If we can help save a child, then why couldn't that child
save the family, the neighborhood, the community, the world?

The Youth Opportunity Center 3700 West Kilgore Avenue Muncie, IN 47304 (765) 289-KIDS (888) 610-5199 The Youth Opportunity Center is a ground breaking continuum of residential youth-care organizations that combines comprehensive services, a professionally-trained staff and revolutionary facilities. Our uniqueness is our ability to service youth in a diversity of programs across the continuum. Under our umbrella, there is an inter-connectiveness of services to provide quality treatment approaches. Our goal is to provide children and adolescents with the care and guidance to help them lead healthy, productive and fulfilling lives.

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Staff Profile: Darrick Ayres has worked at the YOC for approximately 9 years. Darrick and his wife, Cecily, are blessed with daughter Contessa Ruth, and new additions Maiden (Siberian Husky) and Tyrone (Mastiff). Darrick enjoys spending quality time with his family. Other areas of interest include working on and riding motorcycles, enjoying nature, and hunting. Darrick is an active member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, where he serves as a Deacon. "I may not necessarily make a difference, but I work here for the CHANCE to make a difference in the lives of children. And that's more than enough to make my job fulfilling. "