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Thank
You! 
Many thanks to our wonderful supporters, inspiring City School youth,
terrific "Big Picture" awardees, talented staff and dedicated
Board of Directors. We all made the 10th Annual Opening the
Door Dinner an evening to inspire and remember.
Pictures
soon to come!
Donate
Now for post-dinner donations, sponsorships or ticket payments.

Click
here to read about Awardees, Honorary
Chairs and more.
Contact
Jeb Barnes at jeb@thecityschool.org
or 617.822.3075 x14 for more information.
Summer
Leadership Program 2009!
A
Parent
Orientation Session
will be held on Thursday, June 25 from 6-8pm, for all parents/guardians
of teens accepted into the Summer Leadership Program.
For
teens, the summer program is now full and the application process
is closed. If you are a teen or parent with questions, contact Justice
Williams at 617-822-3075 x21 or justice@thecityschool.org
Social
Justice for Adults
Our Social Justice Education workshop in Feburary
was a great success, giving teachers, administrators and youth workers
the tools to fold social justice into their everyday work with young
people. Contact Justice
Williams if you'd like a Social Justice Education workshop at
your school, college, or workplace.
After-School
& Weekend Youth Programs
We end our 08-09 school-year programs soon, but if your school or
group would like a Youth Outreach Weekends or Prison
Empowerment Project, take a look at the
Programs andcontact Stan
Dominique for more information.
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! Check
it out here.
Congrats,
Royal Nunes!
City
School youth leader Royal Nunes was featured in
The Boston Herald on May 5, 2008 for
"Standing up against Violence". And he received the Special
Recognition Award for Activism at the 2008 Massachusetts Victims
Rights Awards. 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 and did some great work to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Details
here.
Annual
Report, 2007
In 2007,
796 teens came to The City School to learn about leadership and
make a concrete difference 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
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