Leadership and Mentoring, Parenting Resources

Here is a list of all the licensed, private individual childcare options in Cambridge (and some in Somerville).

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

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.

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.

Port Arise is here to provide support to our community through uplifting families.

We understand the importance of community and the power of compassion. As a 100% volunteer-run program, we are committed to supporting vulnerable individuals and families in Cambridge, MA.

Learn to play the Steel Pan, basic music, and leadership development.

This is our traditional program where adult mentors are paired with children ages 7-12, and agree to see each other for 3 hours, a couple of times a month in the Little's community.

Our tutors work 1-on-1 with youth in grades 4 - 12 to improve academic and social skills through the school year in a safe, structured, and welcoming community.

We provide language and interpretation classes, youth programs, multicultural community events, and other supports for immigrant families.

We provide free, high-quality, and hands-on science activities and mentoring for children and teens typically one day a week at each location.

Pathways to Family Success supports low-income Cambridge families with free events, activities, supplies, and community.

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 promote the earliest parent-child relationships by helping parents manage the care of a new baby.

Qualifying individuals can apply to receive affordable internet access and a new laptop.

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.

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 transforms the lives of children, adults with disabilities and their families through the power of one-to-one mentoring relationships.

We support students and 1:1 volunteer tutors/mentors with homework, academics, social-emotional learning and community advocacy.

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

Our partnership fosters positive development, mental health, safe schools and communities, and limiting juvenile justice involvement through prevention, intervention and diversion services for youth.

We empower women, girls, and nonbinary folks through a variety of gender-intentional programs and opportunities.

We provide services related to substance use, harm reduction, education and mental health support.

The Cambridge Doula is a home visiting program available to all expecting parents who are Cambridge Health Alliance patients.