Care for Community & Self
For free health, wellness and general life support services for Cambridge employees, you can reach out to this benefit...
What is Employee Assistance Program or (EAP)?
This Urban gardening Program is offering remote as well as in person programing from their Hurley Street Farm site in East Cambridge. Their Grow Your Own Groceries Project is blooming into a COVID family favorite...
What is City Sprouts?
This horizontally organized North Cambridge group gathers monthly to discuss to discuss and strategize against white supremacist structures and practices in the Peabody, Baldwin and Rindge Upper Campus schools
What is Courageous Conversations?
Michelle Godfrey is the contact person for this multi-service referral agency that is located in both North Cambridge and at 51 Inman Street in Central Square.
What is The Center for Families?
This Veteran will show up with Indian sweets, (bring on the gulab jamun!), while folding up an origami phone to do their senior outreach...
Who is Sikha Sen?
This US federally backed public service for working peoples has expanded to provide extra and new supports during the COVID 19 pandemic...
What is the Family Medical Leave Act or (FMLA)?
This program that serves over thirty youth in person from 8am to 6pm and operates a food pantry in named after a Transcendentalist and human rights activist...
What is the Margaret Fuller House?
This educators resource hub for Anti -Racism was formerly know as Teaching Tolerance...
What is Learning for Justice?
Our work has evolved in the last 30 years, from reducing prejudice to tackling systemic injustice. So we’ve chosen a new name that better reflects that evolution: Learning for Justice.
DHSP is a collection of Divisions and Departments that provides a myriad of programs, services, information and community events for the residents of Cambridge. D.H.S.P. stands for this...
What is the Department of Human Service Programs?
This Explorer of art and musicals will Gamify and host your classroom into such a comfortable space that all you can to do is sit back and enjoy the wine and cheese they brought while you learn...
Who is Nelhai MallebayVacqueur?
The City of Cambridge offers free COVID testing to employees through this department and its contractors...
What is Cambridge Public Health Alliance?
This community partner is an expert "In the three C's" of family support serving over 60 youth with all- day, in person learning and three meals a day
What is the Cambridge Community Center?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPvaTE6QuyA&feature=emb_title
In 2018 this "Tough Cookie" wrote a best seller challenging white people to examine their privilege and racial biases by engaging in self reflection and communal discussions with other white identifying people...
Who is Robin DiAngelo?
White Fragility Educators Guide http://beacon.org/assets/pdfs/DiAngelo-EducatorsProfDevGuide.pdf
This newly formed DHSP Initiative launched in 2020 and works closely with the Cambridge Public Schools Department, (CPSD) and is distributed in neighborhood "Hubs"...
What is Family Support Initiative o r FSI?
This Youth Worker can teach you how to up-cycle while bringing "THE ENERGY!" to the classroom. She can tell you the difference between Citrine and Carnelian as long as you don't steal her power with your low energy.
Who is Amanda Nahodil?
Breathing and walking meditation can reduce the levels of this hormone that blocks the release of helpful neurotransmitters like; norepinephrine, serotonin and dopamine...
What is cortisol? BOO!
This international Francophile franchise based in Somerville has "Jumped into partnership" with many Cambridge Youth Programs. They continue weekly in-person activities for youth throughout the pandemic...
What is Parkour Generations?
Children are able to identify and communicate racial differences as early as this age...
What is six months old?
Erin N. Winkler, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Children Are Not Colorblind: How Young Children Learn About Race
This very recent resource guide has been developed by the people in the meet and you are probably using it now to find the answer...Oh how meta
What is DHSP VIRTUAL/ONLINE RESOURCES?
https://sites.google.com/view/dhspvirtualonlineresources/home
They are going to bring awesome snacks fro you to enjoy while they are teaching you how to remain calm, cool and collected all while counting in Chinese to astound you...
Who is Melinda Maxwell?
Reflecting on and intentionally bringing to mind this concept can "Thankfully" increase your levels of happiness by upwards of 80%
What is Gratitude?
Since mid-March 2020, this "Exclusive Club" has adapted quickly and creatively to offer virtual programs and continue serving girls in grades K-12 to succeed in STEM and beyond.
What is Science Club For Girls?
This scholar and social justice advocate was recently appointed Director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, a term that he made a house hold word in his 2019 NYT Best Seller. The title and the Author is...
What is How to be and Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
This collective, cabal of community partners meets monthly to strategize how to better serve the families of sixth through eight grade students...
For zero extra points name some of their friendly staff.
What is Agenda For Children's Middle School Network?
Who are Dami, Medjine, Mali and Annie?
Lyrical mnemonics and are this Youth Worker's superpower. They will anchor your trivia team if the subject is New England 17th century murderous hysterical movements. If they had a flaw, and we aren't saying that they do, its that they "care too much"...
Who is Melissa, the Cookie Monster, Ross?