Street Yoga brings weekly yoga and wellness classes to youth and caregivers
at more than 25 partner sites.

We partner with schools, social service agencies, shelters, treatment centers and other residential programs that are already serving youth and their families.

In Portland:

Albertina Kerr Crisis Psychiatric Resicdential Care is an innovative, successful program providing immediate safety and treatment for children in crisis and counseling for their families.  Children range in age from 5-17 and are either suicidal, in danger of harming others, or experiencing an uncontrollable, sudden and dramatic change in behavior.  

Boys and Girls Aid provides shelter services for at-risk, homeless, or runaway youth who need a safe place to live temporarily. Street Yoga currently serves their STEP Residential Program at the Seneca and Summit Houses for young women and men ages 12-18 who have experienced a great deal of turmoil in their lives. In the program, they can develop nurturing, stable relationships. During their stay (up to 90 days), they learn positive discipline and life skills.  

Bradley-Angle House is committed to ending domestic violence in our communities as well as providing services to survivors by working to serve and empower survivors of domestic violence. This Emergency Shelter provides short-term shelter and intensive support (up to 7 weeks) for a maximum of 20 women and children at one time.  The Transition Program offers long-term housing (6-9 months), case management, advocacy, education, and support groups.  Both the Emergency Shelter and Transition Program maintain special services for youth, including case management and support groups.

Centennial Learning Center is a public alternative high school (with a small middle school) in the Centennial School District.  Students range in age from 14-19 and many struggle socially, emotionally, and mentally, with a very wide range of challenges and diagnoses including: Schizophrenia, ADHD, Depression, etc.  The majority of the students are on free and reduced lunch.

ChristieCare is a residential mental health treatment program that provides trauma-informed care to youth and their families.  During the average 4-6 month stay, ChristieCare staff support youth experiencing the effects of complex trauma: depression, addiction, self-harm, and aggression toward others.  It is the staff's goal to get the youth to a place where they can safely and healthily get back into the community.  ChristieCare serves boys and girls ages 6-18.  (Sponsored by The Flawless Foundation)

Children's Relief Nursery provides services to families with challenging life circumstances in order to prevent abuse and neglect in children birth through four.   With an emphasis on secure, safe and stable parent child relationships, CRN has a range of services which include therapeutic classrooms, respite care, parenting classes, music and art curriculum, mental health intervention (infant-toddler mental health and Child Parent Psychotherapy-CPP), home visiting, intensive case management, child development and family risk factor assessments.

The Community Transitional School (CTS) is a private school dedicated to the needs of children whose families are homeless, in transition, and experiencing chronic poverty-related crises. CTS aims to provide these children with a stable, supportive environment that promotes personal and academic growth as well as helps them develop individual strengths. Students range in age from 4-14.
Click here for an article in the press profiling the youth served by CTS.

ConeXiones serves the Latino community in Portland by promoting wellness and supporting the healing of those in need through language specific and culturally responsive counseling.  Services are centered on an integrative approach to healing from the effects of trauma and include: Psychological Services, Family Trauma Treatment, Parenting Skills, and Energy Healing. Street Yoga classes include boys and girls ranging in age from 9-13.

Cordero House A long-term residential program, Cordero serves boys 14-19 and their families who are in need of individual, group and family counseling as the result of sexual abuse.  Cordero is one of a small number of programs offering intensive supervision, residential services and mental health services specifically focused on sexual offending and victimization.  The program also offers an on-campus high school in conjunction with the Tigard/Tualatin School District.  

David Douglas Fir Ridge Students at Fir Ridge Campus have been referred from David Douglas High School due to a variety of challenges, from academic and behavioral, to homelessness, pregnancy and substance abuse. Over 250 students attend the program each year and work with a dedicated staff to attain their high school diploma.  Over 80% of students receive free or reduced price lunches and 78% are ethnic minorities. 

El Programa Hispano works to provide social services to low-income Latino communities in the Portland metro area by increasing self-sufficiency, empowering individuals to achieve a better quality of life, and promoting mutual understanding and respect among cultures.  The PUENTES program is a sumer academy for 8th grade Latino students identified by the school districts as "academically at risk."

