Key 2 Success Youth Advancement Organization

We were established to support youth of all ages in underserved areas particularly those in the Maywood, Melrose Park, and Broadview communities along with underrepresented youth from Proviso Township High School. We envision youth with an increased desire to learn, be creative, and healthy through our unique and game driven programs! To fulfill our mission we developed three strategic goals including inspiring, empowering, and exposing youth to positive opportunities and experiences!

Our strategies are directly aligned with our goals. We accomplish our goals by developing programs that inspire youth through unique and creative learning activities!
We empower youth by helping them become more confident and with the belief that they have increased their knowledge and awareness as a result of the learning activities we provide! We expose youth to positive and enjoyable social, creative, and leadership opportunities as the foundation of our design and implementation process!

We are well capable of meeting our goals due to management and leadership. Our Founder and Executive Director
who holds a Master's Degree in Social Work has ample research, program development, and management experience. She offers a lot as a Social Entrepreneur as her education, as well as, personal experiences have enhanced her skills and understanding of her power to help others! Her power to help not only individuals with support, but also influencing the mezzo and macro - systems involved in the social change process and being a change agent in the community, as she does with Key 2 Success: Youth Advancement Organization.
She has knowledge of health sciences (college level sciences) with her Associate in Science Degree directly pertaining to the science awareness activities she develops and oversees in the organization.
Key 2 Success' Board of Directors is composed of highly successful and knowledgeable professionals in the education field relating directly to the very programs being offered. Also, we value youth input. We measure take pride in measuring our program outcomes and tracking this data to influence and enhance programming for the best youth learning experiences possible.

So far we have measured over 80% in program survey responses by participants who agree that our summer programs actually inspire, empower, and expose each to new learning and social experience and opportunities! We have partnered and collaborated with the very schools our students attend and surrounding area colleges/universities to ensure optimum opportunities to positive and influential professionals and students. This extraordinary measure of impact is what makes Key 2 Success: Youth Advancement Organization a premier youth based learning organization!