If you're out there
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ROCA 2ND TRUTH, TRUST AND TRANSFORMATION VIDEO
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If you are out there - Sorangel & Ediberto Carmenatty
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Truth, Trust, Transformation
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How ROCA changed one girl's life
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Roca takes on a unique and pressing challenge: helping to alter the life trajectories of some of society's most high-risk young people. The very individuals who have rejected self-help, school, or other social programs, or those who have begun engaging in criminal or other dangerous behaviors, more
Features
Corporate Partner
Whole Foods and Roca
Roca is proud to showcase our corporate partners who are major contributors to the value and success of our work > more
Young Person
Roca Young Person Success Story: Sulai Rosa
Learn about Sulai Rosa and her journey of change. Sulai is the recipient of the Vichey Phoung Peace Award. > more
Youth Worker
Youth Worker Ignacia Torres
Youth Workers are relentless & passionate about their work. Learn more about Ignacia Torres and her incredible work with young people. > more
Events
Roca’s 4th Annual Benefit Concert raises over $110,000 to Help Massachusetts’ High Risk Young People Move out of Violence and Poverty
R&B singer, songwriter, actor, dancer and philanthropist, Mario Barrett; Latin Grammy award winning Bachata Group, Carlos y Alejandra; Local artists Lisa Bello, The Goonies and Moufy; and host of"The Ramiro and Pebbles Morning Show" on Jam'n 94.5 Ramiro Torres, deliver stupendous performance
Latest News
In Video
Yadires Nova-Salcedo talks with Victor Jose Santana, Roca's engagement coordinator, and Jorge Torres, a Roca youth star member, about what Roca is doing to combat youth violence in Boston. > more
In Print
Youth Violence Prevention Funding In Jeopardy
By Anne Most: Wednesday, January 25, 2012, New England Public Radio
Patrick directs $9.7M to violence reduction
By Brian Ballou: Friday, October 14, 2011, The Boston Goble
Massachuset Governor Deval Patrick awards Anti-violence Grants to Holyoke, Springfield and other cities
By Dan Ring: Thursday, October 13, 2011, The Republican
Giving At-Risk Youth a Chance
By John Ward / Federal Reserve Bank of Boston / Fall 2011
Engaging High-Risk Young Mothers Into Effective Programming: The Importance of Relationships and Relentlessness
By Anisha Chablani and Elizabeth Spinney, Journal of Family Social
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