Youth With Faces is excited to welcome Dr. Jazminda Ryan to lead program expansion in North Texas. Dr. Ryan comes to Youth With Faces with more than ten years of experience directing and managing large scale programs including programs that connect opportunity youth and justice-impacted youth to consistent positive experiences …
With the mission to make a positive impact on the lives of our community’s most vulnerable children, Trigger’s Toys has named Youth With Faces as its 2020 Children’s Champion Award beneficiary. Trigger’s Toys considered several local nonprofits for the $100,000 challenge grant and selected Youth With Faces for its innovative …
Across Dallas’ Juvenile Detention facilities the most common life experience adjudicated youth share is poverty. They face many challenges towards building a stable future after serving time for mistakes made while they were young. Imagine spending several of your most vulnerable and formative years incarcerated. Once released youth face perhaps …
Young men residing in the Dallas County Juvenile Department have stayed busy this summer in Youth With Faces’ PREP Dog Training program. PREP stands for Patience, Responsibility, Empathy and Partnership, which is the focus of the course that offers hands-on training in gentle leadership. Two young men ages 12-17 are paired with …
All too often, the youth we serve have no one to believe in them. They have grown up in a world that expects them to fail, and they have come to expect it too. Shattering that myth can be transformational. When we believe in them, they can begin to believe …