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 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 (4:30-7:30), RYSE provides ESL instruction in the context of a cultural exchange. We hope to provide a concrete and cultural understanding of the language by utilizing both formal and hands-on teaching methods, and by incorporating community service projects and educational field trips into the curriculum. RYSE continues to support the educational development of its students, not only through classroom instruction, but also through enriching field trips and our annual College and Career Fair. Please contact Anna Pritt (apritt@fas.harvard.edu) or Nico Amaro (amaro@fas.harvard.edu).
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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 government and history. The afternoons are spent participating in field trips and activities that supplement the learning received in the classroom, as well as provide a source of recreation for the children. The goal is to not only promote academic achievement, but also to cultivate excitement about learning, to expose Roxbury children to a world not yet discovered by them, to foster an understanding of how integral they are to the world, and to give the children concrete tolls that they may use later in life to participate and better this world in its greater sense. Roxbury Youth initiative initially began as two separate camps serving the communities of Academy Homes and Dudley, which are both in Roxbury. These were eventually combined allowing the program to serve Roxbury as one entity. For more information, contact Dominique McCoy (dm3860@mcla.edu) or Catherine Ntube (cntube@fas.harvard.edu).
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 a great deal of time on Native culture, history, and literature as well as health and environmental issues, and multiculturalism. Providing a safe space in which to explore “Native identity” is among the most challenging tasks NAYEP faces. Some of our campers have a well-defined sense of tribal identity, but many of them do not strongly associate with their tribal ancestry. We provide a number of unique experiences to allow children to connect with their Native culture, ranging from lacrosse lessons (a sport first played by Native Americans) to a camping trip on Mashpee tribal grounds in Cape Cod. For more information, please contact April Van Buren (april.vanburen@gmail.com) or Alicia Mucha (a.silvermucha@gmail.com).
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 staff lives in Mission. MHSP values both academics and working with advocacy and organizing groups in Mission Hill. MHSP focuses on violence prevention by having campers interact with youth from the South End’s Villa Victoria housing developments, a historically rival neighborhood, thus giving youth the chance to forge friendships which aim to prevent future acts of violence. For more information, please contact Kristly Luk (kristyluk@gmail.com) or Ann Cheng (ann.m.cheng@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
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 bringing the children together in a safe, enriching, and fun environment; and foster relationships between the children and Counselors of diverse backgrounds where learning is reciprocal. The inter-generational camp brings together fun-loving children aged 6-13, ambitious local teenagers as Junior Counselors, passionate college-aged Senior Counselors, and the local elderly community. Senior and Junior Counselors engage the campers in a curriculum that works to build self-esteem and aid them in making informed decisions by supporting them in exploring their identity, values, and physical world. The curriculum incorporates math, science, reading, and writing in a dynamic way that stimulates the campers’ interest in learning and is complemented by daily exciting and educational field trips throughout the Boston area and beyond, as well as collaborations with other community groups. For the ten-week program, Senior Counselors receive training, a stipend, housing, and an unforgettable experience. Successful applicants will possess passion…for sharing… learning…service…and fun. No experience necessary. For more information, contact franklinsup@gmail.com.
PBHA’s CYEP is the largest of the SUP camps and the only one in Cambridge. CYEP consists of three sites serving about 150 children with a total senior staff of 21. Our youth come from low-income families, primarily from North Cambridge, East Cambridge, and Area IV. CYEP serves youth from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious groups, reflecting the diversity of both the immigrant population in Cambridge and that of the city’s long-term residents. At-risk Cambridge youth are often overlooked because of the focus placed on the universities and biotechnical institutions that dominate much of the landscape. However, almost all of the children CYEP serves receive free school meals and qualify for subsidized and/or public housing. As the only summer camp in Cambridge specifically targeting low-income families, CYEP’s low-cost, quality enrichment programming is in demand each summer. sup.cyep@gmail.com
CHAD seeks to enrich and improve the quality of life for underprivileged youth in Boston’s Chinatown community. It is committed to the academic, social, and personal development of youth by promoting personal growth among its campers and creating opportunities for developing fundamental social skills, healthy self-identities, high self-esteem, cross-cultural awareness, and social consciousness. The majority of CHAD’s campers come from low-income backgrounds that afford few opportunities for summer educational enrichment and employment. The youth of Boston’s Chinatown face many obstacles: crime, poverty, gentrification, and lack of support in the city’s most overcrowded community. CHAD is dedicated to helping our campers overcome these challenges. Senior Counselors for CHAD are provided housing in suites at Emerson College a few streets down from the heart of Chinatown, allowing them to become immersed in the community in which they work. chad@hcs.harvard.edu
PBHA’s BRYE Summer has provided academic and emotional support to refugee children and their families since 1987. This summer we will serve about 90 Vietnamese, Latino, Cape Verdean, African, and Haitian children ages six to thirteen in Dorchester. BRYE Summer prioritizes ESL instruction, but Senior Counselors (SCs) design their own curriculum. They work with students and families of amazing strength, often developing long-term relationships and assisting them with many of the challenges recent immigrant families face. Beyond integrating themselves in American life, issues concerning BRYE youth include neighborhood violence and racial tensions between the diverse ethnic groups in Boston. BRYEsummer2010@gmail.com
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