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our work in the inner-city.

Volunteer, make a donation, come on staff, or get your church involved in mentoring inner-city youth. Your partnership will make a difference in the lives of inner-city youth and families in West Palm Beach.

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Did you know that Urban Youth Impact has its own company run by students?

Impact Coffee is dedicated to enriching the lives of urban youth through a guided internship that gives students a meaningful work experience, a chance to make money, and hands on training right in their own backyard.

Leadership Academy

Urban Youth Impact Leadership Academy Helps Students Succeed in Every Way

by providing academic, social/emotional, physical and spiritual enrichment through the students’ formative years.

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Urban Youth Impact's arts program gives students the opportunity to explore and develop their talents.

Students involved in the arts program have performed at The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, community events, local churches, and The Leadership Academy's end of the year program.

Urban Youth Impact Mission

Urban Youth Impact exists to love, equip and empower inner-city youth and their parents to fulfill their God-given purpose.

Founded in 1997, Urban Youth Impact serves the Tamarind Avenue corridor and surrounding area in West Palm Beach. The area has notoriously high crime rates – almost three times the national average for all crime types. 32% of youth living in the community are not expected to graduate from high school, over 50% live below the poverty level, and it is more likely that youth from our community will go to jail than graduate high school.

Through its programs, UYI seeks to reverse troubling trends and fulfill its mission by offering programs designed to develop critical life-skills that result in less juvenile crime, fewer teen pregnancies, less substance abuse, less child abuse/domestic violence, and fewer school drop-outs.

Video Testimonial

Roots & Wings Graduates Two from Community

Roots & Wings Graduates Back in December, we described the line our annual Christmas Store generates in the Tamarind community, as parents and children eagerly await for the store to open. Once inside, parents can select free gifts for their children to open Christmas morning. Well, two of those parents who waited all night in line just recently completed our Roots & Wings class offered through the Family Empowerment Program.

Success Story

My name is Ariel Frazier and I started in the Year Round Work Program about two weeks ago. I want to start off by saying I feel extremely special and honored because I am the FIRST employee of the year round work program!

Where Your Money Goes

Expenses breakdown

Urban Youth Impact takes its stewardship responsibility very seriously. We are pleased that 89 cents out of every dollar given to our work goes directly to fund programs and services that help us fulfill our mission to love, equip and empower inner-city youth and their parents to fulfill their God-given purpose. In addition to conducting annual audits, Urban Youth Impact is also a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, which demonstrates our compliance with established standards for financial accountability, fundraising and board governance.

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Latest UYI News

Bill's Long Drive

Bill Hobbs took his "longest drive" when starting UYI. Read how Bill's passion for the urban poor took him from the golf course to the ghetto.

Click here to get his story.

Impact Coffee

Guided internship program dedicated to brewing up brighter futures.

Leadership Academy

TLA provides students structured after-school educational assistance and enrichment.

Community Health

The largest free clinic in Palm Beach County, providing medical services for the uninsured.

Parent Programs

Monthly parenting classes, annual parents retreats, family picnics and ongoing family support.