The town of Ellsinore through the years had only one main place that the teenagers could hang out, enjoy each other, and play games: ” The Coffee House". However a sad thing happened, it was destroyed by fire around  25 years ago.  Then approximately four years ago the Ellsinore Youth Center idea originated with some of our local church leaders.  The Center was established  by a ministerial alliance whose members worked very hard to organized and equip the Center.  Two things happen through the years: the down sizing of their board and the lack of volunteers for supervision. The center was closed in September of 2004.

In January of 2005, a new community committee board of eight people was organized to lease and manage  the new "Ellsinore Youth and Community Center" as a safe, smoke and drug free place for youth ages ten to eighteen to hang out and enjoy the activities two evenings a week (Friday and Saturday 6 - 10 p.m.)

In the future, we hope to be able to expand our services to include other age groups in the community.

The Boy and Girl Scouts utilize the Center for their meetings and the Center is available for community events for a nominal fee.