(3 month calendar cycles, 3x per year): Providing mentoring to the male youth of color in our community which will have a significant impact on their confidence, leadership skills and resilience. The importance of this male mentorship is to impress upon positive values and experiences to help avoid negative behaviors and achieve success. By having a safe male role model to learn from and talk to it, widens the youth support system, and enhances their mental health. The objectives of our youth mentor program are to increase coping skills, build resilience and build the confidence to break away from unproductive cycles or behaviors. Through mentoring, youth have a supportive social environment available, and youth are encouraged to identify specific personal goals they would like to achieve. Meeting on a weekly basis, youth will spend 2 hours of one-on-one time with their mentors.

(8 weeks): The Little women of Melanin is a support group for ages 5 - 10 years of age. LWM Focus on different forms of relationship building and challenging barriers at a young age. People like to believe that children cannot experience stress, but stress begins in children at the of age 4. My goal is to help young girls practice self-love, show resilience and believe in their own success. We have field trips, mental health conversations, baking club, emotional paint sessions, dance parties and engaging conversations surrounding education and activities and bullying. The impact has shown feeling less lonely, isolated or judged! Reducing stress, depression and anxiety.

(8 weeks): Girl Group is a program supports girls ages 11-18 years old to grow up healthy, and learn how to be safe, educated, resilient, and independent. Girls will learn different lessons about self-respect, positive self-talk, healthy eating, body image, peer pressure, and bullying. The program will focus on fun community activities and events. Girls Groups will help girls be their best, culturally authentic selves.

Black Student Leaders (BSL) is a dynamic youth leadership cohort under Hope Restores designed to cultivate confident, culturally grounded, and community-engaged young leaders. This initiative creates a structured space where Black students can strengthen identity, sharpen leadership competencies, and mobilize collective impact within their schools and the broader La Crosse community.