Our Mission Statement

YEAH (Youth Educated At Home) was established in 1988 and is a support group for any home educated youth in grades 5 through high school graduation regardless of religious beliefs, political persuasion or ethnic background.  It is run by its members with an active Board of Directors, to provide youth with an opportunity to learn leadership skills as well as have input into the activities.  YEAH holds to a Christian World View and value system.  Youth attending YEAH activities will be expected to follow ethical and moral guidelines implicit in these values.

YEAH Membership - Three Levels of Membership

YEAH Academy Family Membership - includes The Academy Classes.
YEAH Family Membership - activities, events and workshop participation.
YEAH Patron Membership - your home school community support.

YEAH and YEAH Academy Membership form. This PDF form must be printed, filled out and mailed to the YEAH business office included on the form.

Each level of membership has it benefits and advantages - check each one out to find the best fit for your and your family.  Please read our Code of Ethics and the ABC's of how we conduct ourselves.

The YEAH Membership form for all three levels is available on its page with membership description and details.

YEAH Membership payment and The Academy class registration and payments are now available online.  Click here for details and benefits.

Who, What, When, Where and Why of YEAH

YEAH, established in 1988, has a long history of serving the home educating parent and the home schooled student.  Visit here for more.

Why should you maintain your membership in YEAH?

If you answer YES to one of the following statements, the following information is for you!

• Our family situation has changed and we do not plan to take Academy courses this year.

• Our family is not sure what our future plans are regarding the education of our family; we may or may not continue to home educate.

• Our youngest is taking full time PSEO.

• We'd like to keep our options open for graduations opportunities, but are not sure what we'll do when that time comes.

• We plan to take Academy classes next year, but not this year. 

• We might like to attend the homeschool college fair in January.

• We might like to go skiing with YEAH at Trollhaugen this winter.

• We might be interested in taking some adult education workshops to help us home educate through high school and beyond

• We are supportive of the service YEAH offers the homeschool community and would like to see it continue into the future.

Read on:

1) For you . . . keeping your membership updated will allow you priority registration and could make a difference when you least expect it.  This could include occasions such as several years from now when your child decides he/she would like to graduate with YEAH and your on-and-off-and-only-used-as-needed-membership history put her at the bottom of the wait list (unfortunately, that time will come all too soon!).  Or, for example, she did not get into a class you really wanted her to take because your registration was held up due to seniority issues and a history of lapsed memberships. Both of these scenarios occur more often then I would like to think.

2) For you . . . the $15.00 annual family sustaining membership can easily be recouped if you only attend a couple of adult education workshops (there is a savings of $10.00/couple/workshop for YEAH members who attend the workshops) or decide to take the family skiing with YEAH ($2.00 savings per person for YEAH members).   

3) For you . . . by keeping your family updated in our data base, when you do decide to enroll in classes again, it can easily be switched on and updated.  You will not have to start over from scratch as you would have to as a First Time User. This can save you a lot of time and should be well worth the $15.00 investment now.

4) For the entire homeschool community and for YEAH . . . in the larger picture your membership helps support the efforts of YEAH now and in the future as we strive to come along side of home educating parents homeschool their teens.  YEAH as an organization is a lot more than just classes at The Academy.  It offers services to the entire homeschool community such as sponsorship of the Homeschool College Fair, adult education workshops, PLAN testing services, and development of new programs such as our recent PSEO partnership with NCU, etc. which benefit everyone both now and in the future.  Membership fees go towards the continuing management of things such as the three websites, product development to keep on the cutting edge of technology and services for our members, etc. to help insure that if and when you do decide to utilize YEAH’s services, the organization will still be alive and well -- and will continue to be there for you.  

Thank you for the opportunity to encourage you to continue to be among our valued members!

YEAH and The Academy have transitioned to 

• Online course registration 
• Online membership and tuition payments.  

BENEFITS of online registration  and payments

1. Online registration provides our members with immediate confirmation of classes at the time of registration - no more waiting weeks to find out if you are in the class.

2. Online registration provides our members with an easier way to change their student's class schedule if changes become necessary.

3. Online registration provides our members with printable student class schedules for their easy reference and verification.

4. Online registration provides our members with immediate payment receipt for their classes at the time of registration.

5. Online registration provides our members with flexible payments that can be arranged with their credit card companies, if desired.

6. Online registration provides our members with the convenience of registering 24/7 - you can register when it fits the family schedule - 10 PM, Midnight, or whenever.

7. Online registration provides our tutors with tuition payments into their accounts, providing an auditable paper trail of payments - no lost checks.

8. Online registration saves our members money in cumulative postage costs and rushing to the Post Office for last minute mailings.

9. Online registration prevents critical registration forms and checks from being lost within the postal system.

10. Online registration saves our volunteer staff hundreds of hours each year receiving, processing, and confirming class registrations and preventing filing errors.

11. Online registration saves thousands of sheets of paper making copies of registrations, tuition payments, and filings - helping all of us to be good stewards of our resources.

12. Online registration prevents costly time and monetary errors that can accidently occur with human processing errors.

YEAH membership family data (names, addresses, email addresses etc) provided to YEAH is completely confidential and is never provided to anyone under any circumstances.