Newsletter

“We use the same philosophy with our students that gangbangers and basketball teams use….” Read more here.

Thanks to you, Jayla has unexpectedly become a student spiritual leader. Read more here.

Acts4Youth’s new Foundations Program is building community in the school, even among the boys who have suffered trauma and are not used to being vulnerable with one another. Read more here.

Last year was a momentous year with our first students graduating from high school. In our Annual Update, read a brief review of the 2016/17 school year and what is ahead for 2017/18. To read more Click Here

The first Acts4Youth boys, who joined the program as 4th and 5th graders, graduate from high school! Read more here.

“Many of the kids don’t even realize that choosing not to have sex is an option. This curriculum helps them make a plan, including setting clear boundaries.” To read more click here.

On the way to their homes from Acts4Youth, the boys in the Guilford/Walter P. Carter Elementary School Program agreed it was a “great day, one of the best ever.” It just happened to also be the day we selected to capture their day in pictures… To read more click here.  

After the lesson, Daniel asked one boy, who was wearing a gang rag, “Why do you wear that?” The boy told him that he admired the gang’s lifestyle. Click to read more

“They say we’re uneducated.  And we call ourselves savages. I say that we are liberated. We are more than what they say of us.” This is the beginning of a spoken word poem written by an A4Y middle school boy. Click to read more.