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Olek’s Big Day

Oleksandr has been with is almost two years, and we are very encouraged by the amazing progress that he has made. This past Saturday, here on the Youth-Reach campus, we celebrated two milestones in his young life.

Another Slice of Love

As I sit down to write this column, we are celebrating my eldest son’s 26th birthday. I suppose that this occasion has me reminiscing and maybe a bit melancholy. As the father of seven, I often find myself lamenting the insanely fast rate at which my kids are growing up.

What a Christmas!

With the help of some very special people and the holiday support that we received, we were able to provide a Christmas experience for our boys that will be talked about and remembered for decades.

Building Our Founders’ Circle

The ongoing challenge for Youth-Reach Houston, that has not changed in over 36 years, is to fund the monthly ongoing expenses that come with providing a full-service, 24-hour a day residential program for troubled boys. To operate in a healthy manner, with neither need nor excess, requires approximately $42,000 per month.

Toxic Masculinity

Never one to shy away from a controversial subject, it is time for me to weigh in on a subject that is much in the news and is ripe with misinformation, nonobjective opinions and thinly veiled agendas. The idea of masculinity being toxic is not a mysterious concept.

Coming in 2020…

In the last meeting of the Youth-Reach Houston Board of Directors, plans were laid for several events in 2020 that will promote Youth-Reach across our city to gain both awareness and to introduce our work [...]

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