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Learn more about Yale and New Haven Youth Programs: • Overview • Community Programs • New Haven |
Community Programs and EventsThere are many opportunities for New Haven families to explore the Yale campus and experience our world-class arts and utilize our educational resources. Both the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art are free and open to the public year-round. In addition, Yale helps support several community-based programs, such as the New Haven Reads Book Bank, which collects and distributes over 140,000 books to children and families throughout the city each year. The Yale Peabody Museum welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. The Dixwell-Yale University Community Learning Center provides a place for residents to gather for community meetings and events, enhance computer skills, and participate in Yale-sponsored educational and recreational youth programs.
Programs and PartnershipsDixwell-Yale Community Learning Center (DYCLC) Info: www.yale.edu/dixwellyale
Info: www.dwighthall.org
Info: www.newhavenreads.org
Info: http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/parentsfirst
Info: yalebulldogs.cstv.com/community/yale-community.html
Info: artgallery.yale.edu
Info: www.yale.edu/ycba
Info: info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Info: www.peabody.yale.edu
Info: www.yalerep.org
EventsAstronomy Public Observing Nights Twice a month, participants are welcomed to look through one of the many telescopes at the Leitner Family Observatory and have questions answered about astronomy. The astronomical objects viewed change seasonally, and range from the Moon to the planets (such as Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Venus) to nearby star clusters and galaxies. Also, the first Thursday of every month, lectures are given by members of the Department of Astronomy. Past topics have included "Astronomy at the Movies," and "Lunar Dust: The Dangers of a Dirty Moon." Due to construction of a planetarium at the Leitner Family Observatory, there will be no "First Thursdays" Public Lectures during Spring semester 2008. Public observing will continue as normal. Info: www.astro.yale.edu/publicnights/ Contact: Bethany Cobb at cobb@astro.yale.edu
Info: www.eng.yale.edu/science
Yale Athletic Department Youth Days
Contact: Greg Brinn, Assistant Athletic Director for Alumni Affairs & Community Outreach, at 203-432-3344 or gregory.brinn@yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art Family Fun Days The Yale Center for British Art offers two free Family Fun Day programs per semester for elementary school visitors and their families. These interactive programs involve music, movement, and story-telling activities. Contact: Linda Friedlaender, Curator of Education, at 203-432-2855 or linda.friedlaender@yale.edu
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Events & Public Programs
Info: www.peabody.yale.edu/events/ev_annual.html |
The DYCLC provides educational programs for Dixwell residents in order to cultivate scholastic achievement and strengthen the social and economic conditions of the area. The DYCLC offers tutoring in literacy and math as well as programs in the arts, computer technology, personal finance, and entrepreneurship. The community center provides access to computers for residents and meeting space for Dixwell community organizations. 
Dwight Hall is an umbrella community service organization under which more than 2,000 Yale University students volunteer in the New Haven Public Schools. Yale students provide services such as tutoring, mentoring, youth development, and advocacy programs. 
The Book Bank is a joint project of New Haven Reads and Yale that provides free books to individuals, families, teachers, and organizations. The Book Bank is located at 45 Bristol Street, across from the Dixwell-Yale University Community Learning Center, and serves as a drop-off point and distribution center for donated books. The Book Bank also provides free tutoring to children and adults. 
The Parents First program helps mothers and fathers enhance their ability to support the social and emotional development of their children. The program offers parent group sessions, individual consultations, and links to a variety of parenting and family resources. Yale Child Study Center personnel staff the program. 
The Yale Athletic Department has a variety of youth programs that take place in the New Haven community and on Yale’s campus.
The Yale University Art Gallery has over 185,000 works of art in its permanent collection, ranging from American decorative arts and American Paintings to African art and art of the ancient Americas. In addition to its permanent collection, the Gallery also has educational programs, special exhibitions, study rooms, and museum archives. The Gallery is open to the public and admission is free.
The Yale Center for British Art houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. The Center has a wide variety of educational programs, fellowships, and academic resources. The Center is open to the public and admission is free.
The Yale Child Study Center provides clinical care for children and adolescents in New Haven, engages in scientific research, trains child development professionals, and helps shape social policy concerning children. The Center brings outpatient mental health services to students in New Haven Public Schools through school-based clinics. The Center also has a partnership with the New Haven Police Department to reduce the impact of violence on New Haven's children. 
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History features a diverse collection, including dinosaur skeletons, Egyptian mummies, dioramas of North American wildlife, and a new permanent exhibit on our planet and solar system. In addition to many educational programs, the Peabody offers excellent academic research opportunities and scientific publications. The Museum is open to the public and offers free return tickets to the families of New Haven school children who visit each year. There is a modest fee for admission.
In addition to its theatrical performances of new and classic plays, the Yale Repertory Theater offers educational programs for the New Haven community. Admission fee. 
Yale sponsors a free lecture series for children, grades 7 and above, on Saturday mornings each fall. The mission of this series is to showcase science in an engaging way with talks given by Yale professors and local scientists. Past topics have included: astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, forestry, medicine, psychology, and physics. 
Yale student-athletes and coaches host four Youth Days a year: Fall Youth Day at the Yale Bowl, Winter Youth Day, Yale Hockey Youth Day, and Spring Yale Olympic Youth Day. Youth Days are open to the public and often include free sports clinics, free admission to a Yale sporting event, and prizes for participants.
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History hosts annual events including Fiesta Latina, Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Weekend, Dinosaur Days, and The Natural History of Witches and Wizards: A Peabody Halloween. The Peabody hosts the Paleo-Knowledge Bowl competition for Connecticut students in grades 4-6 and offers public programs such as the John H. Ostrom lecture series. 