Our Programs

Chelsea Youth Employment Initiative was created to reduce and ultimately eliminate youth violence. This program hires youth during the summer months and offers enrichment activities and trainings to keep them off the streets and teach them valuable employment and life skills.

Chelsea Green Space & Recreation Committee (Green Space) works to achieve environmental justice by engaging residents, environmentalists and health advocates in increasing and improving the amount and quality of open space; creating public access and educational opportunities along Chelsea Creek; planting trees; and reducing pollution-related health issues.

Chelsea Latino Immigrant Committee (CLIC) engages newly arriving immigrants and refugees as well as less-recent immigrants in becoming empowered members of the Chelsea community by participating in campaigns focusing in civil, immigration and workers' rights.

Chelsea Latino Coalition mobilizes Chelsea Latino business, churches, youth agencies, public officials, police, and other community leaders to empower the entire Latino population, particularly youth, in Chelsea

Chelsea United in Defense of Education (CUDE) promotes the participation of parents and students in all levels of the public school educational process.

Chelsea Community Fund provides small grants to Chelsea neighborhood coalitions, organizations, and grassroots groups.

Environmental Chelsea Organizers (ECO), a youth component of Green Space, is comprised of seven Chelsea teens who lead campaigns to increase awareness about environmental justice in Chelsea and advocate for green solutions, such as more open space and the planting of trees.

Shanbaro Community Association The Shanbaro Community Association consists of individuals from the Somali Bantu tribe who are organizing their community of fellow Bantu tribe members to become empowered to access health care, social services and educational needs while becoming civically involved in the overall community of Chelsea.

Chelsea Citywide Tenants Association (CTA) is a committee of residents living in low-income or public housing, which also supports the effort to create more affordable housing in Chelsea.