**This position will be: In-person | NO COVID vaccination is required**
As a police officer, I have encountered many youth and families challenged with trauma, truancy, food insecurity, mental health issues, violence, single-parent homes, homelessness, etc. As a result, I created partnerships with hospitals, schools, community organizations, and agencies that provided support and resources. The countless interactions and conversations formed positive relationships with the youth. Strengthening and maintaining healthy relationships between the youth and the police is essential. As a result, fear and negative perceptions will reduce against police officers. Through collaboration and partnerships, I have been able to hire youth year-round. They've had the opportunity to participate in leadership programs, community service, college tours, experience educational trips such as Washington DC, dialogues, team building, workshops on various topics, and more.
**This position will be: In-Person**
The Salesian Boys & Girls Club was established in 1945 to address the needs of the East Boston community’s disadvantaged children, regardless of religious beliefs or affiliations. The Club continues to honor its commitment by increasing the communities we serve to include Revere, Winthrop, and Chelsea, making us home to approximately 1,150 youth. We have implemented community-based after school and out-of-school programs serving 200-350 young people age 6 to 19 daily. The mission of the Salesian Boys & Girls Club is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. We do this by providing an array of programs including homework help, art, cooking, dance and theater classes, STEM and science classes, intramural sports leagues, leadership and character building and much more, all of which are delivered by a consistent, caring and talented staff of trained professional youth workers.
**This position will be: Hybrid (In-Person & Remote) | No COVID Vaccination Required**
In fall 2017, BAM launched in Boston Public Schools (BPS) and served 150 young men in its inaugural year. In the four years since, BAM grew from serving three BPS schools to nine and, further, expanded its reach to Cambridge and Somerville public school districts. In school year 2021-22, BAM aims to directly serve 660 boys and young men across 12 schools, helping them to acquire the skills and systems of support to overcome trauma and thrive in school, the workplace, and in life.
** This positon will be: In-person | COVID Vaccination required**
Chinatown Main Street was founded in 1995, and fast forward, 2022, Chinatown Main Street continues to provide technical services, storefront improvement to businesses in the community. We also, address food equity to all residents of the community and the unemployed workers in the community.
**This position will be: In-Person**
Level Ground is the first and only nonprofit organization in the U.S. that leverages the popular sport of Mixed Martial Arts as a vehicle for positive youth development, and uniquely couples MMA with meaningful academic and employment opportunities. Founded in 2013, our work began in partnership with the Egleston Square YMCA where we served youth through martial arts classes. We gradually expanded beyond athletics to include College Access and Workforce Development programs. In 2017, we opened our Training Center in Uphams Corner which includes two athletic areas and an Academic and Career Development Center, and is managed by youth in our Student Trainer program. In 2019, Level Ground served 600+ youth and adults through athletics. This social enterprise model bolsters financial sustainability and helps scale impact by increasing access to engaging physical activity options to community residents of all ages.
** This position will be: In-Person | No COVID Vaccination required**
BCYF offers a wide range of affordable programs including preschool, school-aged and adult education, family literacy, youth employment, violence prevention and intervention, senior activities, and recreation and enrichment. BCYF's 36 facilities are located throughout Boston. Our History In the early 1970s, as new school buildings sprang up all over Boston, residents felt strongly that these buildings should be used as community resources and offer community programming when school was not in session. This idea led to the establishment of Boston Community Schools in 1972. Overtime, we added additional services, programs, and facilities; in 2001, our name was changed to Boston Centers for Youth & Families, and today we are the City of Boston's largest youth and human services agency. Impacting Boston's Communities The tremendous impact of Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) is known throughout the City of Boston. As the City of Boston's largest human services agency, we offer a plethora of affordable programs for all ages located at various BCYF community centers and facilities throughout the City of Boston. BCYF is committed to providing high quality, outcome driven programs that are responsive to neighborhood needs and interests. We design our programming in alignment with our ACES Framework (Arts, Community & Civic Engagement, Education and Sports, Recreation & Fitness) to ensure consistency and quality across our network. Our site, the BCYF Quincy Community Center, offers a variety of social, educational and recreational programs and activities, including afterschool enrichment programs, youth leadership programs, basketball and volleyball clinics and leagues, swimming lessons and youth swim team, open and lap swims, badminton, and table tennis.
**This position will be: In-Person | No COVID Vaccination required**
The Parks & Recreation Department provides residents and visitors with a clean, green, safe and accessible open space in 2100 areas of parkland throughout the city.
**This position will be: In-Person | No COVID Vaccination required**
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department provides residents and visitors with clean, green, safe, and accessible open space in 2,300 acres of park land throughout the city.
