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Fieldstone Apartments Computer Learning Center

Location

907 Blue Hill Avenue

Dorchester, MA, 02124

United States

42° 17' 36.0924" N, 71° 5' 18.7332" W

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Mailing Address (if different than physical location):

Fieldstone Apartments

907 Blue Hill Avenue

Dorchester, MA 02124

Phone:

1 617-265-0229

Fax:

1 617-265-1340

Email:

fieldstone@peabodyproperties.com

Mission:

Key Partners:

How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures:

Charge for services:

free, open to non-residents

Key Programs Offered:

Services that the center offers:

Adult Basic Education

After school programs

Computer Training

Open to Non-Residents

No Fee to Use Services

Target Populations:

Youth (Ages 5-17)

Young Adults (Ages18-22)

Adults (Ages 23-64)

Number of Workstations for Public Use:

6-10

Type of facility in which this program/organization located:

Housing

Haitian Health Institute (Boston Medical Center)

Location

771 Albany Street Dowling 4, Room 4416

Boston, MA, 02118

United States

42° 20' 2.832" N, 71° 4' 21.6768" W

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Phone:

617.414.7702

Fax:

617.414 3810

Email:

hhi@bmc.org

Website:

http://www.bmc.org/haitianhealth.htm

Mission:

HHI's mission is to research unmet needs, identify gaps in services and evaluate existing programs for efficiency of service. HHI also links the Haitian Diaspora to public health initiatives and health care resources through translation. Regular activities include research, evaluating existing programs, networking with other organizations, community organizing, and rapid response to community health crises.

Executive Director/CEO/President/Coordinator/Other:

Michele David, MD, MBA, MPH, FACP and Co-Director, Haitian Health Institute;

Key Partners:

Haitian Multi Service Center (HMSC), Haitian American Public Health Initiatives (HAPHI), The Center for Community Health, Education and Research (CCHER)

Key Programs Offered:

HHI's priority is the development of a common plan through which to improve health care and education in the Haitian community. To do so, we network between health, school, neighborhood, social service, faith-based groups and cultural agencies.

HHI physicians also investigate barriers to health care and the means of removing those barriers by collaborating with like-minded cultural institutions or state initiatives.

HHI has spent the past year researching and assessing the needs of the Haitian community members who access care through BMC and the associated Health Net. The affiliated Neighborhood Health Care (Health Net) centers at Codman Square, Mattapan, Harvard Street, Whittier Street and Upham's Corner often refer Haitian American children and adults to BMC for care that is not available at the clinic locations. Although this extensive network of resources and providers offers an unparalleled opportunity to develop a hub through which to link services and information to Haitian patients using BMC or the neighborhood health care centers, the task of providing culturally and linguistically competent services continues to fall upon a few Haitian health care providers.

The Haitian Health Institute continues to work to meet the health needs of the Haitian community including the organizational and networking requirements of the Haitian community agencies.

Type of facility in which this program/organization located:

Boston Medical Center - Hospital

Last Updated:

04/29/2011

Wyoma Dance

Mailing Address (if different than physical location):

502 Ashmont St, #3
Dorchester, MA 02122

Phone:

(617)0822-0528

Email:

wyoma@wyomadance.com

Website:

http://www.wyomadance.com

Mission:

Wyoma is a performer and facilitator of African and healing dance, as well as a body/mind consultant. For over twenty-three years she has taught and conducted workshops in a wide range of contexts throughout the United States. She has also worked in Africa and New Zealand. Central to her approach is the transformative and organic nature of African Dance, and the recognition of our body's own inherent wisdom. Wyoma honors dance as a healing and spiritual endeavor, and has become a creative force for transformation among her students, audiences, and associate performers.

How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures:

To book workshops, residencies or performances please phone (617)822-0528 or email wyoma@wyomadance.com.

