The Milford Youth Center has a just two weeks of camp left! The kids already enjoyed a water slide at the Center, trips to Southwick's Zoo, Canobie Lake Park, Norfolk Ice Skating Arena, Captain John's Whale Watch, Basketball Hall of Fame, Water Wizz, and Hopkinton State Park! 

We are still accepting Summer Camp registrations for the remaining two weeks! Activities for the rest of the summer include weekly field trips and fun in-town activities! Some trips remaining are Pinz Entertainment and a trip to Onset Beach! In-town activities include Fino Pool, the town park, and activities at the Center!

Camp runs from 8 am-4 pm for $135 per week or $40 per day. There is an extended day option from 4-5 pm for an extra $10 per day. For registration forms click here. For a listing of day-to-day schedule, click here.

For more information, click here. For photo's, click here. 

The Milford Youth Center would like to thank the organizations and groups that have generously donated and supported our summer camp program this year! First, we would like to thank the Milford National Bank and its Charitable Foundation for generously supporting 10 of our Summer Camp youth in need!

We would also like to thank the Worcester County District Attorney's drug forfeiture program for supporting our summer camp program with a generous donation of $4,000! Rep. John Fernandes and District Attorney Joseph Early were instrumental in making this happen! 

In addition, we would like to thank the Milford Rotary Club for it's generous donation of $1,000 for the Summer Camp Program!!!

The Milford Youth Center would like to thank Elder Preston Swasey (Boulder City, Nevada), Elder Brent Meservy (Corona, California) and former volunteer Elder Keaton Johnston (Pocatello, Idaho) for their numerous volunteer hours at the Center over the last couple months! 

The three have volunteered with cleaning, playing with kids and with monitoring events!

The three young men are missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or the Mormon Church. Voluntarily, and at their own expense, they have left their families, homes, friends, schooling, jobs, phones, etc. in order to dedicate two years of their lives at the service of those in the New England area. For more on their mission, click here! 

Look out for a newsletter in the next couple weeks with all the new information for our upcoming After School program. We will have a schedule available soon! We plan to open for the first full week of school, starting, Monday, September 2nd! Finally, we will also be having an open house at the beginning of the school year to welcome new families who are unfamiliar with what the Center does and offers. 

You can find out all up-to-date info at our website: http://milfordyouthcenter.net

The TDA is still accepting registration forms for their August classes! Click here for an updated registration form! The 2013-2014 classroom schedule for Milford will be available soon! Check out this Milford Daily News article about our collaboration with the Teacher's Driving Academy!

The Milford Youth Center is pleased to partner with the Teachers Driving Academy to offer students a great program, at a reasonable price, with the added convenience of taking classes right at school! Every registration fee is made out the Milford Youth Center as a donation from TDA. We are very grateful for this collaboration and support!  Click here for more information.   

The Youth Center is part of the coalition, Healthy Futures of Milford, a group that  is committed to promoting physical activity and healthy eating through programs, projects and policies. We strive to make the healthy choice, the easy choice.

For the second year in row we are inviting campers,starting this week, to participate in the ReThink Your Drink Challenge. ReThink Your Drink Summer Challenge was put together to encourage the community to cut down and eliminate sugar-sweetened beverages. 

Campers are obligated to participate but are sent the  information and if interested asked to sign a  pledge to rarely drink sugar-sweetened beverages (1-2 times a week). There will be prizes throughout the summer for participants! Our first winner was Olivia Acquafresca and our second was Malachi Pierre and they won 4 Pawsox tickets (Thanks to the WMRC) and MYC Water Bottle!

The United Way of Tri-County is running their annual back-to-school backpack program! United Way is committed to helping children and youth succeed and ensuring every young person is ready to learn.

 The program is a combined effort between area businesses and employees to provide backpacks and school supplies for the upcoming school year.

Over the past 4 years the program has distributed over 1,400 backpacks to area kids in elementary, middle and high school. This program always gives to the Milford Youth Center too!!!

It's easy to get involved. You can either purchase school supplies/backpacks for the program; or, for $25 United Way supplies students with their own backpack filled with supplies.

You can also help by volunteering to sort and assemble backpacks. To find out more about this exciting program, please contact:

Barbara LaGrenade, Director of Volunteerism at 508-370-4902 or by email at: [email protected]

For more information, click here. 

The JAG Youth Council will start up again on Wednesday, September 11th for an informational meeting from 3-4 PM at the Milford Youth Center. 

The Youth Council helped plan and took park in numerous events and volunteer opportunities this school year! The Youth planned the monthly Find Yourself Friday events helped organize a sneaker collection for youth in the Dominican Republic,  and donations to the United Way of Tri-County's "Feed a Family for Fifty," a fund to support the victim's families of Sandy Hook and to the Relay for Life of Milford. The Youth also took park in the Milford CROP Walk, "Dressed Up, Not Messed Up" Fashion Show, Milford Play Initiative Fundraisers, the Relay for Life overnight, and finally helped conduct interviews for the the Milford Youth Center's Strategic Plan! 

The Milford Play Initiative is looking forward to its 6th annual Milford 5K Road Race, Kids Fun Run and Tots Sprint. Once again we will be raising money to support the Milford Play Initiative in their efforts to build a NEW playground at Fino Field. The Theme for the race is A Day For "Play". The race will be held Sunday, September 15th!

We are in need of participants, volunteers, sponsors and raffle donations. We are hoping to get the community involved as Families. It will be a fun day for the whole family with activities for the kids, continental breakfast, raffle prizes and much more. For more information, and to register, visit here.

Special thanks to Prezo's of Milford for hosting our fundraiser last month!

Join us on August 17, 2013 at 1 PM  at 125 Plain St in Hopedale. The whole day is a benefit for the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts. All proceeds collected go directly to the Brain Injury Association. This is a great charity that is celebrating their 30th anniversary this year. For more information, click here. 

If you have any questions, please contact Rich Martino at[email protected]

Drug Free Action Alliance is once again partnering with America's department store, Macy's in the 8th annual Macy's Shop for a Cause charity event.

Steps to participate and save:

1)  Make a $5.00 or greater tax deductible donation to Drug Free Action Alliance at DrugFreeActionAlliance.org

2)  Within 24 hours you will receive an emailed coupon from Drug Free Action Alliance for 25% off of regular, sale and clearance items or 10% off of electrics, watches, furniture, mattresses & rugs

3)  Visit your nearest Macy's location on Saturday August 24, 2013, enter to win the $500 Macy's gift card (one will be given out per location) and shop your favorite brands with the 25%/10% off coupon

Drug Free Action Alliance is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission of leading the way in promoting healthy lives through the prevention of substance abuse and related problems. 

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