Youth Engagement

We reach underserved populations by providing the corporate structure and business expertise so nonprofit leaders can focus on programs and participant needs.

Youth Impact - Ogden

200 Youth Participate Daily

27 Educational Programs and Activities

More than 100,000 youth lives already impacted

A Safe Place to be a Kid

Youth Impact supports urban youth by providing a bridge between schools and families through extracurricular programming, academic tutoring, recreational activities, and meal provision. When kids are at Youth Impact, they are safe, and moreover, they are loved. Youth Impact serves about 200 youth each year from over 20 different schools and the staff is committed to each individual’s safety and flourishing.

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Art Empowers

An after-school program for at-risk youth on the Ute reservation

Using art and culture to encourage learning

Art Empowers on the Ute Reservation creates a safe place after school for at-risk youth and utilizes arts and culture to encourage learning. More than 150 children annually participate in Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer sessions.

Ute children on the Reservation are affected by family dysfunction caused by adult alcohol and drug use, chronic health problems, high rates of suicide, and other social problems. Art Empowers combines verbal and artistic self-expression, relationship building with adult mentors, and healthy living practices including the sharing of a substantial meal for youth 6-17 at each session.

Over the past 17 years, Art Empowers has been embraced by Tribal and other community leaders as it serves Indigenous children living in poverty within the Ute Nation and in Utah’s Uintah Basin. Outcomes have included high feelings of belonging and inclusion, increased self-esteem, improved high school graduation rates and the valuing of Native culture, music, dance and artisan traditions.

Art Empowers is a natural fit to the ECS Mission of providing compassionate care and to meet ill-met and unmet needs for under-served populations.