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Welcome to The YAES Center
The YAES Center provides shelter, support, and services for vulnerable individuals, enabling them to unlock their potential by learning new skills that will empower them to build successful lives, relationships, and futures. We provide transitional housing, life coaching, and other services to individuals struggling with addiction, unhoused, and involvement with the criminal justice system
Vision:
Produce individuals who are committed to follow through on dreams and make success a reality.
Mission:
To give knowledge, courage and confidence to individuals that will promote them to achieve their highest potential for success, allowing them to not only survive, but to thrive in today’s society.
Goal:
To produce individuals who
- Have positive self esteem and achieve personal enrichment.
- Desire education, career development and success as a way of life.
- Cultivate skills that will enable them to become leaders in their lives, families and communities.
Stepping Stone Program
The Stepping Stone Program was established to meet the needs of youth and adults ages 16+. Residents are offered safe, secure, and stable housing for up to 18 months. While staying in the program, residents receive individualized Success Coaching, life skills training, career and employment readiness, financial education, and access to educational opportunities. Each resident creates a self-directed Life Playbook that identifies their goals and provides a clear path toward achieving them. Through accountability, guidance, and hands-on support, the Stepping Stone Program helps residents gain the knowledge, courage, confidence, and skills needed to transition into permanent housing, independent living, and long-term success.
This program provides services for youth and adults ages 16+, including veterans, individuals experiencing displacement or unhoused, those navigating recovery from addiction, individuals transitioning from foster care, and those rebuilding their lives after involvement with the criminal justice system.
All potential residents participate in an intake interview so we can learn more about their needs, goals, and current situation. This process helps determine whether the Stepping Stone Housing Program is the right fit and can provide the support needed to help each resident move toward stability, independence, and long-term success.
We currently operates two homes in North Carolina, with locations in Knightdale and Wilson.
Programs
Educational
Web Design & Development: Six month core program that will teach young adults to develop the basic software and technical skills required to create websites compliant with current standards.
Real Estate Investing: Six month program teaching young adults how to flip houses. Young adults will learn step by step how to start, fund and grow a real estate business.
Entrepreneurship: Twelve month program that prepares young adults to become successful entrepreneur. Young adults will receive proven strategies and support for starting, managing and growing their business.
Workshops(Life Skill Tips)
*Workshops are free and open to the public.Getting the job: teaching the necessary practical skills to get and keep a job — the soft skills that prepares young adults to understand how the world works and what is expected of them. This workshop is designed to help young adults learn job readiness skills such as creating a resume, filling out job applications and interviewing for a job.
Budget Finance: teaching the necessary practical skills on how to stretch dollars. This workshop is designed to help young adults learn how to budgeting their money and open a bank accounts.
Continue Education: designed to help young people who want to future their education by attending college receive the help needed to complete FASA, college, student loan, and scholarship applications. This workshop also host college tours in and out of the state of NC.
Healthy Habits: designed to teach how exercise and healthy food choices can benefit self-esteem and performance and create a foundation for success in life.