Inclusion Specialist CVS Summer Internship Program 10-15 hours per week Partners for Youth with Disabilities (PYD) empowers youth with disabilities to reach their full potential by providing transformative mentoring programs, […]
This past Friday, we shared a Boston.com article about the individuality of people with autism. We were excited to see Autism Awareness Month get highlighted in such a prominent publication, and we […]
Over the past few months, we have been lucky enough to welcome a number of new faces to the PYD family. Please join us is giving a warm welcome to […]
In early February, there was a new event out in western Massachusetts for local teens with disabilities: a Valentine’s Dance! The Dance that was held on February 6th in Holyoke, and […]
On February 27th, four YEP classes headed to the Google offices in Cambridge, MA for an exciting Job Shadow trip. The Job Shadow trip began with a tour of the […]
This profile first appeared in the March edition of The Providers’ Council newsletter. The full text has been provided below. If you walked into any Partners for Youth with Disabilities […]
Purpose For PYD mentees to develop leadership skills, engage in the PYD community, and provide a critical voice for the Mentor Match program. This is a wonderful chance to develop […]
It’s incredibly rare to see characters with disabilities in mainstream fiction. They are a minority group that is routinely overlooked, and even if a book does include a character that has […]
Partners for Youth with Disabilities was founded in 1985 in order to bring critical mentoring programs to an under-served population and to encourage inclusivity in other youth programs. PYD has […]
Thanks to the MLK Summer Scholars program through John Hancock, we have been so lucky to have current Making Healthy Connections and Access to Theatre participant Lizzie Gray interning in the PYD […]