Additionally, the Center offers computer literacy courses and maintains a computer laboratory. It provides employment assistance by helping job seekers in writing resumes and cover letters and by connecting people with available positions and resources. The Center's Bridging the Digital Divide program guides children and teens through activities in photography, video, animation, Internet, Web page design, e-mail, desktop publishing, and basic computer literacy. Other youth programs at the Center further its initiatives in addiction prevention and civic participation. The Center offers support groups and psycho-educational groups to young people and parents struggling with addiction or the effects of addiction in their families.
Youth meet with peers from other groups and neighborhoods to share experiences and collaboration.
The Senior Lunch Program provides elders with low-cost lunches on Mondays through Fridays. Exercise classes, social cohesion, discussion of community concerns, and informal mentoring of young people have arisen from the lunch program. Other intergenerational projects have brought people of all ages together for a Boston by Sea cruise, tending to plants, conversation, and documentation of our experiences. The Action Center collaborates extensively with area residents, schools and universities, civic groups, service providers, businesses, and advocacy groups, in our common concern about such issues as affordable housing, education, access to services, youth drug use and suicide risk, and public safety. In addition to exchanging information and referrals, we share resources, conduct research, organize community-wide meetings, extend the community's volunteer network, engage in media training and communication, coordinate services, and hold events for the purposes of education, celebration, and the strengthening of family and community ties.