YMTF

Home
Scholarships
Scholarship Winners
Volunteering
Visit Schedule
Support
Related Links
Promo Video
Contact YMTF

Orange County Youth Motivation Task Force is a partnership of local companies and high schools. The primary goal of YMTF is to reduce the high school student drop out rate. To achieve this goal, YMTF brings local business people into the classroom to talk about their jobs, what their companies do, the role education has had in their lives, but most importantly we discuss the cost-of-living and value-of-education statistics which have been collected by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. With charts and diagrams we show the students how education can make a difference in their quality of living for the rest of their lives.

YMTF was established in 1976 and has made more than 500 high school visitations (more YMTF statistics). For the 2007-2008 School Year, 108 volunteers made 223 classroom visits at 16 schools and YMTF awarded four $2,000 scholarships to graduating seniors.

Volunteering is an extremely gratifying experience as illustrated by one volunteer's note that "A few students personally thanked me for taking the time out of my day to speak to them." (more volunteer comments) Student feedback like "Now I really wanna finish high school." make the effort worth every minute (more student feedback).