Mailing Address:

Chesapeake Center For Youth Development
301 East Patapsco Ave.
Baltimore, Maryland 21225

Phone: 410-355-4698

Fax: 410-354-8160

Email: contact@ccyd.org

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The mission of Chesapeake Center for Youth Development (CCYD) is to make a positive difference in the lives of youth in the Greater Baltimore region who are at high-risk for initial or repeat interaction with the juvenile justice system. By offering essential educational opportunities, vocational training, and counseling, CCYD strives to be a first-class learning facility and social service organization that will set new standards of success and achievement for disadvantaged youth.

Our programs foster the personal development and positive human relationships necessary for living a socially responsible and personally satisfying life. In fulfilling our mission we focus on a child’s strengths and assets, and encourage the youth to set achievable goals for themselves, both educationally and in their personal lives. Then we work to help them realize those goals. Our own four organizational objectives provide core programmatic direction:

• To help youth build strong developmental assets
• To prevent the onset or recurrence of delinquency.
• To help students attain educational milestones.
• To empower and prepare youth for self-sufficiency.

Our Programs and Services

CCYD is committed to developing comprehensive programs that focus on the strengths and assets of youth and delivering these services in a comprehensive and integrated manner. CCYD currently provides the following services and programs:

“Changz” After School Program:  CCYD’s Changz Program is located at Masonville Cove Academy, formerly known as Benjamin Franklin Middle School. It gives kids a safe space to access opportunities, skills, knowledge, and relationships that promote positive youth development and social change.

Juvenile Intervention Family Intervention Project (JIFI): JIFI is a highly successful intervention program aimed toward young people who are at-risk or have been charged with an offense in the juvenile court. Serving 100 youth a year, the project uses licensed clinicians to link youth and their families, with public and private resources providing social, educational, and health services to keep preventing the youth from re-offending. 

Chesapeake Alternative School:  CAS is an accredited general education alternative school certified by the Maryland Department of Education and Department of Juvenile services. The school serves 100-120 youth per year and provides a community based non-residential alternative to residential treatment and juvenile institutions and has been proven to prevent deeper penetration into the juvenile justice system.

Workforce Development:  CCYD offers a range of job training and employment assistance programs and services designed to empower and help young people learn skills to become self-sufficient through employment. Approximately 60 youth annually become involved in the program that is designed to focus on post secondary opportunities, provide linkages between academic and occupational learning, and connect youth with local job market opportunities.

Hollywood Diner:  Famous as being the very diner where the movie “Diner” was filmed, the Hollywood Diner is a component of CCYD’s career development and vocational training program providing year-round in depth experience in the areas of food service and hospitality. . 

CCYD programs have consistently helped disadvantaged youth improve their school attendance, punctuality, academic achievement and grades, and provided opportunities to build character and acquire skills to decrease recidivism, and enable youth to become responsible and productive members of society.

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