To help Chicago’s youth and junior youth make sound life choices by nurturing their character development.

Provide a framework in which students will master the language and behaviors associated with virtues. Provide students with the tools needed to recognize the moral issues underlying the choices they make. Encourage youth and junior youth to translate high ideals and noble words into pure deeds, allowing them to live a productive and fruitful life in a world of increasing complexity.

04.16.10 C-YA students put on an anti-violence rally at Reavis school as a community service project. For more information, click here, and for a video recap, click here. 04.10.09 The Baha’i Newsreel featured the Chicago Youth Animators in a recent piece on junior youth groups throughout the USA. A link to the segment on C-YA can be found here.