Nurture Healthy Minds

Implement the Rites of Passage and follow-on Peer Leadership training, providing high quality cultural programing imbuing youth with social emotional, history, and leadership skills necessary to succeed as adults.

Provide healing and relationship-centered programming, empowering youth to take control of their mental health and healing by providing equitable access to culturally anchored psychoeducational resources and identity healing practices.

Provide opportunities for youth to explore their varying identities with the goal of increasing positive identity development, cultural pride, and mental health.

Support school-based behavioral health services targeting school-age youth and prioritizing youth in grades 9-12. This program will focus on the provision of culturally responsive mental health services with Latino/Latinx school-aged youth facilitated by providers of color with lived experience.

Promote youth healing by offering safe spaces through culturally relevant programs including school enrichment, summer program and mentorship program, and center the voices of mixed immigration status youth by providing opportunities to apply their leadership through advocacy campaigns, train-the-trainer model, and Youth Leadership Council. Throughout, students have a community of support of adults who have experienced their own migration journeys.

Continue to offer culturally responsive services designed to identify and prioritize the social/emotional, health and mental health needs of LGBTQ+ youth Boulder County and beyond through the Out Youth Program.

Expand The Space, an LGBTQIA+ safe space, by providing more meeting times, training staff to facilitate groups and contract with LGBTQIA+ specialists.

Engage youth through TeamWorks (TW), a 21st Century Conservation Corps employment program that provides an educational outdoor work experience for racially diverse urban and rural youth to work together on conservation/fire mitigation. Youth develop leadership skills while working along side team members from differing backgrounds resulting in a breakdown of stereotypes and a greater appreciation of JEDI principles.

Enable H&H to deepen and expand its social-emotional learning (SEL) work by providing culturally-relevant SEL opportunities for youth in its Career & College Readiness (CCR )program. By investing in SEL skills, H&H's vision is that youth will be equipped to achieve improved mental health and equitable behavioral health outcomes.

Match referred youth ages 6 - 17 with mentors in long-term, monitored partnerships to positively impact youth health outcomes over a their lifetimes.