We believe that when you "Tell Your Story", you can build community, foster empathy, inspire others, spark action, and hopefully change the world. Through tutoring, creative writing workshops, and collaborative projects, YourWords STL continues to amplify the voices of marginalized youth. We allow them to tell their story. We offer the community the opportunity to listen and to tell their own stories.

In March 2020, YWSTL had to quickly grow from 2.5 hours of tutoring per week to 3 hours of virtual tutoring per day. We've since quadrupled our tutoring pool, created a training app, learned how to provide in-house training to become trauma-informed, switched all of our programming to be virtual or hybrid, developed a semester of outdoor workshops, created 6 new programming partners, developed 3 new programs for college and graduate students, hired 2 part-time staff members and 2 new teachers, brought on 4 volunteer interns, created a new podcast, and earned 6 grant awards.

This spring, YourWords STL will bring our tutoring and workshops to Clay Community Resource Center in partnership with SLPS, SLU, and LinkSTL. We continue our work at Marygrove Children's Home, and will continue expansion of our collaborative Crossing Delmar programs later this year. We are proud to continue our partnership with Dreambuilders4Equity as well as Wash U and SLU.

If you'd like to help us through this time of necessary growing, here are some quick and easy ways:
- Donate to our campaign above.
- Share our campaign with just 1 or 1000 of your friends.
- Volunteer as a tutor, email tutors@yourwordsstl.org to sign up.

"Tell Your Story" on Give STL Day 2022

By YourWords STL

"Tell Your Story" on Give STL Day 2022

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