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 Students gather supplies, prepare fresh meals or snack bags, write empowering notes, and participate in a youth friendly food justice conversation. They learn about hunger, compassion, and how their service is a direct act of advocacy and community care.

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 Students collect period products, assemble dignity centered hygiene kits, write uplifting messages, and learn about menstrual equity, stigma, and the importance of advocating for access and dignity. This project builds confidence, empathy, and social awareness. 

 Students identify a meaningful community need, design their own service project, gather materials, and complete their chosen project. They explore mutual aid, teamwork, leadership, and advocacy while learning how youth can create real community impact. 

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 Youth participate in sports based clinics while donating food items instead of paying fees. They learn about food insecurity, mutual aid, and how their actions support families in need. Students also learn about local resources such as community fridges, food pantries, and gardens.

 

 Youth work together to plan, cook, and package more than one hundred fresh meals every month for the unsheltered and families in need. They learn compassion, teamwork, and the power of serving their community through hands on action. 

 Youth explore and create diverse cultural recipes together, then share them with the community. Families are encouraged to follow along and cook these meals for neighbors in need. This program celebrates culture, builds community, and helps youth understand the shared role we all play in addressing hunger. 

Our Girls Programming empowers participants to know their value, speak their truth, and lead with confidence. Girls engage in equity and advocacy conversations, mental health and wellness activities, and R.A.D. self defense training that builds real world safety skills.  

Together, these experiences support strong minds, strong bodies, and strong voices. 

Participating in confidence building, identity and self expression activities
 

Learning basic self defense skills through R.A.D. (Rape Aggression Defense) training
 

Engaging in mental health and wellness workshops that build community, resilience, and emotional strength
 

Building confidence and connection through girls only workouts

Participating in public testimony at School Committee and City Hall hearings
 

Speaking at community forums on safety, equity, girls’ voices, and community needs
 

Attending local and regional trainings and conferences focused on girls, women, leadership, policy, and advocacy
 

Meeting with policymakers and community leaders to share lived experience and solutions

Using storytelling and public speaking to uplift issues impacting girls and families
 

Leading community-based service projects that uplift and support underserved communities

Creating and distributing menstrual hygiene equity kits to school aged girls
 

Engaging in youth led discussions on equity, belonging, and representation

 Teen Trauma Tuesdays is our youth led virtual mental health platform created in partnership with Worcester ACTs. 

This trauma informed series provides teens with supportive conversations, coping tools, and mindfulness practices that help them heal, grow, and build resilience.