Youth

Our Youth Programs provide services to prepare middle school and high school students for academic and personal success. A few ways we achieve this is with leadership development, self-esteem building, math enrichment, service learning, career exploration and social justice awareness.

  • Teens Taking Action

    This is a leadership development and service-learning program, supporting students to become social justice leaders in our community. Our program engages students, 12-19 years old learning about racial justice, gender equity, and food insecurity while strengthening our emotional intelligence, mental health, and relationship building. We facilitate our 5 session curriculum groups in-school and after school to students in SAISD, EISD, HISD, SSISD, and SWISD.

    Also, we host monthly Saturday volunteer events for teens to receive service hours while giving back to their community. We are a certified organization for the President’s Volunteer Service Award.

    Email Program manager

  • Summer Camp

    Join us for workshops focused on leadership skills and social emotional learning, volunteering in the community, swimming in our YWCA pool, and fun field trips.

    This camp is FREE for teens 12-18 years old that are enrolled in a middle school or high school in San Antonio. Enrollment is dependent on capacity.

    Registration open April 15 to May 31

  • Mi Carrera

    Mi Carrera is an empowerment program for girls in middle or high school to stay engaged in school, build self-esteem, and explore academic and career options. We support young women in developing the technical skills, interpersonal skills, emotional awareness, and self-efficacy necessary to become the critical thinkers, effective leaders, responsible entrepreneurs, and social innovators of the future. Once a semester we offer our students a free college tour to visit a local or out-of-city university. We facilitate groups in-school to any campuses in NISD, NEISD, SAISD, EISD, HISD, SSISD, and SWISD.

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  • E=MC²

    This stands for Empowerment equals Mi Carrera to the next level! This program serves youth of color in 4th-9th grade, that are at-risk of not being math proficient for their grade level. We want to improve our young peoples’ skills in mathematics and digital literacy to improve their confidence and academic success. We facilitate 20 sessions of T.E.K.S aligned curriculum throughout the school year with in-school and after school groups at campuses in HISD, EISD, SAISD, and ECISD.

    Email the Program Manager
Contact youth service director