Online Winter Newsletter 2021 Now Published
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Standing Tall With Worker Rights Los Derechos al Trabajo
Mary Beth O’Sullivan, Ignatian Volunteer & Donna Stiglmeier, Director of Casserly House Did you know that workers who receive tips must be paid $6.75 per hour and, if tips don’t add up to the minimum $15 per hour, the employer is required to make up the...
End of the Year
As the 2021-2022 year at Casserly House comes to a close, we wanted to share with you two events we held during the month of June for our morning ESOL adult learners and Academic Enrichment kids! On June 16, the Academic Enrichment Program threw an end-of-the-year...
Relationship Building!
Today in Roslindale, Donna Stiglmeier, Director of Casserly House, met Mayor Michelle Wu, as well as City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo and Representative Rob Consalvo! Over the last nine months, Donna has enjoyed connecting with their staff - Uju Onochie, Jordan Frias,...
Welcome, Briana!
This August we will be welcoming our new Jesuit Volunteer, Briana! She will be the After School Coordinator for the 2021-2022 program year. Briana is a recent graduate from Pepperdine University in Malibu where she studied Psychology and Social Work. In her free time,...
Cops Vs. Kids Wiffle Ball Game
The E5 Police Department, the Police Athletic League, and the Community Outreach Bureau hosted our annual Cops vs. Kids Wiffle Ball Game last week! The BPD played soccer and wiffle ball with our students and they had a blast! After the game pizza, drinks and ice cream...
Summer Enrichment Program Fun
This month we held our two week Summer Enrichment Program! The theme this year was Ocean Life and we had buckets of fun. We had rotations that included crafts, reading and outside games. It was wonderful to run and play outside after a year where we all felt stuck...
Celebrating the End of School
On June 9th we joined together with the After School students for an End of the School Year celebration on Zoom, in which we recognized the perseverance and resilience they showed during a challenging year and celebrated the beginning of summer. Our students began...
June Update
Students in the Casserly House After School Program have started going back to in-person school, which has created excitement and hope in the community. We can see how this change has positively impacted the students’ grades and overall well being. Casserly House...
May Update
We can’t believe it is already mid-May! Since April Break, almost all of our students have returned to in person school. We are already seeing how this has made an improvement in their school work and enthusiasm! We have decided to continue online tutoring for the...
Happy April Break!
Next week our After School students will be off from school for April Break and we will not be having tutoring. On Thursday this week we held a Game Zoom to begin their break with some fun. We played Bingo, Kahoot!, a picture guessing game and a few other fun games....
Celebrations at Casserly House
On April 7th the Casserly House community gathered on Zoom to celebrate the incredible impact Jen Reis made during her time as Director. It was a wonderful evening in which we shared prayer, stories and thanks. The After School students made signs and some of the...
Happy Easter!
Happy (almost) Easter from Casserly House! We hope you have a day filled with joy, peace and sunshine! Today we celebrated Easter with the Casserly House community at our virtual Easter Prayer Service. Some of our After School Program students read poems and prayers...
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Casserly House! We handed out some St. Patrick’s Day goodie bags to the After School Program students. As we continue online tutoring we feel it is important that the kids know we are thinking about them and miss seeing them in person....
Spring Update!
Casserly House is keeping busy as we head into Spring. After a relaxing Winter Break our After School students, adult students and volunteers got right back into tutoring. All of our students continue to persevere despite facing the challenges of online learning. Our...
Happy February Break!
This week our students worked and played hard! Tuesday was a snow day for Boston Public Schools, so Casserly House followed suite and the After School Program was canceled for the afternoon. Then, on Wednesday we had a Game Zoom instead of tutoring! We had a scavenger...
Game Zoom Fun!
Sometimes in the After School Program (ASP) we like to break up homework time with games! While we’ve continued to do Zoom tutoring for ASP, spaces for community and connection are hard to come by. Before the pandemic hit, we scheduled in time for homework, snack,...
Casserly House Update!
During the past few months Casserly House has continued to adjust to virtual programming. The After School Program (ASP) students have been working hard in online school, but being on Zoom calls all day has brought many challenges. For several students, virtual...
Christmas Prayer Celebration!
Happy Holidays from Casserly House! On Thursday, December 17th Casserly House staff, volunteers, students and community members gathered for our annual Christmas Prayer Celebration. Just like our Thanksgiving Prayer Service, we held this celebration on Zoom. While we...
Thank you volunteers!
This week volunteers from the service organization 4Boston at Boston College and the BU Global Medical Brigades at Boston University began volunteering in our After School Program. This allowed us to start tutoring our students up to four days a week instead of two!...
Happy Thanksgiving!
At Casserly House we are thankful for our amazing community who has given us support this year. We wanted to say thank you to the Spirit of Life community and the District E-5 Police Department for providing Thanksgiving meals and gift certificates so we could hand...
Casserly House Annual Thanksgiving Prayer Service (on Zoom)
On Wednesday, November 18th Casserly House volunteers, Board members, After School Program students and other community members joined staff on Zoom for our annual Thanksgiving Prayer Service. Although meeting online was different from past years of prayer services,...