Our journey started in May 2013. The needs of setting up a new post-school centre for English-speaking young adults with special needs was originated from a young man called Simon Mountain, and his love for learning.

Simon loves reading in the library. His parents Terry and Penny Mountain believed that their son should continue to learn, though he graduated from school in 2012. As an active members of the Methodist International Church (MIC), Penny prayed and expressed her son’s needs to the Church’s former Senior Pastor.

A meeting was called shortly and it was attended by the former Director of Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service, MIC’s Senior Pastor, Mrs. Mountain and two other founding members. It was dismissed with a decision that a programme catering for Simon’s and his peers’ needs was to be established with its operation starting from the first quarter of 2014 at the Methodist Study Trust Education Centre in Wong Tai Sin.

In April 2014, the Youth Empowerment Service (YES) programme was the first programme offered at the Methodist Study Trust Education Centre. By September 2017, the CONNECT programme was launched to focus on life and career planning for our young adults.

Youth Empowerment Service is managed and supported by Methodist Study Trust and Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service.