“Sometimes I wonder where my old friends would be if they had been in CYD with me. Some of them didn’t graduate from high school. They might not have followed the crowd and got caught up bad things….If they were in CYD they would have had somewhere to go, and something to see besides run down houses, prostitution, violence, and drugs. They might not have forgotten their goals and dreams.”

--Zeric, recent CYD Graduate.

Our students are the heart of Create Your Dreams. We serve a select group of students attending Atlanta Public Schools and living in at-risk areas of northwest Atlanta. We target bright, motivated leaders. All our students were either picked by their teachers and principals for their leadership and academic ability or are family-members of selected students who also show these abilities and have become part of the program over the years.