The Office of
Children Youth & Learning
Expanding Your Child's Opportunities to Learn and Achieve
OCYL offers educational programs to expand your child's opportunities to learn and achieve. Our mission is to help foster a comprehensive learning environment for children in the first two decades of their lives while promoting civic engagement. Our goal is for every Cumberland child to become a skilled learner with a creative mind who achieves to his or her fullest potential.



Photos: Literacy Students, Art Students, Jr. Commissioner Rock with Councilwoman Ackerman.

News:

Now accepting registrations for Early Childhood Literacy and Number Sense. Registrations due June 25. Classes are already filling up! Deposits for Fall also being accepted. See programs page or click here for a flyer.

SUMMER: We are working on programs for the first week school is out: June 18-22! Summer session begins July 9. Check back for more information soon.

NEW PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL: OCYL SUMMER OUTDOOR THEATER! CLICK HERE FOR THE FLYER.


The Declaration of Education:
  Mayor McKee and Superintendent Thornton hosted a meeting May 15th that included Town Council and School Committe. Click here for a link to the video from the meeting.  Check the Breeze for details.
The Declaration was signed by Mayor McKee, Superintendent Thornton, Town Council President Higgins and School Committee Chair Mutter on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. OCYL will be coordinating efforts to share the Declaration with the community! Click here for the full text of the Education Declaration and Youth Center Concept that were introduced at the New Year's Brunch with the Youth Commission.



OCYL is a Department of the Town of Cumberland. Additional Town Services include:
  • Early Intervention Screenings
    Contact the Cumberland Pre-School at 723-3250 for an appointment. Upcoming screenings are scheduled at the Hayden Center next door to OCYL.
    • Parks and Recreation Department                 
    Contact the Parks and Recreation Department at 334-9996. Offices are located at Diamond Hill Park on Diamond Hill Road. Summer Camp registration forms are available to pick up in the OCYL foyer.
    • Cumberland Public Library
    Contact the Library at 333-2552. The Library is located adjacent to the OCYL on the Monastery on Diamond Hill Road. Click here for a link.

     


    Expanding Your Child's Opportunities
    to Learn and Achieve
    1464 Diamond Hill Road, Suite #2
    Cumberland, RI 02864
    (401) 475 - 0929
    (401) 475- 6862 FAX
    info@ocyl.org
      Look for the OCYL Fan Page on Facebook.



    Photo above: Supporters joined OCYL Director Liz Lemire and OCYL Literacy Coordinator Rosemary Crozier at the Open House last September. Pictured from left: Craig Dwyer (Town Council), Crozier, Dr. Phil Thornton, (Superintendent of Cumberland Public Schools), Lemire, Dr. Mike Magee (Founding Director of OCYL, CEO RIMA), Mia Ackerman (Town Council) and Mayor Dan McKee (founder of OCYL).
    Photo below: Cumberland's Mayor McKee met with RI Education Commissioner Deborah Deborah A. Gist, Lincoln Town Administrator A. Joseph Almond, Mayor Allen Fung of Cranston, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and Mayor Angel Taveras of Providence to discuss education at the Town Hall meeting in Providence on 11/2/11.
     

    What is the OCYL?

    The Cumberland Office of Children Youth and Learning (OCYL) is a municipal department created by Mayor Daniel McKee and established by ordinance in February 2007.  It is the first of its kind in Rhode Island. OCYL creates highly effective and accountable after-school and Early Childhood programming. In addition the OCYL Youth Civic Engagement Initiative, The Cumberland Youth Commission, is teaching teens to be good local and global citizens. For a sample of our programming, please watch our video. Additional videos of our classes and programs can be viewed at http://vimeo.com
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