CARNIVAL EARNED BY ACCELERATED READING The Accelerated Reading program at Freeman Elementary is designed to help kids improve their reading scores throughout the school year. The students read books and take quizzes on what they read to earn points. After hitting their goal of 1,600 points, staff from YouthQuest, Community Education and Freeman’s day school […]

When Elizabeth Fejedelem first started her job at the bakery in the Bavarian Inn, she had never worked retail or used a cash register before. But her mom knew she could do it. “She thought it would help me to open up and not be so shy,” says Fejedelem, who graduated from Genesee High School […]

On June 7, YouthQuest employees and friends will join afterschool and summer enrichment programs from across the country in speaking out against President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for 2018. Specifically, the proposal calls for the elimination of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers, which provides federal funding for more than 9,500 school-based and community centers – […]

STUDYING SELF-DISCIPLINE Before kicking off their karate lessons, students at Dye Elementary first learned about the importance of self-discipline, or the control over their own body and mind. They participated in multiple exercises that focused on meditation and understanding the karate did not, and was not, to promote violence. As the students transitioned into learning […]

Nickoy Edwards always knew that he wanted to help people in his community, but it wasn’t until he attended Mott Community College that he decided to join the police force. “I was working in the college’s office of public safety, where I met a lot of police officers,” says Edwards, an alum of Mott Middle […]