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826 Boston—Position Filled
In-School Program and Publications Coordinator Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.826boston.org
The opening of 826 Boston’s writing and tutoring center in October 2007 represented the dreams of local educators and community leaders to site a nationally-acclaimed model of youth writing instruction in Roxbury’s Egleston Square. The Fellow at 826 Boston will manage the expansion of the in-school program by targeting elementary and middle schools within a 2-mile radius of the center. The fellow will also coordinate volunteer involvement in writing and publishing projects within these classrooms, as well as assisting the Program Director with the major publication of the year. Furthermore, the fellow will help expand our programs overall within our after-school tutoring, field trips, and creative writing workshops.
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ACCESS Boston—Position Filled
Community Partnership Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.accessedu.org
ACCESS provides students and families with a full understanding of the financial aid process through our four major programs; Community Engagement, High School Advising, Last Dollar Scholarships, and Postsecondary Success. Founded in Boston in 1985, ACCESS has grown to become the city’s leading provider of college affordability-related services. Through our Community Engagement Program, ACCESS partners with community organizations to enhance their college access programming and targets students not currently attending one of our partner schools. The Fellow at ACCESS will manage the organization, coordination, growth and implementation of programming for the ACCESS community partners that targets 7th-11th graders and their families. In addition, the Fellow will be a key member on our Early High School Advising Program team that deliver workshops and advising services to students in 9th, 10th, 11th grade, in nearly thirty high schools across Boston.
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ACCESS Springfield—Position Filled
Community Engagement Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.accessedu.org
ACCESS is committed to its mission of ensuring that every young person has the financial information and resources necessary to achieve their dream of a college education. Founded in Boston in 1985, ACCESS has grown to become the city’s leading provider of financial aid advising and its largest scholarship provider. In 2009, ACCESS expanded outside of Boston for the first time when it was selected to operate the newly-created Springfield Promise Program, a financial aid advising and scholarship program for the city’s youth. ACCESS seeks to expand the Community Engagement Program in Springfield, and the Fellow will take the lead in researching potential partner organizations and establishing strategic, long-term relationships. The Fellow will also lead the effort to bring new programmatic offerings to even younger students.
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AFC Mentoring—Position Filled
Youth Leadership Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.afcmentoring.org
All youth need consistent positive adult support to thrive; however, many foster and adopted youth lack such support. The mission of Adoption & Foster Care (AFC) Mentoring is to empower foster and adopted youth to flourish through committed mentoring relationships. AFC Mentoring envisions a future when all youth can say, “I will flourish; my community will support me.” AFC Mentoring is the only mentoring program in Boston that specializes in serving this vulnerable group of youth. We have done this mainly through AFCMentors, our one-to-one mentoring program. The Fellow at AFC will be responsible for further developing AFCLeaders, our newest program that is designed to address the needs of our older youth. AFCLeaders addresses the needs of older youth by providing life skills development, educational support, employment opportunities, and a peer network with whom youth can find mutual support and carry out group projects. The Fellow will be responsible for growing AFCLeaders from what is now a small pilot program into an established service that AFC can consistently offer to more youth.
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America SCORES New England—Position Filled
Alumni Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.americascoresnewengland.org
America SCORES New England (ASNE) provides unique, school-based, out-of-school time athletic and literacy programs to Boston’s underserved urban youth. Our mission is to empower students in urban communities using soccer, writing, creative expression, and service-learning. With teamwork as the unifying value, ASNE inspires youth to lead healthy lifestyles, be engaged students, and become agents of change in their communities. The Fellow will spearhead our expanded efforts to extend the opportunities for our students to remain connected with SCORES beyond the eighth grade, through high school. S/he will establish a new program called the Alumni Leadership Academy (ALA) and create all the structures needed to operationalize it, including curriculum, schedule, staffing plans, training, marketing/brochure, etc. (with an eye towards rolling this out on a broader basis if funding becomes available). The Fellow’s responsibilities will include 1) recruiting 30 or more SCORES alumni to participate, 2) facilitating leadership and college-readiness trainings, and 3) providing alumni with leadership roles within the SCORES community. Additionally, s/he will reach out to Boston Public High Schools, out-of-school time providers, and local colleges to gain support in preparing alumni to graduate from high school and move onto college.
