EACH ONE REACH ONE
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Mission Statement
Each One Reach One’s (EORO) mission is to divert incarcerated youth from a life in prison to become productive community members through mentor-based creative arts and academic tutoring programs at juvenile detention facilities, organizing community participation in the juvenile justice system, and promoting collaboration among the system’s various components.
About This Cause
Since 1998, EORO has remained dedicated to its mission to divert incarcerated youth from a life in prison to become productive community members through mentor-based performing arts and academic tutoring programs, serving over 1,850 youth and engaging over 3,500 community members. EORO was founded as an arts advocacy organization to divert incarcerated youth and youth on probation from a life in prison. EORO’s roots were planted in the exploration of theater-based strategies that could effectively break the cycle of violence and divert youth, particularly young men of color, from the adult prison system. EORO believes that youth behind bars are children, first and foremost; that one-on-one mentoring through the creative act of playwriting, academic tutoring and life skills workshops provides the best way to positively influence and change the image that both incarcerated youth and society hold of them. Using the arts and education, EORO is transforming the lives of youth behind bars in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Francisco counties to assist them on the path to becoming successful adults and in breaking the cycle of violence that entraps so many of their peers by connecting them to their communities through the transformative power of the arts and education. EORO received the New American Community Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in 1999, and was chosen as one of thirty-six “extraordinary organizations that transform lives and strengthen communities” by The San Francisco Foundation in 2007. EORO helped author and pass AB622 in 2008, which lowered the General Education Development Testing (GED) age from 18 to 17, affording incarcerated youth the opportunity to receive a GED. The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities recognized EORO as one of 50 semi-finalists of 459 nationwide nominations for the 2010 and 2013 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award. In 2011, EORO received the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development’s First Annual Outstanding Workforce Partnership Award, in collaboration with the Youth Guidance Improvement Committee. The National Endowment for the Arts recognized EORO’s Playwriting Program as one of the Nation’s outstanding Arts Education Programs serving incarcerated youth. Additionally, in 2011, EORO was awarded funding through the Youth Activities Block Grant in San Mateo County to provide ADAPT Programming at the county’s Youth Service Center and Residential Camp. Each One Reach One’s ADAPT: A Dream and A Plan for Tomorrow program is a comprehensive program that draws on arts education, health education, and academic GED tutoring and test preparation. In the detention based format, ADAPT consists of four distinct programs: GED Tutoring & Test Preparation Program is the only after-school facilitated study hall program inside youth detention facilities in the Bay Area addressing the special academic needs of incarcerated youth and providing them the opportunity to earn their GED; Playwriting Program has enabled over 720 detained youth to work one-on-one with a theater professional to write an original, one-act play as the youth examine their life choices as well as their attitudes, opinions and values.; Girl’s Healthy Choices Teen Pregnancy Prevention is a health education and life skills program for detained young women in San Mateo, which explores topics of teen pregnancy prevention, HIV/AIDS/STDs, sexual exploitation, self-esteem and body image, employment, relationships and more; and Keeping It Safe (KIS) is designed specifically for young men to help them recognize their roles and responsibilities around defining healthy, respectful personal relationships, potential risks associated with sexual intimacy, healthy eating and exercise choices, gang prevention, and young parenthood. In 2013, EORO has added a new outside component in San Mateo County at the Gateway Community High School, the GATEWAY Pre-Vocational Training and Job Internship Program. Through ADAPT Programming in San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, EORO will serve over 300 unduplicated youth.