Key Programs Offered:

African Healing Dance Video
In 1997 Wyoma, created and danced the lead role in the African Healing Dance video, produced by SoundsTrue, Inc. The instructional program of six traditional African and Caribbean dances performed by Wyoma and her dance group Damballa uses Wyoma's unique teaching style to provide audiences with a high energy and user-friendly dance class at home. As facilitator of African Healing Dance ("spirit movement"), Wyoma provides a non-judgmental atmosphere in which we can explore our own natural rhythms and our relationship with ourselves, each other, the animals, and elements. Wyoma helps people gain the confidence and ability to connect with their own rhythm and movement. This organic movement is healing and transforming to the spirit and the body.

Facilitator and Teacher
As a teacher of traditional African Dance, Wyoma incorporates into her classes an understanding and value of culture deeply rooted in community. She encourages students to respect each other, listen, be aware of space, and pay attention to breathing. Students are connected to the culture through dances, drumming, and songs that relate the rich African history. Wyoma's repertoire includes dances from Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Congo/Zaire, South Africa and other Sub-Saharan countries as well as Haiti and Brazil. Her classes include opportunities for students to experience their own natural movement, spirit, and sense of humor through improvisation.

Wyoma facilitates Kwanzaa workshops and celebrations intended for children as well as teaches African based movement for workout classes at spas and retreat centers.

Body Mind Consultant
Wyoma has over thirty years of experience as a massage therapist. Additionally, she has been practicing Yoga since the age of 18, receiving her teacherís training in Yoga in 1978 from the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in Montreal, Canada. She provides private consulting for physical, mental, and emotional health. Wyoma works to inspire creative problem-solving, increase body awareness, improve muscle tone and flexibility, rejuvenate, empower, and heal individuals.

Wyoma has worked with educators, students, individuals, and groups, utilizing dance therapy/healing dance, stress management techniques, intuitive healing massage, guided imagery, meditation and yoga.

Dance Project Manager
Wyoma initiated and managed the Ford Foundation funded Tudhaneni Dance Project in Namibia, Africa in 1998-1999, and consulted for the project in 2000.

The Tudhaneni Dance Project, located in Ongwediva in northern Namibia focuses on "building the future from the past" by fostering the interest and awareness of young people in the importance of dance as a medium for cultural expression in post apartheid Namibia. Working with dance groups at the local teachers' college, youth centre, schools throughout the region, and in rural villages, Tudhaneni aims at revitalizing traditional dance among young people by bringing elders and young people together to share their skills.

Consulting and Advising in the Arts

EARTH WALK NATURE LEARNING CENTER
Advisory Committee Member
Moab, Utah | 1998-present

Emphasis on the arts for private non-profit youth development program based in Moab, Utah (summer camp) and Denver, Colorado (school year-service learning component). Program focuses on leadership skills, cultural exchange, environmental awareness and community responsibility for inner city "at risk" population.

Last Updated:

04/19/2011

Dorchester Ducks

Mailing Address (if different than physical location):

Dorchester Ducks Semi Pro Football Team
12 Eastman Street
Dorchester, MA 02125

Phone:

857-318-9690/617-419-6997

Email:

Wshivers@gmail.com

Website:

http://www.dorchesterducks.yolasite.com/

Mission:

The goal of the Dorchester Ducks is to bring a Football championship to the City of Boston (Dorchester). Outside of Football, we aspire to be a organization that helps those in need. Whether it is visiting schools, volunteering at shelters or elderly service centers. We hope that through our efforts the men who grow and bond with us will be examples for the generations that will proceed us. Football is our passion, but enriching the lives of the youth that look up to us is our long term goal.

Executive Director/CEO/President/Coordinator/Other:

William James Shivers Jr.

Key Partners:

Dorchester Daisies (Cheerleaders)

How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures:

Contact William Shivers at 617-419-6997 for appearances and community service support. Through each other we can accomplish anything.

PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly)

Website:

http://www.medicare.gov/nursing/alternatives/pace.asp

Mission:

PACE, an alternative to traditional nursing home care, is an optional benefit under both Medicare and Medicaid that focuses entirely on older people, who are frail enough to meet their State's standards for nursing home care. It features comprehensive medical and social services that can be provided at an adult day health center, home, and/or inpatient facilities. For most patients, the comprehensive service package permits them to continue living at home while receiving services, rather than be institutionalized. A team of doctors, nurses and other health professionals assess participant needs, develop care plans, and deliver all services which are integrated into a complete health care plan. PACE is available only in States which have chosen to offer PACE under Medicaid.

