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Children & Families
Activities
- See also: Summer Camps
- Boys & Girls Clubs - search for local club
- YMCA- find a local YMCA
- Girls, Inc- find a Massachusetts Girls, Inc.
- Boston Centers for Youth & Families
- Museums and Attractions
- EBT Card to Culture program - allows those receiving benefits from DTA to access museums, performances, and other cultural programming at a reduced price or for free.
- Things to Do Around Boston - free and low-cost, Boston.gov
- BPS Sundays - Free Museum Admission for BOSTON Public School (BPS) students and families - as of February 2024, on the first and second Sundays of each month, BPS students and their families will get free admission at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Science, The Boston Children's Museum, the New England Aquarium, and the Franklin Park Zoo.
Note that at this writing (9/24) this program does NOT include Boston children enrolled in private or charter schools, those who are home-schooled or students in the METCO program. Mayor Wu has announced that free access will be expanded in 2025 to include all school-age children in the city. (Newsletter, 9/24).
- Adaptive Sports and Active Recreation Resource Guide: Massachusetts - active recreation opportunities for children and youth with special needs - Franciscan Children's Hospital (1/18)
- Earn-A-Bike Programs
- Next Step - programs for teens and young adults with life-threatening illnesses (See Next Step- Support for Teens and Young Adults
with Life-Threatening Illnesses, MGH Community News, August 2017)
- SCORE Boston - Urban Youth Ice Hockey
- Heroes Circle - Free martial arts training for seriously ill children and siblings
- People with Disabilities are Entitled to a Free Lifetime Pass to National Parks- can be used at over 2000 Federal recreation sites across the nation, including National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, National Forests, and other federal recreation lands- MGH Community News, March 2019
- Greater Massachusetts Special-Needs Event Calendar- Online directory of recreation events and programs throughout Massachusetts for kids and teens with disabilities.
In The News
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