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North Reading Youth Services

Some Youth Groupers hard at work making posters!

About Us

Phone: 978-357-5281

Cell: 781-439-5870

E-mail: northreadingyouthservices@gmail.com

joleary@northreadingma.gov

In October of 2006 Town Meeting passed an article to establish a North Reading Youth Services Committee.  With the committee in place we were able to hire the very first North Reading Youth Services Director on October 9, 2007. 

 

Already many new youth programs are underway in North Reading.  Young residents of North Reading have participated in the Friends of the Library Book Sale, the Veteran’s Day Ceremony and the Holiday Lighting Festival.  They have reached out to other communities by volunteering at the Lowell Wish Project and collecting food for the Haven from Hunger in Peabody.  Other upcoming community service activities include volunteering at Cradles to Crayons in Quincy, working in the Community Servings kitchen in Jamaica Plain, collecting food for the North Reading Food Pantry and goods for our deployed soldiers through We Support Local Heroes in Wilmington and a town wide clean-up on North Reading Youth Service Day. 

 

NRYS has also started a Youth Group for middle and high school aged participants to act as the planning committee for social and experiential activities as well as discussing the needs of youth in this town.  On December 1^st North Reading Youth Services had participants from their Youth Group act as Water Bearers for the 16^th annual Medicine Wheel public art event.  Medicine Wheel happens each year on World AIDS Day at the Boston Center for the Arts.  It is the largest public art event in Massachusetts’ history.  As Water Bearers, North Reading teens were able to come together with other youth groups from in and around Boston to raise awareness about the AIDS epidemic.

 

NRYS will be running programs over school vacations, during the summer and we recently hosted a local Battle of the Bands on March 1st!  We feel that the relationship and communication with all departments that work with youth is a vital part of serving our teens to the best of our ability.  We are working on many upcoming collaborations with other departments!

 

NRYS has big dreams for growth. It is our goal to expand our programs and further enhance the lives of North Reading youth. 

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