**This position will be: In-Person | No COVID Vaccination required**
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department offers residents and visitors the opportunity to enjoy free sports programs, workshops, and visual arts programs in parks throughout the city year-round. Tens of thousands of children and families enjoy ParkARTS, ParkFITNESS and Recreation activities each year. Many people living in the city do not have a backyard or front yard or the means to vacation. Our parks, playgrounds, athletic fields, urban wilds, city squares and street trees provide respite from the city hardscape. Our special events and free programs bring free, safe quality activities to these spaces and help build community.
**This position will be: In-Person | COVID Vaccination required**
The Mayor's Mural Crew is a Parks and Recreation program. The program started in 1991 as a summer initiative to cover graffiti with murals painted and designed by high school students. Over the course of the program, we've engaged with hundreds of young people. Our current mission is to create neighborhood landmarks within Boston's parks and playgrounds. We'll also continue to offer creative job training opportunities beyond murals, with projects that include: installations public and green space design temporary street art pop-up exhibits and art, and community events.
** This position will be: In-Person | No COVID Vaccination required**
ADSL was founded in 1983 as a specific response to growing racial tension in Dorchester. ADSL offered local youth from an ethnically and racially diverse neighborhood, a space for reconciliation and the opportunity to be on the same team, instead of seeing one another as adversaries. Originally, All Dorchester Sports League was exclusively a youth sports organization. ADSL’s mission changed in 1997 when we saw an unmet need and added an education resource center (ERC) for tutoring and academic guidance. In 2008, in response to new challenges faced by residents in our community, ADSL expanded once again to offer fitness and nutrition education. After years of continuing growth and success, we changed our name to reflect our new, holistic goal of health and wellness, to All Dorchester Sports and Leadership. ADSL offers a variety of sports programs, enrichment opportunities as well as fitness and nutrition classes such as basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, after school homework help, fitness workouts, summer enrichment program and a fun in the sun drop in program.
**This position will be: In-Person | NO COVID Vaccination required**
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy is a private non-profit stewardship organization founded in 1998 to maintain, restore and protect the parks of the Emerald Necklace designed by Frederick Law Olmsted for all to explore, use and enjoy. Governed by a board of directors, the conservancy brings together representatives of both the private and public sectors to carry out these goals. Its activities complement the longstanding initiatives of its public partners, the Boston Parks & Recreation Department, Brookline Parks and Open Space and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. With its public and private partners, dedicated staff and an ever-expanding cadre of volunteers the conservancy is committed to preserving Olmsted’s historic legacy and ensuring that these parks continue to serve the common good for generations to come. Vision In its role as a steward of Frederick Law Olmsted’s 100-year old park system, the Emerald Necklace Conservancy will be seen as a trusted collaborator working seamlessly with its public partners to restore, improve, maintain, and protect this iconic urban landscape. This work will be visible to all and recognized nationally for setting standards of excellence and creating best practices in preservation, advocacy, education, conservation, programming, safety, sustainability and park administration.
**This position will be: Hybrid (In-Person & Remote) | COVID Vaccination Required**
Founded in 1994 by Vietnamese refugees and immigrants, VietAID was established as a response to a community wide need for human services, childcare, and a safe place to commune and celebrate. Now in our 25th year of service, we are proud to continue to uphold our founders' vision, opening our doors everyday to hundreds of community members, from all backgrounds and walks of life. The organization was created in response to a lack of services for families and individuals in the area, and over time grew to accommodate those needs, including childcare, affordable housing, youth development and leadership, and senior day programming. In 2001, one of those needs grew to be a safe space for the community to gather; VietAID, along with the support of a multicultural organizing committee, responded to this by designing and constructing what is now the Vietnamese American Community Center (VACC). It became a place where folks could seek safety, sense of belonging, and comfort for themselves and their families; having a place named for and after the diaspora evoked pride in the immigrants and refugees, who not only had to rebuild their lives in a foreign country, but otherwise did not have much cultural familiarity elsewhere. To this day, VietAID continues to operate out of the VACC, along with several other community partner organizations. On a typical day, the community center is shared by over 250 people, a majority of whom are children and elders seeking services. The hallmark of VietAID's programming is its comprehensive nature, even recently prompting an informal motto that our programs accommodate those from 2 years 9 months, in our bilingual, bicultural preschool, to 102 years old, in our senior day program; that century span reflects our belief that in order to build and maintain a strong community, we must advocate for all those in need.
** This position will be: In-Person | No COVID Vaccination required**
The Martin Pino Community Center has been providing athletic and recreational programming for over 41 years and we plan to continue to do so for a long time to come.
