Kids Unlimited
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Mission Statement
Kids Unlimited of Oregon is a grassroots youth development agency based in Medford, Oregon. Our community has seen a significant rise in youth gang activities which begins in the elementary grades by recruiting disengaged children of poverty. Kids Unlimited works with disenfranchised children and their families to keep them on track for learning at grade level and supported by safety-net services and long-term relationship building based on trust and high expectations for personal accountability.
About This Cause
The mission of Kids Unlimited of Oregon is to empower youth through opportunities that better themselves while bettering their communities. Our organizational philosophy has been founded on instilling the value of education as a platform for changing the lives of our children. Kids Unlimited has grown from a grassroots organization in 1998 to the largest youth development organization in the Southern Oregon region serving over 1,800 kids per week in a multitude of program strands. Our programs are collaborative efforts where we partner with numerous agencies to provide meaningful services to our community’s most vulnerable children and their families. We continue to focus on building each child’s developmental assets while reducing the detrimental risk factors that so often interfere with academic and social well-being. Over the years, Kids Unlimited work within our Hispanic/Latino population has become one of our most important accomplishments as we have worked tirelessly to create equal opportunities, remove participation barriers (such as money, transportation) and develop programs and systems to close the gap for the Hispanic/Latino students within the City of Medford in Southern Oregon. Since our inception in 1998, Kids Unlimited has become more than a program; it has become a movement capable of transcending norms and barriers while transforming lives of our participants and community. Kids Unlimited is driven by the ‘Unlimited’ which reflects the limits the organization and our community must stretch and the scope we must create to ensure all children can find their hope through education. Kids Unlimited of Oregon has been and continues to be devoted to removing the barriers for children in poverty. Our greatest organizational asset is our ability to grow and respond to immediate and emergent needs. Since the beginning, the foundation of our work has been the relationship to our kids and families. Long-term relationship building is at the core of Kids Unlimited of Oregon's success; relationships with youth who are teetering on the edge of dropping out of school and/or involvement in criminal activity and having success in bringing them back on track for successfully engaging in education leading up to and including high school graduation. Together we have shared, learned and evolved our programs to be responsive and conscious of overcoming the barriers of poverty. As our programs grew, our children and their families grew with us and the successes became a living testimony of what can happen when opportunities for children are created.