Move to Dorchester
In 2009, due to the economic downturn, COMPASS consolidated all of its sites and moved its operations to Bowdoin Street…
Categories: COMPASS History (1974-1998)
Intensive Support Program
From the late 1990s-2015, COMPASS ran the Intensive Support Program (ISP) at Boston English High School where COMPASS staff supported…
Education Consulting
From 1998-2007, DCF contracted COMPASS to develop a support system of Education Consultants to help their social workers and foster…
COMPASS Consulting Services
In the early 1990s until 2006, COMPASS operated the COMPASS Consulting Services. COMPASS consultants provided public schools with an opportunity…
Thompson Island Program
From 1990-1992, COMPASS collaborated with the McKinley School, Robert F. Kennedy Action Corps, Outward Bound, and Thompson Island to provide…
Working with Springfield Public Schools
In 1989, COMPASS ran an emergency placement program for high school students in Springfield Public Schools. It started in a…
Community Services Program Begins
In 1988, COMPASS started a partnership with five Department of Social Services (DSS) offices in Boston, later named the Department…
Harbor Point Program
In late 1987, COMPASS began the Harbor Point program, which ran in Boston. This provided an afterschool program for students…
First Violence Prevention Ceremony and Move to Jamaica Plain
In 1987, the COMPASS School held its first Violence Prevention Ceremony, resulting from the murder of a former student. The…