Promising Youth Alliance

Promising Youth Alliance ("PYA") is a first of its kinds collaborative enterprise among three of the nation’s most successful providers of youth development services: Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Club of Greater Dallas, and Phoenix House.

The Problem We Are Solving Too many promising youth without positive role models, guidance, or supervision. In Dallas alone ...we have over 100,000 kids that are considered at risk. Benefit of participants in after-school programs: · 3 times less likely to skip school · 20%-50% less likely to drop out of school · their math scores rise by 12-20% · 3 times less likely to use drugs · 30% less...