projects
The Children Are Our Future incorporates, supports and promotes leaders working on diverse projects benefiting youth around the country. The result is a small but powerful community of connected project directors and volunteers working towards a sustainable future.
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Adventure Maker Space is an authentic outdoor childhood program that guides children in developing vital risk-management skills. Hammers and nails, saws and shovels, tool safety instruction, fort and treehouses building, slingshot shooting, campfire cooking, fire safety training, knot tying, lasso throwing, rope swings, plastic tomahawk throwing, toy making, photovoltaic engineering and various child-directed science projects in the woods. All Adventure Maker Space activities are supervised by trained professional Mentors.
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The Artemis Project envisions a world of healthy, empowered girls that grow up supported to become self-actualized women. Education and Mentorship with Love. Currently a collection of offerings for girls 8-18 that includes summer camps, day long intensive trainings, weekend retreats, after school programs and monthly teen meet up activities.
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Growing Up Wild is a bilingual nature immersion program in Corralitos, CA. The mission of Growing Up Wild is to help youth and families with children gain nature awareness, life skills, and physical fitness through camping activities. Growing Up Wild is dedicated to making our programs culturally relevant for youth and families with children living in and around Santa Cruz County. As part of that effort, we offer our programs bilingually in Spanish and English.
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Grow Outdoor Access is a collective of outdoor enthusiasts and environmentalists who believe that every human should have the opportunity to build deep, personal connections with the outdoors. GOA provides resources and training to those who want to get out and experience nature but either cannot afford the proper gear, or lack the experience to do so safely.
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Life Adventures Counseling & Consulting provides experience through adventure has the power to foster genuine healing for individuals, couples, families, or groups. In a safe, non-judgmental, and playful atmosphere, Life Adventures Counseling and Consulting strives to provide client-centered, strength-based services that promote interpersonal, social, and psychological wellness.
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New Adventures Counseling From meltdowns over homework, to managing the stress from social media and electronics over-use. From dealing with low self-esteem, to healing from parent's divorce. From learning how to handle intense emotions as a child or teen, to how to handle the anxiety associated with transitioning into college. It's hard. We can help. Find the support you and your child need at New Adventures.
The Outdoor Collective is a network of local educators, outdoor enthusiasts, and youth allies who are expanding opportunities to get youth outdoors in Monterey County. We envision a community with equitable access to nature and a shared commitment to conserve it. The Outdoor Collective supports collaboration among youth-serving organizations and park and open space groups to create shared outdoor education resources. We offer training for adult youth leaders to take their youth on hiking and camping trips and we are building a lending library of outdoor gear to provide youth leaders with the equipment they need to lead their own trips.
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Pathways to Greatness was founded in 2007 and brings a wealth experience in the field personal growth and leadership development. Our programs are designed to empower and support people, groups, and organizations to achieve a higher level of performance, access their inner wisdom, increase skills, knowledge, motivation and confidence to realize, create and take powerful actions to live a life that inspires them and brings out the best in people in their personal and professional lives.
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Pictures That Give is a camera sharing program that uses photography to help those in need. Our mission is to use the art of photography to empower, advocate, and increase funding for individuals or groups through partnerships with non-profits or social service agencies. We started with a small group in Cambodia, using photos taken by children to raise money for shoes and rice. The reward was so great we decided to grow the program in our local community.
The Puppetry Institute serves the Central Coast, and surrounding areas, giving all who walk through the doors a chance to experience first hand the beauty and wonder of an art form that encompasses all the other arts into one. Puppetry is more then just a sock with googly eyes -- it's design, construction, movement, masks, sewing -- the list goes on. We offer a wide variety of classes in puppetry, theater, and FX skills, that cannot only be counted as art credits but also math, science, and engineering.
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SolQuest Adventures nurtures strong, vibrant and healthy community ecosystems by facilitating nature-based education, mentorship and adventures, while providing training and support to individuals, families and youth. We specialize in mentorship and rites of passage for men, young men and boys and offer monthly and seasonal events, including support for fathers and sons. Our aim is to facilitate experiences that are fun, meaningful, and unforgettable, as a way of supporting the skills and connections our community needs to thrive. Visit our project page for upcoming adventures and community events.
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TransFamilies of Santa Cruz County and Silicon Valley is a community of parents and families coming together to make the world a safer and happier place for gender diverse children through education, parent-to-parent support, and advocacy. We provide support to families of gender diverse children of all ages so they can help their children survive and thrive. We also participate in community outreach, education, and training events to improve knowledge of gender diversity within local schools, doctors’ offices, and the community at large.
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Wild Heart Therapy + Coaching is guided by our vision of a harmonious world created through intention, collaboration, and stewardship. We contribute to this vision by providing quality, experiential education and mental health services to youth, women and families from all walks of life as they navigate through life’s sometimes unexpected transitions.
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Womanhood Inspirations' mission is to support teen girls, ages 13-17 years old, and their mothers, in the transition from young woman to woman. Through conversation and experiential education we explore the many changes that occur in adolescence and apply conversation and experiential education to what it means to be a healthy and balanced woman. Whether there are lifetime goals and dreams to integrate or by simply seeking a lifestyle to support a fulfilling life, the tools, activities we incorporate will fuel the passion and inspiration already present or bring to the surface what may be buried underneath waiting to be discovered. It will be a different experience for each teen though all subjects we cover will apply.
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alumni Projects
The following organizations were projects of The Children Are Our Future before leaving to continue their work as independent organizations. We are honored and grateful to collaborate and support their success serving children and youth and adults in the local and global communities they serve!
