We’ve been celebrating our heritage and history all year long here at CHOOSE 180!

Learn all about CHOOSE Freedom, a community-based approach to reentry from incarceration as well as violence prevention and healing for young people.

In honor of Latine Heritage Month, we invite you to read this blog written by members of our team outlining their experiences as members of the Latine community.

Our 2023 interns did amazing work this summer creating business plans and ultimately presenting their entrepreneurial ideas at the end of the program!

We're accepting applications for our next Youth & Young Adult Advocacy cohort. Applications are due September 15, 2023, apply today!

At CHOOSE 180, we are passionate about juvenile justice. We embrace resources like sealing records to mitigate further harm from a prior conviction.

Juneteenth is right around the corner, we’re so excited to celebrate this historic day in our community. We’ve compiled a list of events happening in our area!

Many people lately have been decrying the necessity of mental health care and how it can be part of the solution for the USA’s gun violence problem. Mental health CAN help, but that’s only if there is access to it and if it is truly available to everyone!

We need one another, and we need to pay attention to what the young people around us are experiencing.

What we want to encourage you with is this: seeking more support is a STRENGTH, not a weakness!

Daicia and Jana are our Mental Health Counselors at CHOOSE 180 and a big part of the reason they chose this work is because of their own stories and experiences with the mental health world.

May is mental health awareness month and CHOOSE 180 is bringing you some resources surrounding mental health support for those in our community.

As Sean is transitioning away from the organization, I will be stepping in as the Interim Executive Director to help guide us through this process.

Sharing a few ways to honor Black History all year.

For the past six years I’ve had the honor and privilege of stewarding CHOOSE 180. After careful consideration, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to step down and make way for a new phase in leadership for our cause.

We’ve been so grateful to share this space with you during Mental Health Month, and we hope that what we’ve shared has motivated you to action, and to take your own mental health needs seriously.

We don’t know what the future will look like, but we can do everything in our power to create a more just, beautiful, and loving.

In June of 2022, CHOOSE 180 will add the expressive arts modality to our counseling program.

Our counseling staff is trauma-informed and relational, and we work from a strengths-based and anti-oppression lens, focusing on care that is individualized because every person’s story is important.

In May, and throughout the year, we have the opportunity to celebrate and honor Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage.