Adelante Education Center Youth Development Center MVYMCA
Adelante Education Center Youth Development Center MVYMCA
40 Lawrence Street
Lawrence, MA 01840
Program Description:
The Adelante Program at the Lawrence YMCA helps high-achieving 8th grade students improve their educational opportunities by guiding them through the process of applying to top private and public high schools.
Adelante students commit their time, energy, and effort to develop into stronger students. When accepted to the high school of their choice, most are awarded financial assistance from the school. In addition to academic support, program participants also engage in activities aimed at familiarizing themselves with their roots as citizens of the Merrimack Valley, and empowering them to become change makers in their communities.
Service Provider Website: mvymca.org
Program Contact: Lenis Perez
Contact Email: lperez@mvymca.org
Services Provided to: In-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Tutoring, study skills training, instruction, and dropout prevention, Leadership development opportunities, Financial literacy education
Arbour Counseling Services
Arbour Counseling Services
116 Summer Street
Haverhill, MA 01830
Program Description:
Arbour Counseling Services offers programs for clients of all ages through an outpatient continuum of care. With multiple locations throughout Massachusetts, Arbour Counseling Services prioritizes quality and convenience for the communities they serve.
Service Provider Website: Arbourhealth.com
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Services Provided to: In-School Youth & Out-Of-School Youth
How are services provided: Hybrid
Program Service Elements: |
Comprehensive guidance and counseling
Arlington Community Trabajando (ACT) Financial Capability Program
Arlington Community Trabajando (ACT) Financial Capability Program
15 Union Street
Entrance C 4th Floor #401
Lawrence, MA 01840
Program Description:
ACT Lawrence (fka Arlington Community Trabajando) is a Latina led Community Development Corporation (CDC). Founded in 1996, its mission is to achieve social and economic justice by empowering low to moderate income populations in Lawrence. In 2015, ACT Lawrence and Merrimack College joined forces to expand their financial capability services to help meet their goals of increasing financial stability for low income and underserved people in Lawrence, promoting financial inclusion and healthy financial behaviors, providing financial coaching, housing counseling and homebuyer education, and creating a pool of trained financial coaches to help clients reach their financial goals.
Service Provider Website: www.actlawrence.org
Program Contact: Erika Hernandez
Contact Email: ehernandez@actlawrence.org
Services Provided to: In-School Youth & Out-Of-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Financial literacy education
CREST - Collaborative for Regional Education Services and Training
CREST - Collaborative for Regional Education Services and Training
20 Shattuck Road
Andover, MA 01810
Program Description:
CREST Collaborative is a public school collaborative dedicated to collaborating with other public school districts to provide comprehensive services to students who require additional support beyond what their home school district can offer.
CREST students may face a diverse range of challenges that impact their academic success, including behavioral, emotional, physical, cognitive, and medical issues. The specialized services and expertise of CREST Collaborative are tailored to address these unique and often complex challenges, ensuring that each student receives the education they deserve.
CREST collaborates directly with school districts across Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine to provide resources in their home school, or facilitate student placement at our campus in Andover, MA.
Service Provider Website: www.crestcollaborative.org
Program Contact: Helen Denarian
Contact Email: hderanian@crestcollaborative.org
Services Provided to: In-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Tutoring, study skills training, instruction, and dropout prevention; Alternative secondary school services or dropout recovery servicesl, Post-secondary preparation and transition activities
E for All - Entrepreneurship for all
E for All - Entrepreneurship for all
175 Cabot Street, Suite 310
Lowell, MA 01854
Program Description:
The EforAll Accelerator Program is a free, 12-week program offered twice a year in each of our communities. This program offers a unique combination of immersive business training, mentorship, and access to an extended professional network. Anyone with a dream to start or grow a business or nonprofit is encouraged to apply
Service Provider Website: Eforall.org
Program Contact: Janin Duran
Contact Email: Janin@EforAll.org
Services Provided to: Out-Of-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Entrepreneurial skills training
Family Continuity Programs, Inc.
