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THE CITY SCHOOL-BOSTON
Mission/Purpose: The City School is a center for civic education that develops leaders for long-term action on social issues. Programs/Activities: ■ The Summer Leadership Program offers a total experience of community and leadership development. Each year a group of high school students is recruited to spend their summer getting to know one another and going deep into the issues: Violence and Liberation Movements, Housing/Homelessness, Education, Immigration, and Economics. For seven weeks, students come together to serve the community and make a real contribution to society. ■ Youth Outreach Weekends are service retreats for high school students concerned with poverty and homelessness. Over a weekend, students serve three soup kitchens and shelters and engage in discussion and reflection activities. ■ The Prison Empowerment Project sponsors dialogue about crime and punishment among diverse groups of youth and adults outside and inside the walls of Massachusetts’s prisons. Project participants travel to area prisons for workshops and dialogue with inmates and discuss short readings and talk about the issues back in the classroom. ■ The Rose from Concrete Project provides leadership development, resource referral, education and job skills to court-involved young people in the Greater Boston area, providing young people with education and resources to actively work for social change. RfC is a weekly leadership group over a 10-week period that serves young men and women who are or have been involved with the criminal justice system (DYS, probation, etc.). Participants: High school students. Getting Involved: A brochure with an application form for the Summer Leadership Program is available online. For more information, call 617-822-3075 or visit www.thecityschool.org. Fees: Families of accepted Summer Leadership Program students will be asked to make a contribution toward the program costs, but no family will be turned away because of inability to pay.
Contact Information: 614 Columbia Rd.
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