Key Partners:

Harbor Health Elder Service Plan
1135 Morton Street
Mattapan, MA 02126
Tel: (617) 533-2400

Upham's Elder Service Plan (UESP) / PACE
Dudley Square 36 Dearborn Street MA 02119
Tel: (617) 288-0970

Savin Hill 1140 Dorchester Ave. MA 02125
Tel: (617) 288-0970

How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures:

Eligible individuals who wish to participate must voluntarily enroll. PACE enrollees also must:

Be at least 55 years of age.

Live in the PACE service area. In Dorchester/Roxbury: Upham's Corner Health Center runs the Upham's Elder Service Plan (UESP/PACE) in Dudley Square & Savin Hill. Harbor Health also runs an Elder Service Plan in Lower Mills.

Be screened by a team of doctors, nurses, and other health professionals as meeting that state's nursing facility level of care.

At the time of enrollment, be able to safely live in a community setting.

Charge for services:

PACE receives a fixed monthly payment per enrollee from Medicare and Medicaid. The amounts are the same during the contract year, regardless of the services an enrollee may need. Persons enrolled in PACE also may have to pay a monthly premium, depending on their eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid.

Key Programs Offered:

Delivering all needed medical and supportive services, the program is able to provide the entire continuum of care and services to seniors with chronic care needs while maintaining their independence in their homes for as long as possible. Care and services include:

Adult day care that offers nursing; physical, occupational and recreational therapies; meals; nutritional counseling; social work and personal care

Medical care provided by a PACE physician familiar with the history, needs and preferences of each participant

Home health care and personal care

All necessary prescription drugs

Social services

Medical specialists such as audiology, dentistry, optometry, podiatry, and speech therapy

Respite care

Hospital and nursing home care when necessary

Transportation provided:

Yes

Last Updated:

02/08/2011

Haitian Christian Television Network

Phone:

617.549.3200

Email:

Info@haitianchristiantv.net

Website:

www.haitianchristiantelevision.com

Mission:

Live and direct anywhere,anytime Worship service, Concert Revival Conference etc

Last Updated:

01/24/2011

Standish Village

Location

1190 Adams St. 617-298-5656

Dorchester, MA, 02124

United States

42° 16' 18.8436" N, 71° 3' 59.1948" W

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Email:

Jean Patel Bushnell , Executive Director)

Website:

http://seniorlivingresidences.com/communities-standish-village

Mission:

Featuring 85 apartments, Standish Village offers both independent and assisted living apartments. The community also offers a specialized memory loss and Alzheimer's residential area. Social, cultural and wellness programs are provided as well as housekeeping services, dining, medication distribution and personal care.

The facility offers numerous community rooms (living room with fireplace, library, two dining rooms with wait staff, a large community room for activities and events, beauty/barber shop, a brick courtyard with benches and gardens and a roof deck. There are laundry facilities on each floor level.

Studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments are available with an assortment of floor plans. Each apartment has a kitchenette with refrigerator and microwave, full bath with walk-in shower, cable, telephone and internet outlets and window treatments and carpets included.

Also (or Previously) Known As...:

Standish Village at Lower Mills

Last Updated:

11/10/2010

Camp Shriver at UMass Boston

Location

United States

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Mailing Address (if different than physical location):

617-287-7250 | csde@umb.edu

Phone:

617-287-7276 (Karen Friedman)

Email:

karen.friedman@umb.edu

Website:

http://www.csde.umb.edu/shriver.html

Mission:

Camp Shriver is an inclusive summer program for children with and without intellectual disabilities. The goals of the camp are:

To provide sports; and other recreational and enrichment activities for all participants.

To use sports as a vehicle for improving not only campers’ sports skills and overall motor development, but also their self-esteem, social skills, and confidence in building relationships with peers.

To create an atmosphere of understanding, learning, and sharing so that campers from diverse backgrounds with and without disabilities can engage in positive peer relationships and develop new friendships.

