At YELLS, we celebrate our creative, industrious, and talented youth leaders! YELLS Scholars are equipped to nurture their strengths and talents and work together toward common goals, even the fun and sticky ones! We’re so proud of our recent Lockheed Elementary school graduate, Nashely Baez, and her entrepreneurial endeavors she launched…
We’ve been blessed by the students and staff of Life University over the years. They’ve mobilized groups to paint our spaces, help our youth turn the soil of their community garden, and serve during all types of community days and special projects. We’ve been blown away by how supportive the…
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…
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…
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…
Our English for Successful Living (ESL) classes are a testament to the power of collaboration and resource leveraging. La Amistad has brought this incredible resource to our Franklin Gateway families, and it’s touched so many lives. Claudia Mimata, one of our ESL students, shares, “I can better understand my daughter…
AmeriCorps members take the following pledge: I will get things done for America – to make our people safer, smarter, and healthier. I will bring Americans together to strengthen our communities. Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground. Faced with adversity, I…
YELLS Parents and Franklin Gateway community members celebrated their shared success at last month’s Achievement Club Graduation. Spirits were high as each club member reflected on the goals they achieved and the relationships they built by working alongside each other to improve their lives. We’re so grateful to the United…
