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Athol Area YMCA
545 Main Street,
Athol, MA 01331
Tel: (978) 249-3305
Contact: Jeanette Robichaud
Website:
www.ymcaathol.com
The Athol Area YMCA is an association that strives to enrich the quality of
life for families and community in the North Quabbin. Facilities include
indoor/heated pool, gymnasium, racquetball/squash and a fitness center with
strength training equipment. Programs include:
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Aquatics
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Fitness
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Preschool
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Youth Activities
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Youth & Adult
sports
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Family Activities
Athol Public Library
568 Main Street,
Athol, MA 01331
Tel: (978) 249-9515 Fax: (978) 249-7636
Contact: Deb Blanchard
Website:
www.athollibrary.org
Email:
info@athollibrary.org
Library services include:
Big Brothers/Big Sisters
of Franklin County
116 Federal
Street, Greenfield, MA 01301
Tel: (978) 772-0915 Fax: (413) 772-0911
Contact: Kay Johnson
Email:
info@bbbs-fc.org
Website:
www.bbbs-fc.org
Big Brothers/Big Sisters provides one to one volunteer mentors to children.
We have a program at Northfield Mount Hermon School for North Quabbin
children ages 6-10. Transportation from Athol and Orange is provided.
Boy Scouts of America
Nashua Valley
Council
1980 Lunenburg Road. Lancaster, MA 01523
Tel: (978) 534-3532 Fax: (978) 534-4618
Email:
council@nashuavalleybsa.org
Website:
www.nashuavalleybsa.org
The Boy Scouts provide inclusive opportunity for boys in the North Quabbin
area.
Center for Human
Development
North Quabbin
Office
131 W. Main
Street, Orange, MA 01364
Tel: (978) 544-2148 or (800) 232-0510 Fax: (978) 544-2196
Contact: Cathy Sickles
Website:
www.cfs.org
The mission of CFS is to strengthen & promote the
quality of life for children, adults & families through education,
counseling and support. Services include.
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Individual
counseling of children, adolescents and adults
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Couples and
family therapy
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Psychological
evaluations
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Psychiatric
services
Community Coalition for
Teens (CCT)
278 Main Street,
Ste. 411
Greenfield, MA 01301
Tel: (413) 774-1194 Fax: (413) 774-6257
Or
34 N. Main Street, Ste. 5, Orange, MA 01364
Tel: (978) 544-6912 Fax: (978) 544-8917
Contact: Kat Allen or Joyce Fulmer
Email:
teens@frcog.org
CCT collaborates with school and community partners to support programs
aimed at reducing and preventing high risk behaviors by youth in Franklin
County and the North Quabbin region.
Cyber Café for Teens
28 South Main Street,
Orange, MA 01364 (YES
BizCenter)
Tel: (978)
544-1865
Website:
www.yes-inc.org
A
cool place for teens to hang out after school that is safe, free, easy to
get to, handicapped accessible and on the local bus routes. The Cyber Café
offers:
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Snacks
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Board, Card,
Computer games
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PC's with high
speed internet service and Microsoft Office 2003
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Homework help
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Workshops
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Community
volunteering
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Information about
services offered by Cafe partners
DIAL/SELF Youth &
Community Service – North Quabbin
15 E. Main
Street, Orange, MA 01364
Tel: (978) 544-1800
Contact: Val LaBelle
Website:
www.dialself.org
&
www.myspace.com/dialself
DIAL/SELF Youth & Community Services is a community-based non-profit agency
dedicated to promoting the health and positive development of teens/young
adults in Franklin and Hampshire Counties and the North Quabbin region.
DIAL/SELF – North
Quabbin
provides free clinical services, information and referral, and case
management through their TeenLine program (ages 16-21) including emergency
housing options. In collaboration with the YWCA of Western MA, eligible
young men and women can receive parenting/pregnancy services up to age 24
through the TeenLine Program.
Our new Transition to Independent Living Program (ages 16-21) offers
services to young adults as they transition from homelessness to living
independently in safe, stable circumstances. DIAL/SELF services are free!
Please call or stop by at any time!
Franklin/Hampshire
Career Center
One Arch Place,
Greenfield, MA 01301
Tel: (413) 774-4361 Fax: (413) 784-1765
or
131 W. Main Street,Orange, MA 01364
Contact: Michael Truckey, Director
Email:
mtruckey@detma.org
or
Deb Radway, Ops. Manager
Email:
dradway@detma.org
Website:
www.fhcc-onestop.com
Workforce and economic development through the delivery of employment,
education and training services designed to meet the needs of job seekers
and employers. Service areas include all of Hampshire & Franklin Counties &
Athol, Phillipston, Royalston & Petersham.
