Middle and High School Opportunities, Public Benefits and Community Assistance

We offer employment training and education programs for TAFDC clients including Young Parents Program, DTA Works Internship, Office of Refugee and Immigrants Program, and more!

We provide employment training and job search services to veterans and their families.

You can learn how to apply for temporary income through Massachusetts Unemployment Insurance programs by clicking the links on this page.

Our teams help youth develop as climbers, athletes, and humans. We foster growth through goal setting, critical thinking, and increasing confidence and resilience through a competitive platform.

We offer afterschool sessions and full-day programs designed to help kids foster self-confidence as they climb, jump, problem solve, and explore their creativity.

We currently provide lists of resources, information, and legal advice for people of color and immigrants.

We run parkour classes in various parks throughout Cambridge and Somerville during the school year. No special equipment or prior experience needed.

We provide nutritional counseling, healthy food benefits, workshops, education, breastfeeding support, and referrals to health and community resources at no cost to eligible Massachusetts families.

A full-day offering that features a half-day of parkour instruction and challenges and a half-day of climbing (belaying & bouldering).

SNAP benefits are provided by the federal government and administered by DTA.

We host a fun and challenging program for young artists entering grades 7-9 who have a desire to expand their knowledge in the visual arts.

We offer children a 24-hour overnight camp to develop and practice leadership and life skills that will impact their future in education, family, career, and in their communities

We offer a wide variety of summer programming for elementary, middle, and high school students interested in all aspects of theater. Please check out our offerings.

We offer a rowing program on the Charles River for youth ages 12-18.

We offer high quality, humanistic ballet education and training for children of all levels age 3 and up.

Are you looking for a great way to give back to the community? Consider partnering with immigrant high school students in the Cambridge/Somerville community through Enroot!

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

We provide career support resources, such as personalized career guidance, informative workshops, specialized training programs, job referrals, resume assistance, and a wide array of job listings.

We host rock climbing weeks for young people with a variety of rock climbing skill levels. We have a standard options as well as options that include parkour activities and rock climbing together.

We are dedicated to closing the students' skills gap so they can progress into successful summer internships in life sciences companies and academic labs.

Habitat Nature Day Camp has been engaging children since 1974.

We provide an engaging and empowering summer dance program for children and teens.

We offer a summer camp option for 3 weekly sessions for current 1st-6th graders. Each week has a different topic as the central theme.

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

We host summer break theatre camps for 8-12 year-olds, led by professional actors and teaching artists from Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Join us for one or for both!

We are a youth soccer camp for girls and boys, focused on fun and development.

Girls in our summer camps will have fun and build character through community service, exploration, workshops and adventures, including lessons in STEM, outdoors, life skills, entrepreneurship.