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Berkshire Area Health Education Center, Inc—Position Filled
Youth Health Service Corps Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.berkshireahec.org
Established in 1979, Berkshire Area Health Education Center, Inc (Berkshire AHEC) has worked to address health disparities in the Berkshires and western Massachusetts. We have utilized workforce development strategies that connect students to health careers, professionals to improved patient outcomes through continuing professional development, and communities to better health through public health initiatives addressing needs such as substance abuse, smoking, suicide, violence, obesity, and teen pregnancy as examples. The Fellow will coordinate the expansion of the Youth Health Service Corps (YHSC). YHSC is a nationwide health careers recruitment program for high school students. The YHSC provides a six-module curriculum to train high school age students for success working in a volunteer setting.
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Boston Area Rape Crisis Center—Position Filled
Sexual Violence Prevention Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.barcc.org
The mission of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) is to end sexual violence through healing and social change. BARCC is the only provider of free, comprehensive rape crisis services in the Greater Boston area (29 cities and towns). We offer 24-hour hotline, 24-hour medical accompaniment, counseling, legal advocacy, case management to victims and families and community outreach, education and training to communities. The Fellow serving at BARCC will focus on delivering health education to youth and raising awareness of sexual violence and survivor resources.
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Boston Public Health Commission—Position Filled
Start Strong Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.bphc.org
The Boston Public Health Commission provides a variety of services to protect, promote and preserve the health and well-being of all Boston residents, particularly the most vulnerable. The commission operates more than 30 different programs that are dedicated to the core priorities of expanding preventation strategies, increasing access to health care, and reducing and eliminating racial disparities in the measures of good health. The Start Strong Initiative housed at the Boston Public Health Commission is designed to help prevent teen dating violence and promote healthy relationships. The Fellow will coordinate two projects over the course of their service year. First, the Fellow will develop a new interactive teen-facilitated curriculum that can be used by peer leaders to train adults, specifically parents on teen dating violence and broader issues of healthy relationship promotion. Second, the Fellow will develop a series of trainings for the senior peer leader cohort throughout the course of the academic year and the following summer.
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Boys & Girls Club of Boston—Position Filled
Campus & Community Partnership Fellow(Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.bgcb.org
ROXBURY- For the past 118 years, since its first Club opened in Charlestown, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB) has been a major resource in Boston’s underserved communities. BGCB’s mission is to help boys and girls develop the qualities needed to become responsible citizens and leaders. Young people have relied upon the opportunities and resources offered by the Club to help them succeed in school, learn critical life skills, prepare for adulthood and have a safe, fun and affordable place to spend their out-of-school hours. The Fellow at BGCB will serve at the Yawkey Club of Roxbury and will manage the partnership between the Yawkey Club and Northeastern University (NEU). Moving into the third year, the Fellow will focus on bringing youth to the Northeastern Campus in an effort to increase youth access to Northeastern’s academic programs. Additionally, the Fellow will work to utilize college volunteers in order to increase programming efforts at Yawkey.
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Cambridge Family & Children's Service—Position Filled
Volunteer Mentoring Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.helpfamilies.org
Cambridge Family and Children’s Service’s (CFCS) mission is to identify and implement ways to strengthen family and individual self-sufficiency and to promote conditions that provide children and adolescents with stable homes and community environments. CFCS manages the following programs: Waiting Child Adoption Program, Intensive Foster Care, Developmental Disabilities Program, Family Support and Stabilization, Mentoring and Residential Services. The Fellow at CFCS will work to increase the capacity of the Volunteer Mentoring program. The Fellow will focus on mentor recruitment, support and training.