Girl Scouts of Western
Massachusetts
Haydonville Road,
Leeds, MA 01053
Tel: (800) 462-9100
Contact: Ask for the Membership Secretary
Inclusive opportunity for girls in Orange, Wendell, New Salem, Petersham and
Warwick to learn self awareness, respect for others and community
leadership.
Greater Athol Area
Advocates for Families with Special Needs
(GAAAFSN)
359 Main Street,
Athol, MA 01331
Tel: (978) 249-4052 Fax: (978) 249-3683
The Greater Athol Area Advocates for Families with Special Needs (GAAAFSN),
a program of The United ARC, provides community-based
family and individual supports/services to people with Mental Retardation
and other specific developmental disabilities. In order to access supports,
the child or adult must be eligible for Department of Mental Retardation
services.
These supports/services include:
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IFFS (intensive
flexible family support)
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Family and community
education workshops
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Information & referral
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Referral for intake and eligibility
to the Department of Developmental Services
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Social & Recreational events
Geographical Areas Served: Franklin County, North Worcester County, North
Quabbin Region
Healthy Families
(A program of
Community Action!)
423 Main
Street, Athol, MA 01331
Tel: (978) 249-7481 Fax: (978) 249-2375
Contact: Sandy Clark
Email:
sclark@communityaction.us
If
you’re a young parent 21 and under and this is your first child Healthy
Families is a state-wide program that can help you become the parent that
you know you can be. In this program, you get to decide when and where you’d
like to meet and work with your Home Visitor to achieve the goals that you
set for yourself in life and being a parent. It’s also a great place to
network and meet other young parents and find out what services there are
for you in the community. All of our services are free and
confidential. Here, it is all about you and your child!
Montachusett Girl Scout
Council
81 Goldstar
Boulevard, Worcester, MA 01606
Tel: (508) 853-1070
Contact: Cindy Mallet (978) 249-2828
Montachusetts Girl Scouts provides inclusive opportunity for girls in Athol,
Petersham, Phillipston and Royalston to learn self awareness, respect for
others and community leadership.
North Quabbin Adult Education Center
The Literacy Project
34 North Main
Street, Orange, MA 01364
Tel: (978) 544-8917 Fax: (978) 544-8917
Contact: Cathy King
Website:
www.literacyproject.org
Offers Adult Basic Education and GED preparation classes for the North
Quabbin region.
North Quabbin School to
Careers Partnership
427 Main Street,
Athol, MA 01331
Tel: (978) 249-3703 Fax: (978)575-0474
Contact: Jennifer Desjardins
Email:
jennifer@nqcc.org
The North Quabbin School to Careers Partnership provides:
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Career
explorations and activities
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Internships
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Summer employment
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Job shadowing
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Training through
the schools in Orange, Athol, Royalston, Petersham & New Salem
Seeds of Solidarity
Education Center
165 Chestnut Hill
Road, Orange, MA 01364
Tel: (978) 544-9023
Contact: Deb Habib
Website:
www.seedsofsolidarity.org
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 Center provides
educational programs that promote regional food and energy self-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 (www.garlicandarts.org)
Tapestry Health Systems
80 Sanderson
Street, Greenfield, MA 01301
Tel: (413) 773-5403
Website:
www.tapestryhealth.org
Family Planning provides reproductive health care, birth control counseling,
STD and HIV screening and HIV/substance abuse counseling for
Franklin/Hampshire County & North Quabbin residents.
The Athol office is open on Wednesdays from 12 – 5 p.m. and has a clinician
and a counselor onsite. When the office is closed the Athol phone number
rings through to the Greenfield office.
Wheeler Public Library
49 E. Main
Street, Orange, MA 01364
Tel: (978) 544-2495
Contact: Walt Owens, Director or Candy Cross, Children’s Librarian
Website:
www.orangelib.org
Y.E.S. (Young
Entrepreneur’s Society)
24-28 South Main Street, Orange, MA 01364
Tel: (978) 544-1869 Fax: (978) 544-1809
Toll Free: (866) YES-4BIZ
Contact: Tim Cohen-Mitchell
Website:
www.yes-inc.org
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YES BizVenture!
Learn how to start your own business! Hands-on activities, tours of area
businesses, invention, sales and stock contests, guest speakers, NY, NY
BizTrip, business plan competition. Includes snacks, lunches, BizBag,
and diploma. Ages 15-21. Tuition: $50 - $200, sliding scale, based on
household income. No one will be denied due to lack of funds. Programs
in Greenfield (June) and Orange (July).
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YES BizQuiz
Test your business and career smarts by taking this quick on-line quiz!
