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Youth Development and Recreational Program
Our Youth Recreational Program aims to improve the physical strength of our students and promote positive development by providing necessary resources. We prioritize building meaningful connections with our young leaders and strive to impart knowledge, offer guidance, and provide support across various aspects of life.
We are the leading organization in Lewiston and Auburn, hosting immigrant soccer and basketball clinics, mini tournaments, as well as large-scale events throughout the year to empower our youth in pursuing their athletic aspirations. Youth sports offer a great way to increase a child's physical activity levels and instill healthy habits that last a lifetime. Additionally, sports help develop qualities such as self-discipline, perseverance, teamwork, and personal accountability in children, while also creating valuable opportunities for them to form positive relationships with adults.
For further inquiries on how to contribute to and expand our youth program, please reach out to us at info@unitedyes.org.
The CREATORS space
The CREATORS space is designed for young people who want to explore their creativity. It provides resources and workshops for BIPOC youth to work on projects, learn new skills, and engage in different areas of interest.
Our workshops are scheduled weekly, allowing young people to choose and sign up for their preferred sessions. These workshops will delve into diverse creative fields and can be conducted in-person or virtually. CREATORSspace is well-equipped to suggest potential collaborators for workshops and small events.
Community Building, Movement Organizing, and Community Healing
Our core constituencies are immigrant youth and their families living in Lewiston-Auburn. Our way of working has been to help the youth and their families better understand their social position within this Central Maine community by providing them with information about local social practices, ultimately leading them to be able to create transformation in their social world. Our community is growing, and new leadership is coming up every year.
Community Advocacy:
This represents the core of our work, advocating on behalf of the community and within the community by providing videos, direct outreach by phone, being at events together, raising community health issues, showcasing community efforts, and monitoring all the work of these organizations. Attending every meeting of every collaborative, collective, cooperative, and coalition to advocate for the role of young adults in contributing to a racially just world and we have followed through—the work now is regrowth. We cannot regrow our society, our economy, our health care or educational infrastructure without the vision and the transformational energy of our youth and young adults.
