Youth & Young Adult

Programs

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

Annual Report 2010

Overview

257 program days710 youth

participants119 teen jobs60,000+ meals

served225,000+ kid hours

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’s140 youth served

vB-SAFE @

St. Stephen’s150 youth served

Lower RoxburyYear-Round Site29 Lenox Street

B-READY @ St. A&M45 youth served

vB-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&M29 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’s419 Shawmut

Avenue

Lower Roxbury

B-SAFE @ St. A&M

29 Lenox Street

Dorchester

B-SAFE @ St.

Mary’s14 Cushing

Avenue

Mattapan

B-SAFE @ Holy Spirit

525 River Street

Chelsea

B-SAFE @ St.

Luke’s/ San

Lucas201

Washington Avenue

Dorchester

B-SAFE @

Epiphany154 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’s419 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

Feel Safe

Feel Big

Feel Connected

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?