SBATA now has an ongoing Youth Program! Every Wednesday from 3:30-6:30pm, refugee youth come to receive homework help, plan and implement service projects, participate in group discussions as well as a variety of lifeskill & team-building workshops. One by one, SBATA hopes to help these students reach their academic and life goals.
View MORE PHOTOS of our Youth Program by clicking HERE.
Mission Statement:
To provide a safe environment for refugee youth to gain academic success, cultivate healthy peer and mentor relationships and learn how to become aware, contributing members of their new home country.
Youth Program Goal:
Local disadvantaged refugee youth will gain greater academic success, Language and life-skills enrichment as well as American cultural competency training by participating in weekly programs with mentors, engaging in leadership activities, civic engagement, community service projects and local outings.
Timeline: Every Wednesday evening 3:30-6:30pm
3:30-4pm Get-to-know-you & team-building activities (watch one of these activities here)
4-5:30pm Lesson/skill set learning, in 4-week increments–Month of May is featuring Public Speaking and Cultural Awareness vs. Racism & Discrimination–next week’s workshop will feature presentations by our youth about his/her individual culture! Make sure to bring a show & tell item!
5:30-6:30 homework help/games, food & hangout time!
If you’d like to become a youth tutor, leader or academic mentor, email SBATA’s volunteer coordinator Megan Fabry at meganf@sbata.org
Meet the SBATA Youth Team!
Youth Program Leaders
Vice President: Rob DeLong
Secretary: Fatuma Mohamed
Media Developer: Amina Shiwoko
Outreach Coordinator: Mohamed Mohamed
