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 »
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Day of Giving: Early Donations Can Be Scheduled Today!
November 15th is just a week away and that means that YOU can pre-schedule your donations for the Coastal Bend Day of Giving this week! The process is easy. However, if you aren’t sure how to go about scheduling your donations we are here to help you. You can either donate directly on the organizations… Read more »
Expanding Awareness
Last Friday, Youth Odyssey held a profit share to raise funds for our CCISD school programs. But this profit share wasn’t like any profit share we’d done before. We usually focus on the Corpus Christi area to promote Youth Odyssey and this time we went to College Station, Texas! Some may wonder why we chose to go so… 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 »
Youth Odyssey is Heading Back-to-School
This 2016 fall season is packed with schools, housing projects and homeschool programs; bringing our program total to eleven, which is one more than last year. On top of those eleven programs, we are still actively working to get into new areas like Flour Bluff Independent School District and to rekindle our partnership with Richard Milburn Academy and… Read more »
A Big Thank You to Our Sponsors!
With school starting next week, our summer season is officially complete. We had an amazing season of summer camps and recreation center programs (you will hear all about it in next weeks blog) but none of it would have been possible without the amazing support of our sponsors and donors: Navy Army CCU United Healthcare… Read more »
Backpacking Camp 2016 Finished With A Bang!
Last week was our fourth and final summer camp. The Hit the Trial Backpacking Camp was one of our toughest camps this season but also one of our most impressive camps. The camp consisted of three days of backpacking through the Sabine National Forest in adverse weather conditions. Over the course of the three days, the youth hiked over… 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 »
Getting Out of the Comfort Zone and Into a Canoe
Last week, July 18-23, Youth Odyssey completed our 2016 Canoe Summer Camp that took place at Martin Dies Jr. State Park. Campers and their families met our staff at South Park Middle School at 8:00 a.m., Monday morning, loaded up, and hit the road for a 4.5 hour car ride to the State Park. The car… Read more »
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