Middle and/or high school student commit to volunteering with our Kidz Club Afterschool Program for the school year. They help plan, facilitate, and lead Kidz Club, as well as set goals, visit colleges, and have fun. The students also receive mentoring and leadership training - and many have been Kidz Clubbers themselves, although this is not a requirement. 

Student Leadership Program offered at Take the Next Step

Middle and high school students commit to an intensive 9 month leadership program.  They help plan, facilitate, and lead Kidz Club, as well as set goals, study the Bible, visit colleges, and have fun.

Programs that provide a wide variety of social services that are designed to support the healthy development of families, improve family interaction skills and help fragile families to resolve their problems at a pre-crisis stage before they become unmanageable.  Services may be center-based or provided on an outreach basis to families who are initially reluctant to seek support and generally target the specific needs of a particular community.  Included may be self-sufficiency programs which help families break the cycle of poverty by addressing the barriers to self-sufficiency; early child development and school success programs; programs which address the needs of teen parents; programs which target parents at risk for becoming abusive; programs for families with children who have special developmental needs and programs that focus on the maternal and child health care needs of first-time, expectant women whose babies are at high risk for low birth weight and infant mortality.

Family Resource Centers/Outreach

Programs that offer a wide variety of activities including arts and crafts, academic programs, sports, reading clubs, workshops and other recreational, leisure, cultural, social and civic activities for school-age children and youth in out-of-school hours. The objective of youth enrichment programs is to promote healthy social interaction and help participants maximize their social, emotional, physical and academic potential.

Youth Enrichment Programs

Programs that provide a variety of recreational and social activities for young people with the objective of strengthening their religious values and meeting their spiritual needs as well as supporting their growth and development as individuals.