With May being the start of Mental Health Awareness Month, we wanted to update y’all on our hiatus!
We took a step back and restructured our priorities internally. While we loved all of the motion and fast paced energy, it wasn’t sustainable, and burnout was inevitable.
We are a mental health and trauma organization and to not value our own mental health would be a disservice to our mission.
While we’ve been quiet we’ve still made progress and refocused on what our next steps are. While we’re not ready to publicly share the big project we’re working on we still wanted to provide some updates to the events we’ve hosted, cohosted, or partook in these last few months!
We held our last Resource Giveaway of 2022 in collaboration with Kampaign for Change! We were able to collectively distribute 20+ Holiday Hygiene Packs & Wool Knits, provide Hot Meals and Warm Clothes to Unhoused, and collected 10 bags of trash and debris!
In collaboration and with a multitude of organizations and agencies YHC and others were able to give out OVER 450 GIFTS to families at the Pullman apartments for the Holidays! It’s critical we acknowledge all the help we received so Thank you to the following;
Cubpack 645 for 125 wrapped presents;
Toys for Tots and the Marines for the initial 160 gifts who came back with BOXES full of toys;
Sequential who donated 25 $50 gift cards, 25 $20 movie passes, 25 $15 McDonald's gift cards;
The Richmond Police Department who adopted four families and Richmond fire for showing up and showing out like you always do;
Community Village who provided food;
Steve from Desk for Kids who has made over 200 desk for families in need over the course of the pandemic;
Urban tilt for 70 packages for families and all those warrior T-shirts and Derrick for bringing all the Cal gear.
Guardians of Justice, Pullman apartments manager, Mr. Kenneth, and every other volunteer who made that day amazing for the kids!
In addition to the support from local community organizations, we have to give a huge thank you to the Black Student Union at Vanden high school for gathering supplies for our unhoused and at risk youth for the holiday season! We are so grateful to have the young people show up like they do!
Thanks to a grant and in partnership with Richmond YSB (Youth Service Bureau), YHC collaborated to do mural painting and gardening at the Parchester Community Center.
Additionally our founder spoke with the youth of Richmond YSB (Youth Service Bureau) about the importance of nonprofits and inspiring the kids to dream about what nonprofit they could create too.
Now that May is here it’s the perfect time to relaunch our summer internship! Please check the link below for more information!
