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What started out as a personal challenge many years ago has grown into a self-improvement initiative for all of FYI called The One-Word...

At Family & Youth Initiatives, being pro-life means being dedicated to empowering, equipping, and encouraging children and families. FYI...

Three recent additions to the Parenting Network’s staff have brought a breath of fresh air into the FYI family with their shared love of...

From Nikki Stefanow, FYI's Executive Director I feel like 2020 has been a year of transition for FYI, on multiple levels. It has not been...

Thanks to a generous donor and the community-focused folks at Greene CATS Public Transit, up to 200 people in Greene County will have a...

FYI Executive Director Nikki Stefanow was asked to take a deep look into her heart and come up with a Christmas message to share with all...

"Semper Gumby" is the motto Real Life … Teen Choices Director Rebecca Swearingen used in her military days to refer to the constant...

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The goal for FYI’s community gardeners was lofty: 2,000 pounds of fresh produce donated to local food pantries in 2020 after giving away...

Even though 2020 has possibly been the most challenging of years for most of us, we all still have so many things to be thankful for. If...

How do you continue to positively impact students with empowering life skills training when your mentoring efforts that were mostly based...

Ryan T. Wallace is an administrative law attorney by day, community servant by night … and, most recently,  FYI’s newest board member....

FYI, Bethel Churches United (BCU) and Truck N4 Tykes are once again partnering on a holiday toy and food giveaway in December. But this...

New Parenting Network Director Amy Brown isn’t quite sure why God led her to FYI, but she does know He is the one who led her to a job...

FYI’s Harvesting Hope hybrid event Oct. 15 was a smashing success on all levels, with the biggest winners being the kids and young...

Thank you so much to everyone who came to our Harvesting Hope event, bid on our online auction and participated in our virtual event! We...

Slowly but surely the Parenting Network is getting closer to its “new normal” by adjusting to the continuing impact of the COVID-19...

FYI’s Real Life Teen Choices program is considered “essential” by the schools, thankfully. This means that despite a slow start, our...

More than half of the impact FYI makes in the community is on kids through mentoring and training students. So when local schools opened...

FYI’s Mentoring Program will be shifting some of its resources to meet kids out in the community. “Our first preference is to be working...