonprofit that administers developmental services for one region of New Hampshire, under contract with the state's Bureau of Developmental Services. There are 10. Every town falls inside one.</p>
<p>Here is what parents get wrong, and it costs them months. <strong>The Area Agency is not where you get applied behavior analysis.</strong> They coordinate. They determine eligibility. They open the door to waivers and family support. They do not send a behavior technician to your living room.</p></section>
<section><h2>What they actually do</h2><ul>
<li><strong>Eligibility determination</strong> for developmental services</li>
<li><strong>Service coordination</strong>, meaning a coordinator assigned to your family</li>
<li><strong>Family support</strong>: respite, parent-to-parent connection, help with adaptive equipment and home modifications</li>
<li><strong>Medicaid waiver access</strong>, including In-Home Supports for children living at home</li>
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<p>Eligibility covers a developmental disability attributable to intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder, or a specific learning disability, beginning before age 22 and expected to continue indefinitely. Area Agencies also serve people with an acquired brain disorder.</p>
<div class="highlight-box"><p><strong>Do both.</strong> Call the Area Agency for waivers, respite, and coordination. Call an ABA provider for ABA. Waiting on the Area Agency to produce therapy is the single most common way New Hampshire families lose half a year.</p></div></section>
<section><h2>All 10 Area Agencies</h2>
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<tr><th>Region</th><th>Agency</th><th>Based in</th><th>Phone</th></tr>
<tr><td>1</td><td>Northern Human Services</td><td>Conway</td><td>(603) 447-3347</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>Pathways of the River Valley</td><td>Claremont</td><td>(603) 504-1547</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>Lakes Region Community Services</td><td>Laconia</td><td>(603) 524-8811</td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>Community Bridges</td><td>Concord</td><td>(603) 225-4153</td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td>Monadnock Developmental Services</td><td>Keene</td><td>(603) 352-1304</td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td><td>Gateways Community Services</td><td>Nashua</td><td>(603) 882-6333</td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td><td>Moore Center Services</td><td>Manchester</td><td>(603) 206-2700</td></tr>
<tr><td>8</td><td>One Sky Community Services</td><td>Portsmouth</td><td>(603) 436-6111</td></tr>
<tr><td>9</td><td>Community Partners</td><td>Dover</td><td>(603) 749-4015</td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td>Community Crossroads</td><td>Atkinson</td><td>(603) 893-1299</td></tr>
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<p>Not sure which region you are in? The <a href="https://www.dhhs.nh.gov/programs-services/disability-care/area-agencies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">state's Area Agency directory</a> maps every town.</p></section>
<section><h2>Frequently Asked Questions</h2>
<div class="faq-item"><h3>Will the Area Agency provide ABA?</h3><p>Not directly. The state's own list of Area Agency services covers coordination, day services, employment, personal care, community supports, family support, and crisis services. ABA is not on it. For ABA you go to a provider who bills Medicaid or insurance, which is what Achieving Stars Therapy does across <a href="/location/states/aba-therapy-new-hampshire">New Hampshire</a>.</p></div>
<div class="faq-item"><h3>Do I need the Area Agency before starting ABA?</h3><p>No. ABA runs on a diagnosis and coverage, not on Area Agency eligibility. Families in <a href="/location/city/aba-therapy-derry-nh">Derry</a> and <a href="/location/city/aba-therapy-nashua-nh">Nashua</a> regularly start ABA while their Area Agency paperwork is still moving.</p></div>
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<p class="disclaimer">Agency names and phone numbers verified against the New Hampshire DHHS Area Agency directory on July 14, 2026. Contact details change; call ahead.</p>
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