The Gables offers direct service programming to support educational initiatives in our local immigrant community. Our programming supports our community through classes that serve adult students striving to learn English and acquire citizenship. The classes support students and prepare them for the naturalization process. We engage a wider community through stimulating, thoughtful, community conversations on immigration and other social justice issues.
The unbounded vision of our founder, Caroline Emmerton, carries a remarkable, generative force: It continually inspires us to dig deep into the community, reach out to partners and magnify good.
The Gables offers English-as-a-second-language and citizenship classes to adults eager to learn English and those aspiring to become American citizens. The Gables also hosts naturalization ceremonies on its lawn for local residents who have completed our program as well as other soon-to-be citizens from the Boston area. Ceremonies are arranged in collaboration with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Questions about classes? Please contact Ellen Berry, Interim Settlement Programs Manager, at eberry@7gables.org.
For updates on class registration, events, and news, join our ESL and Citizenship Facebook group!
In keeping with our Settlement mission, The Gables hosts a series of community dialogues to address immigration and social justice topics. Unlike a traditional lecture, Community Conversations encourage discussion between the speaker and audience members during the presentation. We have been proud to partner with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Becoming American series as well as Community Supported Film for past programming.
Information on 2023 Community Conversations will be available soon. Visit our event calendar for updates.
The Settlement Programs are an important part of the HSG’s mission and your work educating visitors about the Settlement Programs contributes greatly to the overall viability of the program. We recently completed our Fall Session I ESL and Citizenship classes and I want to share with you some of the comments from the students who participated in the program.
