East End House

The program serves 54 children between the ages of 15 months and 5 years from 7:30am-5:30pm monday through friday. The child care program is nationally accredited by the national association for the education of young children (naeyc). The child care program is a licensed program by the Massachusetts department of early education and care. The program prepares children for school through literacy, math, and science activities, as well as teaches social skills. The program uses teaching strategies god to measure children's progress and tailor lesson plans to the interest of the children. All teachers are trained in the use of teaching strategies gold, which tracks children's progress, helping to lead to higher quality curriculum and programming. The program also uses the bracken school readiness scale, which assesses children's progression towards school readiness on a number of academic dimensions. Taken together, these assessments not only measure program quality, but also help teachers tailor lessons to meet the individual needs of children's in the classrooms. In the 2019 school year, 100% of our graduates were academically, social-emotionally, and physically prepared for kindergarten - as measured by the evidence-based assessment tools. The child care program also includes powerful parenting, an 8-week series of workshops designed to help them learn about their child's development, skills for managing difficult behavior, how to keep their children safe and healthy, and the strategies to ensure all children reach their full potential.

The middle school program serves youth in 6th-8th grades at the putnam avenue upper school throughout the school year from 2pm-6pm and operates from 7:30am-5:30pm during school vacation weeks for an 8-week summer program. The program offers academic enrichment activities, sports, art, and youth designed initiatives. Genasas is a major component of the middle school curriculum and includes interactive classes, field trips, and quest speakers from the field. Curriculum is evaluated internally by staff and externally by program in education, afterschool, and resiliency (pear), an affiliate of harvard university and mclean hospital. The program is free of charge to all youth.

The school age program serves 52 children each day, the children are in kindergarten through fifth grade at East End House. The program is open from 2pm-6pm during the school year and from 7:30am-5:30pm during summer months and school vacation weeks. The school age program is a licensed program by the Massachusetts department of early education and care. The program provides academic enrichment, sports, art, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (stem) learning. Generating and evaluating new adventures in science after school (genasas) offers a variety of interactive classes, field trips and quest speakers designed to get youth excited about stem programming. The program focus is on building academic and social skills.

After school/camps provide affordable afterschool care, 60 summer fun campers and recreational programming for children 5-14 for approximately 350 families of low income and the working poor. The emergency food program offers an emergencey food pantry and free farmer's market, to provide fresh produce, meat, dairy, whole grains and other non-perishable food to over 300 families each month.