Category: Staff

Ropes Course Renovations On The Way

Posted by

In our past blogs I have touched on the topic of our ropes course renovation but have yet to explain what all that entails and how this amazing opportunity was awarded to us. Anyone who has been out to our ropes course knows that it is a wonderful and fun experience that is safe and… Read more »

2017 Here We Come!

Posted by

Youth Odyssey has been making a difference in the lives of at-risk youth here in the Coastal Bend for the past 19 years; and 2017 makes it our 20th. We have come a long way from an attorney who wanted to get kids active in something other than breaking the law. When we started we maybe… Read more »

Big Bend or Bust: 2016 Thanksgiving Mentor Trip

Posted by

Starting at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 19, two staff members and eight youth mentors met up at South Park Middle School to load up and start the long trip to Big Bend National Park for Thanksgiving break. The ride there was, luckily, pretty uneventful and consisted mainly of listening to mix CD’s, sleeping and… Read more »

Giving Thanks this Thanksgiving

Posted by

2016 has been a huge time of growth in Youth Odyssey and we have been so fortunate to see the fruits of our labor finally coming together into a tangible vision. We are now, able to speak more matter of factly about the future of the organization and less “at some point in the future, it… Read more »

Day of Giving is TODAY!

Posted by

Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for, it’s the day when we get to see if all of our efforts have paid off, today is the COASTAL BEND DAY OF GIVING!! That means, at 12am, November 15th Youth Odyssey, along with 44 other nonprofits, began a 24-hour fundraising event to raise as much money as we… Read more »