Learn
Education, mentorship, tutoring, cultural awareness, technology, personal development, and intergenerational knowledge.
Workshops · mentoring · youthThe mission in action
Gather now.
Grow toward home.
Programs keep people connected while restoration moves forward. Through service, creative practice, cultural learning, mentorship, and remembrance, the YES Center continues building the community the restored building is meant to welcome.
Community arts workshop · YES Center photo gallery
Learning, service, culture, and connection
A program is more than a date.
It is a way into community.
The YES Center mission supports children, women, families, and the wider community through education, cultural awareness, creative arts, support networks, mentoring, and personal development.
The documentary remembers the former YWCA as a place for after-school programs, summer camps, swimming, leadership, meetings, sewing, fitness, events, faith communities, and intergenerational activity. Today’s programming carries that spirit forward while the center works toward a permanent home.
Named across supplied YES Center sources
Five ways the mission becomes visible.
Make
Quilting, sewing, fashion and costuming, heirloom crafts, community art, exhibitions, and creative exchange.
Creative practiceGather
Community meetings, conversations, celebrations, film, performance, fellowship, and shared meals.
BelongingServe
Annual service traditions, volunteer work, neighborhood care, and programs that connect help with local knowledge.
Community actionRemember
Chester history, veterans, women change makers, public exhibits, tours, oral history, and local storytelling.
Public memory
Carry the mission into community spaces
The building is the destination. The work is already moving.
Events and workshops can happen with partners and in community locations while the restoration advances. This keeps relationships active, makes the mission visible, and creates pathways back into the future center.
Named program traditions include the MLK Day of Service, Memorial Day and Veterans Day remembrance, Common Threads quilting, community workshops, and specialty history exhibits. Their current status and next dates must be confirmed before publication.
Request current program informationBefore, during, and after restoration
Start where people are.
The program vision can work across different formats and locations, then expand when the building is ready. The page avoids inventing a calendar where confirmed schedule data is not yet available.
Ask about current programsPartner-hosted gatherings
Use community spaces for workshops, service, exhibits, and conversation.
Restoration-linked programs
Invite people into the building story through history, stewardship, collection, and volunteer activities.
Expanded center programming
Grow into recurring learning, recreation, culture, museum, and gathering opportunities inside the restored center.
More room to participate
Programming gives the restoration a pulse.
A restored home can connect recurring workshops with recreation, museum exhibitions, technology, mentorship, and events under one roof. People can enter for one reason and discover many others.
See what restoration enablesAsk before you plan
Find the next way to gather.
Contact the YES Center for confirmed dates, locations, accessibility information, registration details, and partnership opportunities.
Ask about events & workshops