Journey House

Youth development: our youth development programs provide academic support in steam (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) to help students reach grade-level skills and encourage further education. We also offer gender-specific leadership programs to foster positive life skills, athletic activities to promote physical well-being and character building, and arts programs to enrich participants emotionally and intellectually. Through these programs, we empower low-income youth to enhance their educational and life skills for future success. Additionally, we operate organized athletic leagues that integrate education and life skills, such as the Journey House packers football program and Journey House felix mantilla little league. We also have basketball and soccer teams that play in citywide leagues.

Capacity building: capacity building assists in sustaining high-quality general operations through administrative leadership support to ensure Journey House programs can operate fully, with a special focus on youth development and thrive workforce readiness programs.

Adult education: the Journey House family learning center empowers individuals and families in milwaukee's near southside by providing language development, adult primary skills/ged/literacy education, and life skills training to help them secure and maintain family-sustaining employment. Our comprehensive programs offer classroom and online instruction in english language learning, citizenship, adult basic education, and ged in both english and spanish, along with personalized case management and a tailored personal education plan.

Workforce readiness: our thrive career pathway and financial opportunity center supports low-income residents in obtaining fulfilling employment, offering financial coaching, and coordinating with our thrive internship career pathways. Thrive internship career pathways is an intensive initiative with multiple-week training courses designed to prepare low-income youth and adults for the workforce, including career pathway training, sky breath meditation, and internships in fields such as healthcare, construction and design, hospitality, and sports turf & landscaping.after-school program: Journey House partners with milwaukee public school longfellow to provide students with a secure, structured, supervised after-school environment. Our programs aim to increase student achievement, offer alternatives to being home alone, provide safe havens from negative influences, and offer youth development programming to help students reach their full potential in academics, arts, and athletics.family engagement: we offer a variety of engaging activities and resources for families, including large-scale autumn and winter celebrations such as the halloween spooktacular, thanksgiving dinner, and winter wonderland.campus housing: our campus housing initiative provides affordable housing to motivated youth who are homeless and aging out of foster care. We are dedicated to renovating foreclosed properties in clarke square through partnerships with local government, businesses, and the community, focusing on decreasing crime and enhancing the neighborhood's appeal.community garden: our community garden promotes a healthier community by developing gardens and wellness activities. One of our achievements includes transforming a vacant lot into a thriving community garden with a water gazebo to collect water and provide a peaceful gathering space for neighbors to bond and grow food together.