Dorchester House Multi-Service Center

Teens: are you feeling stressed out? Come to a free, teen only yoga class at the Dorchester House! The class will run from 2:45 to 4:00 p.m. on Fridays, September 23 to October 28, 2011. Join your peers in the Dorchester House Wellness Room for a great, relaxing time!

Bring a water bottle and wear comfortable gym clothes. No shoes required. Dorchester House will provide yoga mats. Come with an open positive mind! Please have a guardian signature to participate if you are under 18. With questions, call Marika at 617.740.2572 or email marika.hewes@dorchesterhouse.org. 

(Photo courtesy of Doctor B). 

Dorchester House Multi-Service Center is proud to welcome two local agricultural groups with social missions back to its weekly farmers market in Fields Corner. The market will provide locally grown produce and information on nutrition, food stamps, WIC and other community organizations to the Dorchester Community. The Dorchester House Farmers Market will be held on Ellet Street next to the health center on Dorchester Avenue. The Market is open every Tuesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and opens on Tuesday, June 28! Check out "Serving Ourselves" Farm and reVision Urban Farm after the break! >> Read More

This year, the Boston Natural Areas Network (BNAN) is expanding the "Produce to Pantries" project run through the Boston Gardeners Council. In the past two years, community gardeners and local farms donated over a thousand pounds of produce to food pantries throughout Boston. Last year this program reached approximately 150 families in the first 3 months alone. This year, BNAN will be working with three different food pantries within the city: St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Dorchester House Multi-Service Center, and the Haitian American Public Health Initiative (HAPHI). BNAN is excited to reach out to a larger range of communities in different neighborhoods and hopes to expand the program further in the coming years. As with any volunteer effort, help is needed! BNAN is currently seeking volunteers to help out on Tuesday and Friday mornings with both delivering produce from farms to pantries and sorting/distributing produce at the pantries themselves. The commitment would be for about an hour or so depending on the location. Please contact BNAN if you are willing and able to help out with this effort!

Email Shauna Mulvihill at shauna.mulvi@gmail.com or Karen Chaffee at karen@bostonnatural.org for more information. Or call the BNAN office: (617) 542-7696.

It's time to talk about Dorchester. Come to the Dorchester House Multi-Service Center (1353 Dorchester Avenue) on Tuesday, June 21 for a discussion of the health issues affecting the neighborhood, with a special focus on obesity, hepatitis and diabetes. The forum, free of charge, will take place from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room. A light dinner will be provided. Join the Boston Public Health Commission, Eaton Apothecary and CVS Pharmacy, in partnership with Close to Home, Hospice of Boston and Greater Brockton, Mujeres Unidas en Acción, Viet-AID and the Vietnamese-American Women's League of Massachusetts and vicinities in buildling a safe and healthy Dorchester!

For more information or to RSVP, contact Mary Truong, External Relations Director, at (617)740-2419 or by emailing Mary.Truong@DorchesterHouse.org. 

The Dorchester House Multi-Service Center's pool is temporarily closed from April 6th to April 20th due to required sprinkler installation, but fear not there are many other community pools in the Dorchester area! Below is a list of pools available to the publis with fairly inexpensive membership fees.

Swimming Pools Open to the Public in Dorchester: >> Read More