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MOC Community Partnerships for Children ARCPC helps working parents and guardians with childcare costs at participating area centers and family childcare homes through sliding fee scholarships. ARCPC also provides a resource room, lending library, free workshops and a parent support group. ARCPC serves income eligible, working parents in Athol and Royalston with children from age two years and nine months to five years old.
Athol Head
Start Head Start is a preschool program administrated by Montachusett Opportunity Council Child Care and Head Start Services. Head Start programs strive to foster self esteem and social competence in preschool children and to support and encourage the parents’ role as their child’s primary caregivers.
Child Care
Outlook 3 Locations
Child Care Outlook, a program of Community Action, is the Child Care Resource and Referral Agency serving Hampshire, Franklin Counties and the North Quabbin Area.
Community /
Environmental Programming Capacity building for Schools, Community & Stewardship. Area served: North Quabbin/Millers River Watershed.
Areas served include: Athol, Orange, Royalston, Petersham, Phillipston and East to Groton, Ayer, Pepperell and Harvard.
Greenfield Community
College Greenfield Community College provides low cost, high quality open admission community college that is working to transform our region into a knowledge based economy and is preparing our students to live and work in the emerging global society.
HOPE for
Women HOPE for Women is a flexible program of education and support for income-eligible women. This is an individually tailored program of computer education, job-skills training and personal support for women who wish to learn new skills in order to enter the workforce, to get better jobs, or to improve the quality of life for themselves and their families. We invite you to visit and experience the welcoming environment at HOPE, which is open daily, Mon. – Fri. from 8:30 – 4:30 p.m. Come in and speak with a staff member about computer training and HOPE’s other programs for women and children.
Institute for Non
Profit Development
The Institute for Non-Profit Development (INPD) at Mount Wachusett Community College supports not-for-profit organizations in North Central Massachusetts to strengthen their capacity to fulfill their missions and impact their community. Membership for the INPD is free. Services include:
The Online Resource Center allows you to:
The Institute for Non-Profit Development is funding by the Community Foundation of North Central Mass - www.cfncm.org - and Mount Wachusett Community College.
Literacy Volunteers of Orange/Athol Serving Athol, Erving, New Salem, Orange, Petersham, Phillipston, Royalston, Warwick & Wendell
584 Main Street,
Athol, MA 01331
The mission of Literacy Volunteers of Orange/Athol is to promote literacy skills that empower adults to realize their educational, vocational and personal goals. Since 1975. Literacy Volunteers of Orange/Athol (LVOA) has provided free, confidential and individualized tutoring in basic literacy and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) to adults in the North Quabbin communities through the use of professionally trained and supported volunteer tutors. All services are free and confidential.
MOC Childcare & Head
Start Services The Purpose of the program is to prepare children and families for appropriate growth, development and school readiness through the provision of comprehensive family centered services. These services can take the form of center based Head Start and Pre School Programs, as well as Family Child Care Homes and School Age Programs. MOC Childcare and Head Start Services serves the towns of Athol, Clinton, Gardner, Fitchburg, Leominster & Winchendon.
North Quabbin Adult
Education Center Offers Adult Basic Education and GED preparation classes for the North Quabbin region.
North Orange Head
Start Orange Head Start is a Head Start program administered by the Parent-Child Development Center (PCDC) in Greenfield.
Do
you have a child between the ages of 2.9 and 5 years old?
The Orange Community Partnerships for Children helps income eligible
parents find quality, affordable programs for their children through
sliding fee scholarships. The Orange CPC has a resource room and
lending library located in the CPC office at Dexter Park School and
offers free trainings for parents and area childcare providers.
Parent-Child
Development Center Head Start The Parent-Child Development Center offers comprehensive Head Start, Early Head Start and childcare services to children birth up to Kindergarten through a menu of options including: center-based classrooms and home visiting, and in licensed and monitored Family Child Care homes throughout Franklin and Hampshire Counties. Some services are free to eligible families. State sliding scale fees apply to childcare services. Towns: Classrooms in Greenfield, Turners Falls, Northfield, Bernardston, North Orange, Amherst, Ware, Northampton, and Easthampton. Home Visiting throughout Franklin and Hampshire Counties. Family Child Care in various locations throughout the two countries.
REACH Early
Intervention The REACH program provides services for children 0-3 in the North Quabbin area, who have or are at risk for developmental problems. Services include:
Seeds of Solidarity
Education Center Seeds of Solidarity brings to life the connection between environmental and social justice issues through research, demonstration, and hands-on education. Our work is a response to the inequitable distribution of resources and ecological destruction that plague communities locally and globally. We partner with the schools to promote wellness through school gardens and greenhouses. Seeds of Solidarity Education reliance. We try to contribute to the vitality of the area through our SOL (Seeds of Leadership) Garden program for area teenagers, and through the annual North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival.
Valuing Our Children
(VOC) VOC is a Massachusetts Family Center offering support and education to families in the North Quabbin region. Programs include:
All services are free. Transportation, meals and childcare for classes and activities are available.
Y-Kids Depot &
Nursery Y-Kids Depot is an EEC (Early Education and Care) licensed child care facility providing a safe & fun environment for children entering grades K-6th. Open year round, with the exception of nine holidays and one week at the end of August when the Y is closed. The Y.M.C.A. Nursery school is open to children age 2.9 – 5 years old. (Children from Athol, Royalston & Orange)
Wheeler Public
Library
North Quabbin Area Schools
Athol-Royalston
Regional School District (AARSD)
Thomas Darcy
Athol-Royalston Schools Website: www.arrsd.org
School/Address................................ Phone Number....................................... Fax Number
Athol High
School............................ (978)
249-2435....................................... (978) 249-2422
Athol-Royalston Middle
School....(978)
249-2430....................................... (978) 249-0055
Sanders Street
School.....................(978)
249-2410....................................... (978) 249-7213
Pleasant Street
School.....................(978)
249-2405.................................... ...(978) 249-7272
Riverbend
School............................. (978)
249-2415....................................... (978) 249-2428
Royalston Elementary
School...... (978) 249-2900........................................
(978) 249-4110
Office of Pupil
Services.....................(978) 249-2403
Tully Lake Program
The Village School The Village School is an independent elementary school serving preschool – kindergarten – the 6th grade. Place-based, project-based, hands on curriculum with small classrooms.
Erving Elementary
School
Ralph C. Mahar
Regional School District Mahar serves the towns of Orange, New Salem, Petersham and Wendell. There are approximately 750 students that make up the middle school (grades 7 & 8) and high school (grades 9-12).
Narragansett
Regional School District
New Salem Swift
River School
Orange Elementary
School District
Orange Elementary Schools
School/Address................................ Phone Number....................................... Fax Number
Butterfield
School..............................(978)
544-6136...................................... (978) 544-1121
Fisher
Hill.............................................(978)
544-0018...................................... (978) 544-5703
Dexter
Park......................................... (978)
544-6080...................................... (978) 544-1123
Pre-School...........................................(978)
544-1124...................................... (978) 544-1131
Petersham Center
School The Petersham Center School family is committed to providing an environment in which the needs of all the children are met, enabling them to develop to their fullest potential. We stress a curriculum enriched with opportunities to develop academic, social and physical skills; taking into consideration the individual differences and needs of every child.
Phillipston Memorial
School
Pioneer Regional
School District
Warwick Elementary
School
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