About Us

Saving Our Youth,VA is a 501c3 non-profit organization.

In today’s world, the first thing the doctors and psychologists do with troubled youths is give them pills to pop in their mouths. Sometimes that is necessary but we don’t believe that’s the answer. Actually, it’s obvious that it’s not the answer because most of the youths causing the problems are already on Ritalin and other drugs but they’re still getting into serious trouble. So here at Saving Our Youth VA, we take a different approach, to keep them off of the streets where evil is calling them and keep them in as many positive programs as possible. We know that youths have a short attention span so we have to make these activities learning experiences but fun time at the same time.

Whether you have children or not we’re sure that you understand the plight of many children today, especially the inner city children, but not only them. There’s many programs out there focused on re-entry from jail, homeless people, etc. but few actually work with the children in the ways our program will. Our focus is on helping children to become adults that don’t have to enter programs such as re-entry, homeless, etc.

Mission, Values

Proposed: Our vision is to change the negative narrative for the youth of Highland Park to one where high school graduation is expected, going off to college or entering the workforce is the norm and incarceration and other negative life circumstances are the extreme exception.

Proposed: The mission of SOY is be a part of the community revitalization by providing services to the youth of Highland Park to help them avoid the drugs and violence and become productive adults by learning the benefits of education, positive relationships, personal accountable and community service.

To achieve our vision, we commit to helping in the following areas:

Truancy

Runaways

Higher education

Drug prevention

Gang deterrence

Teen parenting

Alternative sentencing