Mayor's Office of Human Services

👏👏👏 Thanks to everyone in the BCYF Flaherty Pool Community who came out tonight to the BCYF Community Center to share their passion for the Flaherty Dolphins Swim Team. 🏊🏊‍♀️🏊‍♂️🏊

We are especially grateful for the brave, wise, thoughtful input shared by the Metro League swimmers and their families. We look forward to continued conversation and to seeing the team finish its season strong! 🐬🐬🐬

🙏Thanks to the Ann and the whole team at the BCYF Community Center for hosting;
🙏 Thanks to the Dolphins parents, Eugenia and Allison, for helping to shape the agenda.
🙏 Thanks to Cecily and Josh from for helping to facilitate.

Hey, South Boston! We are excited to invite you to join us and Mayor Wu for a party celebrating the reopening of the pool at the BCYF Condon Community Center! There will be food and music. If you want to go for a swim, make sure to bring a suit and a towel!

The Community Center is a hive of activity in Fields Corner, home to programming for all ages, several non-profits and, of course, an outstanding group of youth!

They partner with to provide paid opportunities to youth. Led by Vina, their youth worker, students learn about advocacy, facilitation and organizing.

We enjoyed talking with George and Jasmine, who shared the best compliment to the program - both plan to spend their summers at Viet Aid! We are proud to support this valuable program through the City’s Youth Development Fund.

to the team at for inviting us to share in their annual tradition of decorating the city’s in advance of ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

Hero Squares are the city’s way of honoring the sacrifice of service members who are killed in the line of duty. In all, there are over 1,200 hero squares in Boston. We were able to hang fresh wreaths on all squares in the End and End on Saturday morning.

Each Hero Square is more than just a sign; it’s a respectful homage placed at an intersection near the service member’s beloved home or a place of great significance to them. If you see one in your neighborhood, please take the time to learn more about that service member’s sacrifice. 🇺🇸

We had a great visit this morning with the team - Veera and Allen - who showed us around the indoor paddle space and the dock that Ohana New England uses for their . 🐉 🐉🐉

An all-volunteer organization, is a labor of love that brings together enthusiasts of all ages. For youth under 18, participation is free!

We are so proud to support this organization through the Youth Development Fund, which is committed to expanding opportunities for youth in Boston. The boats are back in the water next weekend, so now is the time to sign up!

We had a great day yesterday 😎 visiting the MA State House 🏛️ with our colleagues from and to advocate for policies that would make it easier for people who are experiencing homelessness to access state IDs.🪪 Thanks to the legislative co-sponsors, Rep .oday.16503 & well as for organizing the day!

Big thank you to Corey & Stefanie for inviting .masso and the Human Services team to to see all their great arts programming. We saw guitar lessons, a video editing class, and the student run radio station! And, we chatted with Em, a participant in the fix-it class, where students learn to build and repair electronics like mic boxes, theremins and microphones with Jamie. 🎙️ 🎹🎸The whole place is bursting with creative opportunities AND THEY’RE HIRING youth for summer jobs. We are so proud to support this great work through the City’s Youth Development Fund. 💡 See flyer at the end of the carousel for a link to summer job opportunities.

Congrats to the VBS Radio Players at the Veronica B Smith Senior Center in Brighton for another successful theater production. It’s great to see so much talent onstage (and offstage with all the music and sound effects!) Thanks to the directorial team - Lauren & Aaron - for making this production possible and to all the actors who spent countless hours preparing for their roles. 🎭🎹🎶

has the kindest and most dedicated team members in all of city government. They provide services, supports and programming for youth, families and older adults at 35 community centers and pools all across Boston. You can join them! Today, they are hosting a hiring day, but even if you can’t make it, you are welcome to apply.

There was great food, music, and friends at the annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration at the Veronica B Smith Senior Center in Brighton. Lauren and team know how to throw a party and today was no exception! ☘️☘️☘️