Family Continuity Programs, Inc.
360 Merrimack Street, Building 9, 3rd Floor
Lawrence, MA 01843
Program Description:
In July 2024, Family Continuity and Advocates merged. Together, we’re dedicated to offering compassionate and accessible mental health, substance use, and community justice services to individuals and families across Eastern and Central Massachusetts.
They offer behavioral health care at counseling clinics and urgent care centers in nine local communities: Framingham, Harvard, Lawrence, Marlborough, Peabody, Plymouth, Waltham, Whitinsville, and Worcester. Our sites offer reduced wait times for therapy and psychiatric care and accessible services regardless of your financial situation. All of our outpatient clinics serve both individuals and families, providing care for children, teens, adults, and seniors.
Service Provider Website: familycontinuity.org
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Services Provided to: Out-Of-School Youth & In-School Youth
How are services provided: Hybrid
Program Service Elements:
Comprehensive guidance and counseling
Family Services of the Merrimack Valley
Family Services of the Merrimack Valley
One Union Street
Lawrence, MA 01840
Program Description:
Family Services of the Merrimack Valley is a non-profit, social service organization that has been serving the northeast region of Massachusetts since 1854. Rooted in compassion and respect for the diverse population we serve, we help more than 5,000 people each year through over 20 programs focused on youth development, parent education and emotional health. health..
Service Provider Website: fsmv.org
Program Contact: Aida Castro
Contact Email:
Services Provided to: Out-Of-School Youth & In-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Adult Mentoring; Comprehensive guidance and counseling
Junior Achievement of Greater Boston - Lawrence
Junior Achievement of Greater Boston - Lawrence
70-71 North Parish Road
Lawrence, MA 01843
Program Description:
Junior Achievement offers financial literacy, work and career readiness, and entrepreneurship to positively impact the lives of young people. These lessons align with national and state educational standards and are delivered to millions of students across the country with the help of the education partners and volunteers from the local community.
Service Provider Website: www.jagreaterboston.org
Program Contact: Radhames Nova
Contact Email: rnova@jagreaterboston.org
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Program Service Elements:
Financial literacy education; Entrepreneurial skills training
Lawrence Adult Learning Center at MVCC
Lawrence Adult Learning Center at MVCC
255 Essex Street
Lawrence, MA 01840
Program Description:
The Lawrence Adult Learning Center (ALC), part of the Lawrence Public Schools, offers free educational programs to help adults achieve their personal, academic, and professional goals. They focus on developing essential skills for both academic and career success, including English language learning, high school equivalency preparation, job training, and college preparation.
Service Provider Website:www.lawrence.k12.ma.us/adult-learning-center
Program Contact: James White
Contact Email: james.white@lawrence.k12.ma.us
Services Provided to: Out-Of-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Alternative secondary school services or dropout recovery services
Lawrence Community Works
Lawrence Community Works
168 Newbury Street
Lawrence, MA 01841
Program Description:
Lawrence CommunityWorks, Inc. (LCW) is a community development corporation founded in 1986 that weaves together community planning, organizing, and asset-building efforts with high-quality affordable housing and commercial development to create vibrant neighborhoods and empowered residents. By facilitating conversations and action on community priorities, LCW engages partners and a network of youth and adult residents in opportunities to move themselves and the city of Lawrence forward.
Service Provider Website: www.lawrencecommunityworks.org
Program Contact: Jessica Andors
Contact Email: jandors@lawrencecommunityworks.org
Services Provided to: In-School Youth & Out-Of-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Financial literacy education
Lawrence Financial Stability Center
Lawrence Financial Stability Center
50 Island Street
Lawrence, MA 01840
Program Description:
The Lawrence Financial Stability Center is a collaborative effort between Lawrence CommunityWorks (LCW) and the United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley that focuses on family economic advancement in Lawrence, MA. It provides a "bundled" services approach, offering resources and coaching to help individuals and families improve their financial stability. This includes areas like affordable housing, financial literacy, and workforce development.
