LIFT Youth Center After-School Program

LIFT Youth Center Afterschool Programs offers free afterschool youth centers for Catoosa County students in 6th–12th grade. The program uses evidence-based practices to assist youth in constructing building blocks to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible, with an emphasis on building resiliency, including fostering positive self-esteem, problem solving, a strong sense of identity, and positive role model presence. The program focuses on fostering an environment of inclusion, positive self-worth, and self-discovery.

• Ages: 11–18 years old
• Price: LIFT will accomplish this by providing TWO free afterschool youth centers to fully serve 6th-12th grade Catoosa County students.

LIFT Youth Center Afterschool Programs operates through two free afterschool youth centers that fully serve 6th–12th grade Catoosa County students. The mission states that the program focuses on students being loved as they are, inspired to be more, found in community, and trusted to make a difference, while fostering an environment of inclusion, positive self-worth, and self-discovery and facilitating inner growth to prepare them for future success. LIFT Youth Center, Inc. lists a copyright year of 2018.

Community members have connected the centers to the legacies of Claudia Nance Rollins and R. Randall Rollins through facilities named in their honor, with their families’ philanthropic work in Catoosa County described as a testimony of ongoing commitment to the community. Testimonials from youth describe feeling less alone, wanting a place to be accepted, valuing openness to find and accept themselves, and expressing a desire to be seen as potential leaders.

Last updated August 1, 2026.