January 25, 2018
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Character, Leaders, Leadership, Youth Frontiers
HUGS – how one girl helps foster kids
By Sarah Gavigan, Youth Frontiers Communications Specialist
We facilitate retreats because we want all students to know that they matter, others matter and what they do matters. Sometimes the way students respond to this message astounds us.
The day after her Courage Retreat®, Guadalupe reached out to Youth Frontiers with a favor to ask. She requested that we send her not one, not a hand-full, but 4oo Courage buttons. That’s a lot of courage, we thought to ourselves. Why would a 12-year-old girl from Fort Atkinson, Wis., want so many small orange buttons? READ MORE