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Location:
The Jump-Start After School Program (NEARI) 70 North Summer Street Holyoke, MA 01040 |
Mailing Address:
ATTENTION:
The Jump-Start After School Program (NEARI) 70 North Summer Street Holyoke, MA 01040 |
Telephone Numbers and Contact information
Phone #:(413) 532-1713
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Fax Number:(413) 532-1795
Web Page:
www.neari.com/jumpstart.html
E-mail to:
information@neari.com
Program Details:
Operating Agency:
New England Adolescent Research Institute Inc. (Private, Non-Profit)
Person In Charge:
Directors:Steve Bengis, Penny Cuninggim
Hours:
Mon,Wed,Fri, 8-3; Tues, Thur, 8-4:30.
Eligibility:
emotionally disturbed children and adolescents between the age of 10 and 22.
Fees:
none - town pays tuition of referrals
Intake Process:
call
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Program/Service Notes:
It is new early intervention, after-school initiative piloted in January of 1999, to serve up to 40 disadvantaged youth in Greater Holyoke. These youth are at high risk for substance abuse, gang and criminal involvement, HIV and other illnesses, and teen-pregnancy. Jump-Start is designed to reach these youth before their behaviors escalate.
NEARI is a private, non-profit 766 school serving 55 students in special education day and after-school settings. The agency provides educational and treatment services to emotionally disturbed adolescents. The agency also provides training workshops, seminars and consulting services to social service and special expertise programs for emotionally disturbed adolescents:
-sexual abuse victims
-those with a history of fire setting
-alcohol and drug involved youth whose primary diagnosis is emotional disturbance
-intervention/ physical and therapeutic holds.
Neary has 4 programs: the Day School, the Training Center, the Neari Press and the Jump-start Program.
This information was last updated on 03/11/2005
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