Programs - Teaching Opportunites
Chapel & Bible Classes
Each day our children participate in a chapel service where they have the opportunity to hear a positive message. This is a fun time for the kids to learn new songs, hear Bible stories, and learn memory verses. As a part of the Character Counts Initiative, we are trying to instill good moral values in the YES children. The most important thing that we do at YES is to plant a seed in a child’s heart.
Volunteer Opportunity: speak in chapel, teach a Bible class, lead singing
After-School & Summer Programs
Offered at all three locations weekday afternoons during the school year and all day during the summer months, Youth Encouragement Services’ organized programs provide a safe place to play, relax, do schoolwork, participate in sports, develop relational skills and learn moral values.
Volunteer Opportunity: spend time with kids, organize activities
Tutoring & Homework Assistance
Utilizing hundreds of volunteers from the business community and area colleges, children receive one-on-one homework assistance and tutoring in basic literacy, math and English. Sessions are held on Tuesday evenings. After each session, children enjoy a nutritious meal and are provided transportation home.
Arts/Cultural Programs
Because many low-income children don’t have access or exposure to the arts, YES has recently added an “Arts and Cultural Enrichment” program to bring the arts to them. YES has always incorporated art projects and music into our programs, but this new program will take us to a new level by bringing in several talented professionals to nurture the children’s interests and talents in three areas: art, music and drama.
Volunteer Opportunity: organize plays, build props, teach music or art
Service Projects
By exposing our kids to service opportunities, we pray that the kids will grow in compassion and understanding of those areas where they can make the world better. Our children have participated in organized service projects such as yard work, painting houses and visiting the elderly. We have taken our teens on trips to do disaster relief. By fostering within them the desire to serve, we are encouraging them to embody the essence of Christ.
Volunteer Opportunity: help organize a service project for the YES children, chaperone
Computer Classes
Each of our three centers has a state-of-the-art computer lab. During the week our children participate in some type of computer training. The younger children love playing educational computer games. Our teens have learned important skills like designing their own newspaper, creating PowerPoint presentations, learning how to use Excel and more!
Job Skills Training
Our goal at YES is be holistic – to give kids who don’t have opportunities and resources the same exposure and encouragement that other kids have, to put them on a level playing field so they can achieve successful lives. For this reason, throughout the year we inform our children of various trades through our job skills training program.
Volunteer Opportunity: teach a skill or trade to the YES children
