Program areas at 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 program prepares children for school through literacy, math, and science activities, as well as teaches social skills. The program uses teaching strategies gold to measure childrens progress and tailor lesson plans to the interests of the children. All teachers are trained in the use of teaching strategies gold, which tracks childrens progress, helping to lead to higher quality curriculum and programming. The program also uses the bracken school readiness scale, which assesses childrens 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 in their classrooms.
The middle school program serves youth in 6th-8th grade at the putnam avenue upper school throughout the school year from the hours of 2pm-6pm and operates from 7:30am-5:30pm during school vacation weeks and for an 8 week summer program. It is nationally accredited by the council on accreditation (coa). The program offers academic enrichment activities, sports, art, engaging stem programming through the genasas initiative, and service learning opportunities. Genasas is a major component of the middle school curriculum. It includes interactive classes, field trips, and guest 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 housed at the putnam avenue upper school and staffed by East End House group leaders as well as teachers from the school. The program is free of charge to all youth. There is also a mentoring program embedded in the middle school program to provide added support for youth most at-risk for adverse outcomes.
The school age program serves 52 children each day who 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 nationally accredited by the council on accreditation (coa). The program provides academic enrichment, sports, art, and stem learning. Generating and evaluating new adventures in science after school (genasas) offers a variety of interactive classes, field trips, and guest speakers designed to get youth excited about science, technology, engineering, and math (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.