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YMCA Youth Outreach Programs

Connecting vulnerable young people to healthy resources that inspire, develop, and build their awesome potential by teaching and demonstrating social skills, core values, and the benefits of hard work.

YMCA Outreach Program Fundamentals

  • Personal on-boarding and acknowledgement to understand each unique participant.
  • Create a YEP (Y Education Plan) to track goals and provide incentives for accomplishment.
  • Community engagement through programs both in and outside of the Y using volunteers, partners, and any/all local opportunities.
  • We work together with nearly 100 partner agencies, schools, health and human service

Program Opportunities

  • Tutoring and school assistance
  • Post secondary and trade school assistance
  • Job Training and career development
  • Interpersonal skills like hand shakes, eye contact, and relationship building skills
  • Learning electronic arts, meditation, fitness, social media, podcasts, movies and film

Measurable Outcomes

  • Over 200 students served annually
  • Over 83% improve grades
  • Over 90% improve attendance
  • Over 85% graduate or earn GED
  • Over 70% improve reading and math scores
  • Nearly 100% improve their social and emotional health

Together, the YMCA Solutions and Achievers programs are building up a roster of 200 students.

Along with their families and the volunteer, nonprofit and business partners, we are work to connect nearly 1,000 people of all ages and backgrounds in this important, community-building work!

YMCA Outreach Kids To Camp Program

The YMCA and our donors and community partners want to help more kids attend YMCA Camp Abe Lincoln and Y Summer Camps!

Please click here if you are interested in more information, would like to nominate a student or local young person.

Many of us take for granted the crucial teaching and learning lessons of life that helped us become healthy, hard-working, and happy adults.

YMCA Outreach Programs ensure every student receives the blessing of mentoring, discipline and sees the rewards of humble hard work.

For many in our community, basic needs and lessons go un-met:

  • Food, clothing and shelter
  • A stable home environment
  • Healthy behavior and communication modeled throughout their lives
  • Transportation to school, work, after school activities
  • Being taught how to communicate: look people in the eye, present themselves positively, understanding how they are seen by others
  • Birth certificates, social security cards

Jordan’s Story

It might be easy to miss the dire need some of our great young people have right here in our community.

Until he was referred to us through a secretary in high school, hardly anyone knew what Jordan was going through with more support, Jordan’s incredible perseverance and hard work has earned him his diploma, and college enrollment.

Like many of us, the challenges continue for Jordan. But knowing the network of the YMCA is there, and will always be there, is what we are all about!

John Deere Virtual Reality System Gives Y Outreach Students
Chance To See Future Careers First Hand

YMCA Achievers

  • Director: Stefanie Kincaid
  • Program Overview 

    • Referral Partners: Schools, Police, Juvenile Justice, Agencies, Businesses
    • Program Development
      1. Engage/Connect: ensure basic needs (food, clothing, shelter, safety)
      2. Prepare To Be Professional: Social skills, confidence, appearance, communication
      3. Work to better self/others
        • Job Training In The Y – Directors, hold accountable, coach
        • Job Training Outside Y – job shadow, field trips, community mentors, group activities
        • Jobs In Community –  real work
        • Career Track – Jobs Grant funds movement toward professional career
    • Metrics and Measures of Success
      • Reduction of Interaction with Police
      • Graduation-Track: grades, attendance, interventions, graduation
      • Career-Track: gain/maintain employment; graduate; college/trade path;
    • Experience The Mission In Action:
      • see “Achievers” at the Y
      • field trips to businesses
      • YMCA/community events
      • volunteer appearances
      • job shadow volunteers and community leaders

Referral Partners 

  • Multiple Davenport Schools
  • Davenport Schools ESL (English as Second Language)
  • Bettendorf Schools Outreach Team
  • Family Resources
  • Fairmount Pines Housing Community
  • Juvenile Court Officers/Liaisons
  • Davenport Police NETS team
  • YMCA Hybrid School Out Programs (Davenport, Bettendorf, Pleasant Valley students)
  • YMCA Volunteer, Member,  referrals (no one turned away)

Contact our YMCA Outreach Team for any reason:

  • Need help with a student, child, or friend
  • Let’s work together to help more young people
  • We have a problem that could use assistance
  • Arrange for a presentation from our Outreach Team