If you haven’t heard the big news, YELLS is a 21st Century Community Learning Center! After many years of applying for this game-changing federal grant through the Georgia Department of Education, our perseverance was rewarded with funding beginning in the 2017-2018 school year. The City of Marietta graciously serves as the…
Celebrating 10 Years of YELLS: A Look Back 2018 marks the 10 year anniversary of YELLS! My name is Kevin Keefe and I’m the treasurer of the YELLS Board. My reflection here is one in a series of ten reflections over the ten months between now and YELLS’s October 18…
Community was alive at the seventh annual Franklin Fair led by our YELLS Mentoring Program Bigs. Police, firefighters, partners, and neighbors enjoyed a day of fun celebrating their Franklin Gateway Community. This event has been passed down through generations of Bigs each year since a group of Mentoring Program teens…
Join us for the Franklin Gateway Soccer Tournament on May 5, and you could win the coveted Golden Cup! Our YELLS Mentoring Program Bigs will lead the second annual Franklin Gateway Soccer Tournament to build community through the beautiful game. We’ll have brackets for ages seven through adult, so bring…
YELLS would not be able to touch the lives of so many in the Franklin Gateway Community without the support of the Atlanta Braves Foundation! The Braves Foundation has allowed the YELLS Afterschool Program and the Community Action Café to leverage the resources provided by our other supporters into impactful…
One of the “High-Five Expectations” in the YELLS Afterschool Program is Choose Kindness. The idea becomes a self-standard, especially for how our Scholars treat others. We support our students in the development of a greater self-awareness of how their ideas and actions affect everything and everyone around them as part…
Bigs in the YELLS Mentoring Program want you to join them for their second annual Community Soccer Skills Day! This group of youth – who call themselves “YELLS with the Cleats” – knows how much our Franklin Gateway community loves soccer and knew the beautiful game was the perfect way…
The Career Expose You could see the smiles, hear the eager questions, and feel the energy in the room as our YELLS Community Action Cafe teens – or “Business Scholars” as we call them – interacted with professionals in their career fields of interest. The first annual Career Expose provided…
Celebrating 10 Years of YELLS: A Look Back 2018 marks the 10 year anniversary of YELLS! My name is Ruthie Yow and I’m the secretary of the YELLS Board. My reflection here is one in a series of ten reflections over the ten months between now and YELLS’s October 18…
The support of the CobbWorks Literacy Council has been invaluable in educating and empowering our Franklin Gateway community. In addition to our English for Successful Living (ESL) program that they helped us launch, YELLS is now able to offer digital literacy classes to our families, enabling hardworking parents to gain the…
