HUMAN SERVICES

Municipal Facilities

Various divisions of the Human Services Department manage the following municipal facilities:

• Citizens Center
  A multi-purpose facility that houses the Department of Human Services Divisions. Primarily used during the day for Council on Aging activities, and rented out to public and private groups during the evenings and weekends. The facility includes office space, two conference rooms, kitchen and cafeteria, ceramics room, billiards room, exercise room, dark room, woodworking shop, and computer lab.
  
  
• Haverhill Youth Center
  A facility leased through the YMCA, housing a drop-in center for area youth in grades 7 through 12 that provides supervised activities, programs, community involvement, and various other opportunities to its members.
  
  
• Plugs Pond (Lake Saltonstall) Swimming & Picnic Area
  A lakefront facility providing various city-run programs (i.e. fishing, boating, swimming). The facility includes a boat dock bathhouse, boathouse, volleyball courts and a boat ramp. Other programs include annual fishing derbies and Native American Pow-Wow.
  
  
• Veteran's Memorial Skating Rink
  A state-owned facility managed by the city of Haverhill. Provides programming which includes high school hockey, youth hockey, figure skating club, public skating and Special Olympics programs.
  
  
• Winnekenni Park
  One of Haverhill's most picturesque parks. Facility includes three tennis courts, bathroom facility, walking track, fishing area, sledding and tobogganing area, and tot-lot area.
  
  
• Riverside Park
  A multi-purpose park that includes 5 baseball diamonds, 5 softball diamonds, a mile-long walking path, snack bar facilities, bathroom facilities, 3 basketball courts, street hockey area, carry-top boat ramp, 2 tot-lots, 1 handicapped swing set, 2 parking lots, volleyball court, skating area, 2 horseshoe pits, and 4 tennis courts.