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Causes: Children & Youth, Crime & Law, Youth Violence Prevention
Mission: To assist whatcom county children and families who have experienced trauma and struggling with emotional and/or behavioral challenges through summer programs and weekly support group activities and parenting classes.
Programs: Ray of hope is a state-licensed, seven-week summer childcare program for children ages 5-12 that struggle with emotional and/or behavioral issues stemming from abuse, neglect, or poverty. Ray of hope provides daily field trips, breakfast and lunch, along with enrichment activities, mentorship and social skill development. Ray of hope serves 100 children each year.
roots is a school year program that meets quarterly one night per week providing parenting enrichment classes and children support groups for ages prek-middle school. Classes teach positive behavior management and social skill building. Roots serves approx. 150 people each quarter.
the organization also operates compass discovery, snowboard outreach society (s0s), and other smaller programs. Compass discovery is an after-school program for middle school students that meets one day per week and engages middle schoolers with inquiry-based projects that build educational, social and emotional skills. Compass discovery serves 7-12 students per quarter. Partnering with the snowboard outreach society, the learn to ride program uses the experience of learning to snowboard to engage and challenge at-risk teens.