The YFC Youth Guidance ministry - through institutional, juvenile justice, or social service agency contacts - connects trained adults with young people to help them make good choices and establish a solid foundation in life.

Like every ministry of YFC, Youth Guidance seeks to engage these young people wherever they are found as life-long followers of Jesus Christ.

It is estimated that 25% of our young people today are deemed "at-risk youth," according to the National Research Council Panel on High-Risk Youth (1995). The National Youth Guidance Department has defined an at-risk young person as a young person who has experienced significant damage and is likely to damage the lives of others. A "significantly damaged life" is defined as the presence of negative influences (or the absence of positive influences) that increase the likelihood of destructive life choices.

Barbara Afe is our Youth Guidance Ministries Coordinator and has been the Chaplain of the Juvenile Detention Facility since early 2006. She also teaches a secular life skills class titled “Ohana Time” in each of the four dorms on a weekly basis. She grew up in Philadelphia, PA during the hippie era of ‘sex, drugs, rock and roll' and, having been an at-risk youth and young adult herself, has a special love and understanding of the young ones we serve. After years of ‘eating the fruit of having her own way' (Proverbs 1), Barbara became a follower of Christ in 1977, and has been on staff with YFC since 2004.

Barbara has three grown children, two grandsons and a long history of working with at risk youth in Philadelphia, PA. Honolulu, HI. and here in Wichita , KS . She has been an AmeriCorp volunteer, a GED/ESL instructor, director of a church school program, and a youth ministry leader. She has been an outreach counselor for JobCorps, as well as a speaker addressing issues that pertain to at-risk youth and Pacific Island/Asian cultural issues. Appointed by the then governor of Hawaii , John Waihe'e, Barbara served on the legislature's Content and Performance Standards commission for the State of Hawaii 's Department of Education from 1991 to 1994.

She received her bachelor's degree in Christian Ministry from Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kansas and is credentialed with the Kansas Adult Education Association.

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