Career Pathways Program
The Career Pathways Program is designed for teens and young adults who are interested in learning about health careers and opportunities. Through this structured program participants are provided with mentorship, job shadowing, and other training and career exposure within a wide variety of departments at CHA. Opportunities include paid internships and early access to workforce development skills, education and more to increase future career access and attainment.
Mental Health Ambassadors Program
The Mental Health Ambassador program provides youth with training, education, and opportunities to be community change agents who work to reduce stigma and create a positive perception toward mental health and raising awareness of common mental health issues in the community. Youth earn a stipend for participation, and develop leadership, communication and professional development skills. This program runs during the school year and summer, and and is open to youth that live or go to school in Everett, Malden, Somerville, Cambridge, Medford, Revere, Winthrop, and Chelsea.
In-School and Out-Of-School Programs
CHA’s Sexual and Reproductive Health program leads school-based programming in Everett and Somerville for both in-school and out-of-school time.
Training and Professional Development
Everett Youth Worker Network strives to build a collaborative community. The Network supports the healthy development and social and emotional wellbeing of youth while also building the professional development of caring supportive adults; including community and school-based personnel.
Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring adults how to help people with mental health or substance use problems or who are in crisis. Available in English and Spanish.
QPR is a nationally recognized and evidence-based suicide prevention training for youth and adults to be able to recognize risk factors and the warning signs of suicide. Question, Persuade, Refer is a universal emergency mental health intervention to help identify suicidal individuals and provide the knowledge and tools to help prevent suicide.