The Young Catholics ministry seeks to form intentional disciples of Jesus Christ through building relationships with the youth of STA, partnering with families, and providing opportunities to encounter Christ and pursue a relationship with Him.

If you need a scholarship, a scholarship application must be submitted before completing this registration form. Click here to apply for a scholarship.

Leilani Coplen serves as the Associate Director of Youth Ministry at St. Thomas Aquinas. You can contact her at lfreitas@stadallas.org

You are not required to provide your teen's cell phone number. It will be used for small group leaders to create a group me chat for their small group. Group chats will have two cleared adults in the chat as well as Evan Swindle (for the men) and Leilani Freitas (for the women). Note: small groups are separated by gender and grade.

In order to intentionally serve and walk with each teen, we would like some insight into their gifts and their needs. It is our hope that with your partnership, we can accompany teens as they naviagate their relationships, learn the Catholic faith, and grow as missionary disciples. Please briefly describe your teen's strengths, weaknesses, and spiritual needs below.

The parent/guardian email and phone number provided will be added to our parish communication platform, Flocknote, to ensure you receive the weekly parent newsletter with updates on Young Catholic events and related information.

The primary parent/guardian listed will serve as the main contact for all communications. If you would like an additional parent/guardian to receive the weekly parent newsletter, please select that option below.

Please list someone other than the primary or secondary contact already listed.

If you would like to become a parishioner at St. Thomas Aquinas, you can visit the parish website page below.

Become an STA Parishioner

If you would like to go through Safe Environment training, you can learn more and visit the parish website page below.

Safe Environment Training Information 

If you answered "yes," please fill in the additional baptismal information below. If you answered "no", please enter "N/A" for the month, year, parish, and parish address sections below.

If you answered "yes," the following section is required:

If you answered "yes," the following section is required:

If you select YES to the above question, we understand that your child is in 8th grade or higher, and has a desire to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation this year. We will contact you via email to confirm and provide more information on the process. Please note that there will be a required retreat for all 8th grade teens preparing to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation.

For good and valuable consideration, I hereby grant to St Thomas Aquinas (“Parish”) the irrevocable and unrestricted right to make, use and/or publish any and all photographs, videos, and other images of me/my minor child (“Child”), or images in which Child may be included, now existing or hereafter made, in any case, with or without identifying Child for editorial, advertising, news, or any other purpose and in any manner and medium; to alter the same without restriction; and to copyright the same. On behalf of myself and/or my child, I specifically waive all rights to privacy and confidentiality with respect to name, likeness, voice, photographs, images, video recordings, audio recordings and identifying information.
I hereby release and agree to fully and unconditionally protect, indemnify, and defend Parish, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, and their respective officers, agents, and employees, (collectively, “Indemnitees”) and hold each Indemnitee harmless from and against any and all costs, expenses, attorney’s fees, claims damages, demands, suits, judgments, losses, or liability for injuries to property, injuries to persons (including Child) and from any other costs, expenses, attorney fees, claims, suits judgments, losses, or liabilities of any and every nature whatsoever arising in any manner, directly or indirectly, out of, in connection with, in the course of, or incidental to the use or publication of any photographs, videos, or other images of Child, REGARDLESS OF CAUSE OR OF THE JOINT, COMPARATIVE, OR CONCURRENT NEGLIGENCE OF THE INDEMNITEES.

Financial support collected solely supports the ministry and our youth. Your financial support offsets the salaries, curriculum, and other materials and resources used throughout the year. The parish subsidizes over half of the cost for each child from weekly parishioner contributions, but without your support to the ministry we would not be able to offer the quality of ministry that we do.

If this is the first child you are registering for any of the K-12th Programs, choose the "1st Child ($115)" option above. If this is your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th child being registered for the upcoming 2026-2027 year, please click the appropriate option above (i.e. If you are regstering two children, the 1st child you will click "1st Child ($115)" option. The second registration form you fill out for your 2nd child you will choose the "2nd Child ($100)" option, etc.

Thank you for being part of the Young Catholics mission to form missionary disciples of Jesus Christ as we serve 7th-12th grade teens and their families.

To further support the Young Catholics ministry, below are ways you can generously give to support the young people we serve.