Reading Youth Initiative

The Reading Youth Initiative aims to promote continued education, mentoring, and support for healthy choices in children who live or go to school in the Reading area.

Since its inception in the summer of 2006, the Reading Youth Initiative has interacted with more than 250 youth, providing annual summer camps, after-school mentoring programs during the academic year.

Serving students in kindergarten through Grade 12 in the Greater Reading Area, RYI implements multidisciplinary afterschool programming with a focus in academics, arts and culture, STEM enrichment, mentorship, and socially engaging activities. Our ability to support academic achievement for students in the Reading School District is made possible through the dedication and time of Alvernia student workers and volunteers. Alvernia volunteers collectively contribute hundreds of hours of service in addition to our team of student workers.