Main Office (Pella)
309 Roosevelt
Pella, IA 50219
(641) 620-9037
Des Moines Office
c/o Polk County Youth Services
1548 Hull Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50316
(515) 286-3344 x6818 (#8 after hours)
http://serveouryouth.org
309 Roosevelt
Pella, IA 50219
(641) 620-9037
Des Moines Office
c/o Polk County Youth Services
1548 Hull Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50316
(515) 286-3344 x6818 (#8 after hours)
http://serveouryouth.org
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- 1998
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- Prospective Mentor Training
Polk County Youth Services' Detenti...
Monday, June 1 at 6:00pm - SOY 4th Annual Golf Outing
Woodland Hills Golf Course
Tuesday, May 19 at 1:00pm - Prospective Mentor Training
Polk County Youth Services
Monday, March 30 at 6:00pm - Framework of Poverty Training
Friendship Baptist Center
Thursday, February 12 at 7:00pm - Prospective Mentor Training
Polk County Youth Services
Monday, February 2 at 6:00pm - Pastors/Church Leadership Lunc...
Polk County Youth Services
Wednesday, January 21 at 12:00pm - Prospective Mentor Training
Polk County Youth Services
Monday, December 8 at 6:00pm - Mentor 101 Training
Polk County Youth Services
Monday, October 13 at 6:00pm - 3rd Annual Golf Outing
Toad Valley Golf Course
Wednesday, September 10 at 1:00pm - 4th Annual Spring Banquet
Holiday Inn Northwest
Thursday, May 8 at 6:30pm
Serve Our Youth Network Thoughts from a fellow co-laborer working with juvenile offenders.
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From Fuel by Jimmy Larche: Let’s face it. Compassion is sexy today. It’s talked about in every arena from politics to religion. Many churches have
Serve Our Youth Network The last of the "how mentoring helps" posts.
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From Mentor: Mentors help young people set career goals and start taking steps to realize them. Mentors can use their personal contacts to help
Serve Our Youth Network Hey we are 10 from having 300 fans, invite your friends to become a fan and put us over the top!
Serve Our Youth Network The second of three posts on "How Mentoring Helps"
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From Mentor: Mentors help improve a young person's self-esteem. Mentors provide support for students trying new behaviors. Youth who meet
Serve Our Youth Network Interesting information about children of prisoners.
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From the Family and Corrections Network: By Ann Adalist-Estrin Having a parent in prison or jail poses different challenges for the child at each stage of
Serve Our Youth Network The first of a three part "series"
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From Mentor: Mentors help keep students in school. Students who meet regularly with their mentors are 52% less likely than their peers to skip a day of
Serve Our Youth Network Found an interesting article on discipline.
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From Family Insights: Is punishment really enough when it comes to parenting? We can all agree that punishment is a quick way to get results like
Serve Our Youth Network From today's AP news wire.
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From AP: Surprising number of teens think they’ll die young CHICAGO (AP) - A surprising number of teenagers—nearly 15 percent—think they're going to
Serve Our Youth Network Thank you to a couple of camps that partner with us!
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This summer we will be able to send over 20 children to camp, thanks to partnerships with Wildwood Hills Ranch and Lake View Camp. The older children who have
Serve Our Youth Network Two of our volunteers are going to be honored.
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Two SOY volunteers will receive a Governor’s Volunteer Award. Rich Thomson has been a faithful volunteer at Polk County Youth Services for over three
Serve Our Youth Network This week's prayer update
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Please pray for the following prayer requests: Pray for a mentee who was in a car accident, and was seriously injured. Pray for her recovery,
Serve Our Youth Network Shane hit the milestone of being on SOY staff for seven years.
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By Shane Vander Hart Just realized that in midst of working with Bernie and Daryl (Daryl writes our federal grant proposals and is 3 for 3) on a grant we just
Serve Our Youth Network Just an FYI
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We are in the process of moving our main office in Pella. Our new mailing address is: 309 Roosevelt Pella, IA 50219 If you’d take note, we’d
Serve Our Youth Network Hey help put us over 300 fans - suggest us to some friends! Thanks!
Serve Our Youth Network Our latest prayer update.
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Please pray for the following prayer requests: Randy, one of our Bible discussion group leaders asked for prayer that he would communicate God’s
Serve Our Youth Network Shane & Bernie are in another grant meeting, grant proposal due 6/15.
Serve Our Youth Network Interesting study
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From The Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society: As a consequence of the epidemic of divorce that has swept the nation in recent decades, millions
Serve Our Youth Network Interesting survey on teenage spending habits for those of us who parent or work with youth.
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A Seventeen Magazine survey shows how the recession is affecting teenagers. Despite the recession, 75% of teens are receiving the same or more
Serve Our Youth Network Pray for Shane as he trains Third Reformed Church Children & Youth Ministry volunteers in Pella tonight.
Serve Our Youth Network A slideshow, sponsors, and prize winners.
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We couldn’t have asked for better weather! Here are some pictures from the day: We would like to thank sponsors for making this day
Serve Our Youth Network Looking for a speaker this summer? Are you a pastor in need of pulpit supply? Would you like a SOY staff person to come share with your church, organization or civic group?
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Serve Our Youth Network This week's prayer update.