Who We Are

• Youth and Family Enrichment Services (YOFES) is a not-for profit organization incorporated in the state of Massachusetts since 2003. 

Mission

• To help build strong families that can raise healthy children, even in the face of poverty and social inequity.

Vision

• All Haitian children have access to education, health care and a safe environment.

Goal

• Provide services that prepare and engage youth as leaders and increase parental understanding of youth developmental stages in order to increase youth family connectedness.

Strategy

• Recognize youth as assets and help them to realize their potential..

• Create pathways to leadership for youth in all programs.

• Promote understanding and involvement of parents in all aspects of their children�s lives.

• Collaborate with stakeholders interested in youth development to maximize the benefits of our programs.

Motto

• Tackling the root causes of health and social disparities

Values

• Compassion, Communication, Honesty, Trust

Objective

• Promote early literacy and school readiness.

• Expand access to culturally appropriate health care and address health and social disparities..

• Increase opportunities for disadvantaged youth, including youth with disabilities, thus making them competitive beyond their own communities.


• Foster youth leadership by engaging youth in all aspects of program development and management. .

• Prevent child abuse and address its root causes by increasing parents understanding of youth development and by improving communication within the family, thereby reducing parental stress..

• Increase parental awareness about children and adolescent developmental stages and related behavior..

• Reduce disparities in health and socioeconomic well-being through public-health education.

• Develop audio-visual materials in Haitian Creole for community health education.

• Develop cross-cultural programs for youth, including music, arts, theater, and performing arts, as a way to help increase youth expression, improve ethnic youth communication, and promote cultural integration between youth of different heritage.