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ABOUT US

The Bethel Institute for Community Development (BICD) - formerly Generation Excel Youth Development Program - was founded in 1992, its mission to “provide direct services and opportunities for growth to underserved, low-income at-risk and high-risk youth and their families.” After decades of operating primarily as a gang intervention program—working with youth trapped in the substantial wave of the gang-related violence that swept through Boston in the 1990’s—the organization altered its trajectory, and eventually morphed from Generation Excel into its present existence as the Bethel Institute for Community Development (BICD).

 

BICD’s mission is to provide the academic, social and emotional support for high-risk youth and families in Greater Boston in ways that measurably transform their lives and communities in which they live. The Institute’s focus has developed into achieving a fully-formed community membership, endeavoring to re-weave the entire fabric of its participants and their communities by:

- Furnishing necessary support services

- Bolstering the overall community-building capacity for its developing youth members...

- Enabling them to change their lives by following a path to success they themselves helped chart

- Reach back into our neighborhoods to share, teach, grow, and help others realize a bright, hopeful future

CONTACT US

Contact

FOR GENERAL INQUIRIES & DONATIONS

Kalya Hamlett Murray, Executive Director
Phone: (617) 524-4510
Email:info@bicdboston.org

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Rev. Ray Hammond, M.D., M.A., President

Teresa Lammey, Clerk

Lauren Bowens, Treasurer

Rev. June Cooper

Rev. Carrington Moore

ADDRESS

84 Wachusett Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

FOR CORRESPONDENCES

40 Walk Hill Street,

Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

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