NorthStar Learning Centers, Inc.

Make sure to sign up! Thanks United Way of Greater New Bedford

Volunteer Opportunity 🎒💙

Volunteer to help fill backpacks for kids across Greater New Bedford — we can’t do it without you. Join us in giving students the supplies they need for a successful school year.

Register by June 19, 2026, to lend a hand!

To learn more, visit: www.volunteersouthcoast.org

We have are so excited to announce that we received a grant from Senator Montigny's Children's Equality and Empowerment Fund. We are filling around 2,000 backpacks for children that need it most! Click here to sign up to help us stuff the bags on June 26th at 10am! We have everything, just need willing hands and hearts! https://www.volunteersouthcoast.org/need/detail/?need_id=1273308.

Help Fill a Backpack for a Child in Need | Volunteer SouthCoast We have generously received a grant from the Senator Montigny Children's Equality and Empowerment Fund to fill backpacks for kids in Greater New Bedford. We need your help!

The Shannon Program held their EDGE Assembly this past week and it was amazing to see so many young adults being encouraged, challenged and given hope for their futures! Thanks to UMass Dartmouth for hosting this event. City of New Bedford Police Department (Official)

We love Round the Bend Farm

Our Manifest Love program is growing! 💗 This year, we are donating an additional 10 shares per week to NorthStar Learning Centers, Inc. in New Bedford. This brings up our total to 160 free family shares per week to our Manifest Love partners to distribute (YWCA Southeastern Massachusetts, Youth Opportunities Unlimited, NorthStar Learning Centers, Inc. and Sacred Birthing Village-SouthCoast) Today was delivery day! Here, the shares await pickup in the NorthStar lobby💫

Thanks to the farmers, leaders, volunteers, funders and teammates who make this possible!

Our team enjoyed connecting with the community last Saturday at the Family Fest put on by Greater New Bedford Youth Alliance!

This brings such joy to our hearts! Seeing our young scholars enjoying the beautiful playground in this beautiful weather.

Some of our amazing students in our amazing Music Program! We are so thankful of our partnership with New Bedford Symphony Orchestra

North Star Visit with Peter, NBSO Cellist Visit us at http://www.nbsymphony.org.

Help us celebrate JoJo Johan Santiago. She is our Program Manager in our Youth & Family Services area. She is fun, caring, and relentless to help the families she serves! Congrats!

We love our teachers and staff at NorthStar Learning Centers.

During Mental Health Awareness Month, we want to recognize the vital work of the co-response program in New Bedford, a partnership between Child & Family Services, Inc., NorthStar Learning Centers, Inc. and City of New Bedford Police Department (Official)

Thank you to our clinicians !!!

Asyla, Dolly, Erin and Jessica 🩷

Having clinicians working directly alongside officers at the police department is incredibly important. When someone is facing a mental health crisis, the response often needs more than enforcement — it needs compassion, clinical expertise, de-escalation, and connection to care. These clinicians help meet people in some of their hardest moments, assess immediate needs, provide support, and help guide individuals and families toward services that can create lasting stability.

This work matters because it helps reduce trauma, strengthens trust in the community, and reminds people that mental health crises deserve understanding and treatment, not judgment.

A heartfelt thank you to the clinicians, officers, and everyone involved in this co-response effort. Your commitment, patience, and compassion are making a real difference every single day in the lives of so many throughout New Bedford.