What is Summer of Service? It is a YMCA summer program offering an excellent opportunity for teens to spend the summer developing peer relationships, enhancing their leadership skills, and learning about the needs of their community. By engaging participants directly in service projects, S.O.S. is an opportunity for parents to provide their children with a positive experience during their out-of-school time. The program is threefold:

1. Service to Self: Service to self  is by building and developing character while having fun participating in games, activities, and adventures which included playing basketball, board games, swimming, participating in the Oxon Hill Library Reading Program, visiting museums, cookouts, free bowling and billiards at my condo recreation center. All-day field trips to the Baltimore Aquarium and Sandy Point Beach.
   
2. Service to others was  by making friends and learning how working as a team increases productivity and group spirit. The most rewarding experience here was the weekly visits to the Crescent Cities Adult Day Care Center located in Oxon Hill. The youth assisted the staff by playing games, reading, serving refreshments or just inter acting in casual conversation. Community Service credit was also given to the participants.
   
3. Service to community was a weekly clean-up of the Potomac River shoreline or Ft. Washington Park. Crescent Cities Adult Day Care Center was also community Service.