News & Events
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 […]
In June, Regina Snowden presented at the Conference of State Parties at the U.N. in NYC to release the global mapping and needs assessment report written by the Leadership and Mentoring Task Force of the Global Partnership for Children with Disabilities. PYD co-chairs this task force with Mobility International USA. Through our affiliation, PYD was […]
I have the good fortune of knowing Deep for over 17 years. Deep has filled those mighty years of devotion to PYD’s Access to Theatre (ATT) and Making Healthy Connections (MHC). MHC has been serving youth as a group mentoring program for 25 years. Its first name was “Youth in Preparation for Independence.” It was […]
On Friday, June 1st, PYD held an event at the The Lansdowne Pub. This event was to recruit mentors whom we ask to commit to one year in being matched with a mentee. Matches meet four to six times a month to do fun events in the community together. This recruitment event at The Lansdowne […]
The PYD’s stress management workshop was a youth focused benefited, toward reducing youth stress. Between PYD’s Eli Wolff, Jordan Lome, and Nicole Malo, attendees learned great tactics and tools on stress management. During the workshop, PYD and the attendees shared great tips of self-care, such as listening to music, recreational activities, hanging out with friends, […]
A moment of silence fell over the PYD office as a brilliant idea filled Nicole’s brain after listening to ‘In the Afternoon with Austin’ on Radio Perkins. Nicole strung up from her desk and turned to me with an overwhelming amount of enthusiasm as she spilled her idea, “Austin, do you think Kennedy would like […]