Over the summer we invited our PYD fellows to participate in sharing their stories on our blog about their participation in our mentor match program. We asked them to tell […]
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In her groundbreaking autobiography, The Way I See It, Temple Grandin writes about the role mentors can play for people living with disabilities: “Mentors did, indeed, play a pivotal role […]
This past Monday, TD Garden was filled with St. Patrick’s Day luck—and PYD came home with $7,500 as a result to help fund our work with youth with disabilities! Thanks […]
In honor of National Mentoring Month, PYD recently collaborated with Mass Mentoring Partnership to host a training for our Mentor Match participants on advocacy and lobbying. Participants learned how the […]
In mid-December, the Mentor Match program held an ongoing training session for our current mentors. We call these events our “Mentor Community Forums,” as we try to make these events […]
Last weekend, the Mentor Match program held a Self-Advocacy Workshop for Boston-area youth with a disability. The workshop focused on providing participants with a background on self-advocacy, the Americans with […]
Starrmaine applied to PYD’s Mentor Match program in 2008 when she was 11 years old, in search of a mentor who would make her feel special and lend an open […]
On May 23rd, the Mentor Match program was invited to take part in Mentoring Night at Fenway – the Boston Red Sox’s celebration of Massachusetts mentoring programs. Every year since […]
Last night, Partners for Youth with Disabilities (PYD) held our annual Party 4 Partners benefit at the MIT Faculty Club in Cambridge. The event was a huge success, both in […]
Early last week, the investment management firm Highfields Capital donated two pairs of Red Sox tickets to the Mentor Match program. Nobody at their office could use the tickets, so […]