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Nome Community Center
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In the spirit of its Mission to "enhance the quality of life of the people of the Bering Straits Region," the Nome Community Center provides a wide range of programs, services, and activities for the youth of Nome and their parents, putting major emphasis upon prevention and early intervention.
Services for youth and parents have included communications training, family support/preservation services, juvenile offender intervention, diversion activities, delinquency prevention activities, tutoring, socialization, and recreational activities for youth.
During 2008-09, programs provided included Nome Youth Court, Summer Lunch Program, Family Services, Tobacco Prevention, Mentoring, and the EUDL program.
NCC was grown tremendously over the past century. It began as a project of the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church. In 1906, with money raised by Mrs. R. H. Young, Bureau Secretary for Alaska, a reindeer mission was established at Sinuk for the Women's Home Missionary Society. Five years later the ministry had extended to Sandspit, a beach front area of Nome. It was named the Lavinia Wallace Young Mission in honor of its personal benefactor.
The Young Mission leased the Methodist Church building in 1913. They offered programs including church services, clubs, choirs, Sunday School, Epworth League, classes, recreation and workshops.
Across from the church, the Maynard-Columbus Hospital opened in 1917.
Facing the challenge generated by the disastrous fire of 1934, the Young Mission developed a village outreach and social worship program in many of the villages and camps in the area from 1925 to 1935.
In 1970, the Lavinia Wallace Young Mission became the Nome Community Center. On November 14th of that year the Center was incorporated as independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations under the laws of the State of Alaska.
The United Methodist Church moved from church-operated agencies to non-profit local control agencies tied to the church by covenant agreement. This allowed the organizations access to a multitude of funding sources inaccessible to church operated programs.
1978 saw the sale of the Maynard-Columbus Hospital for $250,000, which was used to build the current Young Center building. A volunteer carpenter, also named Young, worked with the college construction classes to build the building. For a time it functioned as a senior meals center as well as youth activities until the city provided another facility for the senior programs.
Today, the building is devoted to youth. The first floor is Nome's Boys and Girls Club, and the second is NCC's latest project: the Nome Children's Home. NCC's office has returned to its Methodist roots, moving into the church's upstairs.
In the spirit of its Mission to "enhance the quality of life of the people of the Bering Straits Region," the Nome Community Center provides a wide range of programs, services, and activities for the youth of Nome and their parents, putting major emphasis upon prevention and early intervention.
Services for youth and parents have included communications training, family support/preservation services, juvenile offender intervention, diversion activities, delinquency prevention activities, tutoring, socialization, and recreational activities for youth.
During 2008-09, programs provided included Nome Youth Court, Summer Lunch Program, Family Services, Tobacco Prevention, Mentoring, and the EUDL program.
NCC was grown tremendously over the past century. It began as a project of the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church. In 1906, with money raised by Mrs. R. H. Young, Bureau Secretary for Alaska, a reindeer mission was established at Sinuk for the Women's Home Missionary Society. Five years later the ministry had extended to Sandspit, a beach front area of Nome. It was named the Lavinia Wallace Young Mission in honor of its personal benefactor.
The Young Mission leased the Methodist Church building in 1913. They offered programs including church services, clubs, choirs, Sunday School, Epworth League, classes, recreation and workshops.
Across from the church, the Maynard-Columbus Hospital opened in 1917.
Facing the challenge generated by the disastrous fire of 1934, the Young Mission developed a village outreach and social worship program in many of the villages and camps in the area from 1925 to 1935.
In 1970, the Lavinia Wallace Young Mission became the Nome Community Center. On November 14th of that year the Center was incorporated as independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations under the laws of the State of Alaska.
The United Methodist Church moved from church-operated agencies to non-profit local control agencies tied to the church by covenant agreement. This allowed the organizations access to a multitude of funding sources inaccessible to church operated programs.
1978 saw the sale of the Maynard-Columbus Hospital for $250,000, which was used to build the current Young Center building. A volunteer carpenter, also named Young, worked with the college construction classes to build the building. For a time it functioned as a senior meals center as well as youth activities until the city provided another facility for the senior programs.
Today, the building is devoted to youth. The first floor is Nome's Boys and Girls Club, and the second is NCC's latest project: the Nome Children's Home. NCC's office has returned to its Methodist roots, moving into the church's upstairs.