More than meeting program goals or benchmarks, mentoring is about building relationships to foster positive youth development, skill-building and personal growth to help them to meet their goals and succeed in the real world. Faith Youth Services provides guidance, motivation, emotional support, and role-modeling in order to help youth to explore careers, set goals and find resources. We value the youth as a person and we work with them in developing mutual trust and respect. By actively listening to what and how they are talking, we will help the youth - while maintaining confidentiality - to find ways to solve their own problems and issues.

Faith Youth Services focuses on the process of learning. We work with students to examine their learning styles, study and work habits, and current difficulties or barriers to success. By focusing on these areas, we can work with the youth to create a plan of strategies that will lead to academic success. By customizing our approach to their learning styles, youth will thrive in their learning environment while incorporating social-emotional and character development skills.

An overwhelming number of young people, including foster care and incarcerated youth suffer from at least one, and often multiple diagnoses, such as anxiety, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - also known as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), depression, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and other mood disorders. Health trauma counseling professionals will conduct sessions and provide mental-health resiliency training, trauma-informed care and interventions to build social-emotional wellness and address any mental health symptoms.

Faith Youth Services provides support to youth who are committed to desisting (ceasing) troublesome behaviors to work towards positive change. We work with young people to envision their future by becoming self-aware, developing goals and plans for success, learning boundaries and prioritizing as well as exploring the power of making positive choices.

It is often said that you don’t know what you don’t know. Research has shown that many youth are not equipped with the necessary skills, nor are they empowered with the character, compassion, and competence necessary skills to be self-sufficient, productive members of society. Utilizing a hands-on coaching approach supported by “SMART” goal setting, FYS helps young people by providing the critical life skills, accountability, and paradigm-shift that support self-efficacy and independence. Faith Youth Services learning plan focuses on self-control and accountability, critical-thinking, communication and making connections, self-awareness, empathy, coping with stress, social media do's and don'ts, cooking classes, financial literacy, etc.

The workforce readiness empowerment sessions provide youth with workforce readiness skills training and the opportunity to further their education by acquiring a GED, technical certification, or a college degree in a supportive environment. FYS will provide youth with materials and assistance that relates to workforce readiness, educational success: available accredited certification programs, enrollment requirements, the application process, requirements to complete certification, guidance, and counseling in pursuit of a two, or four-year degree at an accredited institution of higher education.