Skill-based education and training are at the core of FamilyAid’s 100-year history of helping impoverished families get back up on their feet.

For our children and parents, we utilize the Ascend Network 2-Generation framework to provide one-on-one and group parenting training, housing and tenancy skill-building, financial literacy classes and trauma symptom management. Our long-term partnerships with leading educational, childcare and public health organizations bring additional on-site educational support to families in our care.

For the area’s sizeable higher education sector, we offer a veritable living classroom allowing undergraduate and graduate-level students to work side-by-side with our experienced, tenured staff in designing and implementing cutting-edge education, training and empowerment programs to lift families out of poverty quickly. Since 1933, the agency has served as a teaching site for more than 1,000 students from leading colleges and universities including Boston College, Boston University, Simmons University and Harvard University. Additionally, we proudly serve as a field training site for Harvard University’s prestigious Mindich Service Fellowship Program, Amherst College’s Charles Hamilton Houston Program, Genuity and the College for Social Innovation. While many of our students have joined FamilyAid’s staff, others have taken leadership positions within the Commonwealth’s public schools, leading hospitals and other human service agencies.

And, while more than 95% of our staff are college educated with an average of 18 years of work experience, we invest in their continued on-site and in-classroom training. FamilyAid staff remain current on new innovations in human services and are supported in pursuing and maintaining their certifications, licensures and accreditations.

To learn more about our internship program, please contact us.