About Us

Youth in Progress Driving School

We are a fully licensed Driver's Education School that offers innovative classes to community youth at a reduced rate in exchange for their participation in a community service project. The curriculum includes 30 hours of classroom instruction, 12 hours driving and observation on the road. For more information and class schedules please click here.

Youth in Progress (YIP)

Over the past several years, kids involved in systems throughout the commonwealth have become more dependent on that system and are not exiting the system with the skills needed to become productive contributing members of their communities. Through the Youth in Progress afterschool program, teenagers will be assisted in their transition to adulthood. The will acquire the necessary tools and skillsets to function on their own. The focus of the YIP program is to help youth develop daily living skills such as money management, interpersonal and professional communication, conflict resolution, job coaching, and healthy living skills. In addition to adolescents involved with state systems we offer this program to any teenager who wants to both develop and demonstate his or her own individual leadership skills. Empowering youth and developing their leadership capabilitites will provide them the opportunities to significantly contribute to their communities through the community service projects they will be involved in as part of the program. Examples of this include organizing and executing food drives that benefit local food banks, volunteering at the local senior center, animal shelter or homeless shelters. This instills in them a sense of civic responsibility and the value of giving back to the communities.

Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps

The Youth in Progress Driving School is an educational program supported by the Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps. RFK Children's Action Corps was founded in 1969 as an active memorial to the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who believed that society has a responsibility to take care of its most helpless members. Our programs are focused on helping children and adolescents with significant emotional and behavioral problems deal appropriately with past hurts, develop self-esteem, and become contributing members of society. We also provide support services for families and preventive programs for youths living in areas with high rates of violence and crime.

Since our founding, we have steadily increased the number of programs and services we provide to young people and their families, including residential programs, community outreach programs, and adventure education. We collaborate with state agencies – including the departments of Youth Services, Social Services, Mental Health, Education, and Early Education and Care – to keep children out of trouble, in school, and on a path of healing.