South Boston Neighborhood House Inc

Family engagement - a vitally important strategy of our sbnh family engagement program is to support and engage families over time supporting the parent's role as their child's first teacher and providing resources and supports over years, not just short term. Parents need to feel accepted, supported, nurtured, and listened to in order to enable them to do the same for their children. Two key learnings include the importance of meeting the needs that parent themselves identify and working to bring programming directly to the places where our families live. Family engagement activities are designed to provide parents with opportunities and abilities to positively impact the growth, development and education of their children ultimately creating a healthy community and children.

Senior programs/club 55 - the focus of the south boston neighborhood house senior programs is to reduce social isolation by offering older adults programming and services designed to maintain dignity, health, independence, self-confidence, social and emotional well-being with an emphasis on fun!!!! Sbnh's senior programs focus on the importance of social well-being. In order to age well, socialization is critical for older adults and so our programming includes exercise, education, recreation, information, assistance and referrals, including an onsite shine counseling (serving the health insurance needs of everyone) for insurance information and assistance.

Education and career development - education and career development promotes academic success and the pursuit of higher education, prepares our youth for jobs and careers through intern and apprenticeship opportunities, mentors and motivates our youth to make healthy choices and fosters emerging leaders. Program components include summer leadership intern program (slip), girls group, boyz ii men, and life skills workshops and trainings, and academic support, college and career readiness programming.

Community initiatives are a cornerstone of our work and ensure that sbnh continues to lead and expand collaborative partnerships and coordinate internal and external initiatives that support sbnh's organizational goals and the overall health of the south boston community. Initiatives and partnerships that expand and coordinate networks of resources and services to improve the lives and the health of south boston include south boston association of non profits, south boston's collaborative response to child+ family recovery, south boston summer collaborative, sbnh's holiday helper program, and other community partnerships and programs.