The City School - Boston

The City School develops and strengthens youth to become effective leaders for social justice. We work with young people ages 14-19 living in Boston and its surrounding suburbs who are emerging leaders and have a passion for social justice. Our community intentionally crosses lines of race, class, gender, and neighborhood. Overview of Programs The Summer Leadership Program (SLP) began in 1995, with SLP 2014 marking our 20th summer. The program provides teenagers with an exciting, powerful, diverse, and fun summer of community building, self rediscovery, leadership skills, action projects, internships at local nonprofits, and challenging seminars to transform themselves into powerful voices for change. Pathways of Change offers three career pathways for youth to develop as educators, organizers and advocates, and organizational leaders. The Social Justice Education Institute (SJEI) is a program for educators, civic leaders, youth workers, administrators, and others who want to strengthen the power of youth and explore ways to get young people to challenge themselves to take ownership of their education. Youth Outreach Weekends (YOW) are service retreats for young people to explore two connected issues in our world: poverty and homelessness. The Prison Empowerment Project (PEP) sponsors dialogue about crime and punishment among diverse groups of youth and adults inside and outside the walls of Massachusetts prisons. Rose from Concrete (RfC) is a program that provides leadership development, resource referral, education, and job skills to court-involved youth in Greater Boston. The Grads Program gives young people who've come through our doors a concrete place to expand their leadership potential and continue to build community with like-minded teens.