Our Approach
We supercharge formal education through a program called “Leadership, Education and Attitude Development” (LEAD) which combines three major components to teach students powerful tools for success.

1. Monthly Mentoring
Facilitated by local Yuda Bands directors, each student reports grades and sets goals.

2. Monthly Workshops
Interactive life-skills and leadership training for students and parents.

3. Quarterly Service
Showing our students the power of passing forward your efforts and generosity.
How LEAD is Changing Lives
300%
In 2016, Yuda Bands conducted a study which clearly showed that the LEAD program was boosting the likelihood of a student getting a job after graduating from high school by over 300%
20%
Before the LEAD program (pre 2012), the percentage of Yuda Bands sponsored students who found jobs or continued on to higher education after graduating from high school was about 20%
85%
Since implementing the LEAD program from 2012 to the time of the study, the number of students finding jobs has climbed by 85%
Information shows the results of a study conducted by Yuda Bands in December of 2016. Yuda Bands students who had graduated from high school and the LEAD program, up through the year 2015, were asked about their employment/education status, job satisfaction, components of the LEAD Program that have proven beneficial, and feedback about ways the LEAD program could be improved.