Archive for the ‘Teen’ Category

STRIVE

admin / September 21st, 2009 / Comments Off

PBHA’s STRIVE is a mentoring program for teenagers with sickle cell disease. The full acronym stands for Sickle cell Teens Raising awareness, Initiating change, Voicing opinions, and Empowering themselves. The full name encapsulates the values of the program. We aim to build a support network

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Recent Immigrant Term Enrichment (RITE)

admin / July 2nd, 2009 / No Comments »

PBHA’s RITE is a weekly tutoring program that serves high school students from Boston’s diverse and ever-increasing immigrant populations, including students from places like Haiti, Cuba, Somalia, El Salvador, China, and Afghanistan. The program pairs Harvard undergraduates with high school students in need of help

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Mission Mentor

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formerly Project Umoja The purpose of PBHA’s Mission Mentor is to foster one-on-one relationships between Mission Hill youth and area university students and graduates in order to broaden children’s access and exposure to the resources in Boston and beyond. Through encouragement and friendship, Mission Mentor

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LEADERS!

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PBHA’s Leaders! is the summer Junior Counselor program of the PBHA Summer Urban Programs (SUP). Leaders! offers community leadership opportunities for high school aged youth in the Boston and Cambridge. The program emphasizes youth power and action through an intensive service-learning curriculum, bringing together youth

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Keylatch Mentor

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PBHA’s Keylatch Mentor’s mission is to serve the middle-school-aged children in Boston’s South End, at a time in their lives when they are starting to make important life choices and to see themselves and the world around them in new ways. We strive to serve

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Franklin Teen Mentoring

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Franklin Teen Mentoring brings together college students and Dorchester teenagers, ages 12 to 16, to build positive, mentoring relationships that empower youth to succeed in school and other endeavors, while engaging with their community. Franklin Teen provides a free, firmly established, and constructive after school

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Chinatown Teen

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As a Chinatown Teen counselor, you will have the opportunity be an influence in a middle schooler’s life through interacting with them in a group environment. Teens are encouraged to develop relationships with both the counselors and their fellow teens through a two hour program

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CHANCE

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CHANCE is a college preparatory program which strives to give students from Cambridge’s only public high school the desire, support, and motivation to gain admission to college and to succeed there and beyond. We tutor students from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, focusing primarily on

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Cambridge 1-2-1

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Cambridge 1-2-1′s mission is to connect Harvard undergraduates to high school students at the Community Charter School of Cambridge (CCSC) through one-on-one mentoring. Each mentor-mentee pair meets on a schedule that they determine, and attends our monthly program-wide outings to restaurants, colleges, etc. Mentors with

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BRYE (Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment) Teen

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The Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment is dedicated to helping Southeast Asian refugee children adapt and flourish in an environment which offers them few resources. Our children, ages 6-16, live in Dorchester, where there is a large Vietnamese immigrant population. BRYE strives to meet the needs

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