Through its education, community service, and job training programs for Lawrence youth, Groundwork Lawrence cultivates respect for the environment, social awareness and healthy behavior, preparing young people to be positive role models and future leaders in their community.
Green Team
The Groundwork Lawrence Green Team is a year-round program that offers part-time, paid employment for 12 Lawrence high school students each school year and 40 in the summer. Green Team members learn about and lead local environmental and healthy community initiatives, conduct research, raise awareness, challenge their peers to do community service, and participate in hands-on improvement projects throughout the city. The program is intended to promote the protection and restoration of Lawrence’s critical ecological systems, natural resources, and public health by engaging teens in advocacy and service-learning focused on the community’s parks, streets, gardens, waterways, and vacant open spaces.
The Green Team program has dual goals: to prepare Lawrence’s youth for a lifetime of environmental and healthy community leadership and to invest in Lawrence’s future capacity to improve its physical environment.
This project was supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which receives support from the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Environmental Education