The Milford Youth Center had a great first week of camp and is looking forward to its second week! The kids already enjoyed a water slide at the Center and trips to Southwick's Zoo and Hopkinton State Park! 

Check out this Milford Daily News article! The Milford Youth Center was also quoted in the Boston Globe Business section on July 5th! The MYC Summer Camp will be heading to Water Wizz on August 5th, where a new movie, "The Way, Way Back," starring Steve Carell was filmed. The Globe wanted to know how much the campers enjoyed the park!

We are still accepting Summer Camp registrations for the remaining weeks! Activities for the rest of the summer include weekly field trips and fun in-town activities! Some trips remaining are Basketball Hall of Fame, Ice-skating, Pinz Entertainment, Water Wizz, and a whale watch! 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. 

We would like to thank the Community Use program, Taylor Rental of Norfolk, and Joann Fabrics and Craft Store of Milford for their help! We would especially like to thank the Hart family for donating water for the campers and Ron Auger for conducting CPR lessons for our counselors! 

If there are any local businesses or organizations that would like to sponsor a camper this summer please contact the Center! Every year we receive donations that help make camp available for local youth in need!

The Milford Youth Center would like to thank everyone for a great school year! We could not offer this great community resource without the support from the Town, the United Way of Tri-County, JAG, and the numerous community organizations, businesses, and volunteers that continue to support us! We are already working on programs for next school year! We are also working on a yearly calendar for all our events to help other groups and parents plan early! 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 Milford Youth Center would like to congratulate the MYC Skate Park Youth Venture group for receiving a $1,000 seed grand from the United Way of Tri-County Youth Venture on June 18th!

United Way Youth Venture is a social entrepreneurship program for youth ages 12-20. Young people are challenged to identify an issue in their community and create a business plan for a project that will be a viable solution to the issue they have identified. Through United Way Youth Venture, young adults learn valuable skills for future academic or professional pursuits while serving as leaders who impact their community in a positive way.

The team presented their idea to create a skate park at the Milford Youth Center. They are passionate about skateboarding, but have few options for places to skate that are safe or affordable. The team has worked in conjunction with the Milford Youth Center to identify a space in the basement of the building that can be used as a skate park at no charge to any child who attends the Youth Center. The team will conduct lessons at no charge to teach children how to skate safely and will host competitions as fundraisers to support skate park maintenance. The team has an established list of rules that all participants must follow, including that helmets are mandatory.

We would like to thank the panelists who helped make the decision to grant the money and added very valuable input to move forward successfully. The role of a selection panelist is to listen to the team present their project and determine whether or not they have thought the idea through and are prepared to implement it. Panelists had an opportunity to ask questions and offer suggestions to the team. The panelists unanimously approved the project! The panelists included John Tessini, Bob Tremblay, Mike Walsh and Richard Villani .

We would like to thank the youth who worked so hard on this project, the panelists,and especially Jessica Friswell of the United Way of Tri-County's Youth Venture program!

For more pictures, click here.

The TDA is still accepting registration forms for their July and 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!

Help support The United Way of Tri-County, one of The Milford Youth Center's largest supporters, and their Food Security Program!

By attending the 2013 Comics Unite comedy event, you will be helping to eliminate hunger in the MetroWest/495 Corridor! 

The event will be on July 17th at Tcan Theater in Natick and tickets are $35 for general admission. For more information, or to purchase tickets, click here. 

The JAG Youth Council enjoyed their end of the year party at the Milford Youth Center! The Milford Youth Center and the Juvenile Advocacy Group (JAG) staff wanted to thank the youth for another great and successful year! 

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! 

Thank you for a great year and your dedication! We will be starting up again in September! For more photos of the party, click here. 

Check out this link for a reference to help parents this summer with enforcing what your morals and values are as a parent regarding underage drinking by putting it in writing!

The Juvenile Advocacy Group would like to thank everyone for the participation over the last year and wishes everyone a fun and safe summer! We will be beginning meeting again in September!  

Explore ways to deal with "girl stuff", self-esteem, body image, drama, boys, friendships, negative copying skills, social media, parents and all the emotions that accompanies our "girl stuff"

This group will be starting July 10th through August 7th at Community Impact, 211 Main Street Milford, Ma. at 4:30 PM.

For more information or to register call 508-422-0242 ext 1 or email here. 

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!

Want to learn how to Salsa, Merengue, Tango, or even Swing? Well now is your chance! Dance instructors Bryan & Lana will be offering Latin and Ballroom dance classes at the Milford Youth Center. The next class is this Thursday, July 11th at 7:30 PM.  

Wayside's 4th Annual 5K4Kids is right around the corner! This year join us for THREE events in ONE! Register for the walk/run, enjoy the new family festival, and buy raffle tickets for the chance to win a $5,000 vacation to the destination of your choice! 

For more information, click here!

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