YES

Vee Hottle, LSW

YES Director & Site Coordinator

Amanda Chalfant Vozzella, LSW

21st Century Grant Coordinator

YES Outreach Director

Erin Dupler Ours

High School Activities Supervisor

Melissa Miller

Education Coordinator

AshleyThompson

High School Activities Coordinator

Stephanie Brooks

Middle School Activities Coordinator

Amy Sanders

Office Manager

Jessica Belcher

Service Coordinator

740-522-0YES (0937)

www.yesclubhouse.ning.com

yesclubrules@yahoo.com

prevention@mhalc.org 
 

Mental Health America started the YES program in 1992 as a service-learning project funded by a grant from the Ohio Department of Education.  In 1999, due to the overwhelming number of participants and need for a safe haven for afterschool hours, YES moved to downtown Newark. In 2009, YES moved again, into the Miller-Murphy Building.  The building was made possible by The William E. and Annie S. Miller Fund of the Licking County Foundation and a land donation from The Patricia R. and Herbert J. Murphy Foundation.

The clubhouse currently serves 35-40 youth, ages 11-18 years of age, on a daily basis.

Staff and adult volunteers provide mentoring, tutoring, life-skills and anger management classes, along with a daily meal. Membership is free thus allowing youth from economically disadvantaged families to take advantage of all the services and opportunities that YES offers. Children who attend daily are required to participate in service projects in order to maintain membership. Students at Newark High School may earn credit towards graduation for service.

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YES News

On Thursday, October 20th, YES Clubhouse, a program of Mental Health America of Licking County, formally dedicated the expansion of their 100 E. Church St. location in downtown Newark.

The expansion was made possible through the generosity of the Patricia R. and Herbert J. Murphy Foundation, the William E. and Annie S. Miller Fund of the Licking County Foundation, the Lindorf Family Foundation, the John and Mary Alford Foundation, Park National Bank, State Farm, Heartland Bank, the LeFevre Foundation, the Cecil L. Mauger Charitable Trust, Licking Memorial Hospital and First Federal Savings & Loan.