To request a Teen Sponsor, contact Youth Services.
We
offer Army Brat Team Building (ABTB) training in conjunction with Army Community
Service's Army Family Team Building (AFTB) training located in the Fort Riley
Youth Center. Fort Riley has limited employment opportunities
targeted specifically targeted at youth. There are summer jobs
available through Non-appropriate Funds (NAF), but the openings are limited and
on a competitive basis.
Teen Babysitter Referral List is available
through the Central Enrollment Registry (CER) Office, in building
6620.
The American Red Cross Babysitter Course, Infant/Child CPR and
parental permission are required to be included on the list. Training
is available through the Central Enrollment Registration Office.
Fort
Riley recently renovated the Teen Center for Middle School and High School youth
only. This center provides a wide variety of activities for youth
that re exciting, fun, and educational. The Teen Center is located on
the corner of Thomas and Long Street in the middle of the largest housing are on
Fort Riley. It is only a two-block walk from the Fort Riley Middle
School.
The Teen Center has a full size gymnasium, where dances and large
parties are held each month. Daily pick-up games of basketball,
volleyball, scooter relays, and team challenge games are
offered. There is a fitness room with seven pieces of nautilus
equipment, exercise bikes, a speed bag, boxing dummy, mats, medicine balls, and
charts showing how to work on each part of developing your
body. Staff assistance is available to help with setting up a workout
schedule and to discuss good nutrition and diet.
There is a music studio
with equipment to record your own CDs, or just rap/jam with
friends. A drum set and several electric guitars are available to
practice your skills. A dance studio is also available for dance
classes, aerobics, and small parties.
The Teen Center received a
"Power-Up" computer lab from the Boys and Girls Club of America (B&GCA)
where youth can get help with their homework, research information on the
Internet, or just play computer games. A computer technician is
available to assist with the computers and provide instructions to the youth
that want to learn more about what the computers can do for them.
Located
in the Teen Center is a large game room with pool tables, foosball tables, air
hockey, board games, and game tables. Youth can play video games and
watch videotapes or TV in the TV/video room.
After school snacks are
provide from the full sized kitchen. Youth are welcome to help plan
menus for snacks and parties or just help cook. Cooking classes are
held and youth do all the planning, budgeting, preparing, and serving of the
food.
The Teen Center has a great volunteer program, where youth can earn
volunteer service hours (Junction City High School requires 35 hours of
volunteer services for graduation). Some of the teens help with the
large Teen Center programs, some service on the middle School and High School
councils, others answer phones, help youth sign-in, and set-up/breakdown for
special events. The Teen Center takes youth on trips to the bowling
alley, roller-skating rink, swimming pool, mall to shop, movie theater,
amusement parks and skate parks. Special guests are invited to come
and show the youth how to play pool, soccer, and golf. Special guests
also provide educational options and life skills classes.
The Fort Riley
Teen center has a zero tolerance policy for gang activity, violence, fighting,
and drug/alcohol/tobacco use. Fort Riley has a curfew of 2230 Sunday
- Thursday and 2400 (midnight) on Friday and Saturday. When the Teen
Center has an event scheduled to go beyond the normal curfew, the Military
Police are notified and are very supportive and agreeable to allow youth to go
straight home without incident.
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YS- Youth Services
(Middle School/Teen Program- The Teen Center is open to middle school and high
school youth from 3:00pm - 8:00pm Monday - Thursday
3:00pm - 11:00pm
Friday
2:00pm - 11:00pm Saturday when school is in session.
The center
is open from 1:00pm - 9:00pm Monday - Thursday and 2:00pm - 11:00pm Friday -
Saturday during the summer.
Special Middle School camps are available
during winter, spring and summer breaks for a modest fee. Special activities and
trips are available for youth that sign-up to participate.
*All
children attending MST must be enrolled in Middle school or High School
(6th-12th)
*To request a Teen Sponsor, contact Youth Services at
785-239-9222 or DMWRCYS@riley.army.mil
*The Teen Center offers a
variety of activities to include special events, trips, community services
projects, mentoring, life skill development, computer skills and classes. Pool
parties, extreme bowling, DJ dances, talent shows, camping, hiking, and trips to
Oceans and Worlds of Fun and skateboard parks are some of the special events
planned.
Contact Youth Services for details about the Middle School/Teen
program.
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Teen activities are schedule monthly for
daily and evening activities. Teens in 6th-12th grade are encouraged to
participate. A teen council is available for your program and activity ideas.
Fort Riley teens participate in the America's Promise Passport Program
by volunteering their time and talents to community services projects. An
advantage to this program is that these volunteer hours can be used to fulfill
the community service hours need to graduate from the Junction City High School.
Teen to Teens From the mouth of teens (mostly in middle school) come
some helpful tips. The following information is from the teens using the Fort
Riley Teen Center.
Fads and trends to this area: Wide flares, saggy pants,
tight pants, lip-gloss and hair down, plaid shirts, highlights (gold, silver and
blue), sweat pants rolled up, front of shirts tucked in and mini-skirts.
Bandanas and Capri pants, belly and skin showing (PLEASE REFER to your School
Handbook for detailed Dress codes).
Hangouts which are safe: teen
center, the trail, skating rink on-post, skate park in Junction City,
shoppettes, bowling alley on-post and school area.
Where the hot spots to
go are: Teen Center, school Dances, PX, Mall in Manhattan and the arcade, and
FILA parties.
Popular radio stations: 97.5 FM, 101.5FM, and
91.9FM
Hangouts to avoid: unsupervised parties, bars, adult clubs, and
dark alleys in town.