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.

Winter class registrations are being accepted. Click here for program information.
Please drop off registrations anytime!

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

Upcoming Events:

FUNDRAISER FOR HEAT!
Click here for poster.

Hypnotize for Heat: 4th Annual Oil Project Fundraiser will be held January 29th to raise funds for Cumberland families in need of oil assistance this winter. TICKETS AVAILABLE at the door and in advance at OCYL. Sponsored by the Cumberland Youth Commission in partnership with McKee Brothers and TH Malloy & Sons Oil. Click here for an application to receive heating assistance.

New Year's Brunch
Thank you to everyone who joined us for Mayor McKee and the Cumberland Youth Commission's New Year's brunch on Sunday, January 8th! The Education Declaration and Youth Center Concept  will be posted here soon.


GIVING A GIFT THIS YEAR?
The OCYL programs are supported through grants, donations and program fees. Cumberland residents who qualify for financial aid are assisted through your ongoing support.

Special thanks to the following donors this past year: Amica, Cox Charities of New England Fund as recommended by Cox Communications and RIASPA, Comprehensive Psychiatric Services, The Beauregard Family, The Casey Family, The Crozier Family, The Cumberland Lincoln Boys and Girls Club, Knights of Columbus of Attleboro, and The Rhode Island Foundation. Your support has helped us move forward to meeting our mission in 2011!

 Tax-deductible donations are always welcome when made payable to "CLEF" and sent to the OCYL to support any of our programs, including Adopt-a-Reader, Cumberland Youth Commission, Education Declaration, Oil Project, and General Programs. If you would like to give the gift of literacy for the Early Childhood Literacy program, please download the "Adopt-a-Reader" form on the "Support Us" page, otherwise, please indicate the program you'd like to support on the memo of your check. Thank you!

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. Click here for the latest schedule.

    • 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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