Gift cards are here.
It started with Monday nights.
Amy.
Amy Mays has worked alongside teens for more than thirty years, as a youth director and a counselor. What she kept seeing was simple. Teens need places where they belong, and where getting support does not feel like a big deal.
2002
2007
2014–15
2025
Why here.
“In one school year, 2014–15, our community lost eight teens to suicide. That’s the year Happy Crew’s weekly gatherings began.”
-Amy Mays, founder
The story told about teenagers is often a hopeless one. Happy Crew runs the other way. We are aiming at ending teen suicide in Douglas County, not at describing the problem. That is the whole reason there is a room, a Monday night, and now a coffee house.
What a Monday night is.
Dinner, name tags, small groups, and one thing to take home and use that week. Teens from around the county. Some weeks it is well over a hundred of them. Middle Crew, the same night for middle schoolers, is new this year and meets on Wednesdays.
Why a coffee house.
Happy Crew needed a room of its own, and the room needed to earn its keep. A coffee house does both. In the daytime it is a good place for coffee on the second floor of the Business Foundry. On Monday nights it is Happy Crew’s.
It is one nonprofit. Every dollar the shop takes in stays inside Happy Crew, after the beans, the rent, and the people who make your coffee are paid. Nobody has to buy anything to be part of that. Just being here counts.
The people.
Amy started it. Curtis and Avery run the shop day to day. Megan takes the photos you see here. A small crew makes the coffee and learns your name.
Come on by.
You never need a membership to visit. Open 8 to 2, every day. Second floor, up the stairs or the elevator.
