Joyner Payne Youth Services Agency

The Joyner/Payne Youth Service Agency was founded in 1996 by Hewitt R. Joyner jr. to commemorate and keep alive a tradition of community service by the Joyner Family. Starting with Hewitt R. Joyner Sr, Hewitt R. Joyner Jr. and Hewitt R. Joyner III,

Hewitt Sr. in 1971, a recovering alcoholic who with his son Hewitt Jr. founded the Black Council on Alcoholism of San Jose a outreach and primary care social model treatment center, created the first treatment facility in San Jose for Women and Men called the Sepia House and after Hewitt Sr's death in 1976, under Hewitt Jr's direction, went on to become the Black Council Of Santa Clara County a multi-service family orientated agency dedicated toward providing alcoholism treatment, employment training and 24 hour outreach services to youth and adults in the African American Community of Santa Clara County. Project Second Chance, Project Helping Hand, The Eastside Athletic League and Sepia House were a few of the major innovations in family services provided by the agency. In 1983 Hewitt Jr. officially retired from the Black Council after a very successful career to pursue other interests, after building a Board of Directors who represented Law Enforcement, Corporate Interest & Community, and a million dollar agency. Hewitt III is gang intervention expert who was the Program Director of the City of Boston Street Worker Program the number one gang intervention program in the United States and currently Program Director of the Unity Project for the American Lung Association.

The J/PYSA organization founded by Hewitt Joyner Jr. and directed by Hewitt Joyner III, is dedicated toward providing direct services and consultant services to develop health education, sports & athletic, employment training, intervention & delinquency prevention programs for African Americans and other poor youth and families.

Since 1996 the J/PYSA organization has worked with the Brighter Horizon and Evelyn Cox Child Development agency to provide staff training for juvenile group homes, the Don Johnson Tennis Foundation to provide tennis programs and lessons for minority youth, the 21st Century Foundation to set up a Media & Computer Training Program for the African American Community Service Agency, the Youth Anti-Tobacco Collaborative of San Jose to provide comprehensive health education and intervention programs and the River Nile Corporation.