Palmetto Youth Center

Foundations for excellence: youths receive education and reinforcement of the fundamental skills that are necessary for successful life-long academic and social successs. Foundations for excellence also provides before and after school care, as well as a summer program.

Trojan reading improvement program incorporates real life experience with traditional reading methods to bring meaning to text for students.

Helping young people excel: hype is an evening program that provides a safe structured environment where teens participate in interest based and prevention activities including life skill management activities, secondary and post-secondary education or vocational management activities.

Boys life after school training is an all-male mentoring program to impact elementary, middle and high school students for academic achievement, goal setting and career planning. This program will meet once a week focusing on organization skills preparing participants to be successful and have a plan for life after school. The athletic program includes the various competitive athletic teams at the Center. We have the elite of Florida football/cheering (5-16), ussa basketball for girls and boys (10-16). Teams are formulated by age and compete against other Youth serving organizations within the county and other organizations throughout the state. In these programs we seek to improve a child's self-esteem, confidence and teamwork skills. These at risk boys and girls also must maintain acceptable academic grades to remain eligible for these activities. The football season lasts from august to december, basketball from december to july. The volunteers that serve as coaches and instructors in these programs have to pass background checks and attend coaches clinics to become certified. The athletic programs operate monday through friday 5:00pm to 8:00pm, as well as some weekend days from 8:00am to 9:00pm.