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CD Recreation —Position Filled
Youth Leadership Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.cdrec.org
The Greater Fall River Re-Creation Committee, Inc. (CD Rec) provides year-round recreational, educational, and cultural programs for Fall River residents with a particular emphasis on socioeconomically disadvantaged youth. The agency’s goal is to provide a variety of programs ranging from participatory sports and creative classes to educational presentations and theatrical/musical performances for those who would otherwise be unable to afford or participate in these programs. The Fellow at CD Rec will work with the Promise Leaders of Tomorrow (PLOT) and will lead Fall River’s newest Youth Initiative-the development of a Youth Master Plan Council that will fulfill the Youth Bill of Rights signed by officials in August of 2009.
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City of Brockton Mayor's Office—Position Filled
Youth Development Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.brockton.ma.us
BROCKTON- The Mayor’s Office of Brockton works collaboratively with other local agencies to provide resources for youth. It is responsible for a variety of services to the citizens that include, but are not limited to, public safety, public works, and recreation. The Fellow serving with the Brockton Mayor's Office will manage a number of youth development initiatives that relate to Brockton’s Promise. The Fellow will provide support to the five Brockton’s Promise Teams as well as participate on the steering committee. The Fellow will also provide youth leadership development as well as convene the Mayor’s Youth Summit, and support both the Brockton After Dark Summer program as well as the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Committee.
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Community-Based Learning Program, Mount Holyoke College—Position Filled
Safe Place Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.mtholyoke.edu/cbl/
The Community-Based Learning Program (CBL) at Mount Holyoke College (MHC) links students with communities through courses, independent studies, internships, research, and service projects which combine learning and analysis with action and social change. The William R. Peck Full Service Community School (Peck) is a Holyoke public K-8 School, and a strategic partner to CBL. Since 2008, Peck has worked to become a Full Service Community School to strengthen academic performance and increase family engagement, to meet needs and aspirations among students and families. The Safe Place Fellow will be hosted by the Peck school and sponsored by the MHC CBL Program to provide programming to support student transition from 8th to 9th grade. The Fellow will build upon existing partnerships to support academic achievement and college awareness at Peck, and develop new partnerships at Holyoke High School with a special focus on improving the high school transition. The Fellow will recruit teams of 8th and former Peck 9th/10th graders for joint service projects to build cohorts, create “alumni” support networks, design orientations, develop youth empowerment programming, and plan and oversee projects focused on learning, action, and advocacy.
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COMPASS—Position Filled
Transition Services Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.compassboston.org
COMPASS provides four community-based service programs serving disadvantaged, high-risk children, adolescents, and families. The mission of the COMPASS School is to provide high quality special educational, counseling and transitional services to students with disabilities. Our goal is to return students to mainstream educational settings or to graduate students with the skills necessary for success in the workplace or in post-secondary education. The COMPASS School works with students referred by public schools systems under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act. The Transition Services Fellow will work with the Transition Team to help prepare students for life beyond high school.
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Crossroads for Kids—Position Filled
College Access Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.crossroads4kids.org
Crossroads for Kids’ mission is to inspire at-risk youth to develop their innate potential to be the next generation of diverse young leaders in Greater Boston, breaking the cycle of poverty and underachievement and yielding systemic change in the communities where they live. Though a unique combination of immersive summer camp and year-round mentoring and enrichment programs, Crossroads provides youth ages 7-18 years old with comprehensive support, resources and opportunities that guide them toward responsible citizenship, academic success, higher education, and meaningful careers. Stage one of the College Access Fellow project will focus on working with high school seniors, beginning in August before their senior year and working with this class until their college matriculation. Stage two of the project will focus on developing an alumni tracking/engagement program that will allow the organization to support alumni as they travel through college.