Executive Director/CEO/President/Coordinator/Other:

Mark Spolidoro, Camp Director

Key Partners:

UMass Boston,

How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures:

The Camp Shriver Learning Lab enables UMass Boston students to participate in this unique summer program. About 12 undergraduate interns will be selected to participate in the summer learning lab, through the Center for Social Development and Education and the Psychology Department. This internship program is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience working with children with and without disabilities and to learn more about child development and developmental disabilities from psychological, sociological, educational, and recreational perspectives. The internship program includes (1) hands-on fieldwork with campers as Assistant Counselors and Assistant Coaches and (2) an advanced psychology seminar on child development and disabilities.

Boston Teens in Print

Phone:

WriteBoston 617-541-2651

Email:

Send submissions or staff applications to: ric.kahn.jcs@cityofboston.gov

Website:

http://bostontip.com/ (defunct 11-03-10: has it been restored?); http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/writeboston/wp_tip.html

Mission:

Teens in Print provides a forum for teens to publish their own creative work, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and journalistic articles. T.i.P. has helped scores of Boston teens find their voice through the written word.

More about T.i.P:
Today, T.i.P. is published four times during the academic year. Since its launch, more than 200 teens have been published in the paper. With each successive issue, staffers have improved their journalism skills and gained confidence in their ability to communicate with their peers. Each issue also features the strong, vibrant art and photography of Artists for Humanity students. They continue to build their photojournalism skills, further strengthening T.i.P.’s commitment to quality.

A total of 443 articles and poems have been published in T.i.P.'s 11 editions.
25 Boston public high schools have contributed to Teens In Print.
336 students have been published since the first issue in May 2004.
240 students outside of T.i.P. have submitted writing since May 2004.
30 Boston high school students attend T.i.P. meetings every Tuesday at the Boston Globe.
21 affiliated organizations have contributed to T.i.P. production.
T.i.P. has had 96 total staff writers.
30 students registered from 8 different schools for the Summer Journalism Institute in 2007.
T.i.P.'s total single copy distribution is 830,000.

Key Partners:

Boston Globe Foundation, Boston Public Schools, Write Boston.

The T.i.P. newspaper has aligned with other programs focused on developing writing skills among Boston public school students.

WriteBoston Summer Journalism Institute
This four-week summer program offers young people a fun way to improve writing, build journalism skills, and explore exciting places in Boston. Open to freshmen and sophomores, the Institute is sponsored by WriteBoston in collaboration with the Boston Globe Foundation and Northeastern University.

Students learn basic interviewing, fact checking, and news writing skills from professional journalists, then put those skills to the test during field trips across the city. At the end of four weeks, participants turn in timely, interesting, and polished articles for placement in the fall issue of T.i.P.

Media Matters Writing Conference for Teachers and Teens
Media Matters was developed by the Boston Globe Foundation, in collaboration with UMass Boston and WriteBoston, to help expand on T.i.P.’s work and to showcase the Globe’s commitment to providing resources for teachers and inspiring future writers. The inaugural 2005 Conference attracted 450 budding writers and 125 of their teachers from across the Northeast. They gathered at the new UMass Campus Center for a full day of workshops, seminars, interactive icebreakers, and speakers from the worlds of business, academia, media, and the non-profit sector.

The Conference was supported by a number of Boston Globe Foundation Flagship Partners, including WriteBoston, Teen Empowerment, Teen Voices, and Project: Think Different. Post-conference questionnaires confirm that Media Matters was a hit. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being “great,” the average rating of the overall conference by the student attendees was 7.1.

Caroline Knapp Journalism Internship
The Caroline Knapp Journalism Internship Program provides four Boston public high school students summer employment at area newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and selected weekly papers. Administered by WriteBoston and funded by the Arnold Hiatt Foundation and the Knapp family, the program was developed to honor the late Boston journalist and author Caroline Knapp.

For eight weeks, interns become valuable members of local newsrooms. One recent Knapp intern, T.i.P. staff writer Samantha Mbawuiki, had several of her articles published, including a byline op-ed piece. Interns also develop their journalism skills through mentoring with colleagues.

