East End House Inc

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.

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.

After school/camps provide affordable afterschool care, for school age and middle school children, 82 summer fun campers and recreational programming for children 5-14 for approximately 300 families of low income and the working poor. The community programs department oversees a range of resource assistance programs, including a food pantry, family grocery program, infant necessities, senior citizen outreach and activities program, and back-to-school, toy and adopt-a-family, and other material resource drives. Between july 1, 2023 to june 30, 2024, these services supported more than 400 households on a monthly basis and over 1,000 households annually, providing essential resources and improving access to basic needs for low- to moderate-income communities throughout the year.