Service Provider Website: www.lawrencecommunityworks.org
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Services Provided to: In-School Youth & Out-Of-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Financial literacy education
Lawrence Prospera - YouthBuild Lawrence - SISU Youth Program
Lawrence Prospera - YouthBuild Lawrence - SISU Youth Program
417 Canal Street
Lawrence, MA 01830
Program Description:
The SISU Center provides programming and services to at risk and proven risk young men and women. Youth works towards benchmarks identified in their Indiviudal Service Plans to move one step closer to a sustainable future for themselves and their families.
Service Provider Website: lawrenceprospera.org
Program Contact: Dan Holloran
Contact Email: Dhalloran@lawrenceyouth.com
Services Provided to: In-School Youth & Out-Of-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Tutoring, study skills training, instruction, and dropout prevention; Alternative secondary school services or dropout recovery services; Occupational skills training; Education offered concurrently with workforce preparation for a specific occupation; Comprehensive guidance and counseling; Post-secondary preparation and transition activities
MA Mentoring Partnership
MA Mentoring Partnership
75 Kneeland Street, 11th Floor
Boston, MA 02111
Program Description:
The Mass Mentoring Partnership (MMP) provides the critical link between national evidence-based research and local programs that promote the quality and quantity of mentoring relationships. As a force multiplier, MMP invests in the support young people need by providing the tools adults require in order to truly show up for youth in a caring and consistent way by bringing research to practice and theory to action.
MMP provides tools, research, training, and best practices needed to help increase the capacity and quality of mentoring programs and youth-serving organizations across the state.r themselves and their families.
Service Provider Website: Massmentors.org
Program Contact:
Contact Email: info@massmentors.org
Services Provided to: In-School Youth & Out-Of-School Youth
How are services provided: Hybrid
Program Service Elements:
Adult mentoring
Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship Program
Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship Program
63 Franklin Street, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02110
Program Description:
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship Program helps prepare the next generation of clean energy workers by funding internships for college students and recent graduates at Massachusetts clean energy and water innovation companies. As an intern, you'll gain valuable experience and have opportunities to network within the clean energy sector.
Service Provider Website: www.masscec.com
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Services Provided to: In-School Youth & Out-Of-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Paid and unpaid work experiences
MassHire Merrimack Valley Career Center
MassHire Merrimack Valley Career Center
420 Common Street, 2nd Floor
Lawrence, MA 01840
Program Description:
The MassHire Merrimack Valley Career Center is a one-stop career center providing a wide range of services to job seekers and businesses in the Merrimack Valley.
As a comprehensive career center, MMVCC offers a wide range of services and resources designed to help job seekers quickly and easily secure their first job, find a new job, or research new career paths.
MMVCC helps businesses identify and recruit qualified, skilled workers to enhance their workforce. Youth can also find a broad set of training programs designed to help them obtain skills in a variety of occupations.
Service Provider Website: masshiremvcc.com
Program Contact: Mariah Germosen
Contact Email: mgermosen@masshiremvcc.org
Services Provided to: In-School Youth & Out-Of-School Youth
How are services provided: Hybrid
Program Service Elements:
Paid and unpaid work experiences; Occupational skills training; Supportive services; Follow-up services; Comprehensive guidance and counseling; Services that provide labor market services training; Post-secondary preparation and transition activities
MassHire Merrimack Valley Workforce Board
MassHire Merrimack Valley Workforce Board
One Union Street, 2nd Floor
Lawrence, MA 01840
Program Description:
The MassHire Merrimack Valley Workforce Board is a regional board focused on workforce development in the Merrimack Valley area. The board is part of the larger MassHire system, a statewide network of workforce boards and career centers designed to connect job seekers and employers. It serves as the oversight and policy-making body for federally funded employment and training services, working to connect job seekers with employers and training opportunities to support economic growth. The board, comprised of business and community leaders, is responsible for designing strategies and programs tailored to the needs of the region's job seekers and businesses.
