Port Arise
In 2020, coinciding with a global pandemic, Community Art Center partnered with neighboring organizations, Tutoring Plus, and Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House to initiate a collaborative program to meet the top-tier needs of neighborhood families. Between the three organizations there are more that 260 years serving residents of the Port-neighborhood in Cambridge. After successfully graduating 4 cohorts of the program, Community Art Center assumed sole management over the program called Port ARISE.
The aim is to provide support to our community through uplifting families. Our Port Family Advocate, Kosar Mohamed, connects families to community assets in order to advance family stabilization. Invoking the time-tested phrase “those closest to the problem are closest to the solution”. The intent is for the Port Arise Family Advocate to assist families by connecting them to existing community resources that they may not be aware of. Also, to help them streamline and navigate some of the processes involved in accessing these resources.
The idea is to help the entire family; whatever that family might look like. Some families will be small, and others will be multigenerational. The assistance will be tailored to meet the specific needs of each family.
"Being able to accomplish life-altering goals several times in less than a year is unheard of, yet here I am, at the end of this program, ready to set new goals"
~Port ARISE program participant
For more information, email Kosar Mohamed: