Massachusetts Network of Foster Care Alumni
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Provides intensive, individualized life skills help to youth age 16-21 to help you prepare for living on your own as a young adult. DCF Outreach Workers help you with planning for school, jobs, money management, and personal decision-making. For more information send an email to: Youth.Support@mass.gov
We offer monthly child care trainings. All trainings are free to any member provider who belongs to our system, including CDA certificate training. We provide a full child care curriculum which is offered in a convenient weekly format, for providers who like to customize their curriculum. Our full curriculum is also free to all of our family child care providers. Also, we are introducing a new on-line pilot program of newly developed child care products in January which will be advantageous to all Bethel Child Care providers and it will be FREE.
Interactive resource for students and educators with guidance on paying for school, finding a school, exploring a career and making a plan for how to realize your goals.
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/find-colleges/college-101/types-of-colleges-the-basics
From birth through the many transitions of children's lives, Birth to Three will work with you to identify resources, match you with professionals and peers, and refer you to appropriate services. Free programs and open play times with age specific playgroups and the opportunities for social and emotional growth.
For parents –
•peer support and expert modeling
•workshops, guided conversations, training
Scholarship Opportunity for Casey Family Services foster. Between the ages of 16 and 49 and you're thinking about, starting, or currently attending college or university in pursuit of a certificate, associate's, bachelor's, or master's degree, or a professional degree including law or medicine but not a Ph.D. Up to $10,000 in total over the course of your education, to be utilized within 10 years of your application date funds may be used for tuition or other expenses directly related to educational pursuits for example, required books, student activity fees, registration fees, dormitory room and board, or living expenses while enrolled as a student.
This program is designed for young adults ages 16-22 who live with disabilities. The goal is to offer interns their first summer job, supplemented with job-readiness workshops and one-on-one Skills Training and Peer Counseling. The workshops that are offered cover areas such as resume writing, interviewing skills, work place etiquette, time & stress management, self-advocacy & disclosure as well as interpersonal communication.
College Parents of America provides members with the advantages of valuable benefits and advocacy that protect and maximize their family's college investment and the resources to support their student's achievement.
Boston-area students planning for higher education can come to a College Planning Center—located in Boston, Brockton, and Chelsea—for guidance on choosing a college, applying for financial aid and scholarships, managing money, and choosing a major or a career. We also offer college guidebooks, study aids, computer access, and info on HiSET (GED), ESL, and technical/vocational education opportunities. Find a college planning center near you.
http://www.asa.org/for-students/college-planning/#collegeplanninglocations
We serve people who are homeless, facing foreclosure or eviction people, or ready to purchase a home or launch a small business. Provides support and services for low-income people. Call for services and addresses.
978-459-0551
Hey Parents!
We have a lot of sites, lessons, games to help your child complete math problems, while having FUN!
The DCF Adopted Child Tuition Waiver and Fee Assistance Program is designed to lessen the financial burden on adopting parents in the Commonwealth. This waiver extends eligibility to all children and young adults, age twenty-four or under, adopted through DCF by state employees or eligible Massachusetts residents, regardless of the date of adoption. The tuition and fee waiver encompasses 100% of tuition and fees for state-supported courses, subject to budgetary appropriation, at all of the Massachusetts public institutions of higher education, excluding graduate courses and courses in the MD program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
To access the vocational program the young adult needs to be a client of the Department of Mental health Services. To access our Peer Mentoring Services the young adult need not be a client of DMH.
Fenway was one of the first in the nation to offer alternative insemination services to lesbians and today we continue to provide medical alternatives for achieving conception, as well as a support network, education, and advocacy.
http://fenwayhealth.org/care/wellness-resources/lgbt-family-services/
We also provide academic coaches and personal mentors, enabling them to enjoy a college completion rate many times that of their peers who lack such support.
The Foster Child Grant Program was funded by the Massachusetts Legislature in 2001. It provides grants of up to $6000 annually for foster children to help pay for an education beyond high school at any college or university throughout the continental United States. The grant recipient must have signed an agreement with the Department of Children and Families for care and services beyond age 18.
GEAR UP is a federally-funded program designed to give more low-income students the skills, encouragement, and preparation needed to pursue post-secondary education and to strengthen academic programs and student services at participating schools.
OSFA offers a scholarship for students who participated in a component of the GEAR UP Massachusetts Early Intervention initiative and are pursuing higher education.
GWL creates the building blocks of a healthy community, and empowers Lawrence residents to improve their quality of life. GWL achieves results by engaging the whole community – residents, youth, nonprofits, city government and businesses – in the planning and realization of its projects
HEATH Resource Center is a web-based clearinghouse that serves as an information exchange of educational resources, support services and opportunities. The HEATH Resource Center gathers, develops and disseminates information in the form of resource papers, fact sheets, website directories, newsletters, and resource materials.
HEATH Resource Center is a collaborative effort among a network of professionals in the areas of disability, counseling, transition and postsecondary education.
In addition to undergraduate scholarship support, the Association offers a number of services and opportunities to Horatio Alger Scholars:
https://scholars.horatioalger.org/scholarships/about-our-scholarship-programs/
At IXL Learning, we are passionate about creating and supporting the best educational technology possible. We develop first-of-their-kind products used by millions of learners, from children to adults. This is a online resource for supporting parents in helping their children from K through 12 with their educational curriculum.