How We Support

The youth Sozo Youth Sanctuary Foundation serve are at risk of life failure. They are at risk of failing socially, emotionally, and educationally. As professional educators in the public school system for the past 20 years, we have a wealth of knowledge about young people, particularly youth at risk.

Sozo Youth Sanctuary Foundation’s goal is to bring holistic healing to traumatized youth, regardless of their ability to pay.We bring practical and appropriate therapeutic and psychosocial opportunities to traumatized children and adolescents who have no other funding. A self-sustaining foundation can provide the financial stability and longevity to create a prototype for child and adolescent care that is beyond the scope of anything contemporary treatment facilities offer in these times – because these are truly different times, and the youth that are coming out of the methamphetamine culture are far more damaged than most understand.

These interventions may include innovative approaches to re-engagement as well as clinical interventions. At this time, provided services are approved on a case by case basis by the directors and are arranged through individuals serving as private contractors. They have historically and may yet include: positive, supervised, athletic or creative growth activities such as Little League fees and pottery classes; trauma-informed therapy; art therapy; bodywork and massage therapy; medical attention not covered by insurance or Medicaid; equine therapy, hypnotherapy and other modalities shown through research to be successful with trauma.

Through referrals made to our foundation by educational, law enforcement, private and other entities, our directors assess the needs of referred youth who qualify on an individual basis and make available through contracted services appropriate psychosocial and/or therapeutic interventions at no cost to the recipient. Referrals will be screened as to their applicability for other types of payment to insure that duplication of services does not occur or that the needs cannot be met through other means.