Highlights Last month, our residents hiked their way toward success! Check out these pictures from our January hiking trips and see more on our Facebook: Partner Spotlight Central Valley Sports Central Valley Sports was established in 2008 as a retail sporting goods store. It has since evolved into a professional screen printing and embroidery company…
Highlight and Partner Spotlight This Year’s Angel Tree Sponsors We’d like to thank all of this year’s Angel Tree sponsors, each of whom has been kind enough to host one of our Angel Trees this year. You can stop by any of the following businesses to pick up an Angel Tree gift tag. Then, return…
Highlights You’ll hear more about this later in the newsletter, but I wanted to take the time upfront to thank Zack Follett and the Kuppa Joy crew again for playing host to our AMAZING, first-ever KYJO Open Mic night. As you likely saw on our Facebook, our kids had a great time sharing their stories…
Highlights Last month, we focused on improving our cross-department communication at KYJO. While we’ve always worked together (the KYJO team has always been a TEAM), ongoing changes and adjustments (mostly in response to state regulations) have spurred us to reorganize things a bit and make sure we’re facilitating communication across our entire team. Particularly, our…
Monthly Motivation Growth = Change As simple as that equation above might seem, there’s actually a lot of “math” that factors into it. As we’ve attempted to clear up the uncertainties surrounding our Short Term Residential Treatment Program (STRTP), we’ve gotten away from what truly works for our population. That makes NOW the perfect time…
Highlights We want to take the time to thank everyone who made last month’s Big B.A.N.G. Weekend events a success – including the kids, parents, community members, and KYJO partners who helped us put on our MOST SUCCESSFUL Big B.A.N.G. yet! If you’d like to see a whole bunch of photos from the weekend, be…
Highlights This month, we’ve been busily prepping for Big B.A.N.G. Weekend 2019, ensuring that everything’s set to run smoothly on the big days (July 12 and 13). That includes printing flyers, sharing videos, pitching to our partners, registering kids, connecting with NFL and college football players … it’s a LOT OF WORK, but we ARE…
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has identified that rates of depression for African-American males have increased within the last 20 years (CDC, 2019). The 2010 Census noted that rates of suicide amongst African-American males between the ages of 18-56 were 12% higher than Caucasian males (Gray, 2014). As rates of depression and suicidal ideation…
Highlights May is Mental Health Awareness Month and, as you can imagine, that means something special to us at KYJO. As an organization that works with kids from all walks of life, helping those kids achieve better mental health is a BIG DEAL to us, which is why we worked to become an accredited Mental…
Lots of potential foster parents ask us what the foster parent approval process parent looks like. So many, in fact, that we decided to lay out the steps to becoming a foster parent in this post! Read on for the 11-step checklist to becoming a foster parent with KYJO: Step 1: Attend an Initial Orientation…