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Flying Cloud Institute—Position Filled
Young Women in Science Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.flyingcloudinst.org
Flying Cloud Institute provides innovative in-school, after-school, and summer programs that develop and strengthen the 21st century skills of creative thinking and problem solving in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) to children in elementary through high school throughout Berkshire County. Our mission is to open the door to STEM careers for all students. Our Young Women in Science program is an array of programs that enable girls to broaden their knowledge and interest in STEM through challenging hands-on collaborative laboratory experiences led by professional women. The GIRLS! (Girls Intelligent Real Loving Science) Clubs for grades 2-6 are the entrance into our series of programs. The Young Women in Science Fellow will undertake the expansion of our GIRLS! Clubs into the cities of Pittsfield and North Adams. The Fellow will develop relationships with school administrators and teachers in the Berkshire County school districts, recruit and train middle and high school aged female mentors, and communicate with the professional STEM women to guide the younger girls in the laboratory. The Fellow will design and implement the mentor trainings, schedule clubs, organize the recruitment of the club members, and oversee the club meetings at various sites. The Fellow will also help to plan and implement the new GIRLS! Summer program offerings.
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Generation Citizen—Position Filled
Program Expansion Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.generationcitizen.org
BOSTON- Generation Citizen’s mission is to expand democratic participation among youth populations that have been historically under-represented or excluded from the political process. Our mission is predicated on the importance of involving and engaging young people, and especially youth from lower-income backgrounds, in the political process as active citizens in their communities. To fulfill our mission, GC implements a standards-aligned “action-civics” curriculum during the school day. GC places trained college volunteers (“Mentors”) in the classroom to help teachers facilitate the classes, creating a community of curious, active young learners sharing ideas about how to solve their society’s most pressing problems. The Program Expansion Fellow will help to strengthen the programmatic capacity of Generation Citizen in the Greater Boston area. The Fellow will manage and expand programming at 3-4 college sites. This will involve serving upwards of 2,000 high school students in the Greater Boston area, directly supervising 4-6 volunteer College Coordinators from area Universities, overseeing 45-60 volunteer “mentors”, serving as the principal liaison for 3-5 high schools, and improving the Generation Citizen experience through exploring ways to enhance volunteer recruitment, partnerships, and trainings.
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Girls Incorporated of Lynn—Position Filled
College Mentoring Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.girlsinclynn.org
The mission of Girls Inc. of Lynn is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold by meeting the needs of girls in the community, developing girls’ capacity to overcome the effects of discrimination and be self-sufficient, responsible members of the community, and by serving as a vigorous advocate for all girls. Girls Inc. of Lynn has been operating since 1942, serving girls ages 6-18 emphasizing six core themes: self-reliance & life skills; careers & life planning; leadership & community action; health & sexuality; culture & heritage; sports & adventure. The College Mentoring Fellow will increase college access programming and mentors specifically focusing on working with high school juniors and seniors.
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Girls' LEAP—Position Filled
Program Expansion Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.girlsleap.org
The Program Expansion Fellow will serve with Girls’ LEAP (Lifetime Empowerment and Awareness Program) which is focused on promoting the safety and well-being of girls, women and their families in underserved communities through education programs. Girls’ LEAP provides programs that integrate physical self-defense skills with discussions, role plays and activities to help girls learn skills to respond to a range of threatening situations safely including: bullying, harrassment or even assault. The Fellow’s role will consist of three aspects: 1.) Learning the Girls’ LEAP Self-Defense Curriculum, 2.) Leading Girls’ LEAP programs, 3.) Coordinating outreach to the Brockton community and Stonehill College to establish a pilot program partnership.
