Phillips Brooks House Association

Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) is one of the largest student organizations at Harvard College, with more than 70 programs and 1,200 student volunteers. It is an independent student-run, staff-supported public service and social justice organization providing a variety of services to the Greater Boston community.

PBHA effects change through service and activism in partnership with local communities. Founded in 1904, it has been at the heart of Harvard's progressive culture for over a century. PBHA is its own nonprofit but also works closely with Harvard and the larger Phillip Brooks House department, which was founded in the 2000s.

PBHA's programs fall into 7 categories: summer camps (SUP); advocacy; health; shelter and housing; mentoring; afterschool programming; and adult services.[1] PBHA includes two student-run homeless shelters, the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter (HSHS) and Y2Y Harvard Square. HSHS, founded in 1983, is the first student-run homeless shelter in the United States.[2] Y2Y is the nation's first youth homeless shelter, which was opened in 2015.

PBHA was the launching ground for the Living Wage campaign at Harvard, is home to the movement for fossil fuel divestment, and in the 1960s was the central meeting ground for civil rights activists. PBHA's Summer Urban Program was recognized by Michelle Obama. Other programs, such as Alzheimer's Buddies and Strong Women Strong Girls, have spread nationwide and now have branches at many other universities.

Term-time programs
  • Aiming for Higher Emerson Academic Development (AHEAD)
  • Alternative Spring Breaks (ASB)
  • Athena Program
  • Best Buddies
  • Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment Program (BRYE)
  • BRYE Extension
  • BRYE 1-2-1
  • BRYE Teen
  • BRYE Tutoring
  • CASP
  • CHANCE
  • Chinatown Committee
  • Chinatown Afterschool
  • Chinatown Big Sib
  • Chinatown Citizenship
  • Chinatown ESL
  • Chinatown Teen
  • CIVICS
  • Committee on Deaf Awareness (CODA)
  • Committee on the Blind (COB)
  • David Walker Scholars (DWS)
  • Dearborn Afterschool Program
  • Elderly Affairs Committee
  • Harvard Environmental Action Committee
  • Environmental Education (EnviroEd)
  • ExperiMentors
  • Franklin Afterschool Enrichment (FASE)
  • Franklin Teen Mentoring
  • Harvard Youth Leadership Initiative (HYLI)
  • Habitat for Humanity,
  • Harvard and Radcliffe Musical Outreach to Neighborhood Youth (HARMONY)
  • Harvard Emergency Medical Services Program (HEMS)
  • Harvard Emerging Literacy Project (HELP)
  • Harvard Undergraduate Legal Committee (HULC)
  • Harvard Progressive Advocacy Group (HPAG)
  • Harvard Square Homeless Shelter
  • Housing Opportunities Program (HOP)
  • Kids with Special Needs Achievement Program (KSNAP)
  • Keylatch Afterschool Program
  • Keylatch Mentor
  • LEADERS!
  • Mather School Tutoring (MST)
  • Mission Hill Committee
  • Mission Hill After-School Program (MHASP)
  • Mission Mentor (formerly Project Umoja)
  • Partners for Empowering Neighborhoods (PEN)
  • Pets as Therapy
  • Prison Education Program
  • Houston House
  • Suffolk County House of Correction
  • Youth Prison Tutoring Programs
  • Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)
  • Project Literacy
  • Refugee Youth Term Enrichment (RYTE)
  • S.A.B.E.S.
  • Small Claims Advisory Service (SCAS)
  • South Boston Outreach Big Sibling
  • Student Theater Advancing Growth and Empowerment (STAGE)
  • Strong Women, Strong Girls
  • Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM)
  • VISIONS
  • Wilderness 1-2-1
  • Youth Recreation Program
  • Y2Y Harvard Square

Summer programs

Summer Urban Program (SUP)

The Summer Urban Program consists of 9 camps in Boston and 3 in Cambridge:

  • Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE)
  • Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program (CYEP)
  • Chinatown Adventure (CHAD)
  • Franklin I-O Summer Program
  • Keylatch Summer Program
  • Mission Hill Summer Program (MHSP)
  • Native American Youth Enrichment Program (NAYEP)
  • Roxbury Youth Initiative (RYI)
  • South Boston Outreach (SBOS)
  • Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment (RYSE)

Other Summer Programs
  • Chinatown Citizenship
  • Chinatown ESL
  • HARMONY Summer
  • Harvard Undergraduate Legal Committee (HULC)
  • House Opportunities Program (HOP)
  • Small Claims Advisory Service (SCAS)
  • St. James Summer Shelter
  • Summer Science

Notable alumni

References
  1. Phillips Brooks House Association Harvard Yard. "Programs". Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  2. Seider, Scott (2010). Shelter: where Harvard meets the homeless. New York: Continuum. p. 293.
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