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youth mentor program referred to as HUB was began greater than 3 years in the past by a partnership with the YWCA Northcentral PA and the Williamsport Department YMCA as a secure house for teenagers to socialize and play basketball after college and on weekends.
Within the fall of 2021 YMCA employees and volunteers revamped this system to change into Neighborhood Youth, the place teenagers study one thing new every week that they might not have the chance to study in any other case.
The Y has partnered with different organizations and professionals in our neighborhood to show the kids life expertise together with laundry, meal prep, and even cursive. They’re additionally studying about serving the neighborhood, volunteerism, and potential profession paths.
Volunteer Keanna Usher and Assistant Program Director, Sarah March work collectively to convey mentors in to this system together with Pennsylvania School of Expertise Aviation Teacher, Matthew Krepps, who taught the kids about aviation upkeep. Krepps visited one other time to make mannequin airplanes and instructing them how an airplane is constructed.
Different mentors in this system are Williamsport Y Advisory Council Member Chris Tsai, who retired from the Social Safety Workplace and taught the kids about monetary literacy and wellness and an area retired science trainer who taught them about aerodynamics.
Neighborhood service tasks embody serving breakfast and handing out presents on the YMCA’s Breakfast with Santa occasion and cleansing up trash locally backyard.
In case you’re serious about being a mentor for the Neighborhood Youth program contact Sarah March at sarahm@rvrymca.org.