Our Story
Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.”
(Nelson Mandela – social justice activist, political prisoner for 27 years and former President of South Africa)
Our Story
Mission
Our mission is to empower underserved youth with transformative mentorship, workforce readiness, life skills, education and living-wage training pathways to achieve self-sufficiency. By uniting with community partners, we amplify our reach—because positively impacting one youth can spark a movement that has the power to strengthen communities, society, and the world.
Vision
Establish Youth Enhancement Services as an innovative, effective and sustainable empowerment service provider breaking cycles of generational poverty for out-of-school, disconnected youth and their families through pure community partnerships.
Core Values
- YES empowers youth through self-awareness, educational attainment, workforce readiness skills, living-wage opportunities, and cultural enrichment.
- YES encourages staff and students to excel in a collaborative workplace that promotes creativity & strengthens agency’s culture.
- YES believes that responsibility and accountability are the key drivers for positive, permanent, and measurable results.
- YES is committed to the ongoing evaluation of our work to improve organizational efficiency and program efficacy.
Goals
- Upend generational childhood poverty through education and living-wage training opportunities designed to decrease negative behaviors, and disrupt the cradle-school-to prison pipeline of many disconnected youth.
- Enhance and expand our comprehensive service model to best serve more children, youth, and their families.
- Establish partnerships with other non-profits, churches, businesses and governmental agencies to promote and ensure successful outcomes.
- Provide outcome data for all interventions.
- Identify continuous and sustainable funding streams.
