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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.
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Alumna Genesis Osuna was part of the Guardian Scholars Program for current and former foster youth.
Growing up in foster homes, there were days when Genesis Osuna felt hopeless about the future. But today, the alumna is looking forward to a better future. She is the first in her family to earn a college degree.
“There were days that were dark, but I would take a deep breath, and remind myself that tomorrow is much brighter,” Osuna said.
School was always a safe space for Osuna, where she could be a “normal kid.” When she received a financial scholarship to attend Cal State Fullerton through the Guardian Scholars Program, which supports current and former foster youth, she finally felt at home.