BostonTIP.com
With the success of the print version of T.i.P., the Globe Foundation and WriteBoston have turned their attention to the Web. Partnering with the Globe’s acclaimed Boston.com site, they have designed a T.i.P Web site, www.bostonTIP.com. The goals are to help recruit writers and readers for T.i.P., to elicit reader feedback, and to become a resource for teachers, students and parents.

How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures:

Submission Policy:
Any teen attending a public high school in Boston can submit essays, memoirs, poetry, photographs, lyrics, stories, sketches, cartoons, commentaries, articles, and letters.

Send submissions as MS Word attachments and also in body of the e-mail message. Provide your name, age, grade, and school. You must be a BPS student.

FORMAT your writing: - Double spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point font. - In the upper left corner, print your name, contributing writer, and a title or headline.

Whatever you submit has to be YOUR OWN CREATION. We only print original work. Please write “this is my own creation” next to your name. You will not get your work back; keep a copy for yourself. T.i.P. reserves the right to EDIT your work for length, content, or appropriateness.

Want to join the staff of Teens in Print?
Please download the necessary paperwork:

TiP Staff Application
TiP Staff Teacher Recommendation

E-MAIL submissions or staff applications to:
ric.kahn.jcs@cityofboston.gov

or MAIL them to:

Boston Teens in Print
C/O WriteBoston
7 Palmer Street
Roxbury, MA 02119

Last Updated:

11/03/2010

Center for Young Women's Health (CYWH)

Location

333 Longwood Avenue, 5th floor

Boston, MA, 02115

United States

42° 20' 16.9224" N, 71° 5' 34.296" W

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Phone:

617-355-2994

Email:

http://youngwomenshealth.org/contact_form.html

Website:

http://youngwomenshealth.org/contact.html

Mission:

The mission of our website, youngwomenshealth.org, is to help teen girls, their parents, teachers, and health care providers improve their understanding of normal health and development, as well as of specific diseases and conditions. We want to empower teen girls and young women around the world to take an active role in their own health care. We invite you to explore our website to find health resources for teens, parents, and healthcare professionals, and to learn more about our special youth programs, medical services, and research projects.

Executive Director/CEO/President/Coordinator/Other:

Dr. S. Jean Emans, Chief of Adolescent Medicine, Dr. Marc R. Laufer, Chief of Gynecology, and Phaedra Thomas, RN, BSN.

Key Partners:

The Center for Young Women’s Health (CYWH) is a collaboration between the Division of Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine and the Division of Gynecology at Children’s Hospital Boston.

Key Programs Offered:

Carefully researched health information at youngwomenshealth.org

Special health education programs & conferences by and for teens at the Center for Young Women's Health

Links to information about the expert medical care available at Children's Hospital Boston

The Center was founded in 1998 by Dr. S. Jean Emans, Chief of Adolescent Medicine, Dr. Marc R. Laufer, Chief of Gynecology, and Phaedra Thomas, RN, BSN. This core trio saw an urgent need for education, clinical care, research, and health care advocacy for teen girls and young women. When the CYWH was founded, it was the first of its kind in the world, bringing together the highest quality health services and health information for our teen patients.

Drs. Emans and Laufer, the CYWH’s Co-Directors, have both earned national and international recognition for their expertise, commitment, and accomplishments in the area of young women's health. Phaedra Thomas, the CYWH’s Coordinator, is a nurse with extensive experience in young women's health and program development. She has developed many of our online health guides and curricula. Our resident designer, Amanda Kohn, is devoted to imparting essential health information to our readers, through clear, accurate, and beautiful design. Our web developer Dana King builds new features for CYWH's website. She is experienced in building informational websites, and believes that educational materials should be easy to find on the web so that we can spend our time reading, interacting, and learning together. Our youth advisors, Erica, Kayla, and Kerrin are dedicated to bringing accessible health information to teens in our community.

The Center for Young Women's Health was initially funded by a grant from the Children's Hospital League, an organization of more than five hundred volunteers who serve as ambassadors and fundraisers for the world-reknowned Children's Hospital Boston. Currently the CYWH is able to continue its day-to-day operations, including maintaining youngwomenshealth.org, through the generosity of the League and our ongoing supporters.