YAMM

The Ellis Effect is a program that guides boys ages 12-16 to get the guidance they need in their boy to young man transition as they represent the young men of YAMM in public appearances.​​

The Ellis Effect objectives include:​​

Food Skills​
Plan and shop for healthy foods
Reading food labels
Preparing a meal
Using kitchen appliances and utensils

Social and Self Management Skills
Develop and maintain healthy friendships and family relationships
Etiquette skills and appropriate behaviors
Time management
Financial management
Goal setting
Career exploration

Health, Wellness, and Personal Appearance Skills
Laundry, reading clothing care labels, folding clothes
Ironing
Basic sewing to maintain clothes
Personal hygiene/grooming
Personal safety/basic first aid
Exercise and physical fitness

Leadership Skills
Volunteer and support the community
Comply with laws
Register to vote

Monthly, April through September, YAMM works in Forsyth County hosting neighborhood events in five neighborhoods a year that involve both parents and children that engages them in activities to form a bond as a unit within their community as well as encouraging community bonding through community engagement. Other nonprofits, educational entities, and government agencies are invited to educate and provide information on community resources and safety. The community day provides for YAMM to recruit youth participants, parents, and volunteers as well as create community socialization.

Afterschool NC EOG tutoring and homework assistance program for youth ages 10-18. Youth are tutored in the afterschool program in math, Language Arts, Reading, and Science to increase end of year testing scores. All tutoring methods used are hands-on activities and computer-based giving youth the extra assistance they need for educational success.

Model ART is a gender-based curriculum that encourages self-control exercises to influence anger management behavior and self-control and conflict solving resolutions. Overall targeting aggressive behavior in youth ages 12-17. Model ART objectives include:

Skillstreaming
To teach youth a broad curriculum of prosocial behavior

Anger Control
To teach youth self-control over anger

Moral Reasoning​
To raise youth's level of fairness, justice, and concern for the needs and rights of others

Youth will experience
A decrease in problem behaviors Improved prosocial behavior Improved Anger Control
Increase in In-Community Functioning
Reduction in criminal behavior and reoffending

I lead is an afterschool program designed to involve youth and young adults in community projects that are created and led by youth ages 10-17 and young adults ages 18-24 throughout the Winston-Salem Community. Young men and ladies will be involved in numerous projects that they will collectively create as a group and implemented around the Winston-Salem area. Projects will consist of volunteer works in the community. Parents are encouraged to attend all final projects in support of their youth and/or young adult.

Service-learning is learning that actively involves students and young adults in a wide range of experiences, which often benefit others and the community, while also advancing the goals of a given subject or community concern. All service-learning activities are community-based service activities that are paired with structured preparation and student and young adult reflection.

PreneurMe's youth entrepreneurship program is free business classes and classes to encourage students:

how to generate business ideas

identify customers

and determine their competitive advantage.

Plus, youth group activities include an introduction to becoming a business owner to own a business and exploring topics that are critical to building and maintaining financial resiliency before moving into Phase II.

In the workshops youth will learn:

-Introduction to Becoming a Business Owner
-What is My Business
-Who's My Customer
-What is My Advantage
-Short-term and long-term financial and personal needs
-How to manage and save for essential needs by exploring topics that are critical to building and maintain
financial resiliency​
-How to purchase supplies/materials to sell
-How to keep count of their books for bookkeeping

ParentMe is a 10-week series of parenting classes for single mothers of boys to guide them in the raising of boys to men.

In the workshops parents will learn:
-Basic child development and what to expect at each stage of a young man's life
-Age-appropriate discipline
-How to recognize strengths and weaknesses as a parent and how to put them to good use
-How to co-parent outside a relationship
-How to handle major problems
-How to handle blended family issues