News from The Care Center
Spring Graduations Inspire Friends and Family
June was the month for Care Center graduations! The Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke (http://www.wistariahurst.org/) was the site of two beautiful ceremonies for Care Center graduates. / The evening of June 8, approximately one hundred friends... Read more
Care Center Fundraiser brings largest turnout
From as far away as Florida and Maryland, and as close as Holyoke, nearly 400 individuals gathered on a gorgeous evening at the Log Cabin to hear students, staff, board and guests share their experience of ‘translating a bold vision into reality’... Read more
6th Annual Young Parents Regatta Scheduled for August 19, 2006
The Care Center’s 6th Annual Young Parent’s Regatta is scheduled for Saturday, August 19, 2006 from 10 am until 2 pm at Brunelle's Marina in South Hadley, MA. There will be a BBQ lunch following the race. / Care Center rowers teamed up with Mt.... Read more
HCC to Award Care Center Graduates Credits for Criminal Justice Course
For the past couple of years, a partnership between The Care Center and Holyoke Community College has allowed students to audit a 3-credit course and experience academic life on campus. Now entering its third year, this already successful program... 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,... Read more
Pulling an Oar Toward New Start of Dropouts
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 / / By Adam Gorlick THE ASSOCIATED PRESS / / HOLYOKE— Viviana Camacho’s hands are strong but rough. They’re blistered and cracked, rubbed raw from hours of rowing on the Connecticut River. / / She shows them... Read more
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 fellow students at The Care Center, an alternative educational... 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!)
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