ALLEGHENY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
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Mission Statement
AYD’s mission is to educate, equip and empower our inner-city youth to reach their God-given intellectual, social, physical and spiritual potential.
About This Cause
Since 1994, AYD has developed our children’s potential in two key areas: 1. Building students’ academic skills and school performance 2. Teaching students to manage their emotions, make responsible decisions, and achieve positive goals by fortifying their social-emotional skills. AYD achieves success in these areas by establishing a close, strong relationship between our staff and children, reaching them while they are young, and then retaining them through high school graduation. AYD combines rigorous academics with engaging SEL activities to help students overcome their obstacles, achieve meaningful goals, and advance toward graduation. We’ve found that our students will perform the extra academic work assigned and commit to strengthening their personal development because AYD offers them peers and relatable adults whom they like, plus enjoyable, engaging activities that instill them with passion. AYD provides a coordinated mix of out-of-school-time programs and activities that fall into four areas: 1. Rigorous academic enrichment in partnership with Neighborhood Learning Alliance 2. Social and emotional learning using the proven, well-researched Strong Kids curriculum 3. Engaging activities such as AYD Judo, golf, and Winter Sports Program with Vail Resorts that instill and reinforce SEL traits 4. A summer program that helps counter academic “summer slide” and builds students’ SEL skills One year in AYD’s after-school programs gets highly at-risk students back on track academically. 86% of AYD stay active in the program until graduation. 96% of AYD alumni graduated high school. 92% of AYD alumni are employed, serve in the military or are full-time students. 88% of AYD alumni who are fathers report that they are "very active" in their children's lives.