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Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Community Recreational Centers, Human Services, Neighborhood Centers, Sports
Mission: Educational and recreational activities,
Programs: The child care program provides developmentally appropriate activities including arts programming and daily structured physical activity. The program has two components: 3. 9 years to 5. 9 years and 6 years to 12 years. The curriculum is developed and implemented with attention to developmental standards and family involvement as well as the child's individual needs. For older children, assignment to age appropriate groupings takes into consideration current school grade assignments. Both programs are staffed by early education and care certified(eec) staff. Homework help and tutoring, arts programming, science club, reading program, tennis, computer lab access, music enrichment, and daily gym activities are included. The summer months also include swimming at the flaherty pool(city of boston municipal pool),one or more offsite field trips, some interaction with the "boston rocks" summer activities programs, interaction with the "read boston" and other reading programs, science activities and more.
the flaherty swimming pool offers swimming lessons, water aerobics and open swim times for children, adults and families. The pool is home to the flaherty dolphin swim team, a diverse, champion, co-ed swim team for swimmers age 4 - 17. This program is staffed, managed and overseen exclusively by bcyf and the city of boston. Roslindale community school council only serves as a fiscal conduit for their funds.
other programs: fitness & recreation and youth programs.