Tag: challenge by choice
Youth Leader Spotlight: Raina Flores
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 »
Welcome Back!
In this new year Youth Odyssey hasn’t wasted any time getting back into the old swing of things. We started our first program this week (January 3) at Leeward Homes and we will be starting our La Armada program this coming week. Both programs will span the month of January and at the end of the program they… Read more »
Big Bend or Bust: 2016 Thanksgiving Mentor Trip
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 »
CCISD Programs are Back!
Youth Odyssey just finished up its on-site housing programs this week and, starting next week, Youth Odyssey will continue our partnership with the Corpus Christi Independent School District (CCISD). Starting on next Tuesday, October 11th, Youth Odyssey will begin its after school programs with six middle schools in the coastal bend area. The schedule for… Read more »
The Advantages to the Mentor Program
Last weeks blog discussed how Youth Odyssey’s mentor program was created in 2008 and how we use the program to foster and build up our amazing mentors. Becoming a mentor-in-training and then a mentor are exciting steps in Youth Odyssey because we are allowing our mentors to take on more responsibility and grow into new positions. Youth… Read more »
2016 Summer Program Impact
Youth Odyssey had a pretty jam packed 2016 summer season but it was all for the benefit of the Coastal Bend youth and beyond (with our summer camps). This summer season we were able to complete 14 programs! Of those programs, four were our week long summer camps that were open to all youth ages… Read more »
Summer Camp Season is Well Underway!
Youth Odyssey has finished it’s first summer camp of the season, our Nueces Delta Camp. Each day focused on a different activity with the goal of “opening minds and expanding horizons”. This was achieved through numerous outdoor adventures that drew individual participants into a supportive, cohesive team. The first day consisted of getting-to-know-you games, setting up camp,… 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 »
