Agape Youth Educational Services Inc. (AYES, INC.)

  • Reading, Math, Science, and English tutorials
  • Youth Fitness programs
  • Teens Go GREEN workshop
  • GED Classes
  • Computer Classes
  • SAT/PSAT Prep Classes
  • Music classes
  • Arts classes
  • Animation development workshop
  • Music studio production classes
  • Television production classes
  • Teen pregnancy prevention
  • Community development
  • Summer Camps
  • Afterschool programs
  • Teen-Workshops
  • Economic development
  • Job placement
  • Teen money management workshop
  • Lifeskills workshop

Mentoring Programs

Agape Youth Educational Services Inc. (AYES, INC.) offers youth, that have already been identified as at-risk, an opportunity to work with a caring mentor to improve their ability to develop a positive attitude towards their future. The long-term goal of AYES, INC. is to empower the young person to break the habits that are leading to trouble in school and in the streets.

AYES, INC. has four mentoring programs. They are as follows:

  • Trailblazers
    Trailblazers is the central program of AYES, INC.  At-risk middle school & high school students and their mentors participate in a structured program of support. At-risk middle school & high school students and their mentors participate in an energizing retreat, followed by a seven month structured program that includes monthly team-building and group activities.

    The program ends with a graduation but the mentor and youth remain together for the following five months.

  • Turnaround Stop the Madness
    Turnaround focuses on students who are chronically suspended from middle and high schools. The goal of the program is to rekindle the youth’s commitment to learning and being successful in the classroom. By empowering young people to finish school, mentors are improving the student’s success in the work world as adults.
  • Higher Ground
    Higher Ground engages youth involved in the juvenile court system. The mentoring relationship is utilized to establish a program of change in the young person’s life. The mentor encourages goal-setting, self discipline, and skill development that improves the young person’s sense of hopefulness.
  • Mentors and youth work one-on-one for a year and are also offered opportunities to participate in monthly group activities and outings.
  • Lunch Friends
    Lunch Friends works with children from local elementary & high schools. Adult mentors come to school each week to have lunch with their “friend.” The program lasts for the duration of the school year.