Bird Street Community Center (BSCC) is an independent non-profit youth organization serving Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan, and Hyde Park. For 33 years, with the active engagement of community residents, business leaders, youth, and other stakeholders, Bird Street has thrived, creating and nurturing a community gathering place where children and youth are able to find the support they need to grow into healthy and productive adults.

Bird Street Community Vision: Bird Street Community Center is the North Dorchester “hub” for children and
youth who seek intellectual, physical, emotional and personal growth and well being.
Courts, social service agencies, schools and families trust Bird Street to help the
community’s low income/high risk children achieve important life goals and grow into
young adults who are community change makers and leaders. Bird Street is the major
provider of intentional programming for out-of­schooI and after school activities.
Generations of children and then their children lînd a safe and caring place for growing
and developing character and skills.Center is the "hub" for children and youth who seek intellectual, physical emotional, and personal growth and well being. Courts, social service agencies, schools and families trust Bird Street to help the community's low income/high risk children achieve important life goals and grow into young adults who are community change makers and leaders.More

To provide low income high-risk youth with all of the critical programs and services Mission:

The mission of Bird Street Community Center is to provide

low income high risk youth with all of the critical programs and services
that allow inner city children and youth to rise above poverty, to become
the first in their families to graduate from college, to lead the community
as a place of peace and prosperity, and to thrive as the adults of
tomorrow. Bird Street provides these programs and services in an
environment that is youth-friendly, safe, and supportive of the potential
that is possible when families, schools and agencies work together to
nurture the young.

that allow inner city children and youth to rise above poverty, to become the first in their families to graduate from college, to lead the community as a place of peace and prosperity, and to thrive as the adults of tomorrow.More