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Youth Challenge Program
Gets donated trucks from Cobb EMC

Maj. Gen David Poythress, Georgi's Adjutant General, accepts the titles for six trucks donated to the Georgia National Guard's Youth Challenge Program. Making the presentation is Cob EMC Dwight Brown

Cobb Electric Membership Corporation recently donated six trucks to the Georgia National Guard Youth Challenge Academy. Georgia’s Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. David B. Poythress, Col. Frank Williams, Georgia National Guard Director of Youth Programs, and members of the YCA cadre were on-hand to receive the vehicle titles from Cobb EMC CEO Dwight Brown and drove them to the Fort Stewart and Fort Gordon campuses where they will be used.
The Academy provides at-risk youth with military, academic, work, and life skills training. Program participants benefit from improved employment potential and learn to become productive citizens.

Georgia’s Youth Challenge Academy program, an 11-year-old organization with campuses located at Fort Stewart and Fort Gordon, has graduated approximately 4,000 formerly at-risk youth. The program is considered one of the top Youth Challenge Programs in the nation.

Cobb EMC is an electric membership cooperative serving more than 177,000 customers in Cobb, Cherokee, Paulding, Bartow and Fulton Counties.