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Events, Mentoring, Newsletter
August 31, 2020

Pour Cup Painting Class, August 3   [caption id="attachment_19059" align="alignleft" width="300"] Matches participating in paint event.[/caption] Youth Horizons monthly art classes for mentors and proteges continued in August with pour cup painting, thanks to our partners at CityArts. In July the class was conducted through a virtual Zoom meeting but this month we returned to the facility in...

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Mentoring, Newsletter, Staff Highlight
August 31, 2020

CAYM Mentoring Program Training   [caption id="attachment_19023" align="alignleft" width="300"] Donnovan Karber, CAYM National Field Director[/caption] Youth Horizons’ Mentoring Program is enjoying updated training during a time of transition. This training is being provided by The Christian Association of Youth Mentoring (CAYM). CAYM supports faith-based, youth-mentoring organizations across the country. Its training focuses on best practices, relationship-building, overcoming mentoring...

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Mentoring, Newsletter
August 3, 2020

Distance Drawing Class, July 6 [caption id="attachment_18935" align="alignright" width="300"] Amanda and Kizzaryja, matched 4 years[/caption] Before quarantine, the mentoring program had partnered with CityArts to offer monthly art classes in a variety of mediums to our mentoring matches. The last few had to be cancelled, but in July, we partnered through video calls. CityArts Instructor April Morgan...

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Mentoring, Newsletter
August 3, 2020

A future residential program for girls A 40-acre property given to us by Keith Wren to be used to serve girls at-risk of human trafficking We are thrilled to announce we have received the 2020-2021 Tax Credit Grant. This opportunity is a huge benefit to us and our donors, as all Kansas taxpayers (or businesses) who donate...

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Newsletter, Residential, Staff Highlight
July 24, 2020

[caption id="attachment_18892" align="alignright" width="300"] Robert Garner, President[/caption] Greetings, I hope this newsletter finds you safe and healthy. It seems as though the circle of Covid19 is drawing closer to all of us. I pray that we all continue to exercise social responsibility in order to keep the Wichita Community safe. At Youth Horizons, we will continue to...

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Events, In the News, Newsletter
June 26, 2020

On Friday, June 12, we officially closed on the sale of our previous location at 1601 E. Douglas. While a building is just a building, we know so many of you have memories there from the Dandelion days, and the many events that have taken place there the last three decades. God used the building...

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Newsletter, Residential, Staff Highlight
June 26, 2020

[caption id="attachment_18892" align="alignright" width="300"] Robert Garner, President[/caption] Covid19 and the tension we are facing in the context of social justice have drawn me inward causing me to reflect. I find myself leaning on God like never before. As I draw from the abundance of God’s grace and mercy, I find peace and comfort. My confidence in...

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Newsletter, Residential, Staff Highlight
June 2, 2020

written by Deb Shirkey, mentor [caption id="attachment_18873" align="alignright" width="300"] Katelin and Deb, 2010[/caption] In the summer of 2010, Earnest Alexander approached the church I was attending at the time, and asked us if we would consider being a part of a new type of Youth Horizons’ match program. It was going to be “church based” instead of...

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Newsletter, Residential, Staff Highlight
June 1, 2020

[caption id="attachment_18866" align="alignright" width="300"] Jeff Busenitz, TLP Supervisor[/caption] For now, two apartments on the south end of Kinloch Price Boys Ranch sit empty, occupied only by furniture, a desktop computer and appliances. Soon, though, the properties resting on Woodlawn in rural Valley Center, will bustle with the presence, purpose and promise of teenage boys eager to...