Animated by a team of experienced religious and lay youth leaders, SPYS seek to develop and implement a programme of holistic formation for young people. The whole thing started in 1995 by developing programmes with a particular target group in a local area, but the constantly increasing demand for the programmes highlighted the need for a national dimension to this service. At the end of 1997, SPYS went online. In January 2009, SPYS became a recognized Voluntary Organization under the 2007 Voluntary Organizations Act of Malta, with registration number VO/0078.