Tag: Youth Mentors
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 »
2017 Here We Come!
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 »
New Partnership with Majesty Outdoors!
Youth Odyssey has been making moves to create new partnerships and program-sponsors with other, like-minded, businesses and organizations and we are proud to say that we have created a new, fun and exciting partnership with Majesty Outdoors! What is Majesty Outdoors? you may be asking. Like Youth Odyssey, Majesty Outdoors Foundation is also a 501-c-(3) non-profit… 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 »
Giving Thanks this Thanksgiving
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 »
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 »
What is a Youth Odyssey Mentor and How to Become One
Throughout our blogs and Facebook posts we mention our youth mentors; we are usually thanking them for being great and helping us and the community. It occurred to me that there has never been a blog or post that has discussed Youth Odyssey’s mentor program in great depth; how does a youth become a mentor, what that… 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 »
