Eighteen Years In, and We're Just Getting Started
I have a story I tell about my mother. She bought this couch once, and no matter how we tried, we could not get it through the door. Finally she said: take it outside and put it through the window. I think about that a lot when I try to explain what we're doing at E4 Youth.
The Ground We're Building On: Rosewood Courts, Place, and Why It Matters
There are places that hold history in ways that go beyond what any exhibit or marker can capture. Pathways at Rosewood Courts is one of those places. This is a living community.
What It Takes to Build Something That Lasts
I've been thinking a lot lately about the difference between doing work and building a home for the work.
Listening Before Building: What This Season Is Teaching Us
Before we move programs into a permanent space — before we decide what goes on the walls or what lives in the archive — we made a deliberate choice to slow down and listen.
Youth Are Not the Outcome. They Are the Authors.
In a lot of community-based programs, young people are described as outcomes. They're counted, enrolled, served, completed. That is not what we're doing at E4 Youth.