YOUTH SERVICE LEAGUE
WHO WE ARE
Established in 1954, The Youth Service League was created to encourage New York City youth participation in wholesome activities that would foster positive development.
Our programs, are comprised of an all-volunteer staff, providing meaningful and positive educational life skills development.
WHY WE STARTED
The Youth Service League, Inc. uses sports as a positive tool in our Kids' lives. This is often how they are first attracted to our program. Sports activities are often the best way to reach our Kids, who are often very difficult to reach through more traditional means. Once reached in this manner, we are then able to push our Kids to do well in school, stay away from the negative and self-destructive lures of the street, and go on to college and productive adult lives. Thus, our program helps give our Kids the tools to break multi-generational chains of helplessness and hopelessness passed on from one generation to the next.
WHAT WE DO
Our program activities include sports (baseball, and basketball, intramural leagues), tutoring (both ESL (English as a second language) and by subject), counseling (group, one-on-one, and peer), college placement, and a Community Outreach Program to better interface with our Kids' home and school and home environments.
Our sports programs, principally our baseball programs, have historically remained on an elite level, and remains so. Through sports activities, we are able to keep "our Kids" in school, and moving forward in their lives
HOW WE DO IT
WHO WE ARE
Established in 1954, The Youth Service League was created to encourage New York City youth participation in wholesome activities that would foster positive development.
Our programs, are comprised of an all-volunteer staff, providing meaningful and positive educational life skills development.
WHY WE STARTED
The Youth Service League, Inc. uses sports as a positive tool in our Kids' lives. This is often how they are first attracted to our program. Sports activities are often the best way to reach our Kids, who are often very difficult to reach through more traditional means. Once reached in this manner, we are then able to push our Kids to do well in school, stay away from the negative and self-destructive lures of the street, and go on to college and productive adult lives. Thus, our program helps give our Kids the tools to break multi-generational chains of helplessness and hopelessness passed on from one generation to the next.
WHAT WE DO
Our program activities include sports (baseball, and basketball, intramural leagues), tutoring (both ESL (English as a second language) and by subject), counseling (group, one-on-one, and peer), college placement, and a Community Outreach Program to better interface with our Kids' home and school and home environments.
Our sports programs, principally our baseball programs, have historically remained on an elite level, and remains so. Through sports activities, we are able to keep "our Kids" in school, and moving forward in their lives
HOW WE DO IT
Volunteers are the force behind all of our accomplishments!
OUR MISSION
"To encourage youth to participate in and to stimulate the interest of youth and foster interest in and promote the civic work in the community and the moral and mental improvement of youth; To fight juvenile delinquency by directing the youth into wholesome activities; To coordinate and act with any existing organizations devoted towards the furtherance of youth welfare; To endeavor to secure and enlist as member of this corporation individuals who are devoted to the cause of better government with a view, insofar as possible, to eliminate juvenile delinquency."
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