Afterschool Homework Programs

The AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM
The After School Program run by Milton Academy’s Lower School runs a variety of activities for children who stay until their parents can pick them up. Energetic Upper Schoolers would be a huge asset here and could lead/teach their own activity (sports, music, drams, crafts, etc.) There is also a Homework Club for the older children M-Th 3:00-4:30. Friday activities run 12:00-5:00 and are often outdoors.

BROOKVIEW HOUSE
Brookview House is a shelter for women and children providing transitional housing and social services. Brookview also sponsors support groups and workshops centered around such issues as substance abuse recovery and self esteem. Volunteers will work with children ages 1-12 in an afterschool homework and activities program. Some years the group of weekly volunteers has been from a designated dorm as a kind of “dorm project.”

CHILDREN’S AIDS PROJECT (CAP) AFTERSCHOOL LITERACY PROGRAM
This is a daycare center for children who themselves or whose family members have HIV (though this information is kept confidential from volunteers). School age children from those families come to the afterschool program which focuses largely on improving literacy. Male role models are especially needed.

CHURCH of the HOLY SPIRIT
This afterschool homework program is located in Mattapan Square. Volunteers help middle school students with school assignments and extra literacy work. Though volunteers aren’t assigned to work with the same student each week, they do develop relationships with particular children. Milton math teacher Jeanne Jacobs helps run this program.

EPIPHANY SCHOOL EVENING STUDY HALL
The Epiphany School is located very close to campus on Adams Street. It offers middle school students (who have struggled in the Boston public schools) an intensive 12-hour school day. They receive a great deal of individual attention in academics, as well as extracurriculars. Volunteers are needed to tutor students in a variety of subjects, as well as help with after school sports and music. We especially need volunteers for evening study hall from 6:00-8:00pm.

PROJECT DEEP
Each volunteer tutors a student in grades 5-8 to in homework, reading and journal writing skills. Commitment to be there every week is extremely important for the relationship, and so that students can earn credit to attend free summer sports camps. Project DEEP trips usually run weekly 3:30-5:30pm, but tutors are also needed on Saturdays.

SOUTH SHORE DAYCARE MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM

Milton Academy has been asked to help provide tutors to help students with homework and activites after school. It is located at the Randolph Public Middle School.