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- EIN 45-5220294
- (913) 953-1683
- 5809 Michigan Ave Kansas City MO 64130-3349 USA
- youthambassadorskc.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education
Mission: Youth ambassadors empowers under-served teenage youth through education, prevention and support.
Programs: Youth ambassadors (ya), empowers under-served teens, ages 14 - 18, most of whom have a history of multiple trauma exposure and continue to live in compromising circumstances. Unabated inter-generational poverty, single-parent households, the continuation of blighted infrastructures, as well as high unemployment, underemployment, transiency and teenage incarceration rates are among the myriad of problems our youth face. Ya educates up to 425 youth annually through summer and academic year programming. Ya teaches self-efficacy through programs during non-school hours when youth are most susceptible to negative influences. Through creative programming, ambassadors gain the necessary tools needed to continue their education and/or enter the job market successfully. The ya program is also designed to provide a "first job" experience. Through the receipt of a paycheck, ambassadors learn banking skills, and fiscal responsibility, workplace parameters, and personal accountability. Students in our program take four of the following classes daily: speech, life skills, art, writing, civics, and health. In the spring of 2017 youth ambassadors launched a youth-informed advocacy campaign bringing tremendous national exposure to the life lessons youth in the urban core have to learn in order to survive childhood. Videos made for the campaign are now being used as educational tools in several community sectors.