The Center for Children & Young Adults has been fortunate to have several youth groups think about us while doing a project in their community.  Volunteering is a wonderful way for your child to learn new skills while helping out in their community. Volunteering teaches responsibility, relationship building, team work, exposure to new interests, relieves summer boredom, and much more! 

The Senior Youth group of St. Catherine's Episcopal Church participated in a "Stay Mission Trip."  While staying in their youth house, they participated in mission work around the Marietta area.  One afternoon, they chose to set up outside their local Target and collect items from the CCYA summer wish list.

A group of girls from The National Charity League (NCL) shopped for summer outfits, shoes, and accessories for one of our girls who has graduated from our Independent Living Program, Life Works. The girls had a great time putting together their raised funds, creating a budget, and shopping for some trendy, fun items for our past resident who needed a little help with some clothing costs. Although our kids leave us to live on their own, they always know we are there to help them, should they need us.

These types of donation drives are a HUGE help with our expenses and offset costs to our budget. If your child belongs to a church youth group, girls scout troop, or other civic organization and they are interested in helping our kids by doing a donation drive, please contact Director of Marketing & Fund Development, Andrea Watkins at [email protected] or (770)485-1639.