Cooking and Gardening, LGBTQ+ Services, Substance Use Support

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

We provide 24/7 mobile crisis services and help people who need access to timely, high quality mental health and substance use services.

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.

Cambridge Camping provides an in-person STEAM-centered cooking program during the February school vacation week. 

Our programs are designed for those most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.

Our drop-in is open to eight people at a time. Check website for updated hours. Use a computer, cook in the kitchen, get help from a volunteer, pick up food & supplies, T-passes, clothing closet.

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.

Our team of social workers can help make referrals to community services, help you complete applications, navigate resources, and help connect you to mental health or substance misuse programs.

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 pocket guide contains information on many different types of resources that may be useful to individuals and families who are homeless

This is a program that provides a drop-in center for homeless and street-involved youth, ages 14-24, in Harvard Square, Cambridge.

From maker space workshops to a dance studio, a Food Lab to a performance space, The Foundry’s array of spaces will serve your individual or group needs. Bring your creative spirit!

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

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 offer various clubs and after-school sports for students.

Contact the MSC if you are living on the street, in emergency shelters or at risk of losing your housing and need help.

On The Rise is a daytime, drop-in program for unhoused women, trans, and non-binary people providing the relationships, safety and resources they need to move out of homelessness.

Want to process tough emotions with someone who understands? Our confidential peer-run HEART Line is here to listen and talk on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 am to 4 pm. Call us at 617-902-0102.

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 help girls develop courage, confidence, and character through community service, exploration, workshops and adventures, including lessons in STEM, outdoors, life skills, entrepreneurship.

This guide is an overview of some of the organizations that serve to support LGBTQ+ older adults. There are local organizations, national organizations, and other information.

We work to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline by offering children mental health services that improve their long-term health and well-being.

Are you interested in exploring gender as a social construct and what that means for your identity? Join Gender Expansive Youth (GEY)!

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