On September 15 three students from the Pride Career Academy, participated in the annual United Way Day of Caring, along with YouthBuild Instructor Kate Stromberg and GED Instructor Virginia Tremblay-Murphy.

The youth program Pride Career Academy is a partnership between TRA-Worcester and Pride Productions, Inc. in which students learn media production along with academics.

They began the day at the Dismas House, where former prisoners are engaged in the hard work of rebuilding lives. The director and some staff spoke with the students about the role of Dismas house. Residents talked about the house, their lives and some of the reasons they ended up in jail.

Then the Pride Academy group went to Crystal Park along with Dismas House staff and two residents. There they worked for about 1 and 1/2 hours picking up trash and making the park cleaner.

A United Way staff came by to thank the group for their efforts.

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