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Bringing the power of education, arts and culture to youth and their families in Holyoke, MA

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May 19, 2025

Our Annual Fundraising Party was a Big Success!

The Care Center's Annual Fundraising Party on May 15, 2025 was an incredible success! With an enthusiastic crowd of 400 guests, we celebrated our students and raised nearly $150,000 (and counting) to support tomorrow's leaders today. We are just blown away by everyone's generosity. And there's still time to show your support if you haven't already! We look forward to sharing more event … [Read more...] about Our Annual Fundraising Party was a Big Success!

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December 20, 2024

Poetry Events

The Care Center is excited to welcome the following poets & authors in 2025! (All events are free and open to the community; to RSVP or learn more, please email srauch@carecenterholyoke.org) Ada Limón Wednesday, February 5, 2025 1pm, Virtual via Zoom (email srauch@carecenterholyoke.org for link) Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the … [Read more...] about Poetry Events

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December 18, 2024

Meet Our Students

Each of the women you'll read about below are incredible on their own. Together, they are unstoppable.   Erica Baez graduated from The Care Center’s GED program twenty years ago and returned this fall to attend college at Bard Microcollege Holyoke. She discovered an interest in statistics in her Introduction to Sociology course and relates, “I have always been the underdog when it comes … [Read more...] about Meet Our Students

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December 11, 2024

My Journey from Student to Staff Member

My job at The Care Center is to help young parents get to and through college. And I know how difficult college can be with small children and a limited income. I was one of Bard Microcollege Holyoke's first four graduates. I'm the mother of two great kids, Hector, 14, and Adrian, 6. Without The Care Center's support when Hector was younger, getting to and through college would have been much … [Read more...] about My Journey from Student to Staff Member

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We’ve witnessed how one class, one professor can change the angle from which we see our future. Whether it’s holding an adult brain and learning the inner workings of its sponge-like, functionality or learning about the overabundance of Phage in a teaspoon of dirt, each subject is a building block to our reinvention of ourselves.

Wilma Rivera, Bard Microcollege Holyoke graduate, now completing her bachelor’s degree at Trinity College

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The Care Center is a recipient of the 2011 National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award, the nation’s highest honor recognizing community-based arts and humanities youth programs in the United States, presented by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The Care Center is also a recipient of the Mass Cultural Council’s 2019 Commonwealth Award, honoring exceptional achievement in the arts, humanities, and sciences. We are proud to receive funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Care Center is a 501(c)(3) organization. Tax ID 04-2962882

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