This year for the first time, The Care Center’s annual three-credit introductory college humanities course in collaboration with Greenfield Community College (GCC) is meeting at Holyoke Community College’s (HCC) Kittredge Center. This experience is giving students a fuller, more authentic college experience and a feel for HCC, where many of them will pursue their college [...]
A Proud Tradition in Poetry and Publishing: The Care Center Celebrates the 10th Anniversary of a Poetry Journal by Teen Mothers 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 uncommon scenario, but [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
“Clemente Course Inspires Teen Moms” Huffington Post article
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 Humanities [...]
The Care Center makes the front page of The Holyoke Sun. See this very interesting flipbook. Holyoke Sun Flipbook 11-18-2011
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 [...]
Watch Executive Director Anne Teschner and students Tashia Davis and Brendaliz Rivera talk about The Care Center
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 [...]
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