Monday, October 6, 2008

Welcome to Youth & Family Services!

Our mission is to support children and their families in being capable, caring and contributing members of the community.

Child Care Child Madyson

YFS Child Care openings available!

Limited openings available in preschool child care for children ages 3-5 and before and after school programming for 1st thru 8th grade students. YFS Child Care provides quality, affordable child care, meals, transportation and activities from 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday-Friday.

To register call 342-4233






Kids Fair Spirit Day

Show Your Team Spirit!

With college and professional football kicking off, baseball going strong, NASCAR drivers rolling into the final leg of the season and high school athletics starting, now is the perfect time to show your team spirit and participate in the Youth & Family Services Spirit Day program.

Youth & Family Services invites area businesses and organizations to help raise critical funds to purchase tickets for children in our area who may not be able to afford to buy a Kids Fair ticket by participating in Spirit Day.

Businesses that sponsor Spirit Day allow employees to come to work for a day in their favorite sports teams’ memorabilia or colors in return for a $1 donation. Three $1 donations cover the cost of a ticket to one day of Kids Fair. You can host as many Spirit Days as you wish before the big event — Kids Fair — April 17, 18 and 19, 2009.

If you choose to participate, we’ve made it easy. Simply invite your employees to participate for $1, fill in the Spirit Day date or dates on the flyer you can download here and display it in the workplace. YFS asks that employers refrain from holding Spirit Day on days that conflict with United Way’s Jeans Day campaign.

For more information, please call Connie Olson or Steve Merrill at 342-4195.

Click here to download flyer* Available as PDF Adobe PDF Graphic


About Us

We serve children and families in Rapid City and other communities in 24 counties in western South Dakota. You can read more about YFS here.

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YFS receives helping hands at Day of Caring
September 12, 2008
Volunteers from Ellsworth Air Force Base sifted rocks out of sandboxes, pulled weeds and raked pea gravel under playground equipment at Youth & Family Services 1920 Plaza Blvd. ...
Waldenbooks book fair collects more than 370 books for YFS
September 11, 2008
Youth & Family Services staff member Karen Spalding and Waldenbooks staff member Nicholin Crays load boxes filled with books into a Youth & Family Services van to be distributed to classrooms and libraries within the seven YFS programs. ...
Mayor Hanks serves at YFS Summer Food Program
August 20, 2008
Mayor Alan Hanks served lunch to children participating in the Youth & Family Services Summer Food Program Tuesday afternoon. ...
Delta Dental Smile Mobile makes its debut
August 20, 2008
Employees from Delta Dental and Youth & Family Services as well as donors gathered to celebrate the debut of Delta Dental's newest mobile dental office, the Dakota Smiles Smile Mobile. ...
Party in the Pony Room!
August 15, 2008
The kids in Miss Comfort's Pony Room of Youth & Family Services Child Care sure know how to party! The preschool-age class celebrated Thursday morning with Family Fun Day to mark the end of summer and the older kids' move to the kindergarten classroom ...
Waldenbooks sponsors book fair for YFS
August 14, 2008
Waldenbooks is sponsoring a fall book drive to support Youth & Family Services programs throughout the month of August. ...
Girls Inc. members explore the hills
August 14, 2008
Members of Youth & Family Services Girls Incorporated® show off the program's new Garmin global positioning system (GPS) devices on an excursion at Custer State Park. ...
Tea time at Girls Inc.
July 25, 2008
South Dakota State University Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)nutrition assistant Evonne Schumacher helped members of Girls Incorporated® prepare for a tea party Thursday afternoon. ...
KNBN lends a hand to the YFS Summer Food Program
July 23, 2008
NewsCenter 1 anchors Krista Fogelsong and Justin Wickersham took time off from their reporting duties to help serve lunch at the Youth & Family Services Summer Food Program. ...

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YFS is a United Way agency employing 200 staff which is managed by a 38-member board of directors.
Youth & Family Services
1920 N. Plaza Blvd.
P.O. Box 2813
Rapid City, SD 57709-2813
605-342-4195
800-YFS-9832
605-342-0693 fax
Susan Fedell, executive director