** This position will be: In-Person | No COVID Vaccination required**
Jamaica Plain Community Centers has been in operation since 1973, offering a wide variety of services to the residents of Jamaica Plain and surrounding neighborhood areas. Our program participants are racially, linguistically, and ethnically diverse. Our families are predominantly led by a working female head of household. Because of this dynamic, program families rely heavily on the programs at the BCYF Hennigan Community Center to provide academic, enrichment, civic based, and recreational activities that support the overall well-being of their families. A significant percentage of our participants (85%) come from immigrant families for whom English is not the first language and 97% of the families and children enrolled in our programs fall under the category of economically disadvantaged. The Jamaica Plain Community Center (JPCC) Council, Inc. is a non-profit 501c3 organization comprised of neighborhood residents and business community volunteers and is dedicated to serving all of the residents of Jamaica Plain and serves as the fiscal agent for the programs at the Hennigan Community Center. With over 48 years of commitment, the Council continues to work with Community Center administration and staff to assess neighborhood needs, develop programming that is responsive to its members, and to act as an active partner with the BCYF Administrative Coordinator in the oversight of Center administration and finance. As such, the Jamaica Plain Community Center Council meets monthly to plan, review and oversee programming and services offered by our center. Current programming includes: a Before School Program; an After School Program (the Friendship After School Tutoring Program); different sports at gym; Swimming; a Teen program offering a variety of enrichment activities to participant teens.
**This position will be: Hybrid**
Southwest Boston CDC was founded in 2001 by Hyde Park and Roslindale neighbors concerned about rising housing costs.The program employs youth to restore Hyde Park’s conservation land while teaching them about the woodlands critical role in mitigating the impact of climate change. Youth receive extensive environmental education, job readiness and life skills trainings.The Green Team provides jobs and needed income for Boston youth from diverse backgrounds; introduces youth to college options and green industry; provides job readiness and life skills training to prepare them for successful futures.
**This position will be: In-Person | No COVID Vaccination required**
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department offers residents and visitors the opportunity to enjoy free sports programs, workshops, and visual arts programs in parks throughout the city year-round. Tens of thousands of children and families enjoy ParkARTS, ParkFITNESS and Recreation activities each year. Many people living in the city do not have a backyard or front yard or the means to vacation. Our parks, playgrounds, athletic fields, urban wilds, city squares and street trees provide respite from the city hardscape. Our special events and free programs bring free, safe quality activities to these spaces and help build community.
**This position will be: In-Person | No COVID Vaccination required**
**This position requires an additional application: https://forms.gle/LVNoZQc5e1R6DCjG9
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department provides residents and visitors with clean, green, safe, and accessible open space in 2,300 acres of park land throughout the city. Our department is responsible for 217 City parks, playgrounds and athletic fields, two golf courses, 65 squares, 17 fountains, 75 game courts, 16 historic and three active cemeteries, urban wilds, four High School Athletic Fields, and approximately 125,000 trees, all covering 2,346 acres, 1,000 of which comprise the historic Emerald Necklace. We are also responsible for more than 35,000 street trees.
**This position will be: In-Person | No COVID Vaccination required**
**This position requires an additional application: https://forms.gle/JoFyBPCM5ToY5xWYA
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department provides residents and visitors with clean, green, safe, and accessible open space in 2,300 acres of park land throughout the city. Our department is responsible for 217 City parks, playgrounds and athletic fields, two golf courses, 65 squares, 17 fountains, 75 game courts, 16 historic and three active cemeteries, urban wilds, four High School Athletic Fields, and approximately 125,000 trees, all covering 2,346 acres, 1,000 of which comprise the historic Emerald Necklace. We are also responsible for more than 35,000 street trees.
**This position will be: In-Person | No COVID Vaccination required**
The Boston Baseball Camp began in 1990 in Jamaica Plain with the goal of promoting harmony and understanding among children from different neighborhoods in Boston through the game of baseball, and is now held in Hyde Park, utilizing Kelly and Foley Fields. The organization operates the summer camp using specific guiding principles in order to make progress towards the mission each year. The camp focuses on relationship building, the growth of children's self-esteem and self-confidence, and the importance of teamwork and working together to achieve a goal. These principles are closely aligned with the legacies of Tom and Jean Yawkey, particularly applying to inner-city youths in Boston. Under the backdrop of the sport of baseball, Boston Baseball Camp has provided a safe, nurturing environment for the children of Boston for 30 summers. The organization has provided a positive, safe place for inner-city youths to play baseball in the summer. The daily schedule of the camp provides opportunities for kids to learn and try new things, build self-confidence, and learn the value of teamwork, all while having an incredible amount of fun. Partners such as SuccessLink allows the Boston Baseball Camp to have a very affordable registration fee each year, and it allows the camp to use a scholarship and sliding scale registration fee program so that no child is prohibited from attending for financial reasons. Children who attend the Boston Baseball Camp build important life skills each year such as the importance of cooperation, respect for other people's opinions and cultures, and discipline and dedication to goals. Additionally, the Boston Baseball Camp actively seeks to amplify the voices and increase the baseball participation of the marginalized children who live in Boston.
