Registration for the 2023 Middlesex Sheriff’s Office Youth Public Safety Academy has been extended to June 2

Spots remain open for Arlington, Everett, Cambridge, Medford, Somerville and area communities

  Registration for the 2023 Middlesex Sheriff’s Office (MSO) Youth Public Safety Academy (YPSA) has been extended until Friday, June 2, at 5 p.m., Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian announced.

  Comprised of five, one-week camps, YPSA is a low-cost and educational summer program for Middlesex County families. Kids aged eight to 12 will have the opportunity to learn safety skills and meet kids from their community and first responders. Camp sessions begin the week of July 10 and are held at the MSO’s Training Academy.

  Registration for each week is $100 per child and includes transportation, daily breakfast and lunch, and a graduation ceremony held each Friday. A limited number of scholarships are available for families.

  Participants are picked up and dropped off at designated bus stops in each host community listed below. Children are not required to reside in these communities, but families are responsible for transportation to these designated bus stops. Cadets from Billerica and Chelmsford will be dropped off and picked up at the MSO’s Training Academy.

  The schedule for this year’s YPSA is listed below (communities marked with a “/” have a combined bus stop location):

  Dates                        Community bus stops

  July 10-14                 Waltham/Newton, Bedford, Wakefield, Medford

  July 17-21                 Marlborough, Framingham/Natick, Hudson, Acton/Maynard

  July 24-28                 Everett, Billerica

  July 31-August 4       Belmont/Watertown, Tyngsborough, Arlington/Cambridge, Burlington

  August 7-11               Lowell, Tewksbury

  To fill out an online registration, please visit middlesexsheriff.org/2023YPSARegistration.

  Four communities – Malden and Woburn (July 24-28) and Chelmsford and Wilmington (Aug. 7-11) – have reached capacity; however, families may add their names to the waiting lists for those two weeks by using the application above.