Rite of Passage

Large life events that take place during a child's formative years, can dramatically shape the way their brains function and how a child can thrive in their goals for the future. So, 5 years after the Pandemic, how do we see the impact on the kids we serve? What we can tell you, is the pandemic has monumentally changed what we see in the students we serve and how we form our policies within treatment, home, and education settings to accommodate to the child's needs. Read all about it in this months blog post here: https://lnkd.in/gVJH-48K

With Mr. Trae IsAAc guidance the Student Athletes completed their first master piece. Rite of Passage #WeMakeCommitmentsNeverPromises #SaintClairYouthTreatmentCenter

Marysol Medina taking up the next spot on our impactful individual list for her nearly 10 years of service driving the success of our Rite Track program. Marysol began her work with Rite Track as a project coordinator focusing on the Proud Parenting program within Rite Track that focuses on creating opportunities for young adult parents to thrive as a positive role model for their children. Within the first 6 months, Marysol was promoted to the Rite Track program manager where she had the honor of leading the Rite Track team in all of their efforts to help improve the local community and the lives of youth in Imperial County. Amongst her favorite moments at Rite Track, Marysol has reflected on her work to create a workforce program to give youth the chance to gain valuable work experience as well as the hard work completed by her and her team to launch Rite Track's first scholarship program. As a first generation American deeply rooted in her community, Marysol feels a strong passion for helping migrant youth, youth struggling with generational trauma, and youth who don't have proper support systems to thrive. As Marysol continues her work at Rite Track Youth Services, she plans to continue looking for opportunities to grow programming opportunities to help more youth accomplish their dreams that they didn't think were possible. She hopes to inspire other youth advocates and the general public to truly listen to these kids' stories and be someone who wants to make a difference in the lives of the kids who need a positive role model. We want to thank Marysol for her 10 years of resilience, dedication, passion, and advocacy and for the constant inspiration she is for the students and staff she works with. We are proud to have Marysol on our team to drive change, empower young people, and to change future generations for the better.

Kudos to the team Ho'ōla Nā Pua for being one of the initial 18 winners! Very proud of the team and the work we do in concert with Rite of Passage. On July 30th, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) Office on Women’s Health (OWH) announced the Phase 1 winners of the HHS Innovation Challenge to Prevent Human Trafficking Among Women and Girls at the “Activating Connections: Mobilizing Communities to Prevent Human Trafficking” event in Washington, DC. The challenge was developed to identify and award existing programs that demonstrate effectiveness in preventing human trafficking and or improving health outcomes related to human trafficking among women and girls. https://lnkd.in/gmejxrtH

Last week we kicked off our 2024 Run, Ride, Swim, Survive! 🏃♂️🚴♀️🏊 This long-standing tradition has been a hit ever since the first year way back in the 80's and we are excited to keep the tradition alive! RRSS is an athletic competition and event that brings together our programs all across the west coast to compete in multiple different athletic events in a positive normalized event for the kids at our programs. This year we were excited to welcome programs from Hawaii, California, Utah, and Nevada to participate in a day full of sports competitions, water games, and fun! The intent of this event has always been to provide a safe time and place for kids to spend a day focusing on having fun, instead of past traumas and negative childhood experiences, which we can safely say was a wild success this year. Take a look at some of the fun the kids had this year in some of the pictures below! #Normalizedchildhood #Athleticcompetitions #Youthadvocacy #Youthempowerment #youthcare #positivechildhoodexperiences

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Having pieces of art that represent student culture is an important aspect of creating a happy and healthy environment at every single site we operate, and we love seeing some of our newer sites step into that mindset! Dr. Ray Moss your site is looking beautiful. Hoping the kids love it just as much as we do!

Being a youth care worker isn't just a job, it's a passion, a mission, and a calling. The people who work in this industry, like Jerry from Pearl Haven, know they are making an impact by waking up everyday to go to work. For Jerry, working as a coach counselor at Pearl Haven has been a blessing. Gaining the opportunity to work with youth has taught many valuable lessons, particularly that being a positive role model for young people can not only be rewarding, but also incredibly powerful for the kids he is working with. Jerry has emphasized that being a positive and consistent role model for the girls at Pearl Haven is a driving force for him to show the girls what a healthy and positive caring adult can look like which is so necessary to the success and healthy lifestyle the girls at Pearl Haven can lead after exiting the program. Are you a passionate youth advocate? We have job openings across 18 different states and 60+ programs, find out where you can make a difference: https://lnkd.in/gNV2eej. #Employeespotlight #Youthservices #youthcare #Youthempowerment #Positiverolemodels #Healthylifestyle #Youthcareworkers #WeareROP

Very proud of what my dad dave mcguire has set up in his lifetime. Many, including myself, can only dream about being able to change so many lives as he did so far and still is doing. Rite of Passage is before my time but I remember the beginning of The McGuire Programme - Beyond Stuttering during my youth in The Netherlands.

Meet Dave McGuire: The founder of Rite of Passage and next up on our Impactful Individual List. Read more about his story below! In the early 1980's Dave McGuire-- a psychiatric technician at the time-- noticed a lack of effectiveness of the conventional treatment, which included seclusion and psychotropic medication that the kids were receiving at the hospital he worked at. He believed that a strengths-based approach, that included physical activity and positive socialization, could be a better alternative. This is how Rite of Passage was born. Rite of Passage and Dave's vision began out of a small group home in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where the kids participated in a form of group therapy that included a lot of tennis, so it was only appropriate that the house took the name "Wimbledon House." While the program first focused on tennis, it eventually expanded to include skiing and bike racing which taught kids to appreciate and take care of the high-quality items translating into taking care of their own selves and finding positive and caring friendships and relationships that would benefit them. After founding Rite of Passage, McGuire founded The McGuire Programme - Beyond Stuttering in 1994 which is still on a mission to help people overcome their stutter in programs across the world. We are thankful for Dave's passion for helping others and the impact that passion has helped us make on the lives of nearly 70,000 kids since he founded the program 40 years ago. Thank you Dave, and congratulations on the wonderful work you continue to do each day to help others! #impactfulindividual #WeareROP #Founder #missiondriven #makeadifference