Our organization came to life in 1985, and ever since, Partners for Youth with Disabilities has helped young people with disabilities reach their full potential and lead their lives with dignity, pride, and purpose. For over three decades, our PYD staff has worked hard to match our youth with great mentors. Our dedicated mentors are […]
Elizabeth (Lizzie) has had a prominent presence at PYD for over three years. She participates in our theater arts and group mentoring programs, and has been matched with her mentor for over two years. In addition to these programs, Lizzie also participated in a leadership development fellowship last year at PYD. She began attending college […]
At Friday’s Mentor Appreciation Night, we are excited to honor Olivia with the Rayleen Lescay Spirit Award! This award honors those who are dedicated to PYD’s group mentoring programs; ones that she has been affiliated with for four years now. As a sophomore at Landmark College in Vermont, Olivia cannot be present all of the […]
The Chris Dunne Peer Leadership Award is one of the four awards we’ll be honoring our young leaders with at Mentor Appreciation Night on November 2nd. The award is based on leadership and spirit in the PYD community. For the past two years, Austin has had many roles at PYD. He started out in our […]
We are excited to recognize Jeff Weinstein as ‘Mentor of the Year’ at our Mentor Appreciation Night on November 2nd! Jeff displays outstanding guidance for all of his mentees at PYD. Jeff made the decision to get involved with PYD almost nine years ago as he closed an important chapter of his life. He desired […]
Tyrell, popularly known as TK, is looking forward to a promising future. TK is an alumni of PYD’s career-readiness program. Beginning in November 2017, TK attended several PYD classes to prepare him for a job in the working world. Throughout his time in our program, he learned how to apply for jobs and internships, how […]
As you may have noticed, things look a little different around here than they used to. We launched our new website late last week (late-September 2018), and let me tell you: it’s a super exciting feeling. When creating the site, we wanted to make sure that our new website was going to be as accessible […]
Tyrell, a high school student at BCLA has actively participated in PYD’s career readiness program since November 2017. He took 7 weeks of classes at PYD where he learned professional skills such as communication, interviewing, and resume building. He then started an internship at the State Street Corporation after expressing an interest in mathematics and […]
As part of our career readiness program, Winston worked with Paul Fox, the owner of Spectacle Eyewear in the South End for 8 weeks. See what Winston has to say about his successful experience here: “At first I was a little nervous to work at Spectacle and meet Paul Fox (the owner). I would think […]
At the recent convention of the American Association of Intellectual and Development Disabilities, PYD, Easterseals, and PEAC released the new Implementation Guide for the Transportation Advocacy Mentoring Initiative (TAMI). This “how to” manual provides guidance on leveraging peer mentoring to improve advocacy skills and highlights the successes of the 2017 TAMI pilot project. The guide […]