While maintaining safe and upkept spaces is a critical aspect of our youth's wellbeing, their trauma response behaviors can often lead to them being destructive to the houses and anything in them - this is a challenge.

At the heart of Youth Homes programming is the insistence that our youth deserve to thrive, not just survive, as part of their growth and healing.

A difficult truth about the youth in our programs is that the holidays have not always been “the most wonderful time of the year.”

Since February, our incredible transition-age youth team in collaboration with our community outreach coordinator have planned monthly events for our TAY youth to gather, socialize, and grow in different ways than what they practice in their therapeutic environment.

Each month TAY youth and their counselors gather in beautiful places to connect with nature and with each other. Together the youth have enjoyed yoga, art, pet therapy, chocolate tasting, and most recently a trip to Lafayette Reservoir.