As The Dorchester Youth Collaborative Closes For Good, Reflecting On Its 40-Year Legacy

Under stress from the ongoing pandemic, another Boston institution announced it would close for good: the Dorchester Youth Collaborative.

For many who passed through the doors of its Fields Corner neighborhood center in the last 40 years, the pain from losing DYC is raw. We speak with Emmett Folgert, who co-founded the agency in 1981 and has served as its executive director since.