Stratford Community Services offers programs for young people to help them learn new skills, begin to take leadership roles, participate in community activities together with adults and peers and challenge themselves to achieve their full potential. These programs build developmental assets that all young people need to grow up healthy, competent and caring. The more assets young people build, the less likely they are to develop problems.

Eligibility, registration and fees vary for each program. Scholarships are available, and no one is refused participation for inability to pay.

Adventure Challenge consists of both in-school and after-school groups that provide youth with structured, physically and mentally challenging experiences. Youth build self-confidence, set personal goals and learn how to work with others.

During the 2010-11 school year, Adventure Challenge is offered after school for sixth grade students at Stratford Academy.

In The Spotlight is a summer youth theater production sponsored in cooperation with Sterling House Community Center.  The 2010 production, Bye Bye Birdie, was held on August 5, 6, 7, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at the Stratford Theatre, 2422 Main Street, Stratford.  

Internships are available to high school juniors and seniors interested in the fields of education, child care and human services.  Interns work as Adventure Challenge group co-facilitators.

N'gaged provides training to high school students who are already identified as “natural” helpers. It gives them skills they need to provide help more effectively to their peers.

N'gaged participants were identified through a school-wide survey and attended an overnight training retreat held in the summer.

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