What We Do

The Waltham Partnership for Youth, Inc. seeks to expand the role that business plays in the lives of youth. Education, skill building, and entrepreneurship are essential components to future success. Home to much high tech industry along Route 128, often called the High-Tech Highway, Waltham's population doubles on a daily basis as employees in those industries come to work, shop, and find recreation here. As we move forward in this new millennium, it is appropriate to link Waltham's rich heritage of industrial development, its higher education and public school systems, and its youth support services to prepare young people to be business leaders, innovators, and workers of tomorrow. As industry joins hands with Waltham, all - employers, employees, students, and the community - will benefit by the better-educated workforce and the deeper community commitments forged along the way.

The Waltham Partnership for Youth, Inc. works collaboratively with the Waltham West Suburban Chamber of Commerce, the Charles River School-to-Career Consortium, the Charles River Museum of Industry and Public Internet Center, the Metro SouthWest Regional Employment Board, and the Waltham Tourism Council, Inc. The Partnership serves as a resource for the Waltham Public School's Youth Tech Entrepreneurs program, as well as its nationally recognized Bridging Education and Technology (BEAT) program and other Career Prep programs. And the Partnership realizes that in order to achieve success in school and on the job, youth must come to school well prepared to learn and work, be supervised after school, and go home to safe and supportive environments. Thus the Partnership links through the Waltham Interagency Council to coordinate broad-spectrum support services as needed.