1. Youth & Young Adult Programs St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Annual Report 2010

2. Overview 257 program days 710 youth participants 119 teen jobs 60,000+ meals served 225,000+ kid hours

3. St. Stephen’s Youth Programs B-READY After-School Program and B-SAFE Summer Program Serves More 700+ Youth at 6 Locations Mattapan Summer Site 525 River Street B-SAFE @ Holy Spirit 70 youth served Dorchester Summer Site 154 Centre Street B-SAFE @ Epiphany 110 youth served Dorchester Summer Site 14 Cushing Avenue B-SAFE @ St. Mary’s 75 youth served Chelsea Summer Site 201 Washington Avenue B-SAFE @ St. Luke’s/ San Lucas 50 youth served South End Year-Round Site 419 Shawmut Avenue B-READY @ St. Stephen’s 140 youth served  B-SAFE @ St. Stephen’s 150 youth served Lower Roxbury Year-Round Site 29 Lenox Street B-READY @ St. A&M 45 youth served  B-SAFE @ St. A&M 75 youth served

4. 4 St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church A mission church of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts St. Stephen’s Youth Programs Serves 625+ Youth Part of church organization with own operating account B-READY After-School Program Serves 185 Youth at 2 Locations Building Resilience, Enrichment Opportunities, Academic Skills, and Dynamic Leadership in Youth and Young Adults Lower Roxbury B-READY @ St. A&M 29 Lenox Street B-SAFE Summer Program Serves 525 Youth at 6 Locations Bishop’s Summer Academic and Fun Enrichment Program South End B-SAFE @ St. Stephen’s 419 Shawmut Avenue Lower Roxbury B-SAFE @ St. A&M 29 Lenox Street Dorchester B-SAFE @ St. Mary’s 14 Cushing Avenue Mattapan B-SAFE @ Holy Spirit 525 River Street Chelsea B-SAFE @ St. Luke’s/ San Lucas 201 Washington Avenue Dorchester B-SAFE @ Epiphany 154 Centre Street The S 2 POT (ages 15-17) St. Stephen’s Place of Opportunity for Teens 45 teens (28 employed; 18 through Boston Youth Fund) LEARN @ Lenox (K-5) 40 youth South End B-READY @ St. Stephen’s 419 Shawmut Avenue St. Stephen’s YLC (Gr. 6-9) 30 youth St. Stephen’s LEARN (K-5) 70 children LEARN @ Lenox (K-5) 60 children St. Stephen’s YLC (Gr. 6-9) 60 children St. Stephen’s LEARN (K-5) 65 children St. Mary’s YLC (Gr. 6-9) 15 youth St. Mary’s LEARN (K-5) 45 children Epiphany YLC (Gr. 6-9) 40 youth Epiphany LEARN (K-5) 50 children Holy Spirit YLC (Gr. 6-9) 15 youth Holy Spirit LEARN (K-5) 45 children St. Luke’s/ San Lucas LEARN (K-5) 40 children The B-SAFE Teen Counselor-in-Training (CIT) Program (ages 15-17) 90 teens (90 employed; 69 through Boston Youth Fund; 8 through Chelsea Collaborative) LEARN = Leadership, Enrichment, Academics, Recreation, and Nurture for Elementary School Students YLC = Youth Leadership Corps for Middle School Students Friends of St. Stephen’s Youth Programs 501c3 Receives financial gifts and grants and makes grants to the Youth Programs. The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

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8. The B-READY Program Building Resiliance, Enrichment opportunities, Academic skills, and Developing leadership for Youth and young adults

9. LEARN @ St. Stephen’s Fall 2010 launched our 11 th year of afterschool programming! Serving 70 youth from K2 to 5 th grade Academics: homework support; tutoring in reading, math, science ; and technology classes Enrichment: values, acting, art, music, yoga, knitting & more Field trips: ice skating, museums, libraries, colleges Special Events: Harvest Day, reading party, cultural day Volunteers: 110 weekly volunteers

10. LEARN @ Lenox This is our 3 nd year here! Serving 42 youth from K2 to 5 th grade (more than 50% increase in 2 years!) One of the few programs serving young people who live in Lenox neighborhood Academics & Enrichment & Field Trips & Special Events! Excellent visual art program for teens including some from Lenox More than 25 volunteers from 5 programs at Northeastern thanks to our Mass Promise Fellow Partnership with St. Augustine & St. Martin and All Saints’ Brookline= Turkey Wahoo with 30 volunteers and Christmas party with new book for each child

11. Youth Leadership Corps (YLC) Love and Limits contract and Circles Single gender to single group Strong group, supportive, high attendance Lots of Life Skills workshops Choice Time, life skills workshops, Academic Time College and Career Support relationships with NEU, Emerson (theater), Boston University (art lab),

12. The S2POT (St. Stephen’s Place of Opportunity for Teens) 91 summer jobs 28 school year jobs Job Training and Life Skills workshops (interview skills, healthy relationships, workplace College & Career Support Team (24 pairs, twice as many as last year) Mission Scholars—4 teams went to Honduras (2), New York City, New Orleans Weekly academic night Art with Culture for Change and Wheelock College’s Ubuntu Project Community Organizing to rejuvenate Blackstone greenhouse (working with The Food Project) Rap sessions & Circles Teen Youth group

14. YASS Young Adults @ St. Stephen’s Working together to build a partnership for improved public education at Blackstone Two service days at Blackstone School with more than 250 people volunteering! Four YASS teams of leaders: Library Greenhouse Classroom volunteers Spiritual reflection Great press and recognition St. Stephen’s representation on school site council Exploring how to expand parent involvement

15. B-SAFE 2010 7 sites, 7 weeks (training, 5 wks program in city, BCH) 528 young people participated; new registration system Academics= Word, Numbers Club, DEAR time, Tech, SCIENCE!! Enrichment=Art, Music, Cooking, Values, Field trips!! Jobs= 91 teens; 10 young adults; 70+ adults 55 partner churches; 900+ v0lunteers

16. Science All Year Round Mad Science days at 5 B-SAFE sites Harvard Med School students taught science to YLC at 2 B- SAFE sites BU Wizards and Leads (with help of Academic Coordinator and INCRE) teaching science during B-READY Teens learning about life sciences and BPS science curriculum through organizing project

17. Urban Training Center Relationships with 7 intern programs JVC Mass Promise Tech Mission Micah Project RE/Hope in Action MSW Program @ Wheelock Urban Ed @ Wellesley Close supervision, tons of teamwork, collegial groups in programs Reading group on urban justice issues College volunteers from BC-PULSE, BU, Northeastern, Emerson

18. Relationships with 7 intern programs JVC Mass Promise Tech Mission Micah Project RE/Hope in Action MSW Program @ Wheelock Urban Ed @ Wellesley Close supervision, tons of teamwork, collegial groups in programs Reading group on urban justice issues College volunteers from BC-PULSE, BU, Northeastern, Emerson Urban Training Center

19. What is next for St. Stephen’s Youth Programs? Expand LEARN @ Lenox to 60 youth? Turn a summer site into year round programming? More space for staff and interns? More support for development team? Increase our ability to collect hard data to show effectiveness of our program? Look beyond Boston for new B-SAFE sites?