SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. The youth development nonprofit, SOS Outreach, has just wrapped up its winter season of programming. Using the mountains as a classroom and snow sports as the catalyst, SOS introduces youth…
Like most kids, Kevin Garcia-Rios joined SOS Outreach for a chance to fully experience the mountains and to give snowboarding a shot. Garcia-Rios quickly immersed himself in Eagle County SOS programs and participated for the…
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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, kids have taken the brunt of the social and emotional damage. A new partnership aims to repair or stave off some of that damage.
The SOS Outreach program for about 25 years has worked to get kids who need help into snowboarding, along with mentoring and other assistance. That group in the past ski season has forged a partnership with My Future Pathways, a more recent Vail Valley organization with many of the same goals.
My Future Pathways director Bratzo Horruitiner said the partnership was forged quickly.
“We work with the same kids, the same demographics with the same need,” Horruitiner. After a first meeting with SOS Outreach Director Seth Ehrlich, “a month later, we were on the mountain,” Horruitiner said.