Public Benefits and Community Assistance

Riverside Early Head Start is a comprehensive early childhood program that partners with parents to promote children’s healthy development.

Our partnership fosters positive development, mental health, safe schools and communities, and limiting juvenile justice involvement through prevention, intervention and diversion services for youth.

We investigate domestic related assaults and abuse incidents and provide an advocate to help survivors obtain community services and develop safety plans.

This is a new, city-funded temporary emergency homeless shelter at the Spaulding Hospital will host 58 beds and serve as an adult homeless shelter for guests who test negative for COVID-19.

In addition to shelter, we offer case management, workshops and trainings, supplemental resources, seasonal support, and more to 126 families in shelter.

We are a daytime, drop-in shelter for unhoused women, trans, and non-binary people where they can find the relationships, safety and resources they need to move out of homelessness.

We provide several support services for senior citizens in Cambridge each year including regular outreach meetings, education on common scams or general safety, and our Secret Santa for Seniors event.

We help aging individuals and their families navigate life transitions and changing circumstances through a variety of support services.

This is our traditional program where adult mentors are paired with children ages 7-12. Bigs agree to meet Littles for 3 hours, a couple of times a month.

The CLC offers six levels of English conversation, grammar, reading, and writing classes for Cambridge residents. There are daytime and evening classes. We do not offer online-only classes.

Council on Aging offers a wide range of social services and is committed to meeting the needs of seniors.

We provide shelter, transitional & permanent housing + support services to extremely low-income homeless/formerly homeless adult individuals & families with children in Cambridge & Greater Boston.

We provide language and interpretation classes, youth programs, multicultural community events, and other supports for immigrant families, regardless of status.

A free program that can help Social Security beneficiaries go to work, get a good job that may lead to a career, and become financially independent.

We provide services related to substance use, harm reduction, education and mental health support.

We are a student-run civil legal aid organization committed to providing free representation to low-income and marginalized communities in the Greater Boston area.

Our teen support text line connects young people up to age 24 with a peer they can talk to when they feel lonely, depressed, overwhelmed, or suicidal.

The Consumer Councils' goal is to mediate a resolution that is acceptable to both parties however, the process is voluntary and not all businesses choose to participate, although many do.

MPF is recruiting Fellows to serve youth in grades 6-12 in schools, city agencies, and nonprofits across the state! Apply today!

The Cambridge Doula is a home visiting program available to all expecting parents who are Cambridge Health Alliance patients.

Cambridge Dads was created to increase fatherhood engagement in programming. The program strives to ensure dads are engaged, informed, and feel supported in their role as parents.

Our programs serve to improve awareness of the importance of oral health to overall health by providing oral health education, dental screenings, and assistance with access to care.

The Cambridge Employment Program provides career counseling and job search support to residents with all levels of experience.

We provide 24/7 mobile crisis services and help people who need access to timely, high quality mental health and substance use services.

This unit investigates sexual crimes and provides support and social services to survivors of sexual crimes.

We host many events through out the year in collaboration with community partnerships.

We can provide a home visitor who can visit your home for one-hour every week to explore books, educational materials, and play-based learning with your child.