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Community-Resource-Guide Community Resource Guide 1 Table of Content Agencies 1. BCYF…………………………………………………………………………..Pgs.2-4 2. BPHC………………………………………………………………………....Pgs.4-10 3. VIAP………………………………………………………………………...Pgs.10-11 4. Youth Options Unlimited……………………………………………………...Pgs.11 1. More Than Words……………………………………………………………...Pgs.12 2. MAPs…………………………………………………………………………......Pg.13 3. Dorchester Youth Collaborative……………………………………………......Pg.13 4. Mission Safe ………………………………………………………………..........Pg.14 5. Smart From the Start ………………………………………………………..…Pg.14 6. Reengagement Center ………………………………………………………..…Pg.14 7. X-CEL, Inc…………………………………………………………………..Pgs.14-15 8. Notre Dame Academy………………………………………………………Pgs.15-16 9. College Bound Dorchester…………………………………………………..…..Pg.16 10. E.S.A.C……………………………………………………………………….....Pgs.16 11. Youth Advocacy Division……………………………………………………Pg.17-18 12. Trinity Boston Foundation………………………………………………….Pg.18-19 13. Project Right……………………………………………………………….……Pg.19 14. Roxbury Defenders…………………………………………………………...…Pg.19 15. Youth Build Boston………………………………………………………….Pg.19-20 16. Healthy Baby Health Child…………………………………………………Pg.20-22 17. Catholic Charities Saint Peters……………………………………………..Pg.22-23 18. Father Friendly……………………………………………………………...Pg.23-24 Additional Resources 1. Education …………………………………………………………………...Pgs.25-43 2. Employment/Job Readiness………………………………………………..Pgs.43-56 3. Mental Health/Therapy/Health …………………………….......................Pgs.56-63 4. Family Service ……………………………………………………………..Pgs.63-78 1 Community Resource Guide 2 Boston Centers for Youth & Families 1483 Tremont Street Perkins Community Center Boston, MA 02120 155 Talbot Ave., Dorchester 617-635-5146 Telephone: 617-635-4920 - Fax: 617-635- Contact Troy Smith 4524 Email: [email protected] Hyde Park Community Center www.cityofboston.gov/BCYF 1179 River St., Hyde Park 617-635-5178 Contact Winston Lloyd The Mission of Boston Centers for Youth Curtis Hall Community Center and Families is to enhance the quality of life 20 South St., Jamaica Plain 617-635-5193 for Boston residents by partnering with Contact Jeanette Ayala community center councils, agencies and Roslindale Community Center business to support children youth 6 Cummins Highway, Roslindale 617-635- individuals and families through a wide 5185 range of comprehensive programs and Contact Johnnie Kind ell services according to neighborhood needs. Vine St. Community Center Contact: Varies by center, see Services 339 Dudley St., Roxbury 617-635-1285 description below for contacts. Contact Louise Sowers Services: Boston Centers for Youth & Shelburne Community Center Families (BCYF) is the main administrative 2730 Washington St, Roxbury 617-635- office for the various adult education classes 5213 provided by the City of Boston in Contact Warren Chase neighborhoods throughout the City. Condon Community Center Individual BCYF centers. 200 D St., S. Boston 617-635-5100 Contact Judy Ryan Centers offering Adult Education, Adult Basic Education, and/or Adult Literacy Ohrenberger Community Center Programs 175 W. Boundary Rd., W. Roxbury 617- Jackson/Mann Community Center 635-5183 500 Cambridge St., Allston 617-635-5153 Contact Judie Mercer Contact John Vitale Centers offering GED classes Charlestown Community Center GED testing is available in various 255 Medford St., Charlestown 617-635- neighborhoods in the City of Boston 5169 throughout the academic year. Call for Contact Maryanne Wren registration information. Grove Hall Community Center 51 Geneva Ave., Dorchester 617-635-1484 Contact Aidee Pomades 2 Community Resource Guide 3 Jackson/Mann Community Center 20 South St., Jamaica Plain 617-635-5193 500 Cambridge St., Allston 617-635-5153 Contact Jeanette Ayala Contact John Vitale Roslindale Community Center Grove Hall Community Center 6 Cummins Highway, Roslindale 617-635- 51 Geneva Ave., Dorchester 617-635-1484 5185 Contact Aidee Pomades Contact Johnnie Kind ell Perkins Community Center Shelburne Community Center 155 Talbot Ave., Dorchester 617-635-5146 2730 Washington St., Roxbury 617-635- Contact: Troy Smith 5213 Contact Warren Chase Shelburne Community Center 2730 Washington St, Roxbury 617-635- Condon Community Center 5213 200 D St., S. Boston 617-635-5100 Contact Warren Chase Contact Judy Ryan Condon Community Center Boston Center for Youth and Families Key 200 D St., S. Boston 617-635-5100 initiatives: Contact Judy Ryan · ACES (Arts, Character, Education & Centers offering ESOL classes Sports), BCYF's new core program strategy, Jackson/Mann Community Center is designed to provide quality and 500 Cambridge St., Allston 617-635-5153 consistency across programming citywide, Contact John Vitale while also adapting to meet the specific interests and needs of individual Perkins Community Center communities through arts, character, 