Even though Young Life is especially for kids, parents and other adults in the community are important to Young Life. Adults can support Young Life in a variety of ways - by becoming a volunteer leader or committee member, by attending a Young Life fund-raising event, by hosting Young Life or by simply telling others in the community about Young Life and its commitment to kids.

An important part of our committment to kids is how we keep kids safe. Our staff and volunteer leaders know they are responsible for modeling lives of hope and integrity.Young Life's Human Resources department has developed missionwide policies and procedures to ensure that kids are protected when they are with Young Life staff and/or leaders as well as when kids are part of Young Life sponsored activities.

"At a time where it is easy to lose our sense of what is important as a people in a world that is reinventing itself at an unprecedented pace both technologically and politically, it is imperative to surround our children with enduring spiritual, family and community values and lessons.

We need to help them identify the real moral leaders and positive role models by letting them be around such people.

Young Life teaches and nurtures kids not by preaching but by letting them be themselves and by leading by example. The leaders at Young Life are demonstrating that you can be a person that is seeking a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and at the same time be a nonjudgmental friend that understands the pressures of adolescence. Young Life creates an environment of trust that lets children feel safe and gives them the confidence to stand by their convictions.

Detlef and I feel blessed that Young Life has found its way into our children’s lives."

Mari Schrempf