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Register Now for our 2025 Partner Celebration

Join us for our Annual Partner Celebration on Wednesday, May 28th from 5:00-7:00pm at Bentley University. This event brings together over 200 guests from the city's educational, municipal, and business sectors to showcase WPY’s partnerships that powerfully impact Waltham youth. We will feature a short, inspiring program, including a student speaker and keynote speaker. Funds raised from the event are an important part of our annual budget, enabling WPY to run programs for over 600 local students per year.

Meet Our Partner Celebration Speakers!

Career Exploration & Training (CET)

Connecting students to life-altering career development opportunities through meaningful paid internship experiences.

Pictured above: WPY Spanish for Educators intern, Esteban, serving as a conversation partner during a Spanish for Educators class

This month, the Career Exploration & Training team began to wrap up school-year programming while simultaneously preparing for our signature Summer Internship Program.

Highlights of our school-year internship programming include Spanish for Educators, where three WPY high school interns supported both beginner and intermediate Spanish classes for Waltham Public Schools educators. Interns were especially excited that their own Waltham High School Principal, Darrell Braggs, was one of their students this spring!

The Teen Mental Health Alliance (TMHA) internship students are also preparing for their end-of-year community project. The TMHA interns are working together to host Families for Depression Awareness, a Waltham-based mental health organization, for an event on May 14th at Waltham High School. This "Minds Matter" event is geared toward Waltham High School students and aims to destigmatize mental health conversations and questions.

The CET team has also stayed busy this month with preparations for WPY's Summer Internship Program. Interviews will conclude in the coming weeks. Thank you to the incredible Bentley University Career Success Institute mentors, WPY Board of Directors, and WPY staff for working together to interview more than 100 students! Students will learn of their final Summer Internship Program placements by the end of May.

Wraparound Waltham

Collaborating to create a community of belonging and opportunity for newcomer immigrant students and their families.

Pictured above: Waltham Valor High School (WVHS) students at the Expanding Girls' STEM Career Horizons Summit, where they were joined by WVHS and WPY staff

This year, we have been proud to partner with Waltham Valor High School (WVHS) during their first year of operation as Waltham's newest high school. 

One way that we have worked with WVHS students and staff is by supporting their community engagement efforts. For example, WPY's Wraparound Senior Program Coordinator, Alexa Cuellar, joined WVHS students and staff for an all-day summit at Regis College, led by the Expanding Girls' STEM Career Horizons. Students met with women STEM experts and were exposed to STEM industries and career options through dynamic workshops and activities. WVHS students learned about medical technology, explored the human brain in the neuroscience lab, conducted lab sampling, and even practiced computer coding as they designed their own website. 

Alexa also supported WVHS students at the Metro South/West Workforce Board's Career Expo, and members of our team joined WVHS students and staff for a special visit with Waltham Fields Community Farm, where they learned all about the Farm's important role in our community. 

We are thrilled to be supporting WVHS staff's efforts to connect their students with exciting educational opportunities and vital community resources!

Opportunities for Youth and

Community Members:

WPY's Teen Mental Health Alliance Presents: Mind Matters

Students, join WPY's Teen Mental Health Alliance and Families for Depression Awareness for Mind Matters, a panel to destigmatize mental health conversations. This event takes place on May 14th at 1:30 PM in Waltham High School Rm. 4020.

Please email CET Mental Health and Healthcare Professionals of Tomorrow Coordinator, Monica Manna, with questions.

Upward Bound Info Session for Parents

WPY invites Spanish-speaking parents of incoming ninth graders and current Waltham high school students to learn more about Upward Bound's summer program. Upward Bound aims to increase high school completion and college enrollment/graduation for first generation students and students from low-income families.

Please email Waltham Welcome Center Coordinator, Marlen Godinez, with questions.

Storytelling Workshop by We Are Waltham

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