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Fill the Gap

Provide young people with educational support, strong character development opportunities, and positive role modeling for academic and professional success. Fill the Gap will help young people develop life long skills to compete successfully in higher education and in life. Our vision is to be one of the leading resources in preparing young people for their futures. Fill the Gap accomplishes this by providing leadership experiences for existing and emerging community leaders, as well as increasing community reinvestment of local businesses and organizations. We will support academic success by offering homework assistance, tutoring, while teaching respecting self, space, and each other.

SAYC Healthy Living Program

SAYC Healthy Living Program is always trying to encourage healthy habits. We are implemented new programming and snack options to help kids make better discussion when it comes to eating and living healthy. Healthy Living Program includes games, sports, fitness activities field trips, healthy and fun cooking, and educating youth about healthy choices. SAYC is working toward only offering healthy snacks on a regular basis, such as trail mix, fruit strips, organic milk, apples and bananas.

SAYC Job Training

The Situation

Teens often lack the basic employability skills needed to get and keep a job in today's society. Research shows that 85% of people who lose a job do so because they lack good work habits, rather than lack appropriate job skills. Factors most often cited for job loss are tardiness and absenteeism, failure to follow intrusions, and inability to get also with supervisors or fellow workers. Basic employability skills that are based in a strong work ethic are needed in all occupations. While the proper technical skills are important, today's employers are looking for employees with the ability to communicate effectively, work on a team, resolve conflicts, conform ethical dilemmas, and manage their time in a effective manner.

Our Response

SAYC will offer a Job Tanning Program for teen that will cover the following topic from local employers. The following topics were covered in the training: What is a work ethic? The importance of dependability, initiative, and interpersonal skills. What do employers want in an employee? How to make a positive first impression. Tips for mastering the paperwork (applications and resumes). The successful job interview. Skills needed to keep a job once you get it.

SAYC Cooking class coming soon

Come and join us to learn how to cook a healthy snack. Students each week will be able to learn how to prepare the meal from start to finish. This includes everything from preparing the work space to cleanup of the kitchen.

Tutoring And Mentoring Program

Tutoring and mentoring program.  Our mission is to help children overcome barriers to achievement in school and promote academic success.  Each child does homework with his or her tutor and receives any extra help he or she needs in the fundamentals, especially reading or math.  We create a supportive community where learning can take place.  SAYC goal is to prepare children to perform better in school by providing them with educational assistance, positive role modeling, consistency, and extracurricular activities that broaden their horizons.

Homework Help

Homework help is offered Monday - Friday from 4:15pm to 5:00pm. Homework help is a time for the participants of the youth center to do their homework, and get help if needed.

How to Earn a Bike

15 hours of community service

Engage with your community and tell us about what you have done . You may do activities that you consider of value to family, friends and neighbors in your community. These may include traditional service such as working in food pantries and community gardens, mentoring / role modeling positive behavior etc. for more information give us a call or email

Art program

Stoughton Youth Center is offering an Art Program on Wednesday’s and Thursday’s from 4:00pm-5;30pm. Anyone is welcome to come in and create anything they want. Whether is painting on a canvas, making jewelry, or drawing. On special occasions we would be doing different art projects for any kind of holiday or event! If anyone has an art project that they would want to try out, they are more than welcome to tell us their ideas and we would try everything we can to get their art project done!

Upstairs Gym

The second floor of the Stoughton Area Youth Center is the active floor of the building.  This floor has a basketball hoop and plenty of space for Basketball or Football.  This floor also contains games such as pool, Foosball, ping-pong and Carpetball

Video Games

The Stoughton Area Youth Center has a Xbox 360 and a Playstation 4 with age appropriate games and controllers that can be checked out for use.  Donations of money, Games rated E to T and controllers are always needed.  Also if you have a game system you would like to donate we would me more than happy to take it.

Board Games

The game closet at the Stoughton Area Youth Center has a huge stockpile of board games. These games are available for use and there is plenty of table space for these games to be played.

Lounge

The first floor of the Stoughton Area Youth Center is also used as a lounge area, where participants can relax and hang out with friends. There is a large variety of couches and chairs.