Vision Statement

The vision of the Seigle Avenue Teen Center is to inspire, influence, and impact the lives of youth to make life long positive choices and create opportunities for themselves and their community as they strive to become world citizens.

Mission Statement

The SATC will provide a holistic approach to develop character, scholarship, leadership, and responsibility in youth ages 10-18.

Seigle Avenue Teen Center

Seigle Avenue Presbyterian Church has been reaching out to youth in the Belmont neighborhood in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina for more than 20 years.  This inner city church has empowered young children for over two decades with pre-school and after school programs and Wednesday night Bible study for neighborhood youth.

The Seigle Avenue Teen Center (SATC) was created in the fall of 2004 after recognizing most of the neighborhood after school programs were geared toward enrolling K-8 graders.  The vision for a Seigle Avenue Youth Summit was created in early 2005 to find out what older youth feared, dreamed, and needed for a brighter future.  Over 60 youth attended this program.  Data was collected by POST (Partners in After School Time) and found that older youth were bored after school, lacked structured activities on weekends as well as in the summer.  The analysis reported the majority of older youth desired a summer job.  The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department was also polled and it was found that most youth crime and violence occurred in the neighborhood on weekend nights and it was attributed to youth not having any constructive activities to participate in near their homes.  The 2002-2006 Quality of Life Index reported by Charlotte Mecklenburg Officials indicated Belmont as having double the crime rate, double the school drop out rate and four times the teenage pregnancy rate compared to the city average.  With this compelling data, funding was sought and older youth programming began in December 2005.