Parenting Resources, Youth

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 provide a year-round, in-person leadership program at the Hurley Street Farm. Youth will learning leadership skills through urban gardening and environmental activism.

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

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 offer fun and exciting project-based programs in: Game Design, Roblox, Minecraft, Python. Augmented Reality, Engineering, Circuitry, Robotics and more...

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

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.

TriTogether is a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing free tutoring to children, teens, and young adults in foster care.

We offer STEAM, inquiry-based, and interdisciplinary learning programs that connect youth across cultures through real-world challenges, hands-on exploration, innovation, and mentorship.

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!

The MIT Museum seeks proposals for innovative public programs that explore humanity's relationship with the theme of TIME.

Join us on Zoom, 10am ET, for half an hour, on occasional Saturdays to learn and practice techniques for having difficult conversations.

The program follows an Illustrative Math Curriculum with a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach to math, enabling students to learn mathematics meaningfully.

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.

Cambridge Camping's CCAccess scholarship program makes unforgettable camp accessible to all, offering day and overnight options.

Cambridge residents with children in grades K-8 apply to DHSP Afterschool Programs through this lottery application. The lottery opens in April for the coming school year.

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

Join us for a math-focused summer! Kids entering grades 3-8 will play math games, learn to do art and music with a math focus, and become better solvers of non-standard, hard math problems.

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