Mentoring Builds Connections
Mentoring helps our youth encounter new experiences, acquire essential skills, and develop relationships.
Back to School 2025
🎒✨ What an incredible Back to School event! Thanks to the generosity of our community, we collected over 400 backpacks filled with supplies to set our youth up for success this school year.
We loved celebrating alongside our mentees, mentors, and families. A huge thank you to Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church for graciously hosting us at their beautiful location—your hospitality made this day even more special!
Together, we’re helping students walk into the new school year with hope and confidence. 💙
Graduation Celebration 2025
Our program graduated fourteen mentees in 2025—eleven high schoolers and three college students. Thanks to our partners, Park Church and Security Central, we put on a special evening to celebrate these grads,
Family Fun Day 2025
Celebrating our stories with a comic book theme and a guest Author - Jessie Campagna of "Marker & Lid." Our largest attended family fun event was a blast! Thank you to Crossroads Community Church for hosting our event!
Northern Lights - Christmas 2024
It was a merry and bright event - complete with an igloo, arts, cocoa bar, games and presents! A joyous time was had! Thank you to our Colorado Community Church for hosting us!
30th Anniversary Celebration: Illuminate
We celebrated our 30th Anniversary on October 12th at DaVita Headquarters in Downtown Denver and it was a beautiful time of reflection on all that God has done in lives of those we've had the honor of serving, as well as our own. “Illuminate” was our anniversary theme because no matter how dark it gets, hope is always present; it just takes work to uncover, or rather, shine a light on what is not easily visible.
Graduation Video Highlight
Educational Pathways
Helping our mentees see new pathways to reach their goals is a critical component of our program. Our education department serves as a resource for tools to coach them on how to overcome challenges, realize their potential, and explore future options.
The Skills 4 Success plan provides ways for mentors to teach, cultivate, and encourage the use of hard and soft skills throughout middle and high school.
Mentees choose from a list of skills to focus on with their mentor. There are a variety of topics to choose from including goal setting, time management, initiative, self-advocacy, basic math, and communication skills.
Mentors are equipped with training and research-based skills sheets to implement during mentoring sessions to cover the chosen skill.
We are committed to offering enrichment opportunities for mentees during the summer. This summer, Save Our Youth is providing stipends to cover the cost of opportunities in the community. In the future, we may explore offering individualized tracks to help mentees work on hard and soft skills they need to succeed academically and in life.
For high school seniors, we offer a year long Senior Experience with a series of workshops, activities, and guest speakers. Our aim is to help prepare for a post-secondary transition to which includes an intentional gap year, trade school, college or career pathway.
To support our mentees as they pursue post-secondary options, we provide them with an advisor to help navigate emotional and academic challenges while making sure students are aware they are not alone in this new transition and phase of life.
Through this program, Save Our Youth also provides financial scholarships for tuition and books to help bridge some of the financial gaps our mentees face. We aim to provide the needed support and resources for them to complete a post-secondary program.