Resources at CCSC
- Request a Loaner Chromebook: please complete this form if your student would benefit from having a CCSC-issued Chromebook that they can take home with them during the school year.
- CCSC's Counseling Team: If families would like to contact the counseling department for any reason, please email counseling@ccscambridge.org and a member of the counseling team will follow up with you.
- Free School Breakfasts and Lunches: All students at CCSC can receive breakfasts and lunches at no cost. Please reach out to Emma Bischof, Operations Coordinator, if you have any questions.
Food Resources
- Find Food Assistance in MA
- Massachusetts Food and Housing Resources
- Project Bread's COVID-19 Food Resources
- FoodSource Hotline (1-800-645-8333): A confidential and free one-stop-shop for MA residents in need of food assistance. Counselors can assist callers in 180 languages with SNAP (information, eligibility screening, and over-the-phone application assistance), finding free meals for kids and school meal sites, summer meal sites, P-EBT, local food pantries and meal programs, and more.
- Accessing Free School Breakfasts and Lunches
- Pandemic - Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT) Program
- FAQ Flyer (translations available here)
- How to Activate Your P-EBT Card (translations available here)
- Agency Locator from the Greater Boston Food Bank
- Food Resources in Boston (interactive map)
- Food Resources for Cambridge Residents (from Food for Free)
- Cambridge Food Resources Guide (translations available here)
Housing and Utility Resources
- Resources for Renters and Homeowners from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Food and Housing Resources
- Housing Resources and FAQs from the City of Cambridge
- Resources for Tenants from the Massachusetts Housing Partnership
- Housing Consumer Education Center
- COVID-19 and Evictions: Your Landlord Should Not Try to Evict You
- Heating Help
- Low-Cost Internet Access for eligible families (please also reach out to techsupport@ccscambridge.org with questions)
- Emergency Broadband Benefit Program (discount on monthly broadband bills for qualifying households)
Fun Educational Resources
- GBH Distance Learning Center (in partnership with the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education)
- Museum of Science's MOSatHome Initiative
- BrainPOP (reach out to your child's advisor, teacher, or principal for CCSC's login information)
- Audible (free books for children and youth ages 0–18)
- Code Break (from Code.org)
- Art Ideas and Activities
- CCSC Reads Book Recommendations
Community Resources
- City of Cambridge
- FindIt Cambridge
- Cambridge Mutual Aid Network
- Cambridge Public Library
- Cambridge YMCA and YWCA
- Massachusetts 2-1-1 hotline (24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
Our original Resources for Students and Families document is available here.