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About YDC 2024

About YDC 2024

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INSPIRE. EQUIP. GUIDE.

25+ years of brightening the futures of our children.

 

Youth Development Center (YDC) is a non-profit organization that provides an after-school academic program for at-risk students in grades 1–6 in Houston. YDC is licensed through the Texas Health and Human Services. Our program is provided free of charge to our students.

YDC meets Monday through Thursday of the academic year. Our program provides the following for our students:

  • Results-oriented academic development with classrooms supervised by certified teachers

  • Leadership training and character development based on Christian values

  • Nutritious hot meals

  • Transportation from selected campuses to YDC and home at the
    end of the day (within 5-mile radius of YDC campus)

  • Field trip opportunities during the school year

  • Summer enrichment program

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STAFF
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JASON SKAER

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

jskaer@ydc.org

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Charla Phillips

PROGRAM DIRECTOR

cphillips@ydc.org

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BRENDA RAMIREZ

ENRICHMENT DIRECTOR

bramirez@ydc.org

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KRYSTAL WILSON

OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

kwilson@ydc.org

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Bianca Huff

COMMUNITY DIRECTOR

bhuff@ydc.org

BOARD

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

CHAIRMAN
DOUGLAS N. KELLY P.E.*
KBR

SECRETARY
MELISSA FORDYCE*
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER

KRISTEN BARLEY
SUSAN G. KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION

ANDREW BROWNING
CROSSTIMBERS CAPITAL

HARVEY D. DAVIS, JR
IMPACT HOUSTON
 
PATRICE B.MCKINNEY* 
LANIER LAW FIRM

MARCOS HELMS
EDWARD JONES

KURT KELLER*
EMEX, LLC

JENNIFER WHITLEY
HOLLAND & HART LLP

FLORENCIO MATA, JR
GEOTREND EXPLORATION, LLC

CHUCK YATES
COMMUNITY INVESTOR

*Members of Executive Committee
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