The Youth Opportunity Center, Inc. has achieved national re-accreditation through the New York-based Council on Accreditation (COA) through 2021. Organizations pursue accreditation to demonstrate the implementation of best practice standards in the field of human services. COA evaluated all aspects of YOC’s programs, services, management,...
The Youth Opportunity Center Foundation is pleased to announce the hiring of Laura Retter as Development Officer. Parks-Strack has many years of experience in the non-profit sector including work with The Salvation Army and Goodwill Industries. She most recently worked for three years as a Development...
Youth Opportunity Center, Muncie, Ind. – July 19, 2017 The Youth Opportunity Center recently hired Kimberly S. Burkholder, CPA as CFO. Burkholder has 17 years of experience as a CPA for public accounting firms specializing in audits and financial statement preparation for nonprofit organizations and for-profit...
The Youth Opportunity Center (YOC) celebrated its 25th anniversary with a dinner and program at the Horizon Convention Center on Thursday, June 8, 2017. Surrounded by more than 370 friends, donors, board members and staff, the evening celebrated visionary retired circuit court judge Steven Caldemeyer’s...
Carol Ammon, Youth Opportunity Center (YOC) customer relations director, was honored for her commitment to child abuse prevention in our community. Ammon was given an appreciation award by Prevent Child Abuse (PCA) of Delaware County on April 7, 2017 at City Hall. PCA President Patty Duncan...
Five years after Marilyn Scales retired in 2007 from a 40-year career at the Department of Child Services, the 72-year-old youth and family advocate was approached about a special honor. Youth Opportunity Center board members wanted to dedicate a building at the campus in honor of...
Youth Opportunity Center CEO Rick Rowray has been elected to Vice President of the Indiana Association of Resources and Child Advocacy (IARCA) Board of Directors for 2017. IARCA is a nonprofit organization representing approximately 90 member agencies in Indiana that provide services for children and families....
The Youth Opportunity Center (YOC) is one of several community partners sponsoring the program Understanding Kinship Care: Supporting Youth & Families at the upcoming Indiana Youth Institute (IYI) Cafe on February 22, 2017 in Muncie, Indiana. Kinship care describes children living with extended family and close...
Rebecca Bender, of the Rebecca Bender Initiative, will speak February 10, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. at Northside Middle School in Muncie, Indiana. The presentation, “The Illusion of Choice: Seen Through the Eyes of a Survivor,” will show what modern day sex slavery looks like and how...
Ball State University faculty members Dr. Janay Sander (associate professor of educational psychology), and Dr. Ruth Jefferson (assistant professor of educational psychology) are working on a reading intervention study, called the Team 2 Project, at the Youth Opportunity Center. Ball State University and the YOC,...