The Care Center in the News
- The Care Center’s Annual Fundraising Party
Join us for our Annual Fundraising Party on May 14, 2003 at the Log Cabin in Holyoke, MA.
more → - TCC students help create large installation at HCC
Smith College awarded a $23,000 grant to new alumna Cassandra Holden to enable her to create a public artwork with students in a local alternative education program for pregnant and parenting teens who have dropped out of high school. Smith College article
more → - The Care Center Featured in The New York Times on July 22, 2012
We are thrilled to announce that The Care Center was featured in the New York Times Education Life section on Sunday, July 22, 2012. article The New York Times website also featured a slide show about The Care Center! slide show The feature article profiled The Care Center and focused on our Clemente [...]
more → - The Care Center wins Presidential Award
Watch the complete ceremony as Executive Director Anne Teschner and Care Center student Brendaliz Rivera receives this national honor at The White House. Brendaliz also goes to the podium to speak and read a poem. After, scroll down to see all the videos and articles that have followed. The White House Ceremony
more → - U. S. News article on The Clemente Course in the Humanities
Teen Moms in Poverty Take Free College Courses By Laura McMullen March 12, 2012 U. S. News article Many teenage mothers who have dropped out of high school and live in poverty likely have their hands full providing for their children. Pondering the ideas of ancient philosophers and writing essays about art history may be low [...]
more → - The Christian Science Monitor
Anne Teschner brings Shakespeare, Plato, and high academic goals to teen mothers The Care Center, in Holyoke, Mass., uses private school and even college coursework to challenge teen moms to aim higher. By Molly Driscoll, Contributor / November 28, 2011 Anne Teschner (left), executive director of The Care Center in Holyoke, Mass., receives the National Arts and [...]
more → - Care Center on Front Page of Huffington Post
“Clemente Course Inspires Teen Moms” Huffington Post article
more → - Easthampton Artist & Care Center Students Create Installation
By REBECCA EVERETT Staff Writer EASTHAMPTON — Artist Cassandra Holden of Easthampton knows that getting an education can be a complicated process. She enrolled at Smith College in 1989, dropped out in the beginning of her senior year, enrolled again as a nontraditional-age student in 1999, and left school again when she needed [...]
more → - Boston Globe article on Care Center art teacher
ON THE JOB Sculptor’s class keeps the art story going By Cindy Atoji Keene | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT MAY 13, 2012 Ezra Parzybok teaches art to teenage mothers at The Care Center in Holyoke. He says art is “a great way of . . . helping you discover what makes you unique.’’ For many teen moms [...]
more → - Teen mothers learn to believe in selves
The Boston Globe By Peter Schworm GLOBE STAFF November 02,2011 HOLYOKE – In a voice soft but sure, Crystal Martinez read her poem to the class, filled with young mothers like her. She had written about how she loves to sing, how she dreams of singing under bright lights, how she never tells anyone about [...]
more → - The Care Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Published Poetry Journal
A Proud Tradition in Poetry and Publishing: The Care Center Celebrates the 10th Anniversary of a Poetry Journal by Teen Mothers Holyoke, MA — Earlier this month a group of students gathered in a third-floor classroom to begin selecting poetry and art to include in their school’s poetry journal. This in itself is not an [...]
more → - How Plato Is Helping Women In Poverty
Below is the link to Boston’s New Station WBUR, which aired a story on The Care Center Clementes Course on February 21, 2012. For more than a decade, The Care Center has offered GED students and other low-income women in our community The Clemente Course in the Humanities, a multi-faceted course which focuses on art history, moral philosophy, [...]
more → - WGBY CH. 57 Video
Watch Executive Director Anne Teschner and students Tashia Davis and Brendaliz Rivera talk about The Care Center
more → - Northampton woman honored at White House
Gazzettenet by Nick Grabbe Thursday, November 3, 2011 HOLYOKE – Anne Teschner of Northampton was at the White House Wednesday to receive an [...]
more → - The Holyoke Sun
The Care Center makes the front page of The Holyoke Sun. See this very interesting flipbook. Holyoke Sun Flipbook 11-18-2011
more → - Holyoke School for Teen Mothers Earns National Award
WGGB by News Tips HOLYOKE, Mass. — The Care Center, an alternative school for teen mothers, has earned a national honor. Student Brendaliz Rivera, center graduate Tashia Davis and the center’s executive director, Anne Teschner, were at the White House on Wednesday to accept the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for the school. [...]
more → - Holyoke Care Center nationally recognized
CBS3 By Cherise Leclerc Nov. 2, 2011 HOLYOKE, MA Holyoke has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the state, and that’s why there are places for new moms to go when they find themselves in that spot. Care Center in Holyoke is one of the places girls can go for assistance, and the center [...]
more → - New book connects Holyoke Teens to Holyoke’s History
LEARNING IN MRS. TOWNE’S HOUSE: A TEACHER, HER STUDENTS AND THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED THEM by Tzivia Gover In the spring of 2000, author Tzivia Gover (Northampton, Mass.) decided to leave the world of daily journalism to teach poetry to teen mothers in a small, struggling inner-city neighborhood in western Massachusetts. White, suburban and Jewish, [...]
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