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Health Resources in Action —Position Filled
Peer Leadership Network Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.hria.org
BOSTON-Health Resources in Action’s (HRiA) mission is to help people live healthier lives and create healthy communities through prevention, health promotion, policy development and research. HRiA’s broad definition of health includes physical, mental and emotional health. The organization is particularly focused on youth and improving the health of youth by building the capacity of community-based organizations, youth workers, educators, public health professionals, and youth themselves. HRiA’s work with youth is conducted through its Training and Capacity Building (TCB) Department which provides trainings, technical assistance, program development and other services to individuals, institutions, organizations and communities to support the health and overall well-being of young people. The BEST Initiative which provides training and professional development for youth workers in the youth development approach is also located in the TCB Department.
The Fellow at HRiA will recruit and work with the Youth Leadership Board (YLB), a group of 6-8 youth from around the state, to create and lead the Peer Leadership Network (PLN), a group of 100 peer leaders from across Massachusetts who will be recruited to network and share best practices, learn about a public health topic, and possibly attend the Peer Leadership Institute Conference. In addition, The Fellow will learn the HRiA peer leadership model through observation and training led by senior HRiA staff. The Fellow will then have the opportunity to train peer leaders in at least three different settings, including the Peer Leadership Preventing Violence Training.
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Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Community Health Improvement—Position Filled
Middle School Mentoring Program Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.massgeneral.org/cchi
The mission of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Community Health Improvement (CCHI) is to collaborate with community and hospital partners to build and sustain healthier communities and to enhance the hospital’s responsiveness to patients and community members from diverse backgrounds. Over the past 14 years, the CCHI has worked with community partners in Chelsea, Revere, Charlestown, and Boston to assess needs and create more than 35 programs that prevent and reduce substance abuse and violence, increase access to care for vulnerable populations, eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care and provide opportunities for Boston youth. The Youth Programs Fellow will focus on coordinating and implementing the Senior STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) Programs, which serve middle school youth. The objective of the Sr. Stem Programs is to provide academic, life, and career skills that will expand and enhance students’ educational and career options. By providing youth with exploration, learning, and skill development experiences, we excite and engage students about STEM subjects and link educational attainment to career success.
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MathPower- South Boston—Position Filled
After School Tutoring Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.mathpower.neu.edu
MathPower is dedicated to taking a comprehensive approach to developing both proficiency in advanced mathematics and personal resiliency as vehicles to bring about transformational change in the lives of urban youth. We envision a world in which all students achieve competency in advanced mathematics which serves as a gateway to lifelong learning and a productive career. The Fellow will be responsible for overseeing and expanding the current after-school tutoring programming at our Math*STARS/Boys & Girls Club site. The Fellow will work to develop a Math*STARS curriculum, both with the Director of Afterschool Programs and their program youth, as well as design and implement a tutor-mentor workshop curriculum to support our volunteers serving at the afterschool.
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MathPower- Yawkey— Position Filled
After School Tutoring Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.mathpower.neu.edu
MathPower is dedicated to taking a comprehensive approach to developing both proficiency in advanced mathematics and personal resiliency as vehicles to bring about transformational change in the lives of urban youth. We envision a world in which all students achieve competency in advanced mathematics which serves as a gateway to lifelong learning and a productive career. The Fellow will be responsible for overseeing and expanding the current after-school tutoring programming at our Math*STARS/Boys & Girls Club site. The Fellow will work to develop a Math*STARS curriculum, both with the Director of Afterschool Programs and their program youth, as well as design and implement a tutor-mentor workshop curriculum to support our volunteers serving at the afterschool.
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Milton Public Schools— Position Filled
Mentoring Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.miltonps.org
The mission of Milton Public Schools is to educate, challenge, and empower all students to be productive, caring, and contributing members of society. Milton High School serves an eclectic population of students, drawing from a blended community that includes suburban and urban families. The Mentoring Fellow will lead the development of a new mentoring initiative for at-risk students at Milton High School. The Fellow will establish a program of “Natural Mentoring”-matching students into one-on-one mentoring relationships with supportive adults who are already present in their daily lives.
