Serve Our Youth Network
Serve Our Youth Network was founded in 1999. We serve high-risk children and youth throughout Central Iowa. If you are interested in any of our volunteer opportunities (mentoring, visitation or chaplaincy), interested in making a donation, or just have a question please feel free to contact us.
- Heather and Allie
- Des Moines Area May Mentor Training
- Shelby and Lisa
- A Fantastic First! Our First Annual 5K a Success!
- Carlos & Nick: A Christmas Wish Answered
- Help a Special Needs Child Go to Camp
- Bibles Needed
- Des Moines Area March Mentor Training
- Serve Our Youth’s 1st Annual 5K Walk/Run
- Follow Us via Social Media
- Pella Family Fun Day
- Des Moines Area February Mentor Training
- January Is Iowa Mentoring Month
- President Obama Proclaims January as National Mentoring Month
- Ringing in the New Year in Detention
- Merry Christmas!
- Des Moines Area January Mentor Training
- Iowa Beats Nebraska (In Mentor Recruitment), Mentoring Gap Closed
- Bring “Courageous” to Life
- Don’t Forget to Pray
- Our Email Server Is Down (Update: It’s Back Up!)
- Des Moines Area December Mentor Training
- SOY Banquet a Success!
- Community Day Books Are Here!
- Banquet Videos: Klayton Korver and Melissa Mau
- What the Past Six Years Have Taught Me
- Back to School Blues
- Iowa Ranks 4th in the Nation for Mentoring
- How Students Are Using Technology
- Back to School
- Melanie Beath to Become SOY’s 4th Executive Director
- Kicking Off Prevention Through Mentoring
- 7th Annual Fall Banquet–9/22/11–Save The Date
- Qualities of a Good Mentor for System-Involved Youth
- Free math/art lesson- Radial designs
- Executive Director Bernie Van Roekel Announces His Retirement, Board Begins Search for New Director
- Karen Sieg to Join SOY Staff
- Mary Tomlinson Announces Retirement
- SOY’s 6th Annual Golf Outing A Success!
- SOY Partners with Wildwood Hills Ranch
- Latte-n-Learn in June
- Prayer Points for the 500 Wing at the Polk County Juvenile Detention Center
- A free art lesson- Van Gogh, Impressionism, and poetry
- May is Foster Care Awareness Month
- 10 Places to Play Outside With Your Kids in Des Moines
- Latte-n-Learn in May
- He is Risen, He is Risen Indeed!
- Building Easter Family Traditions
- Latte-n-Learn in April
- Do delinquent youth have heroes? Who are they? Part 2
- Do delinquent youth have heroes? Who are they?
- Introducing Second Chance T.E.A.M.s
- Our 6th Annual Golf Outing
- Quintin Stieff of Valley Church Talks Mentoring
- Can we inspired by delinquent youth? part 2
- Birdies for Charity
- Orientation to Mentoring Schedule for Des Moines in March 2011
- The Shocking Numbers Behind Cellphone Usage
- Thanks to the Legislators Who Stopped By For Mentoring Day on the Hill
- Orientation to Mentoring Schedule for Des Moines in February 2011
- Serve Our Youth Network Volunteer Day–1/28/11
- Can we be inspired by delinquent youth?
- Can You Imagine?
- Press Release: January is Mentoring Month in Iowa
- President Barack Obama Proclaims January to Be National Mentoring Month
- Pulse 99.5 FM’s Dave Nadler on the Value of Mentoring
- Governor Culver Proclaims January as Mentoring Month in Iowa
- I Used To Think…
- Looking Ahead to 2011
- Merry Christmas
- Christmas Cinquain Poetry
- Blessings and Changes in 2010
- Orientation to Mentoring Schedule for January 2011
- Orientation to Mentoring–December 2010 Schedule
- Christmas Needs for Youth at Polk County Youth Services
- Serve Our Youth Network on Redefining Safe
- Orientation to Mentoring–November 2010 Schedule
- “We Need You Here”
- What Are You Doing to Help Your Teen Discover Their Spark?
- The Closest Thing To a Silver Bullet – Intergenerational Ministry
- Jim Hallihan: Keynote Address at 6th Annual Banquet
- Thank You to Our Banquet Sponsors
- Mentor Testimony: Al Gross
- SOY’s New Promo Video
- Orientation to Mentoring – October 2010 Schedule
- Sticky Faith Training with Kara Powell
- Winners of the 2010 Hope Award: Freedom for Youth Ministries
- Respecting The Cheerleading Team During Recovery
- You’re Invited – 6th Annual SOY Banquet & Silent Auction
- Orientation to Mentoring – September 2010 Schedule
- Case Manager (30 hours/week) – No Longer Accepting Resumes
- Banquet Silent Auction Items
- Orientation to Mentoring – August 2010 Schedule
- Next Mentor Training – 7/19/10
- Save the Date! 6th Annual Fall Banquet & Silent Auction
- Mentor-Mentee Fun at Dam to Dam
- Next Mentor Training – 6/26/10
- Support SOY Through Birdies for Charity
- Family Separation
- Your Backyard Mission
- I don’t have enough time…
- A Place to Go
- Next Mentor Training – 5/24/10
- Don’t Waste Your Life
- Changing Behavior or Changing Hearts?
- One in Ninety-Nine
- Out of Her Comfort Zone
- Mike and QuayVon
- Tyranny of the Moment
- Sexting
- Touched by the Father
- Mentoring Has Been a Joy!
- Our 5th Annual Golf Outing







