youth & young adult programs st. stephen's episcopal church annual report 2010
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St. Stephen’s Youth ProgramsB-READY After-School Program and B-SAFE Summer Program
Serves More 700+ Youth at 6 Locations
MattapanSummer Site
525 River Street
B-SAFE @ Holy Spirit
70 youth served
DorchesterSummer Site
154 Centre Street
B-SAFE @ Epiphany
110 youth served
DorchesterSummer Site
14 Cushing Avenue
B-SAFE @ St. Mary’s75 youth served
ChelseaSummer Site
201 Washington Avenue
B-SAFE @ St. Luke’s/ San Lucas
50 youth served
South End Year-Round Site
419 Shawmut Avenue
B-READY @ St. Stephen’s
140 youth served
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B-SAFE @ St. Stephen’s
150 youth served
Lower RoxburyYear-Round Site
29 Lenox Street
B-READY @ St. A&M
45 youth served
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B-SAFE @ St. A&M
75 youth served
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St. Stephen’s Episcopal ChurchA mission church of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
St. Stephen’s Youth ProgramsServes 625+ Youth
Part of church organization with own operating account
B-READY After-School ProgramServes 185 Youth at 2 Locations
Building Resilience, Enrichment Opportunities, Academic Skills, and Dynamic Leadership in Youth and
Young Adults
Lower Roxbury
B-READY @ St. A&M
29 Lenox Street
B-SAFE Summer ProgramServes 525 Youth at 6 Locations
Bishop’s Summer Academic and Fun Enrichment Program
South End
B-SAFE @ St.
Stephen’s
419 Shawmut Avenue
Lower Roxbury
B-SAFE @ St. A&M
29 Lenox Street
Dorchester
B-SAFE @ St.
Mary’s
14 Cushing Avenue
Mattapan
B-SAFE @ Holy Spirit
525 River Street
Chelsea
B-SAFE @ St.
Luke’s/ San
Lucas201
Washington Avenue
Dorchester
B-SAFE @
Epiphany
154 Centre Street
The S2POT (ages 15-17)St. Stephen’s Place of Opportunity for Teens
45 teens (28 employed; 18 through Boston Youth Fund)
LEARN @ Lenox (K-5)
40 youth
South End
B-READY @ St. Stephen’s
419 Shawmut Avenue
St. Stephen’s YLC (Gr. 6-9)
30 youth
St. Stephen’s
LEARN (K-5)
70 children
LEARN @ Lenox (K-
5)
60 children
St. Stephen’s YLC (Gr. 6-
9)
60 children
St. Stephen’s LEARN (K-5)
65 children
St. Mary’s YLC (Gr. 6-
9)
15 youth
St. Mary’s LEARN (K-
5)
45 children
Epiphany YLC (Gr. 6-
9)
40 youth
Epiphany LEARN (K-
5)
50 children
Holy Spirit YLC (Gr. 6-
9)
15 youth
Holy Spirit LEARN (K-
5)
45 children St. Luke’s/ San Lucas LEARN (K-
5)
40 children
The B-SAFE Teen Counselor-in-Training (CIT) Program (ages 15-17) 90 teens (90 employed; 69 through Boston Youth Fund; 8 through Chelsea Collaborative)
LEARN = Leadership, Enrichment, Academics, Recreation, and Nurture for Elementary School StudentsYLC = Youth Leadership Corps for Middle School Students
Friends of St. Stephen’s Youth Programs 501c3
Receives financial gifts and grants and makes
grants to the Youth Programs.
The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
The B-READY ProgramBuilding Resiliance,
Enrichment opportunities, Academic skills, and
Developing leadership for Youth and young adults
LEARN @ St. Stephen’sFall 2010 launched our 11th
year of afterschool programming!
Serving 70 youth from K2 to 5th grade
Academics: homework support; tutoring in reading, math, science ; and technology classes
Enrichment: values, acting, art, music, yoga, knitting & more
Field trips: ice skating, museums, libraries, colleges
Special Events: Harvest Day, reading party, cultural day
Volunteers: 110 weekly volunteers
LEARN @ Lenox
This is our 3nd year here! Serving 42 youth from K2 to 5th grade (more than 50% increase in 2 years!) One of the few programs serving young people who live in Lenox neighborhood Academics & Enrichment & Field Trips & Special Events! Excellent visual art program for teens including some from Lenox More than 25 volunteers from 5 programs at Northeastern thanks to our Mass
Promise Fellow Partnership with St. Augustine & St. Martin and All Saints’ Brookline= Turkey
Wahoo with 30 volunteers and Christmas party with new book for each child
Youth Leadership Corps (YLC)Love and Limits
contract and CirclesSingle gender to
single groupStrong group,
supportive, high attendance
Lots of Life Skills workshops
Choice Time, life skills workshops, Academic Time
College and Career Support relationships with NEU, Emerson
(theater), Boston University (art lab),
The S2POT (St. Stephen’s Place of Opportunity for Teens)
91 summer jobs 28 school year jobs Job Training and Life Skills workshops (interview skills, healthy relationships,
workplace College & Career Support Team (24 pairs, twice as many as last year) Mission Scholars—4 teams went to Honduras (2), New York City, New Orleans Weekly academic night Art with Culture for Change and Wheelock College’s Ubuntu Project Community Organizing to rejuvenate Blackstone greenhouse (working with The Food
Project) Rap sessions & Circles Teen Youth group
YASSYoung Adults @ St. Stephen’s
Working together to build a partnership for improved public education at Blackstone
Two service days at Blackstone School with more than 250 people volunteering!
Four YASS teams of leaders: Library Greenhouse Classroom volunteers Spiritual reflection
Great press and recognition St. Stephen’s representation
on school site council Exploring how to expand
parent involvement
B-SAFE 2010
7 sites, 7 weeks (training, 5 wks program in city, BCH)528 young people participated; new registration systemAcademics= Word, Numbers Club, DEAR time, Tech,
SCIENCE!!Enrichment=Art, Music, Cooking, Values, Field trips!!Jobs= 91 teens; 10 young adults; 70+ adults55 partner churches; 900+ v0lunteers
Science All Year Round
Mad Science days at 5 B-SAFE sitesHarvard Med School students taught science to YLC at 2 B-
SAFE sitesBU Wizards and Leads (with help of Academic Coordinator
and INCRE) teaching science during B-READYTeens learning about life sciences and BPS science
curriculum through organizing project
Urban Training CenterRelationships with 7
intern programsJVCMass PromiseTech MissionMicah ProjectRE/Hope in ActionMSW Program @
WheelockUrban Ed @ Wellesley
Close supervision, tons of teamwork, collegial groups in programs
Reading group on urban justice issues
College volunteers from BC-PULSE, BU, Northeastern, Emerson
Relationships with 7 intern programsJVCMass PromiseTech MissionMicah ProjectRE/Hope in ActionMSW Program @
WheelockUrban Ed @ Wellesley
Close supervision, tons of teamwork, collegial groups in programs
Reading group on urban justice issues
College volunteers from BC-PULSE, BU, Northeastern, Emerson
Urban Training Center
What is next for St. Stephen’s Youth Programs?
Expand LEARN @ Lenox to 60 youth?Turn a summer site into year round
programming?More space for staff and interns?More support for development team?Increase our ability to collect hard data to
show effectiveness of our program?Look beyond Boston for new B-SAFE sites?