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Northeastern University Marine Science Center— Position Filled
Beach Sister Program Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.northeastern.edu/marinescience
Since 1967, Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center (MSC) has generated outstanding teaching and research in the marine sciences. The MSC’s Outreach Program reaches over 5,000 people per year through various programs and events, and has traditionally focused on serving teachers and students in eastern Massachusetts. The MSC and Girls Inc. of Lynn have developed the Beach Sister program in order to address the needs of youth in the City of Lynn by pairing the resources of an informal science education center with a community-based organization. The Beach Sister program will help pave the way for school-aged girls living in an environmental justice community to develop scientific inquiry and citizenship skills, and to learn about studies and careers in marine science. The Fellow will be responsible for coordinating most aspects of the Beach Sister program in its first year.
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Pernet Family Health Service—Position Filled
Youth Programming Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.pernetfamilyhealth.org
Pernet Family Health Service was founded by the Little Sisters of the Assumption to address the physical, social, psychological and spiritual needs of individuals and families, especially poor families and ethnic minorities. Pernet provides health and social programs to enhance family and community life. The Fellow at Pernet will maintain our well-established Homework Club and devote approximately 50% of his/her time to develop our fledgling youth group for middle schoolers by 1.) recruiting, training, and supervising high school and college students as youth mentors; 2.) engaging youth in the ongoing design of the program; and 3.) integrating hands-on, service-learning activities into programming.
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Plymouth County District Attorney's Office—Position Filled
Volunteer Recruitment Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.mass.gov/da/plymouth
In an effort to protect our children, the District Attorney continues to expand the traditional role of his office to include extensive outreach and prevention programs in collaboration with our local schools and service providers. Since Brockton’s Promise’s inception in 2003, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office has served with the Mayor’s Office as its lead Champions in the City of Brockton. The Volunteer Recruitment Fellow will create a volunteer recruitment strategy to address the volunteer needs of each Brockton’s Promise Team (Caring Adult, Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others, Effective Education, Safe Place). The Fellow will also expand an existing service-based program created by the Opportunity to Help Others Team that is offered during the Brockton After Dark summer evening recreational program for teens.
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Regional Environmental Council, Inc—Position Filled
YouthGROW Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.RECworcester.org
The mission of the Regional Environmental Council, Inc. (REC) is to build healthy, sustainable, and just communities in Worcester, MA, the state’s second largest city. Since 1971, we’ve accomplished this mission by working with residents of the city’s lowest-income neighborhoods to address the environmental justice issues they face. These issues include a lack of opportunities for youth employment/development, high prevalence of youth violence, high rates of food insecurity/hunger/obesity, a lack of green spaces, and high exposures to indoor and outdoor air pollution and toxins, among others. The Education & Youth Development Fellow will expand year-round activities for our youth agriculture project. YouthGROW employs 32 low-income teens (ages 14-17) to maintain 2 inner-city organic farms as they complete a job and life-skills curriculum and community service projects. The heart of the YouthGROW program is the creation of mentoring relationships between YouthGROWers and REC staff/volunteers. The Fellow will continue to develop a year-round YouthGROW program while also designing and implementing a YouthGROW mentoring program staffed by volunteer alumni and a cooperative business curriculum. The Fellow will also help expand the volunteer base and community partnerships for the Cooking Matters program.
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Science Club for Girls—Position Filled
High School Programs Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.scienceclubforgirls.org
Science Club for Girls (SCFG) increases the self-confidence and literacy in science, technology, engineering and mathematics of girls from underrepresented groups through free programs that focus on hands-on activities, mentorship, and leadership opportunities. The Career Exploration, Leadership and Life Skills (CELLS) initiative uses a “whole girl”/identity development approach to develop positive youth assets in middle and high school girls through a variety of programs. The High School Programs Fellow is primarily responsible for executing programs for high school girls in the greater Boston area, under the direction of the Teen Programs Director. To increase girls’ learning and leadership opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, s/he will expand the Senior Mentor program where juniors and seniors in high school are coached to facilitate hands-on Science Club for young girls, manage no more than two Challenge Teams (e.g. Rocket and Media Teams), pilot a job shadowing program with companies and revive our summer internship/enrichment program. To promote girls’ socioemotional development and college orientation, the Fellow will work to create and support the personal development plans for this cohort of girls and facilitate or arrange for related workshops or field trips. Working with the Executive Director the Fellow will involve current alumnae in the development of these projects with the goal of creating an alumnae event at the end of the project period and launch an alumnae network.
