LGBTQ+ Services, Summer Camps and Activities

Youth Headspace contains many youth wellness and mental health resources. Check it out!

Our teen support text line connects young people up to age 24 with a peer they can talk to when they feel lonely, depressed, overwhelmed, or suicidal.

We offer a variety of services, supports and programs dedicated to ensuring equitable access and success for students who have a documented risk of regression during the summer months.

Our free, confidential hotline can connect you to clinical help for mental health and substance use concerns where and when you need it.

We offer free support groups for family members and friends of people with mental illness, as well as peer supports for people suffering from a mental health condition.

This program is designed to help youth to acquire the professional skills and coaching experience needed for working within the parkour industry, while also building valuable professional skills.

Join our program this summer where you'll design, build and launch model rockets while learning more about aerospace careers, robot rovers, and astronaut space suits!

We invite high school students with a strong interest in science to spend six weeks at the Broad Institute.

We are a 1-week program that brings communities together around the joy of soccer, promoting athletic skill, leadership development, and citywide unity in Cambridge and Greater Boston.

A fun, NO-COST camp to help kids develop sustainable activism and leadership skills!

We provide a list of all upcoming opportunities for children ages 0-11; regular activities include story times, arts, musical, and dance events and more in our Children's Room.

The Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public.

We have games, community action projects, and meaningful conversations about school, girlhood, society, social media, identity, and more!

We are a free gender-inclusive, noncontact, fitness-based boxing program held on twice per week in the evenings for Cambridge youth in grades 6-12.

We run an overnight emergency shelter for young adults (ages 18-24) in Harvard Square, open between October 15th and April 15th.

We are offering in-person HIV/STI testing, treatment, and PrEP for LGBTQ+ youth ages 16-29.

We provide free and nutritionally balanced meals to Cambridge residents 18 years of age and under. There are vegetarian and non-vegetarian options offered at all meal sites!

We've created orienteering courses throughout the city of Cambridge to get you and your family outside and moving around. Check out our map courses on our website!

Our 24-hour free & confidential hotline provides emotional support, information, referrals, safety planning, and crisis intervention for LGBTQ+, kink, & polyamorous survivors of partner abuse.

We offer a tuition-free summer program where youth learn about gardening, STEM activities and experiments, environmentalism, leadership, and team building games.

We offer summer jobs to Cambridge teens, from age 14 through the summer after they graduate high school.

Our overnight camp provides activities and intensive workshops in performing arts to youth from low-income families.

This is a free-of-cost STEM summer day program aimed at students with low income and/or low exposure to STEM.

Counselors-in-Training are part of the Youth Employment Program (YEP) where youth have fun at summer camp and earn $75 for completing responsibilities during their session.

We offer a FREE summer program for students entering 8th grade whose families are Cambridge Housing Authority residents. Students receive a stipend.

We host a 6-week academy designed to expose participating youth to various duties associated with law enforcement as a profession through the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program.

We provide summer reading book recommendations; activities for children, teens, and adults; live events; as well as prizes and giveaways throughout July and August.