S.A.Y. YES! (Save America's Youth)
Center For Youth Development

"Because we believe there are children with wonderful potential just waiting to be freed."

The Program
S.A.Y. YES! To Education is a comprehensive student mentoring and support program which aims to help at-risk students build productive lives succeeding in school and eventually preparing them for college or advanced vocational training. The S.A.Y. YES! Center program is sponsored by Calvary Bible Church through Here's Life Inner City, an affiliation of Campus Crusade for Christ.

We acknowledge that one of the most important assets to our future and to the future of our country is our children. Calvary Bible Church's purpose in creating the S.A.Y. YES! Center is to glorify God by equipping at-risk youth with life long tools to become productive and vital members of this community, while they build a lasting relationship with Jesus Christ.

The S.A.Y. YES! Center program is not a drop-in center, but our long-term commitment to students enrolled in the program, enabling them to be guided safely into adulthood by being gently directed around the potholes of childhood and adolescence in a hostile world.

Our focus is not babysitting, but mentoring the student. Although we are committed to academic development, the S.A.Y. YES! Center is committed, without apology, to the complete development of your child: spiritually, physically, educationally, emotionally, and socially.

S.A.Y. YES! Goals

• to encourage and motivate at-risk students to succeed in school, graduate from high school and to pursue post-secondary education or training.
• to help students learn to make constructive decisions regarding their own lives
• to equip students with the skills they will need to be responsible and productive adults serving our community.

How It Works
Students registered in the program will be picked up from their school by S.A.Y. YES! staff and transported by bus to Calvary Bible Church on program days, currently Mondays and Wednesdays. At Calvary Bible Church, they'll receive a nutritious snack, assistance with their homework and academic tutoring. The students will also be taught practical living skills, and will participate in craft time, recreation and Bible club. Parents and siblings of registered students will be invited to join their student in a family time, including a sit-down dinner, before attending AWANA club or the church Bible study.

Calvary Bible Church's S.A.Y. YES! Center program runs concurrently with the school year and observes the same holidays as your local school district.

If you would like your student to participate in this wonderful program, please contact our S.A.Y. YES! Center Director, Melanie Russ, at Calvary Bible Church at 327-5921 ext. 126 or e-mail her at melanie@gocbc.org.