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Sociedad Latina—Position Filled
Volunteer Coordinator Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.sociedadlatina.org
Since 1968, Sociedad Latina has worked in partnership with Latino youth and families to end destructive cycles of poverty, health inequities, and lack of opportunity in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. Through our services, we pioneer new and innovative solutions to the most pressing issues facing Latino youth today, supporting positive youth development from age 8-21, creating a community that supports young people, and training youth to advocate for themselves and their community. Sociedad Latina’s comprehensive, intensive programming builds skills in four areas, identified by our constituents as the most in need of support: Education, Workforce Development, Civic Engagement, and Arts and Culture. The Volunteer Coordinator Fellow will launch and run Sociedad Latina’s new Volunteer Network that consolidates the management of all Sociedad Latina volunteers.
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The Discovery Museums—Position Filled
Public Programs Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.discoverymuseums.org
The Discovery Museums (TDM) mission is to inspire enduring curiosity and love of learning through interactive discovery, hands-on inquiry, and scientific investigation. TDM’s interactive exhibits and programs foster curiosity and encourage children of all ages and abilities to learn through play, exploration, and investigation. Programs enrich and extend the museum experience. They provide opportunities for valuable in-depth explorations, bring outside experts and performers to TDM’s audience, and encourage valuable one-on-one interactions. TDM’s new strategic plan, adopted in 2010, identified a key goal: increase the number of public program offerings to serve more people, and increase visitation and membership. To support this goal, the Public Programs Fellow will work with our education staff to present and coordinate hands-on programs and will also research, develop, and pilot new programs. The Fellow will network with corporations, community organizations, and local high schools to cultivate new volunteer-led public programs. The Fellow will have ownership of this project as they research and implement new program and volunteer opportunities, and help build a valuable infrastructure that supports public programming for The Discovery Museums audience.
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The DREAM Program, Inc—Position Filled
Program Empowerment Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.dreamprogram.org
The DREAM Program, Inc. is committed to its mission of building communities of families and college students that empower children from affordable housing neighborhoods to recognize their options, make informed decisions, and achieve their dreams. DREAM was founded in 1999 by students attending Dartmouth College and opened its first regional office in Boston in 2009. DREAM is a unique and innovative organization that has created a new model for mentoring aptly titled “Village Mentoring.” Our approach represents a shift from traditional on-on-one mentoring to a more community oriented approach that combines best practices from both mentoring and community development programs to create a unique experience for the college students and the children. Our Local Programs consist of weekly meetings at the colleges, where the students work as a team to provide mentoring activities to children in both individual and group settings. Our volunteer mentors also work with parents from the developments to ensure that their local DREAM program is inclusive, safe, and inspiring. The Program Empowerment Fellow will be charged with supporting two Local Programs and potentially the start up of one new Local Program. This will engage the Fellow in strategic planning and capacity building work, allowing DREAM to deliver programming to a greater number of children and families in the coming years.
