PBHA’s South Boston After School (SAS) is an arts-based literacy program for low-income youth who reside in South Boston. SAS utilizes an enrichment curriculum to promote the positive youth development of first and second graders who attend the James F. Condon Elementary School. SAS strives to empower youth through an academic enrichment and arts-based literacy curriculum, emphasizing academic confidence, conflict resolution, interdependence, prevention of risk-taking behaviors, and respect for diversity. Each Monday and/or Wednesday (2:00 – 5:30 PM), tutors will support one or two students with their homework and then participate in group-wide workshop activities. SAS participants and volunteers also attend events like field trips and Family Fun Nights so that students, families, and volunteers can build meaningful relationships. SAS also builds upon connections made over the summer by providing programming for the same students served by the South Boston Outreach Summer program (SBOS, under Summer Programs). For more information, contact southieafterschool@gmail.com.
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 attend camping trips and field trips to explore their own community as well as the larger city around them in order to understand their own ethnic heritage and to appreciate the diversity of Boston. SBOS utilizes substance abuse prevention and service-learning curriculums to support the academic achievement and positive youth development of our 50 campers. SBOutreach@gmail.com
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 of public housing space, as low-income housing is encroached upon by market-rate buyers and more and more of the neighborhood is built up by developers of high-end real estate. Insufficient schools and bilingual education are a major problem for the largely Latino (primarily Puerto Rican) residents, and the bilingual children in the camp. ksp.sup2010@gmail.com
