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PBHA’s Summer Science is an amazing opportunity to teach science to kids in the camps PBHA runs this summer. Teachers are paired with another undergraduate to develop original activities for each of the 7 weeks the camps run. For a 20/hour a week commitment, benefits include great staff friendships, extensive workshops on creative curriculum development, [...]
PBHA’s St. James Summer Shelter is a student-run transitional program for 12 homeless men and women. We strive to create a stable, comfortable, and friendly environment for our guests by providing them with 3 meals a day and permanent beds for the duration of our seven-week program. By connecting guests with important resources, we help [...]
PBHA’s SBOS provides a summer day camp for young people aged 6 - 13 from the Old Colony, Mary Ellen McCormack, and West Broadway public housing developments in South Boston. SBOS strives to empower youth through hands-on enrichment activities that emphasize academic confidence, conflict resolution, interdependence, prevention of risk-taking behaviors, and respect for diversity. Campers [...]
PBHA’s RYSE today serves more than 100 students from various Greater Boston communities. The mission of RYSE is to create a small yet intimate environment to provide affordable ESL instruction to high-school refugee and immigrant students. As a seven-week intensive summer program that runs five nights a week (Monday through Friday), three hours each night [...]
Roxbury Youth Initiative is designed to give academic enrichment and personal support to campers aged 6 through 13 from the Roxbury community. All summer long, the camp provides daily morning classroom academics, which are geared toward teaching fundamental concepts in math, science, and literacy as well as teaching concepts and ideas in the areas of [...]
PBHA’s NAYEP serves Native American children of all tribal ancestries across the Boston area. As a camp, NAYEP aims to provide culturally appropriate summer activities for the Native American youth of Greater Boston while unifying the community and presenting youth with safe, productive, and enjoyable summer programming that affirms Native and multicultural identities. We spend [...]
PBHA’s MHSP serves families from Roxbury’s Mission Main and Alice Taylor housing developments, both predominately African American and Latino communities. Founded at the request of community members, MHSP provides crucial services for families who struggle to find affordable, innovative childcare. Community is a focus of MHSP–many families return year after year, and the [...]
PBHA’s Keylatch Summer Program provides underserved children from Boston’s South End with a high-quality, enriching summer camp experience. Racial tensions and inter-neighborhood violence abound, and most of the youth violence that occurs in Boston takes place in and around the South End. The community is facing many problems due to gentrification and the loss [...]
Do you have a love of music? How would you like to spread your love of Bob Dylan, Bach, Biggie, Barber, Britney, the Beatles, Beethoven, whomever, to adorable, adoring children? And have fun, live school-free at Harvard at no financial cost, create unexpectedly wonderful friendships and memories in the process, and have enough time of [...]
The Franklin I-O Summer Program serves 80 children and their families from the Franklin Field and Franklin Hill housing developments in Dorchester. The program aims to provide year-round academic support in conjunction with the Franklin After-School Education (FASE) and Franklin Teen programs; help overcome gang violence and other challenging conditions of the urban ghetto by [...]