Young Women's Christian Association of Jamestown

Advantage after school - after school program providing youth a safe, healthy and happy place to be after school. Youth opportunities include karate, drama, arts and crafts, tutoring, and other special events.

Capp (comprehensive adolescent pregnancy prevention) - the program, funded by the new york state department of health, seeks to educate youth about healthy and responsible adolescent sexuality and human trafficking.

Early childhood - the program provides care and early childhood curriculum for children ages six weeks to five years and yw camp lakeside summer program, which provides various outdoor activities during the summer for children who have completed one year of school through twelve years old.

Team (teenage education and motherhood) - the program provides resources to aid teen mothers to graduate from high school, learn to parent positively, and overcome obstacles to personal success. The program provides credit classes, academic help, childcare, social work, and other support services to build confidence, strength and skills.

Transitions - the programs mission is to eradicate homelessness through successful recognition, intervention and empowerment. The program provides interim housing, education and supportive services to women with children, pregnant teens, non-custodial mothers, and individual women.

Social justice and racial equity - the programs mission is to spearhead the growth and diversity of equity awareness and support individuals in understanding the need to be an inclusive community. The goal is to develop and maintain educational and outreach programs, community awareness events, and opportunities for community dialogue focused on social justice issues.

Upk (universal pre-kindergarten) - the program provides instruction aligned with nys preschool standards to four year olds from the Jamestown school district, to prepare the children for school and lifelong learning.

Supervised visitation - the program provides safe and secure visitations for not only families impacted by domestic violence, but also for divorced or separated guardians that have high levels of conflict during visitation and exchange.

Women-2-women - an empire state poverty reduction initiative (espri) funded mentoring program started in 2018 that promotes one-on-one relationships between coaches and participants to help participants with finding employment, meeting educational goals, making good life choices, and reducing generational poverty.