TEAMS Youth Center Focus Group

A focus group of staff, students and supporters gathered at the new TEAMS Youth Center to test out the new space and equipment. One student Noreli stated, "This is really impressive!". The focus group of attendees ranging in age from elders to tweens spent time sitting and chatting, spitting on the open-mic, dunking on the bball goal; challenging each other in air hockey and ping pong while chillin in the cafe area. "This is nice. We are excited about our new center!" exclaimed many of the students.

Those in attendance include Mayor Jill Holland, City of McKenzie; Coach Dino Kaklis, Bethel University; Shirley Moore, The Moore Farm; TC and NE Williams, Rosenwald Center; Noreli, Alex,Jalexis,Chris, DeJalyn, Gabriela, Nick, Kegan, Sierra, Chasidy, Darius, Julina, Elijah, Tyeisha, Eric, Marvin,Chris, Sanjuanita and Montrell.

TEAMS Supporters Experience New Center

Extreme Makeover: TEAMS Home Edition, The Reveal

In the great tradition of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" television, we offer
"the reveal" of our new space at TEAMS (and yes this is the part where we all jump up and down, scream and faint because we are exhanusted from working so hard but so overwhelmed with the beauty of the space, LOL).

Keep It Moving 3: TEAMS Extreme Makeover - Photo Journal

Progress Day Celebration

We sent this invitation out to our friends and family to invite everyone to come by for a sneak peek at our new home. Spread the word! Tuesday, March 1, 2011 doors open at 5pm the program starts at 6 pm.

Keep It Moving 2

This is a progress photo of our work. In this photo we had cleaned, scrubbed, painted, pushed, pulled and posted pictures to make the place more like home. In this photo we are setting up our brain game zones at the center. Keep It Moving !!!

Keep It Moving

Over the last few months, we have been moving our programming to a new location. We have conducted calls, meetings, painting, hauling, assembling, laughing and crying in rain, snow, sleet and heat to complete the opening of this new space. We are located at 1944 Cedar Street. This first post is a before photo of the space.