PROJECT:  The Youth Employability Program (YEP) will be a dynamic youth workforce program that prepares its students to enter targeted in-demand careers after high school and provides local employers a pipeline of diverse, exceptional, job-ready workers. The strength of the YEP will be (a) the selection of work assignments that match the students’ job interests, abilities, and career aspirations; and (b) the students’ high performance on their work assignments.

PROJECT:  The TCCH Vision Program truly makes its mark by providing necessary vision services to underserved children in IRC with affordable, high quality eye exams, eyeglasses and early referrals for ophthalmology as necessary, resulting in a stronger, healthier community. With a unique option of a SFS, paired with across-the- board affordability, the TCCH Vision Program will reduce stress and worry in families already on tight budgets, choosing between basic necessities and costly health care.

PROJECT:  United Against Poverty’s Going UP Bus will assist adults and families by providing access to one of the greatest barriers vulnerable communities face in their pursuit of breaking the cycle of poverty…transportation. A key element to our effectiveness as an organization is our commitment to learning and growing based on the stories and realities of the struggles of the families we serve. The primary barrier preventing countless families from benefitting from our programs and collaborative partnerships is access to them.

PROJECT:  Expand YSF’s successful Squadron after-school free sailing instruction by forming two new 20 sailor squadrons. This program will provide an opportunity to lift the most vulnerable children in our community out of a cycle of poverty and expose them a whole new world of sailing the Indian River Lagoon.