Policy and Oversight:
It acts as the governing body for federally funded employment and training services in the area, ensuring programs are aligned with regional needs and goals.
Employer and Job Seeker Services:
The board provides a range of services for both job seekers and employers. This includes job search assistance, career exploration, training programs, and recruitment services.
Youth Services:
They also offer specific programs and initiatives for youth in the Merrimack Valley to help them explore career options and prepared for future employment.
Service Provider Website: MassHireMVWB.org
Program Contact: Cristy C. Gomez
Contact Email: cgomez@masshiremvwb.org
Services Provided to: In-School Youth & Out-Of-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Paid and unpaid work experiences; Supportive services
Methuen Adult Learning Center Currier School - Adult Education
Methuen Adult Learning Center Currier School - Adult Education
36 Boylston Street
Methuen, MA 01844
Program Description:
The Methuen Adult Learning Center, part of the Methuen Public Schools, offers free educational programs to help adults achieve their personal, academic, and professional goals. They focus on developing essential skills for both academic and career success, including English language learning, high school equivalency preparation, job training, and college preparation.
Service Provider Website: malc.methuen.k12.ma.us
Program Contact: Susan Prior
Contact Email: snprior@methuen.k12.ma.us
Services Provided to: Out-Of-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Alternative secondary school services or dropout recovery services
Notre Dame Education Center
Notre Dame Education Center
354 Merrimack Street, Suite 210
Lawrence, MA 01843
Program Description:
Notre Dame Education Center-Lawrence (NDEC-L) is an inclusive community of learning where diverse, underserved adults enrich their lives through education and gain the tools necessary for enhanced professional opportunity and community engagement. NDEC-L provides English language and citizenship classes, skills training and leadership development – tuition free or low-cost – in a learning environment that is welcoming, respectful and dignified.
Service Provider Website: ndeclawrence.net
Program Contact: Alisa Povenmire
Contact Email: executivedirector@ndeclawrence.net
Services Provided to: Out-Of-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Alternative secondary school services or dropout recovery services; Occupational skills training
Top Notch Scholars
Top Notch Scholars
60 Island Street
Lawrence, MA 01840
Program Description:
Top Notch Scholars facilitates a 15-week leadership academy. Scholars develop the confidence and emotional independence to dare to dream. Together, students build a step-by-step pathway to get there, real-time. Scholars learn the skills and develop the determination to follow their life plan to its ultimate end to become productive, successful, fulfilled young professionals.
Entrepreneurial academy builds real-life business experience by engaging in real-time business pitching, sales, customer service, product placement, and marketing while learning personal and life skills. learn more.
Top Notch Scholars provides a unique twist to mentoring. Beyond the small talk of day-to-day happenings of a youth experience and frustrations – Top Notch uses a psychological approach to target the root of stemming issues that may cause anxiety and depression to break through life’s blockage. Top Notch Scholars then do what they do best and that is high-level intentional mentoring focusing on the scholars’ true short term and long term goals, providing accountability, and creating strategies to be completed.
Service Provider Website: Topnotchscholars.org
Program Contact: Joanna DePena
Contact Email: joanna@topnotchscholars.org
Services Provided to: In-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Leadership development opportunities; Financial literacy education; Entrepreneurial skills
Youth Development Organization
Youth Development Organization
15 Union Street, Suite 563
Lawrence, MA 01840
Program Description:
YDO actively recruits under-served, motivated students while aggressively seeking partnerships and developing programs that offer those students the very best educational experiences. With close personal relationships and a strong sense of community, YDO wraps student engagement in support measures that lower barriers to participation. This approach enables YDO to create intentional, personalized pathways for students to broaden their exposure and build upon their strengths en route to post-secondary education and career success.
Service Provider Website: ydolawrence.org
Program Contact: Mark Kampert
Contact Email: mkapert@ydolawrence.org
Services Provided to: In-School Youth
How are services provided: In-Person
Program Service Elements:
Paid and unpaid work experiences; Leadership development opportunities