Youth Services

Mattie Rhodes Center offers a variety of youth and young adult services designed to enhance personal, interpersonal, artistic, and educational achievement, through the following services:

Our youth programs

Our youth programs provide innovative, educational out-of-school programs that focus on life skills such as conflict resolution, cultural tolerance, dealing with peer pressure and character building – all of which are critical in preventing the cycle of bullying , violent behavior, substance abuse and crime.

In School Intervention

Our goal is to tend to issues affecting the behavioral health of youth with the philosophy that when these needs are met, students can focus, leading to increased academic achievement.

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Youth Development Programs

Helping adolescents build character development, learn how to have a positive self-image, make good choices, create strategies for dealing with peer pressure.

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Soccer for Success

A free after-school program that uses soccer as a tool to address children’s health issues and juvenile delinquency, while promoting healthy lifestyles in urban underserved communities.

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