Family Sexual Abuse Treatment (FSAT) Morrison Child and Family Services offers group treatment for sexually abused boys and girls, ages 4-18 years, and their non-offending parents and siblings.  Length of each child's treatment varies.  FSAT therapists and Morrison staff are long-time supporters of mind-body therapies like yoga.  They see yoga as a means to help navigate the trauma that is stored in their clients' bodies and facilitate greater personal strength and fewer chances for re-victimization.  

Harry's Mother is a short-term crisis shelter for runaway and otherwise displaced youth (including foster care and court-involved youth) ages 9-17. The youth do not stay in this shelter more than 30 days as a general rule. It is often an intermediate placement before going home, into foster care or into detention.

Monika's House Shelter offers safe, confidential emergency shelter for domestic violence survivors of all ages and genders in imminent physical danger. The staff at Monika's House provides advocacy, case management, and support groups. 

NAYA Native American Youth and Family Center offers youth, family, and community services as a way to empower Native American populations in the Portland area.  NAYA provides a variety of services in order to enhance the diverse strengths of youth and families through cultural identity and education.  The age range of participants reaches from early childhood to late adulthood.  Street Yoga classes cater to both young children and the older community of high school students, staff, and elders at NAYA  

P:ear builds positive relationships with homeless and at-risk youth ages 15-24 through education, art, and recreation.  Located in downtown Portland, p:ear serves youth on and off the street with unique programs that create opportunities for young people to grow intellectually, express themselves constructively, communicate in positive ways and engage in meaningful interactions with the larger community of Portland.   

Pioneer Special School serves Portland’s special-education students, kindergarten to 21 years old, who are unable to be successful in less restrictive school placements. With four school sites and a year-round calendar, the program helps boys and girls with social/emotional needs, fragile mental health, developmental disabilities such as autism spectrum disorder, life skills, or GED preparation needs or who require vocational training and community transition services.  (Sponsored by The Flawless Foundation)

Outside In helps homeless youth and other marginalized people more towards health and self-sufficiency.  Outside In offers transitional housing, free medical care, drop-in centers, needle exchange, tattoo removal and case management for youth ages 16-27.  Street Yoga classes take place in the Homeless Youth Day Program.   

Parenting Program at Salvation Army White Shield provides long-term comprehensive care and treatment for teenage girls who are pregnant, parenting or have become wards of the State. These young women receive counseling, mental health therapy, education and support needed to help them make healthy choices in the future.

Rosemary Anderson High School/Portland OIC prepares at-risk youth for future success through education, leadership, family outreach, employment training and placement.  Youth, ages 15-25, at the school are struggling with poverty, crime, lack of adult role models, homelessness, teen pregnancy, and addiction.   

Residential Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program (RAD) at the Donald E. Long Center provides substance abuse treatment to youth who have significant substance abuse issues, have repeatedly failed to complete treatment in community, display high-risk behavior and are in need of residential treatment. Though RAD is a lock down unit, it is a treatment program, and not a detention program, and the youth are not required to be there by the court.

Salvation Army West Women's and Children's Shelter serves survivors of Domestic Violence in Portland.  Services include: food, shelter, clothing, transportation and job search assistance, counseling, parenting skills training, tutoring for GED completion, and nurturing individual attention in a home-like setting.  

Trillium Family Services, a community benefit organization, is the leading provider of mental and behavioral healthcare for Oregon's most vulnerable children. Their comprehensive array of services offers individualized, family-centered, evidence-based treatment. Trillium's levels of care range from preventative community-based programs to intensive residential treatment with innovative practices such as equine, canine, and horticultural therapies.  (Sponsored by YoYo Yogi studio)

Wild Flowers Program at Salvation Army White Shield is lockdown, 90-day residential program for girls, ages 11-18, who have demonstrated unsociable and unstable behaviors. Many girls have PTSD, abusive pasts, reactive detachment disorder, histories with gangs, prostitution, drug dealing and mental health issues.

If you would like to begin supporting these programs today, please click here to make a donation to Street Yoga.