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Youth Education Town

712 W. Abram St. Arlington, TX 76013

 

ADDRESS 
712 W. Abram St.
Arlington, TX 76013
Phone: (817) 860-1836

HOURS
Monday 8AM–6:30PM
Tuesday 8AM–6:30PM
Wednesday 8AM–6:30PM
Thursday 8AM–6:30PM
Friday 8AM–6:30PM
Saturday Closed
Sunday 9AM–12PM

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The Youth Education Town impacts the community with hope by enabling its citizens and their families to aspire, learn, and achieve new possibilities.

Since Super Bowl XXVII in 1993, when the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Buffalo Bills in Los Angeles 52 -17, the National Football League has donated $1 million to establish education enrichment centers called Youth Education Towns in each city where the Super Bowl is played as a lasting legacy of the game.

In 2011, NFL Charities, the Dallas Cowboys, and the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee selected The Salvation Army to operate the region’s first Youth Education Town in Arlington, Texas. An additional $1 million grant was awarded to The Salvation Army from the Gene and Jerry Jones Family Arlington Charities.

The North Texas Youth Education Town will help solve problems in Arlington, Texas’ 7th largest city. About 7% of families and 10% of the population live below the poverty line, including 12% of children and teens. Here are some of the challenges Arlington faces:

  • 22 gangs have been identified in Arlington.
  • 42% of Arlington students fail to graduate in 4 years.
  • 31 % of Arlington fourth graders failed one or more sections of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills.
  • 27% of Arlington parents need an after-school or summer program for their children.
  • 14% of Arlington parents had recently left a child alone or in the care of a sibling too young for the responsibility.
  • 34,500 Arlington students qualify for free or reduced lunches.

The North Texas Youth Education Town is part of The Salvation Army’s Arlington community center and family shelter. The facility is located on the edge of the Downtown District, adjacent to University of Texas at Arlington’s campus.

The center offers a comprehensive array of personal development activities to encourage self-esteem, leadership, respect, cultural appreciation and optional Bible study.

These programs not only build on the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic but go beyond into technology and computer literacy, homework help, tutoring programs, a life lessons curriculum, nutrition and creative arts programs.

Kids can experience the Dallas Cowboys Fitness Zone, the ultimate youth workout experience, offering a combination of youth-size exercise machines and electronic games incorporating full body movement. YET also offers a variety of recreational and organized sports activities in the gym and on the YET athletic field.