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Strong
Youth Leadership!

Join
Our 3-Day Social Justice Workshop, August 21-23, 2008!
Take
social justice education to the next level with the young people
you work with! Click
here for details on this transformative 3-day workshop at the
Schrafft Center in Boston, August 21-23. Use our
online form to apply. Make
your payment here. Questions? Contact Alison
Gross.
Summer
Program Ends... Youth Leadership Continues!
Fifty-five emerging teen leaders capped six weeks of leadership
training and social justice action. All summer they worked on immigration,
poverty, homelessness, health and violence -- and completed Community
Action Projects throughout the city. Pictures and more details coming
soon! Contact Justice
Williams to inquire about SLP 2009!
Seeking
an Executive Director
The
City School seeks a dynamic individual to embrace our learning environment,
realize
the organization's potential to grow and strengthen
our community of young people who develop insight and skills to
be leaders for social justice. Deadline to apply is July 7, 2008.
Details here. Questions?
Email Nancy Jackson
Job
Opening: Youth Staff Coordinator
The
City School seeks a motivated, skilled and energetic individual
to work with our teen leaders as Youth Staff Coordinator.
Deadline to apply is Friday, August 15, 2008. Click
here for a job description and application details. Contact
Justice Williams
for more information.
We're
on YouTube!
Check
out The City School on YouTube! Thanks to a generous grant from Adobe,
City School youth leaders participated in the Adobe Youth Voices project
and put their digital video-making skills into action!
Goodbye,
Miriam!
We said a fond farewell to Miriam Messinger, former Executive Director
of The City School, in March 2008. The staff, Board and youth want
to express their deep appreciation for all she gave to The City
School. Read more.
Congrats,
Royal Nunes!
City
School youth leader Royal Nunes was featured as
a Herald Hearo in The Boston Herald on
May 5, 2008 for "Standing up against violence". In April
ee also received the Special Recognition Award for Activism
at the 2008 Massachusetts Victims Rights Awards, and was featured
in the Boston Banner soon afterward. Read
more or check out the Boston
Herald article.
New
Orleans, 2008
Organized
by City School grad Shane Bass, eight
youth and three adult staff travelled to New Orleans for a third
year, to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina. Details
here.
Opening
the Door... Thank You!
Over
300 friends helped us raise over $100,000 from our 9th Annual
Opening the Door Dinner, making it one of our best events ever.
Photos
and more...
Annual
Report, 2007
Last
year, 796 teens came to The City School to learn how to lead, and
to make a concrete impact with their leadership skills. Read about
how they changed themselves and the world around them.
2007 Annual Report
Five-Year
Strategic Plan
(pdf)

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The City School is a vibrant
and unique youth organization in Boston that brings together teenagers
from
Boston's diverse neighborhoods and outlying communities in programs
that combine creative education and critical thinking
about social justice issues with hands-on leadership, learning,
reflection and action.
Our
goal is simple yet powerful: to transform lives and communities
by helping young people embrace difference, tackle issues head-on,
reflect, act and give back. Our model of youth work demonstrates
how we educates ourselves and others to make meaningful change in
the world around us. And it works.

Each year nearly 800 young
people come from the city and outlying communities for leadership
development and social justice education in our summer,
weekend and afterschool programs. Teens
build relationships across race, class, gender and geography; create
caring, learning communities committed to making a meaningful difference;
and use what they learn to carry out action for social change in
their neighborhoods and communities.
Our Programs In Brief...
The
Summer
Leadership Program is where teens
learn that individually and collectively, they are powerful agents
of social change. Sixty diverse teens unite to bridge social barriers
and empower themselves with hands-on leadership training, classroom
learning, internships at local nonprofits, and social action projects
they implement throughout the city.
Youth
Outreach Weekends
engage teens
in the realities of homelessness and poverty. City School youth
leaders guide the way with challenging discussions, learning games,
workshops to uncover root causes and undo sterotypes, and community
service at nearby shelters and soup kitchens.
The Prison
Empowment Project
connects people inside and outside of Massachusetts'
prisons. Youth and adult participants travel to prisons to dialogue
with volunteer inmates about the circumstances, behaviors and choices
that have caused them to be behind bars. (Taught in collaboration
with Boston Police Dept. Community Disorders Unit.)
The Social
Justice Education Institute
uses The City School's pedagogy and youth-adult
model to assist teachers, youth workers, administrators, civic leaders
and others in developing curricula and programming with a strong
social-justice-based focus. The goal is to transform our practices
and engage young people to help support youth agency, voice and
leadership. (Educators can receive Professional Development Points
through the BPS Center for Leadership Development.)
The
Grads' Program
promotes youth leadership, youth power and youth action for teens
who've been through any City School program. It strengthens their
leadership skills and knowledge, provides a proactive place for
networking, and engages in youth-adult collaboration on advocacy,
service work, retreats, the Youth Summit and more.
Rose
from Concrete
uncovers the leadership potential in youth who are court-involved,
through workshops, leadership training and learning groups at several
DYS community re-entry sites.
Contact
Us:
The City School
614 Columbia Rd.
Dorchester, MA 02125
(617) 822-3075
fax (617) 822-3073
Directions
by Google
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