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Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Development Programs
Mission: Empower underserved youth through mindfulness and other transformative skills to gain self-awareness, confidence, self-regulation and resilience, leading to lifelong success.
Target demographics: Elementary, middle school, and high school youth
Direct beneficiaries per year: Over 10,000 underserved youth across 22 partner schools
Geographic areas served: Richmond, Oakland, San Pablo, Antioch, El Sobrante, Crockett and the greater East Bay
Programs: Mindful Community program: Whole class mindfulness program teaching seven mindful skills to every child in a school. We also provide our Rise-Up program, which consists of small groups pairing students with behavioral challenges with high achievers in order to deepen mindfulness practice through expressive arts, yoga and performing arts