You might win an iPod Shuffle! (Drawing held annually on June 1). Free.
Go to
http://www.bizquiz.org/
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YES BizProject
Use your business savvy to make your community a better place to live!
YES Members have created a reproductive health website; a cinema, YES
BizCenter; a regional web portal; a mural series, and a program serving
local people with disabilities. Let YES help you with your big idea!
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Learn-2-Earn
Succeed at your first job! Take this 8-week paid program and create a
career plan; learn workplace skills; build up your resume; manage your
money; learn office/retail skills; and find (and keep) a job. Ages
16-21. Tuition: $25 - $100. Programs in Orange in April, July and
September.
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Odd Job Squad
Earn money and get work experience by helping residents, businesses and
organizations with odd jobs! We’ll advertise your services in a seasonal
print and web directory. Squad service looks great on your resume! Ages
13 – 21. Free. Sign up any time for a Squad in Orange, Montague, or
Greenfield.
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North Quabbin Young
Leaders’ Council
Work with other youth and help schools, towns, agencies & businesses
meet the needs of youth! Ages 16-19. Weekly meetings held in Orange.
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Teen Cyber Café
Enjoy free access to computers with hi-speed Internet, games, artwork,
and information on teen services. $2 one-time sign-up fee. Ages 13-21.
Open weekdays, 9:00-5:30 p.m. at 26 South Main Street in Orange.
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YES BizCenter High
School & College Internships
Get real-world business and work experience by interning at a
copy/fax/ship shot created by youth! 40-hour commitment. Ages 16-21. 24
South Main Street in Orange, MA.
Youth Programs
(A program of
Community Action!)
154 Federal
Street, Greenfield, MA 01301
Community Action! Youth Programs provides free prevention and enrichment
programs to low-income youth and young adults (ages 6-21) in Hampshire
County, Franklin County, and the North Quabbin region. Many activities are
offered, including prevention groups, enrichment activities, recreation
programming, peer leadership opportunities and individual counseling and
advocacy.\
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All Stars:
A group for boys ages 10-14 in Turners Falls, Athol (through 10/31) for
substance/violence prevention.
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Diversity:
(Name yet to be determined) A peer leadership group for middle school
age youth of color and their anti-racist allies in the Greenfield area.
Activities include exploration of cultural identities and social justice
issues, community trips and dancing.
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GLASS (Gay, Lesbian,
and Straight Society):
A confidential
social/support group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and
questioning youth and their straight allies. Youth ages 12 – 21 are
welcome. GLASS provides community education on homophobia and
GLBTQQ youth issues in Franklin County.
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Generation Q:
A confidential social/support group for gay, lesbian, bisexual,
transgender and questioning youth and their straight allies. Youth ages
12 – 21 are welcome. Generation Q provides community education on
homophobia and GLBTQQ youth issues in Hampshire County.
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LAUNCH:
Middle School and
High School age youth development & leadership group in Hampshire
County.
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Peanuts:
For boys and girls ages 6 – 9. Group focus is on problem solving and
non-violent communication in Greenfield and Orange.
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TREE:
A transgender support group for ages 12 – 21 in Hampshire County.
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Youth Works:
An employment support group for ages 12 – 21. Franklin County.
YOUTHREACH
545 Main Street, Athol,
MA 01331 (YMCA)
Tel: (978) 249-3305
Contact: Manny King
Email:
mking@ymcaathol.org
Experience a variety of
arts and activities at the Athol Area YMCA
Mondays – Fridays 2:15 – 5:00 pm
September 29, 2008 – May of 2009
Cost is $1.00 per visit or $20 per month or $80 for the whole school year,
members of the YMCA are FREE! No one will be turned away due to inability to
pay. This program is open to Middle School age students throughout the
nine-town North Quabbin Region. (Athol, Erving, Orange, New Salem,
Petersham, Phillipston, Royalston, Warwick, Wendell)
YouthReach! Is your arts, sports and fitness based after school program for
North Quabbin Middle School kids, grades 6 – 8. We offer the opportunity to
explore your imagination and creativity as well as the space and time to be
yourself and have fun. Including the following:
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Art
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Swimming
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Poetry
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Singing
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Yoga
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Sports/Games
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Movies
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Music
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Fitness
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Cooking
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Photography
There is also a ‘Homework Help Center’ available to those who need it in our
quiet classroom on the second floor. The room is equipped with two iMac
computers that you can use to do homework or write papers. Monday – Thursday
from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Web Resources for Youth
“Youth Links”
Youth Advocacy
Youth Development
Elected Officials
To
contact any of the legislative delegation for North Quabbin towns
specifically visit the ‘Legislators’ page in the Resource Directory
www.nqcc.org
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