West End Center For Youth, Inc.

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West End Center For Youth, Inc. Celebrating 45+ years! 🎉 West End Center is Roanoke City's oldest community after-school and summer program for students 5-18.

Staff:
Karen Pillis, Executive Director
Danny Britton, Director of Operations
Deseree Stanfield, Director of Education
Ryan Filegar, Peace Builders & Nutrition/Wellness
Jason Rowe-STEAM/Literacy Coordinator
Betsy Nxon-Development Coordinator

It’s been busy around here y’all! Thank you to Deseree and Jason for capturing the magic moments! Pictured here with our...
10/09/2026

It’s been busy around here y’all! Thank you to Deseree and Jason for capturing the magic moments! Pictured here with our AMAZING students are volunteers from Church Women United, the Men’s LAX Team from Roanoke College, Miss Shea, our intern from Family Service of Roanoke Valley and more! The fun and learning never stop and we couldn’t do it without our volunteers!

HUGE thanks to Build Smart Institute for an amazing hands on field trip for our high schoolers! We built a wall! It’s a ...
10/09/2026

HUGE thanks to Build Smart Institute for an amazing hands on field trip for our high schoolers! We built a wall! It’s a small wall which we will use as a shelf but it’s a wall and we are super excited! Thank you Stephanie and team! Mr. Ryan and Miss Karen had a great time too!

It's Spooky Sprint time again!!! All the goblins and ghouls are brewing up a fabulous run on October 24th at River's Edg...
10/07/2026

It's Spooky Sprint time again!!! All the goblins and ghouls are brewing up a fabulous run on October 24th at River's Edge North (new location alert!!) A fabulous 5k route, adult bev's only for the 21+ runners, Scratch biscuits, costume contest, and bangin' tunes! We would love for you to join us!
https://runsignup.com/Race/VA/Roanoke/SpookySprint5KRun

Also we are looking for volunteers so if you have some time that morning-8:00-12:00, let Karen know at [email protected].

Highlighting two of our current West End Center students-Dequan Taylor is a Junior football player at Patrick Henry. He ...
09/27/2026

Highlighting two of our current West End Center students-Dequan Taylor is a Junior football player at Patrick Henry. He scored two touchdowns Friday night! Adrianna Mack is a sophomore at Patrick Henry. She serves on the Superintendent’s Student Advisory Council! Our students ROCK!!!

Yesterday West End had its very own version of Cannon Ball Run! We raced around America! Thank you Mr. Jason for your cr...
09/24/2026

Yesterday West End had its very own version of Cannon Ball Run! We raced around America! Thank you Mr. Jason for your creativity

Our new friends at MAKE Roanoke dropped off 20 crochet kits for our students! We are SUPER excited to get started making...
09/24/2026

Our new friends at MAKE Roanoke dropped off 20 crochet kits for our students! We are SUPER excited to get started making cute things! We are so grateful! Thank you MAKE Roanoke!

We are blessed to have a wide variety of volunteers who spend time with us each week but today was just amazing! We had ...
09/17/2026

We are blessed to have a wide variety of volunteers who spend time with us each week but today was just amazing! We had volunteers from Church Women United, VT School of Medicine students, Roanoke College Men’s Lacrosse team students, a couple of our WEC high school students and several of our tried and true besties! Homework time was so great with all those helpers! We are so grateful!!!

The school year is in full swing! Tutors, students, staff and families are all back and having so much fun!
09/13/2026

The school year is in full swing! Tutors, students, staff and families are all back and having so much fun!

Week 3!!!!
08/29/2026

Week 3!!!!

Address

1226 & 1223 Patterson Avenue SW
Roanoke, VA
24016

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm

Telephone

+15403420902

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