Family Activities, Disabilities and Special Needs

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

We provide one-to-one mentoring to youth and adults with disabilities to reach their full potential.

We have several support groups, meetings, and events happening virtually for parents and their children.

A home visiting programs' primary purpose is to support and encourage parents and caregivers, share information, and connect families with resources in their home and/or a convenient location.

Supporting youth with special needs in afterschool/summer programming.

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.

We promote Community, Housing, Access, and Independence for children and adults of all abilities, strengths, and needs.

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.

The Center for Families Newsletter is full of information, resources, and supports for Cambridge families with children birth-8 years old.

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 War Memorial Recreation Center provides residents access to a state of the art, fully accessible, and climate controlled facility for recreational activities.

Can you find the StoryWalks? A StoryWalk is a children's book hung page by page around a park in Cambridge where families can read, walk, and talk together. Find the 8 StoryWalks in Cambridge parks!

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!

We offer a progression of map navigation activities for home-schooled students who want to learning individually or in a group.

JOYweavers celebrates children and families with great summer programming! We offer accessible, inclusive programming for children who benefit from a smaller setting.

We visit moms and dads of young children at a convenient location to share information about early literacy development, talking and reading with children, and community resources.

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

We offer lots of free events throughout the year for people of all ages with a love of learning!

Riverside Early Head Start is a comprehensive early childhood program that partners with parents to promote children’s healthy development.

Cambridge Dads was created to increase fatherhood engagement in programming. The program strives to ensure dads are engaged, informed, and feel supported in their role as parents.

We can provide a home visitor who can visit your home for one-hour every week to explore books, educational materials, and play-based learning with your child.

We can help you find what you need, offer screenings, treatment options, support groups, and more using our online screening tool.

We offer discounted MBTA passes to income-eligible Cambridge residents between the ages of 19-25.