155 Talbot Ave., Dorchester 617-635-5146 education and sports programming. Contact: Troy Smith The GIRLS Initiative Centers offering Computer/Other Classes (Growth, Intervention, Respect, Leadership BCYF offers a variety of computer classes & Support for girls) is designed to expand and open access hours in Computer the BCYF programs, services and Learning Center Labs throughout the City. opportunities available to Boston's girls, Access is available for all ages with a prioritizing girls most in need - girls living reasonably-priced valid BCYF membership in public housing, gang-involved girls and card. Special classes and programs are disconnected girls. The GIRLS Initiative offered at reasonable rates. also includes the "No More Drama," girls' violence-free summer campaign. Charlestown Community Center 255 Medford St., Charlestown 617-635- The Grove Hall/North Dorchester Family 5169 Opportunity Network (FON) is Contact Maryanne Wren collaboration, led by BCYF and funded by Boston Connects, Inc. to serve families and Curtis Hall Community Center individuals residing in the Grove Hall and 3 Community Resource Guide 4 North Dorchester neighborhoods of the tuberculosis, to name a few. But there is still Boston Empowerment Zone. FON works to work to do. These days of economic stress remove barriers to "economic self- and fear of new and unknown viruses and sufficiency" and support individuals in disease have reminded many of the obtaining and maintaining Living Wage Jobs. importance of a sound public health system. Public health is here for the city of Boston, Through the Hubs Initiative, BCYF is now more than ever. working to establish our community centers as neighborhood hubs for programming, Key initiatives: The Addictions Prevention services and resources. By working with Treatment and Recovery Support Services community non-profits and other City of set the direction and priorities for the City’s Boston departments, we are bringing new addiction services, to restore health, sustain services and resources to our community recovery, and support reintegration and centers including elder support services, active participation into family life for the home buying classes and workshops and the residents of Boston ravaged by substance Animal Control Spay Wagon as well as a abuse. , advocacy, harm reduction and variety of basic city services. treatment to serve the needs for highly vulnerable populations in the City of · The BCYF Street worker Program Boston. has been hailed as one of the most effective youth prevention and early intervention Community Prevention Services utilizes services provided to Boston's youth. partnerships with neighborhood-level Initiated in 1990, the program has received coalitions to increase knowledge and national and international praise. The goal of awareness of substance abuse, to address the program is to connect "hard-to-reach" environmental barriers to risk reduction and youth to needed services and resources treatment, and to build long-term capacity through direct, targeted street outreach within Boston neighborhoods for addressing substance abuse. Boston Public Health Commission No Drug Coalitions www.bphc.org The No Drug Initiative funds fifteen coalitions to carry out substance abuse Our mission is to protect, promote, and prevention activities in local communities. preserve the health and well-being of all No Drug Coalitions are active in the Boston residents, particularly the most following communities: Allston-Brighton, vulnerable. Charlestown, Chinatown, Dorchester, East Boston, East Dunmore, Grove Hall, Jamaica We strive to fulfill our mission through a Plain, Mattapan, the North End, Roslindale, wide range of health initiatives that target Roxbury, South Boston, the South End. preventable disease and injury. Through the Contact: Devin Larkin at [email protected]. years, public health has made great strides Opiates Overdose Prevention when it comes to infant mortality, childhood The Opiates Overdose Prevention Project is immunization, cancer, heart disease, and a targeted initiative to reduce unintentional 4 Community Resource Guide 5 fatal and nonfatal opiates overdoses in. The Mom's Project/MORE Program, and the Neighborhood Coalitions working on this Collaborative Center. project are the South End Healthy Boston Coalition, the Jamaica Plain/ Roxbury No School Based Health Centers (SBHC): The Drug Coalition, the Charlestown Substance mission of the BPHC SBHC program is to Abuse Coalition, and the South Boston provide easily accessible, culturally and Hope and Recovery Coalition. developmentally appropriate health care services for Boston youth in their schools. Underage Drinking Prevention Our services address the medical and social The Environmental Strategies to Reduce health problems
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