People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Volunteers of America provides high quality, innovative services for disadvantaged and disconnected children and youth. 

Through our caring staff and dedicated volunteers we ensure the social, emotional, and academic development of young children, and empower older youth to be physically, emotionally, and mentally healthy and ready to enter adulthood. 

Our programs provide a continuum of care and support for young people through prevention, early intervention, crisis intervention, and long-term services.

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Helping children learn to read inspires our teachers at the Volunteers of America Children's Center.

Volunteers of America provides high quality, innovative services for disadvantaged and disconnected children and youth. 

Through our caring staff and dedicated volunteers we ensure the social, emotional, and academic development of young children, and empower older youth to be physically, emotionally, and mentally healthy and ready to enter adulthood. 

Our programs provide a continuum of care and support for young people through prevention, early intervention, crisis intervention, and long-term services.

Childrens Center Candy 06-LR.jpg

Helping children learn to read inspires our teachers at the Volunteers of America Children's Center.

Child playing with clay
"There are times that I find myself struggling so much that I just feel like giving up."
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Child playing with clay
"There are times that I find myself struggling so much that I just feel like giving up."
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