Midlands Young Life One is a relational based mentoring program that works with local partnering agencies in an effort to love incarcerated youth holistically, with the love of Christ. We aim to provide physical needs, while introducing them to Jesus Christ, helping them grow in their faith, providing them with the sense of family, and leading them toward a self-sustaining adulthood. We currently partner with the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justices (DJJ) Chapilancy department to proclaim the Gospel with these youth through club and campaigners inside facilities.

In traditional Young Life, leaders are placed at a local high school or middle school as their mission field. At Young Life One Incarcerated, our mission field is secure juvenile facilities that house incarcerated youth. At these facilities, we do what every Young Life leader does. We build relationships with incarcerated teenagers with the hopes of introducing them to Jesus Christ and helping them grow in their faith. We run Young Life club and campaigners inside of the facilities for the youth that are housed there. Contact work can look like leaders bringing in different games like Uno or Spades cards, and playing with the kids on their pod (where they live & spend more of their time). It can also look like helping run events such as a fall carnival for the youth.