Heal the Fatherless, ReWrite A Future.
Personalized, Christ-centered mentoring support to help fatherless, at-risk youth become confident, skilled, thriving adults.
√ Practical Life Skills Mentoring
√ Academic & Career Guidance
√ Vetted Scholarship Awards
APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 30, 2024A young person without a father, is a young person at risk.
To fill the void left by their fathers, youth will often turn to drugs to feel good, promiscuity to feel loved, and gangs to belong.
It simply doesn’t have to be this way.
70%
Of prison inmates are from fatherless homes
65%
Of youth suicides are from fatherless homes
90%
Of homeless and runaway youth are from fatherless homes
With Proper Support, Young Men and Women Can Thrive
Practical Life Skills Mentoring
Most often, the emotional needs of an at-risk youth get in the way of success. Through mentoring workshops, we work to provide the tools a young person needs that help create a path towards healing first, paving the way for personal success and a thriving future.
Academic & Career Guidance
At-risk youth benefit from hands-on academic enrichment. We provide assessments, customized tutoring, and homework support across the core subjects. As they emerge from school, we prepare them for life with goal setting, job readiness, college preparedness, and resumé building.
Vetted Scholarship Awards
Funding goes way beyond just fronting the bill, it provides a sense of security. Having financial support gives a young person the freedom to explore their academic passions, pursue their dreams, and discover new areas of interest while not carrying the burden of financial hardship.
*PLEASE NOTE- Scholarship window is open annually between Winter and Spring. Please check back for specific information, as details may change year-to-year as a result of available resources.
What Success Looks Like:
Emotional Healing
Confidence in themselves and their capabilities
Academic Success
Development of Essential Life Skills
Job Readiness & Work Ethic
Self-sufficiency and Self-efficacy
College Graduation
Ownership of Life and Future
How It Works
1) Seek Out Participants
We work intentionally to identify potential participants who can most benefit from our programs by assessing and recognizing emotional, academic and financial needs.
2) Work Alongside
Based on the needs of each participant, highly relational support is made available through our diverse programming. Throughout their time with us, strong relationships are developed as we work together to ensure successful outcomes.
3) Watch Them Thrive
Every academic, career and personal milestone reached is a reason to celebrate. We stand side-by-side with each participant to help them realize their own definition of success.
“My father was always in and out of jail and never keeping promises he made. Because of that, I always felt so lost and confused. But ReWritten gave me direction and helped me graduate high school and attend junior college—something I never thought would happen. They believed in something great for me, even when I didn’t believe.”
Danisha (ReWritten Participant)
Our Mission
We believe that no young person should have to grow-up without a father and carry the burden of his absence alone. Fatherlessness creates a hole in the hearts of young men and women, one that they are desperate to fill. Without proper emotional support and guidance they are likely to fill that void with self-destructive behaviors paving the way for a future filled with pain and suffering. We want to help stop this.
At ReWritten, we work to equip fatherless and underserved youth with the tools needed to become thriving adults by offering personalized programming.
We believe that when you provide a holistic, Christ-centered network of support around young men and women hoping for a better life, it will help shift the trajectory of their future towards one filled with unlimited potential for good.
“Important work is being done at ReWritten. I see first hand the affects of young people misguided and lost and I see first hand the effects of ReWritten’s intervention into the lives of those same young people. It is powerful and it is urgent work.”
Jesse Guzman
SB County Sheriff
Additional Programs & Services
At ReWritten our mission is nothing short of enriching the community and watching lives transform. Our hope is to serve fatherless and underserved communities in ways that bring about real change. Our additional programs and services are an extension of that hope. The void left by absent fathers and the challenges facing the young men and women we work with are seen as more than sad statistics; they are seen as an occasion to which we rise. Through diversified programs and practical help, we work alongside families to create a productive and peaceful community.
At ReWritten we strive not to whitewash unsavory headlines, but, instead, to change lives — to rewrite the headlines for the better.
Additional programs and services are offered as funding and logistics permit.
Upper Hand
A program designed to increase academic excellence by providing individualized educational support through subject assessment, customized tutoring instruction, and 1-1 homework help.
Participants will see an increase in academic performance and a desire to maintain improved performance.
Grade levels served: 1st – 12th
Roads
A goal oriented program aimed at teaching participants the significance of setting and working towards achievable and realistic standards.
Participants will gain a boost in self-confidence, improved work ethic and an acceptance and responsibility for decisions made.
Grade Levels served: 7th – 12th.
Script
A writing based program created to engage participants in the art of storytelling and the narrative process through the written word.
Participants will gain and develop the skills needed to write stories with clear plot lines and strong character development.
Grade levels served: 7th – 12th.
Better to Give
A program designed to engage our participants in the community through giving back from their personal resource bank.
Participants will gain an increased awareness of surrounding community issues and a desire to improve the quality of life for their own lives and those of their surrounding community.
Grade levels served: 1st –YA.
STEAM Support
A program aimed at providing participants with all-inclusive take-home STEAM kits to help fill the educational gaps they may be experiencing in school. Kits are given to participants to take home allowing for safe, in-home, hands-on learning in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics.
Participants gain an interest in learning and a renewed sense of academic passions.
Grade levels served: 1st – 12th.
Basic Needs Pantry
The Basic Needs program is designed to provide nutrient dense foods, personal hygiene products and basic living needs to participants whose circumstances are preventing basic needs being met. Children and families with access to our basic needs pantry receive support that helps to improve physical health, self-confidence, and a renewed sense of hope in their future.
ALL ages served.
Our Statement of Faith
We are Christian. Our Christian faith is at the core of who we are. We believe in one God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe together, Jesus lived, died and rose again. Our desire is for Him to be central in our individual and corporate life. We hear His call to servanthood and commit ourselves to a servant spirit that permeates throughout ReWritten. We aim to follow Him in His compassion for the poor, oppressed, marginalized and fatherless. It is from His example we derive our holistic approach to loving and caring for the fatherless and underserved.We believe God designed all children, boy and girl to be loved by a mother and a father. Thus, we follow the example of Jesus by being a visible, tangible expression of the fatherhood of God, serving all children in need from any faith or no faith at all. We believe that no child, teen or young adult who walks through our doors is too hopeless because our hope is in Jesus.
