Programs

Our Winter and Summer Programs, and the Latino Youth Camps combine challenging physical activities with a supportive group environment to jump-start self-esteem and propel personal development. Daily activities challenge youth participants to tackle new and daunting obstacles, step outside of their comfort zone, and rely on the support and security provided to achieve success. In the evening Rap Sessions, facilitators create among the group an environment of acceptance, support and guidance where youth participants are again challenged to transform the day’s successes into the confidence and courage they need to confront and overcome the obstacles they face at home. In each program, youth who might never have left their neighborhoods conquer something as foreign as rappelling off a 200-foot cliff and return home with the confidence, ability and determination to achieve goals they never thought possible.

	AYE'S LEADERSHIP PROGRAM The first of several new initiatives in 2007 was the six-day and five-night Leadership Program, which took place in the wilderness outside of Snowmass and Aspen in August. The backpacking expedition, the first step in what will... Find out more