Positively Spencer Youth

If you haven't heard of them, Positively Spencer Youth or PSY is doing some good things in our community. They host regular PUBLIC forums discussing issues that are pertinent to the safety & well-being of our children. They regularly participate in events that support and benefit the young people and their activities in our community. That really is only the tip of the iceberg for them. They would like to have a far greater impact but they have come up on probably their worst opponent yet...apathy. Parents who don't care or are too busy. Community leaders who don't have kids at home anymore and who are tired. Teachers who deal with these kids every day and frankly are just sick & tired of other people's kids. Daycare providers that care for little ones from before sunup to sundown and can predict which ones will become at risk before their teens but they just don't have the energy to love one more. Public servants who have budgets stretched tight and just can't fit in one more visit to a family in jeopardy. Pastors who are trying like heck to make ends meet, care for their elderly, their sick, their weak, their faith less and somehow still maintain their own sanity.

I know it's difficult but our young people need us. PSY needs all of us to just attend a meeting, volunteer an hour of time, send a mailing, use a talent. I believe that they would be happy if people would just seek out the knowledge that they are offering. Whether you believe it or not, your child, my child, the neighbor's kid, the kid down the street or around the corner, the one sitting in the back row, the one waiting to see Mr. Mueting, the one on suspension, the one with a new car, new clothes, or seemingly good family and good character all need us to be aware for them of the things that can harm them. They need all of us to care about what happens to them, to their futures, to their lives. They need us to love them where they are and to lift them up so that they can survive and thrive. Become involved. Help out. Show up. Find a way.