In keeping with the model of the Family Help Desk, volunteers connect adolescents in the Boston Medical Center Adolescent Center with information about child care, job training, cash assistance, health insurance, housing, food, sexually-transmitted diseases, birth control, and parenting.
Using a peer-counseling approach, the undergraduate volunteers serve as a vital link between the adolescents, a significant portion of whom are themselves parents, and critical community resources. ARC volunteers provide the teens particular support in accessing college admissions materials, financial aid information, and college preparatory assistance through the Count on College initiative.