The newly implemented MyHometown Layton City initiative is a community-driven program aimed at revitalizing neighborhoods by fostering collaboration among residents, local governments, faith-based organizations, nonprofits, businesses, and volunteers.
The core philosophy is “neighbors helping neighbors” through improving housing, building social connections, and providing educational opportunities, creating resilient communities where people want to invest their time, money, and efforts. It’s not a one-time cleanup but a long-term capacity-building approach.
By combining resources—such as city equipment, church facilities for classes, and volunteer labor—it addresses issues without a religious agenda in its community activities. Volunteers represent all demographic and socio-economic backgrounds, including service missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (who do not proselytize during events), focused on empowerment rather than charity handouts.
Key Components and Activities
Days of Service
Days of service are weekend events where volunteers tackle home and public improvements, such as painting houses, removing garbage, landscaping yards, repairing driveways, or cleaning parks. Cities provide equipment (trucks, dumpsters), homeowners supply materials if possible, and labor is free.
Layton City’s inaugural Day of Service is set for Saturday, November 1, 2025, from 9:00-11:00 am. Volunteers will be helping raking fall leaves from city storm drains, gutters, and residential properties in select neighborhoods.
Community Resource Centers
Layton’s new Community Resource Center (CRC) is housed in a church meetinghouse located at 845 N 1150 E in Layton, and open weekdays for free classes. Offerings include English as a Second Language, piano, sewing, tutoring, and computer skills.
MyHometown Layton indeed lifts and empowers neighborhoods, by providing proactive opportunities where neighbors help neighbors, by improving local communities, and by creating places where neighbors want to invest their time, money, and efforts to help create a place where they desire to stay.