Youth At Risk Services - YARS

🎒📚 YARS™ Back-to-School Drive is Here!

Every child deserves to begin the school year with confidence, dignity, and the tools they need to succeed.

Youth At Risk Services (YARS™) is collecting new school supplies to bless students and families in our community. Whether you donate one notebook or fill an entire backpack, your generosity can make a lasting difference.

Most Needed Items:
• Backpacks
• Notebook paper
• Composition notebooks
• Pencils & pens
• Crayons & colored pencils
• Markers
• Folders & binders
• Glue sticks
• Scissors
• Calculators
• Tissue, hand sanitizer, and other classroom essentials

📍 Drop-Off Location:
2001 E. Cotton St.
Longview, TX 75602

📞 Questions?
903-738-8570

Contacts:
Mercedes Sadler
Charlotte Davis-Robinson

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” — Proverbs 22:6

Together, we can help students walk into the classroom prepared, encouraged, and ready to learn.

Please donate, share this post, and invite others to partner with us as we invest in the next generation.

Y’all want your kids to have a spouse and a family one day…

But you’re raising them like they’ll always have YOU.

No structure.
No accountability.
No responsibility.
No discipline.

Then you wonder why they can’t handle real life.

That first booth is what happens when one person carries everything.
That second booth is what happens when life hits somebody who was never prepared.

What you excuse in childhood becomes a burden in adulthood.

Train them now.
Because the world is not going to baby them.
And a spouse shouldn’t have to suffer for what you refused to teach.