Life Skool is a youth development nonprofit organization that provides dynamic mentoring and behavioral health services to youth and families in need. We serve but are not limited to students who are most vulnerable to entering the juvenile justice or adult correctional system. We believe that every young person has the potential to become leaders in their families, careers, environments, and beyond.
Our target population is identified through family involvement, school discipline, foster care, child protective services and the community supervision system. The average Life Skool students come from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods, single-parent homes, and cultures of hardship, often resulting in unstable behaviors based on survival and antisocial tendencies. Our focus is to eliminate the challenges and barriers that factor into most students entering the juvenile justice system or dealing with behavioral health needs. Life Skool aims to disrupt this cycle by developing three principal skills: Leadership Identification, Self-Empowerment, and Conflict Resolution. Studies have shown that developing these skills can reduce the appeal of criminal activity and prevent a revolving door in the criminal justice system while allowing students to discover who they are to live purposeful lives.