Disabilities and Special Needs, Leadership and Mentoring

Supporting youth with special needs in afterschool/summer programming.

The Office of Student Services (OSS) includes a variety of services, supports and programs dedicated to ensuring equitable access and success for students with disabilities.

We offer a variety of services, supports and programs dedicated to ensuring equitable access and success for students who have a documented risk of regression during the summer months.

We have several support groups, meetings, and events happening virtually for parents and their children.

We promote Community, Housing, Access, and Independence for children and adults of all abilities, strengths, and needs.

We provide one-to-one mentoring to youth and adults with disabilities to reach their full potential.

Girls in our summer camps will have fun and build character through community service, exploration, workshops and adventures, including lessons in STEM, outdoors, life skills, entrepreneurship.

A fun, NO-COST camp to help kids develop sustainable activism and leadership skills!

JOYweavers celebrates children and families with great summer programming! We offer accessible, inclusive programming for children who benefit from a smaller setting.

We serve children and youth (ages 6-22) with disabilities by providing a super fun summer program full of outdoor activities, swimming, field trips, crafts, cooking, and more!

Join us for eight Saturdays focusing building a child's social and emotional skills including communication, cooperation, sharing, and taking turns. Transportation, lunch, and a snack included.

The CW Youth Taekwondo program provides classes to children 4 to 13, with a fun and challenging curriculum that emphasizes coordination, focus, self-confidence and respect year round.

We transforms the lives of children, adults with disabilities and their families through the power of one-to-one mentoring relationships.

We support students and 1:1 volunteer tutors/mentors with homework, academics, social-emotional learning and community advocacy.

We provide free, high-quality, and hands-on science activities and mentoring for children and teens typically one day a week at each location.

Learn to play the Steel Pan, basic music, and leadership development.

We empower women, girls, and nonbinary folks through a variety of gender-intentional programs and opportunities.

This is our traditional program where adult mentors are paired with children ages 7-12, and agree to see each other for 3 hours, a couple of times a month in the Little's community.

Riverside offers a structured, therapeutic after-school program for children from the Somerville and Cambridge area ages 6-12 that present with significant emotional and/or behavioral challenges.

We support children and their families through the early childhood communities that care for them such as early childhood teachers, directors, and family childcare providers.

New outpatient center in various locations including Cambridge and Somerville offering in-person and virtual support.

We are a recreational program that caters to individuals with special needs in the Cambridge area.

SHINE is a group run by MIT students that strives to instill confidence in female and nonbinary students through a combination of dance, creativity, and math mentorship.

We are one of two CHA acute care hospitals north of Boston.