We cannot believe that we are already in month eight of our After School Program, with over 580 registered members! This month on April 7th and the 17th the Center will be closed. During School break on the 18, 19th, 20th and 21st, we will be open from 12-3 for Open Gym only, for registered after school members only. For a look at the entire April calendar, click here.

This month the MYC is offering: 

• Open Gym, Game Room, Dinner & Snack daily
• Life Skills
• New Human Fitness with Coach Aaron
• Nutrition
• Knitting
• Draw with an iPad  
• Quiet Zone
• Arts and Crafts
• Social Emotional
• Boxing and Kickboxing
• Book Club 
• Milford TV 
• STEAM
• Tutoring with Madison
• Gardening
• Dance with Iliana
• MYC Youth Council

This month’s life skills program and presentation is provided by Hope Rudzinski, Community & School Outreach Coordinator, Office of District Attorney Joseph D. Early, Jr, Worcester, MA. Hope has been working at Office of District Attorney Joseph D. Early, Jr since January 2022, while she graduated from Nichols College in Dudley, MA in 2020 as an English major and Communications minor. Her favorite part of being in Outreach is connecting with the students, parents, and the community of Worcester County on a personal level and providing them with helpful and positive resources to make good choices. It is very important that we are educating youth and their parents to make sure they’re aware of healthy relationships, bullying, and staying safe online because their own personal lives and social lives are heavily intertwined. She will conduct a safety and awareness program on Cyber Safety. Some topics she will cover are bullying, cyberbullying, laws against bullying, how to stay safe online, how to protect your information, how we are affected by social media, laws against sending and receiving explicit pictures and more. This very important program will be held on Wednesday, April 12th at 3:30. This program is for registered after school members only. An email with more details will be sent to parents and guardians. If you are interested and have not received the email, please call the center. This will also be a program that requires advance sign ups and commitment.

In collaboration with the Milford Regional Medical Center and Nadine from Connected and Inspired, the MYC will resume the Nutrition program on April 11th at 3:30. We are very excited to bring the importance of nutrition and the knowledge of making no-bake snacks for the kids who choose to participate. We also want the children to learn that this is something they can make for themselves! We’ve had a huge interest in this class in the past and hope to maintain the popularity by keeping it fun yet educational, while enforcing healthy-eating habits.

“Learn to Draw with an iPad” program is back! Sign up for this 3-week program now! Spots are limited! We are so happy to be working together with the Department of Mental Health together with Wayside MetroWest Community Service again! David is a professional artist and stagehand. He works in a variety of media and styles including graffiti, comics, tattoos and traditional. David is currently working on comic art, collages, custom toys, sneakers and pet portraits. David attended the Art Institute of Boston and majored in illustration. He also attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts where he majored in Public Art. David then went on to further his education at the Boston University Center for Digital Imagining Arts and also works in video game development. Art with iPad is a program for registered after school members and you must commit to and attend the three Mondays in April 4/3, 4/10, and 4/24 beginning at 3:30-5 pm. 

The Youth Center’s after school program is open for Milford youth ages 8-18, free of charge, from 2:15-6:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Only students registered by 1PM each day will be allowed to attend (10 am on vacation weeks). Any forms received after 1PM (or 10 am on vacation weeks), will be allowed to attend the following program day, if completed correctly. This is to ensure we have adequate time to process registrations. For more information about the program, click here. If you are interested in volunteering, please click here!