Partners for Youth with Disabilities is proud to call Boston home. Most of our volunteers, participants, staff members, and partner organizations have deep rooted connections to Boston. The 2014 Boston Marathon is tomorrow and many individuals with disabilities will be racing, including the largest number of blind and visually impaired athletes ever. Keep an eye out […]
Question: What’s a job skill that you’ll need regardless of where you are working? Answer: Knowing how to make eye contact with customers. That’s one of the skills Nora Daniels, the Marketing Team Leader and Community Liaison for Whole Foods Market Charlestown, shared during a “job shadow” visit for our Young Entrepreneurs Project students from […]
Over the summer, one of our youth participants — Tayla — was lucky enough to be chosen as an intern at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. Tayla has participated in MHC and ATT, and will be a peer leader for MHC this year. She was featured in the most recent newsletter of the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation. […]
It has been a busy few months for the Young Entrepreneurs Project! Thanks to funding from the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC), we have served more youth this summer than ever before! The YEP team went into MRC offices in Brookline, Worchester, Springfield, and (for the first time) Somerville and Malden to hold Summer Internship Preparation […]