News from The Care Center
Iron Woman Races for The Care Center!
Angie LaFrance will be competing at the Lake Placid Ironman in July 2009 and fundraising for The Care Center. This 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and 26.2 mile run is a test of one’s stamina, courage and physical capacity. It is exciting... Read more
Save the Date for the Care Center Annual Fundraising Event
Please save the evening of June 11 to join us for the annual fundraiser at the Log Cabin in Holyoke. We are seeking volunteers to be part of the Inviting Team. Training for all inviters will take place in April. Over 500 guests are expected.
Care Center Women Meet Shakespeare’s Women
The Care Center has teamed up with Holyoke’s Enchanted Circle Theatre and the Renaissance Center Theater Company of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, for Shakespeare’s Women in Today’s World, an eight-week program in which students will... Read more
Nautilus Editorial Board Reignited!
Nautilus II; Poetry and Art by Young Mothers Studying at The Care Center, will be published in spring of 2009. Eight students will take responsibility for culling through hundreds of photographs and poems to determine those that will make it to... Read more
News about The Care Center
Quality redo for women dropouts: Prep schools and colleges provide the model for a program that raises the expectations of teen moms seeking GED diplomas.
By Stacy A. Teicher. Reused with permission from the Christian Science Monitor (http://www.csmonitor.com), September 15, 2005. (c) 2005 The Christian Science Monitor. All rights reserved. For permissions, contact copyright@csmonitor.com. / /... Read more
Education for Young Single Moms in Holyoke
By Marci Izard.
HOLYOKE, Mass. (abc40) See The Care Center here on Channel 40.
Holyoke has the highest rate of teen pregnancy and the highest percentage of... Read more
Abstaining from change
Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/09/04/abstaining_from_change/talks to Care Center Executive Director Anne Teschner as he contemplates Sarah Palin and the politics of abstinence-only sex... Read more
Care Center rowers featured on World Vision Radio
The Care Center student rowing team was recently featured on this World Vision Radio program. (Click here to listen!)
Teen mothers publish poetry, art
The Daily Hampshire Gazette published this story on June 1. It is reproduced here with the newspaper's permission. / By Phoebe Mitchell / A photograph by Erica Villegas pictures four... Read more
Boston Rowers Sweep Regatta
By D.L. Stephenson, Sunday Republican, Springfield, MA, Sunday, August 21, 2005 / Edition: ALL, Section: News, Page A18, dstephenson@repub.com / / SOUTH HADLEY - Though the Holyoke Care Center's rowing team placed first last year in the annual... Read more
Wind on river thwarts regatta/by Stephanie Barry (The Republican)
SOUTH HADLEY - Fierce winds that stirred up whitecaps on the Connecticut River yesterday thwarted a planned regatta for young, single moms. / / Anne F. Teschner, executive director of the Care Center, a Holyoke program for teen mothers, eyed the... Read more
Poetry gives voice to young women/by Kevin O'Connor (The Republican, Sept. 5, 2007)
"I've loved poetry ever since I was really young and used it as a way to escape and not hold things inside whenever I was mad. You can write down whatever you want to and no one can take that away from you," says Keyanna S. Daniels. Today, at age... Read more