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:

New Spring Programs for 3 and 4 year old children and February Vacation Fun for all! Please see the Programs page for details.


FUNDRAISER FOR HEAT!

Hypnotize for Heat: 4th Annual Oil Project Fundraiser raised funds for Cumberland families in need of oil assistance this winter. Sponsored by the Cumberland Youth Commission in partnership with McKee Brothers and TH Malloy & Sons Oil.
Thank you to the following businesses who donated prizes for the auction: Masters Karate, Forecourt; and the raffle: The Alternative Market, Cinemaworld, Crabtree & Evelyn, Cumberland House of Pizza, The Fudgery, J Grays, Paul's Pizza, Salon Deniz, and Stop & Shop.
Special Thanks for Frank Santos Jr. and the Blackstone River Theater!
Click here for an application to receive heating assistance.

The Declaration of Education
  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! Check back 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. 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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