Rochester Area Youth Assistance

07/07/2025

FREE Youth Event Celebrating Mental Health and Good Choices! 👏

➡️Join Rochester/Auburn Hills Community Coalition for food, fun, and friends on Sunday July 20thh at the Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm for the annual RAHCC Peace Love and Me: Keeping the ME in Mental Health event. No need to register - just show up! ✌️❤️

07/04/2025

Happy 4th of July from Rochester Area Youth Assistance! 🇺🇸

Wishing all the wonderful families and youth in our community a safe, joyful, and memorable Independence Day! We hope your day is filled with fun, laughter, and cherished moments.

07/03/2025

Wish list from Neighborhood House! Help if you can!

🌟𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲!🌟
We welcome your donations to help support our community through our Food Pantry and Clothes Closet.

SPECIAL REQUEST: We have a client who needs a refrigerator. If you have a working refrigerator available, they would be happy to take it off your hands.

👕 Clothes Closet 👚
📍 44 Mill Street (Located under the Main Street bridge)
📅 Donation Drop-off Hours:
Tuesday - Thursday: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

🍎 Food Pantry 🍏
📍 1315 North Pine Street, Rochester
(Back Side of First Congregational Church)
📅 Donation Drop-off Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Thank you for helping us serve our community!

06/26/2025

Thank you to Jan Iserman, Chairperson of our Financial Assistance Committee, for presenting our non-profit and Ashleigh Iserman Boating Safety Foundation 🚤 non-profit on June 24th at the Innovation Lab at Hart Middle School!
We appreciate you all all you do for RAYA! 🥰

06/24/2025

Mark your calendars for the Falcon Frenzy at Rochester High School! We will have a table set up to share information about RAYA, make plans to attend on September 12th! 🦅

Mark your calendars! Rochester High School invites you to the Falcon Frenzy, a community celebration on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025.

From 4-7 p.m., students, families, neighbors, feeder schools, alumni and community members can enjoy family activities, food trucks, music, performances by the RHS band, cheer and dance teams, giveaways, bounce houses, a petting zoo, appearances by U.S. military and emergency vehicles, demonstrations from RHS clubs and more!

The football game against Lake Orion follows at 7 p.m.

Watch for additional information closer to the event.

06/20/2025

Thumbs up for our amazing Youth Council who represented Rochester Area Youth Assistance at the Rochester Hills Public Library’s nonprofit fair last weekend! We loved greeting so many neighbors excited about the summer reading program and being involved in our community. Thanks to everyone who stopped by!

06/14/2025

I encourage you to check out the Resiliency Center. They are an amazing resource in our community, open to everyone, absolutely free of charge. Check out their calendar of events at RochesterHillsRC.org/events and register for these popular programs!

06/14/2025

06/12/2025

As we near the end of the school year, we'd like to remind the RCS Community of some things we can help with during the school year. ✅

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE is available to children K-12th grade for skill-building (sports or dance activities, classes, summer learning, etc.), camps or child care. **Parent or guardian must provide appropriate financial information to be eligible for financial assistance. For more information visit our website :
🌐 https://www.raya-mi.org/

06/10/2025

Join us on Saturday as we will be attending the Rochester Hills Public Library's non-profit fair! 👏
🗓 Satruday, June 14th
⏰ 12:00 - 2:00
📍RHPL
It's always a wonderful time and well attended!

06/05/2025

Time to update your Kroger rewards! 👏

Link your Kroger card to RAYA in the Kroger Community Rewards section here: https://www.kroger.com/i/community/community-rewards

This program makes fundraising easy by donating to RAYA just for doing your regular shopping! 💯 We appreciate all of you who list RAYA as your community charity!

05/30/2025

We had our final meeting of the year this week and we'd like to give a heartfelt thank you to these amazing volunteers who sit on the RAYA board. 👏😍

The dedication of this board has allowed us to help so many students and families in the Rochester community this year, we couldn't do it without them. If you want to learn more send us a message!