Episode 19: Huckleberry Youth Programs

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“We've also learned that. Human connection cannot be replaced by video connection. The human touch cannot be replaced by remote.”

In this episode, our featured voice is Doug Styles, the Executive Director of the Huckleberry Youth Programs. During the Summer of Love in 1967 Haight Ashbury San Francisco, Huckleberry Youth Programs became the first shelter for runaways in the nation. The program began as a joint effort with Glide Memorial Church and the legacy Haight Ashbury group the Diggers.

Over the last 53 years, their mission of helping free spirits survive in San Francisco has continued including the addition of an array of wrap-around support services such as their Crisis Shelter, Counseling Programs, Health Care Education, and Juvenile Justice Diversion programs.

Douglas Styles

Born and raised in San Francisco, Doug graduated from Lowell High School. He earned a BA in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz, an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and a Doctorate in Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology (Alliant International University). Doug, a licensed Psychologist, trained at the National Centers for PTSD in Connecticut and Hawaii and at River Oak Center for Children in Sacramento.

For the past ten years, he served as the Clinical Director and Associate Director for StarVista, a multi-service non-profit in San Mateo County. He brings over 20 years of experience in the non-profit social services sector. Doug has developed transitional housing programs for youth, increased mental health services for parents of young children, expanded professional training programs for counselors, and improved outcome reporting systems. Doug believes every person has the potential to change the world.

Huckleberry Youth Programs

Huckleberry’s mission is to educate, inspire, and support under-served youth to develop healthy life choices, to maximize their potential, and to realize their dreams. Since 1967, we have accomplished this by providing San Francisco and Marin youth and their families with a network of services and opportunities by caring peers and adults.

Huckleberry’s Four Service Areas: Huckleberry strengthens families and empowers young people with services that promote safety in times of crisis, physical and emotional health and well-being, social justice in communities facing inequality, and educational success.

For teens and their families everywhere, adolescence can be a difficult time. Many low-income youth face additional barriers, risks and pressures, making these years even more critical. Though challenging, adolescence presents a unique opportunity to change course and make choices that will lead to a more promising future. For over 50 years, Huckleberry has partnered with teens and families to overcome adversity.

Huckleberry seeks to empower young people to develop and maintain healthy relationships as well as promote their talents, ideas, leadership and health; to assist youth and their families in overcoming the obstacles they may encounter, which can include family concerns, drug and alcohol abuse, mental health challenges, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, violence, social and economic inequities, and physical and sexual abuse; and to assist clients in navigating complex social welfare, educational and juvenile justice systems.

Donation / Volunteer

Huckleberry strengthens families and empowers young people with services that promote safety in times of crisis, physical and emotional health and well-being, social justice in communities facing inequality, and educational success. Please help Huckleberry raise general funds to operate and continue to empower young people because when all youth succeed, the entire community is stronger. You can participate in their Rise Up for Youth & Family Rights Fundraiser November 12, 2020

HUCKLEBERRY'S LEADERSHIP CIRCLE - To ensure that our services are around for the next 50 years, Huckleberry launched a major donor campaign referred to as the Leadership Circle. Members of the Leadership Circle show their commitment to Huckleberry's mission and work by donating $5,000 or more (above and beyond participation in agency events).

Because of Covid-19’s restrictions in person volunteering is on pause. But, if you are interested in hosting a virtual event or donation drive benefiting Huckleberry Youth Programs, please contact Huckleberry’s Development Officer Gina Pan at: gpan@huckleberryyouth.org

Videos

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“We’ve also learned that. Human connection cannot be replaced by video connection. The human touch cannot be replaced by remote. And so we are hoping soon to get back to that stage where we can see people in a room. We can, hold somebody’s hand. We can look somebody in the eye, hear their story and support them.”

— Douglas Styles, Executive Director, Huckleberry Youth Programs

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