Category: Interviews

Chris Takes a Walk on the Wild Side

In a previous post Youth Odyssey revealed our new partnership with Majesty Outdoors, a local nonprofit that uses hunting and fishing trips to connect with fatherless youth and showcases their adventures via a television show called Majesty Outdoors Television. We settled on the partnership due to having overlapping demographics in our organizations and agreed that… Read more »

Our Mentors Take Flight in Order to Take the Plunge

Back in October of last year, we awarded two mentors with the trip of a lifetime as a prize for a couple of essays they wrote. The prize was a trip to Bonaire for a week to get SCUBA certified. The scholarship was awarded through the Ocean Wishes Foundation which teams up with Kids Sea Camp… Read more »

Meet Our Newest Team Member!

Youth Odyssey is always busy and trying to capitalize on our resources in order to best serve the Coastal Bend area. One way we have done this is by hiring another program facilitator to accommodate then growing need for our programs. His name is Jesse Duenes. Jesse has been part of our team for about a month now and… Read more »

Blast From the Past: Part 1

Youth Odyssey was founded in 1997 and has been inspiring youth and changing lives ever since. We recently came across a Youth Odyssey member who was active in the program 17 years ago. As one can imagine, this is pretty exciting news for us, so we asked if we could interview him for our blog. Just to… Read more »