Community Partnerships
National
- HOPE is an Affiliate of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national constituency-based Hispanic organization in the US.
- National Alliance of Hispanic Health
- National Minority AIDS Council
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Latino AIDS Commission and Southwestern Medical Center
New England Region
- New England Educational Opportunity Association (NEOA)
- New England Institute of Addiction Studies
State
- The Massachusetts Educational Opportunity Association (MEOA)
- The Latino After School Initiative (LASI)
- The Mauricio Gastón Institute
- Board of Higher Education: Office of Student Financial Assistance
- Mass Mentoring Partnership
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Massachusetts HIV Prevention Planning Group
- Oiste
- AdCare Educational Institute
- Massachusetts Board for Drug and Alcohol Counselor Certification
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA)
- Latino After School Initiative (LASI)
- Lawrence Public Schools, with services to the South Lawrence East Middle School and Lawrence High School
- Northern Essex Community College, where Lawrence High School GEAR UP students do dual enrollment.
Local
- Boston Public Schools
- Lawrence Public Schools
- Northern Essex Community College
- Cambridge College (Lawrence)
- Community Health Centers
- Boston Public Health Commission
- ABCD Summer Works
- Boston Private Industry Council
- Springfield Public Health Commission
- City of Boston
- City of Lawrence
- Latino Community Based Organizations (CBOs)
- Non-Latino CBOs
- Hospitals
- AIDS Service Organizations
- Timothy Smith Community Technology Centers and the Timothy Smith Network (TSN)
- Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
- Mary E. Curley Middle School’s Curley Consortium—a group of after school programs that serve youth who attend the Mary E. Curley Middle School.
- The Intercultural Center for Research in Education (INCRE)’s After School Exploration in Science (AXIS)—an engaging science discovery curriculum for upper elementary and middle school youth in urban after-school programs.
- Hands-On Optics: Making an Impact with Light (HOO)—an after-school curriculum for middle-school youth.
- The Family Service of Greater Boston sponsors a group called “Friendly PEERsuasions” for the female youth in HOPE For Youth after school program. This series of 10-week workshops uses a research-based and evaluated psycho-educational curriculum that builds skills and abilities for girls to challenge peer and media pressure, increase self-esteem, offer stress-management, prevent substance abuse and develop leadership skills.
- Reflect and Strengthen (R&S) is a group of young working class women from or living in Boston's urban neighborhoods creating and nurturing environments for positive social change through creative expression, political education and community building. HOPE For Youth participants attend R&S events.
- Boston GLASS Community Center strives to provide a safe physical, emotional, and intellectual environment that promotes the healthy development of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth (GLBTQ). The Boston GLASS adolescent peer leaders led an introductory workshop about questioning sexual identity during the HOPE for Youth after school program.
- The Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Boston Nature Center teen ambassadors attended on-site SAT workshops.
- Cooperative Artists Institute's (CAI) mission is to empower people to solve their individual and collective problems by applying the Arts as a catalyst for personal and institutional change. The CAI invited two of the HOPE For Youth girls to participate in a bi-weekly “Art Journal Workshop” for girls ages 14-18.
- Inquilinos Boriquas en Acción (IBA)
