Public Benefits and Community Assistance

This guide contains Mental Health and Domestic Violence resources for immigrant families in Cambridge.

Our cadet training program is a paid, benefitted full-time position with a two-year commitment for Cambridge residents between ages of 18-23 who are interested in pursuing a career in public safety.

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.

This program is designed to help youth to acquire the professional skills and coaching experience needed for working within the parkour industry, while also building valuable professional skills.

We bring together students from Harvard College and surrounding universities with kids from Cambridge's different neighborhoods.

We offer a free dual enrollment program with Bunker Hill Community College. Students take two classes and receive advising support to prepare for their next steps, such as college or career training.

When people come in we can help them use their digital devices (smartphones, tablets, computers), apply for services online, learn digital literacy and safety/privacy tips, and get access to devices.

The CLC offers five levels of English conversation, grammar, reading, and writing classes for Cambridge residents. There are daytime and evening classes. We do not offer online-only classes.

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

MPF is recruiting Fellows to lead youth programs for youth in grades 6-12 at one of our partner schools, city agencies, and non-profits across Massachusetts! Apply today!

The guide is organized around six key themes: affordable housing, emergency housing, housing rights, legal and mediation services, safe & healthy homes, and financial assistance.

Housed In Cambridge: Information to Open Doors is a citywide campaign designed to educate and inform residents on housing opportunities and housing-related resources and services.

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

We offer summer jobs to Cambridge teens, from age 14 through the summer after they graduate high school.

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.

The Literacy Project offers free classes in English conversation, job hunting and resume writing.

We provide shelter, transitional & permanent housing + support services to extremely low-income homeless/formerly homeless adult individuals & families with children in Cambridge & Greater Boston.

A free program that can help Social Security beneficiaries go to work, get a good job that may lead to a career, and become financially independent.

This unit investigates sexual crimes and provides support and social services to survivors of sexual crimes.

We host many events through out the year in collaboration with community partnerships.

Our program supports Asian/Asian American high school girls develop self-confidence and leadership skills to be successful in their social, academic, and future professional communities.

Our 24/7 hotline helps survivors and their loved ones by connecting them to a RAINN support specialist or a local center from RAINN’s network +1,000 sexual assault service providers.

Our hotline helps prevent suicide by giving free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you and loved ones, and best practices for professionals.

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

This program offers paid school-year internships at Harvard University for CRLS juniors and seniors.