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The Food Project- Boston—Position Filled
Build-A-Garden Project Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.thefoodproject.org
The Food Project’s mission is to create a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system. This community produces healthy food, provides youth leadership opportunities, and inspires and supports others to create change in their own communities. Youth from Boston and the surrounding area work closely with one another as they explore issues of food justice, gain an understanding of sustainable agriculture, and develop personally as young adults. Teens start with our six-week Summer Youth Program, and in their second year, can join our Internship Program, where they apply their skills and knowledge to become leaders, improving food access in underserved communities and educating people of all ages. The Build-a-Garden Program Fellow will coordinate the newly restructured Community Programs Internship, focusing on two significant expansions of our Build-a-Garden (B-a-G) Program, which provides residents with resources to grow their own food. These expansions will harness the energy and hard work of area teenagers to create a system of neighborhood clusters which will connect garden participants to each other for more support and to establish new large-scale gardens at housing developments. The Fellow will be responsible for all youth development aspects of the new Community Programs Internship including mentoring youth, teambuilding, and facilitating feedback sessions.
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The Food Project- Lynn—Position Filled
Community Engagement & Service-Learning Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.thefoodproject.org
The Food Project’s mission is to create a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system. This community produces healthy food, provides youth leadership opportunities, and inspires and supports others to create change in their own communities. Youth from Lynn and the surrounding area work closely with one another as they explore issues of food justice, gain an understanding of sustainable agriculture, and develop personally as young adults. Teens start with our six-week Summer Youth Program, and in their second year, youth can work in our Internship Program, where they apply their skills and knowledge to become leaders, improving food access in underserved communities and educating people of all ages. The Community Engagement and Service Learning (CESL) Program Fellow will lead two projects to mobilize youth and adults from the North Shore community to become participants of positive food system change. First, the Fellow will create a new CESL program to provide intern-led food justice curriculum and service-learning opportunities for youth outside The Food Project. The program will culminate with a youth action day, organized by the Fellow and interns, where all groups that have participated in the program will come together to share food and make a personal commitment to an action they can take in their lives to make an improvement. The Fellow will also take on the expansion of the existing Lynn Build-a-Garden (B-a-G) program, which provides residents with resources to grow their own food. The Fellow will work with interns to plan community gardens in Lynn, recruit and manage volunteers to assist with development of the project, and offer support to gardeners through workshops, site visits and community building.
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Tutoring Plus—Position Filled
Middle School Tutoring Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.tutoringplus.org
Tutoring Plus aims to support and encourage the academic, personal, and social growth of youth in Cambridge, Massachusetts with the help of volunteers and community partners by providing free academic tutoring and enrichment programs for Cambridge students grades 4-12. Tutoring Plus operates three Middle School Centers in public schools to provide targeted tutoring to students in grades 4 through 8. Students attend centers once or twice a week where they participate in theme-based activities with a small group of peers and are matched with a volunteer for one-to-one tutoring sessions. The largest Tutoring Center, located at the Fletcher Maynard Academy, has 40 students and 40 tutors attending twice a week. The remaining two Middle School Tutoring Centers have 23 students and 23 tutors combined, with a wait list of students seeking tutoring. The Middle School Tutoring Fellow’s project will be to manage and pilot the expansion of two Middle School Tutoring Centers.
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Youth On Board—Position Filled
Student Engagement Fellow (Download description by clicking PDF or DOC)
For more information, go to www.youthonboard.org
Youth on Board’s (YOB) overarching goal is to create schools in which youth are empowered to advocate on their own behalf and youth engagement is interwoven into the structure of schools, thus encouraging a cultural shift that creates respectful and mutually supportive learning communities. YOB works closely with the Boston Public Schools (BPS) in ensuring that high school students are integrally involved in the decisions that affect them the most. The Fellow will work closely with two key Boston Public School (BPS) student engagement groups, the Boston Student Advisory Committee (BSAC) and the Student Engagement Action Collaborative (SEAC) to advance student engagement and promote student voice at the district and the local level. The Fellow will work closely with BSAC to shift school/peer culture by ensuring youth voice continues to be at the center of policy changes. The two major goals of the Fellow will be to provide academic support to BSAC members and project development support as they continue their focus on promoting student engagement/voice in the district. This will require identifying, designing, and implementing trainings. This combination of skill-building and leadership development links directly to academic achievement.
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