Dream Smart

DreamSmart Program is an institutional 8-week life skills program for young boys. The curriculum includes:

• Gang involvement
• Developing mental strength
• Increasing their emotional intelligence
• Building healthy beneficial relationships
• Sexuality
• No means No
• Importance of education

Upon release from the facility, the participants can receive long term support and a 
continuum of aftercare service including one-on-one mentoring. Youth Soulutions recognizes that parents of youth on probation often struggle with the management and coordination of the obligations with which the youth need to 
comply, as well as all the service providers that often become involved in the family's life. 
Their struggles often lead to frustration and a feeling of helplessness that can interfere with 
the youth's success on probation.

Youth Soulutions has more than 8 years of successful relevant experience providing 
similar services, including organizing parent advocates and/or parents of system 
involved youth via peer mentors and peer support systems in Harris County.

• Youth Soulutions volunteers/mentors and staff are qualified and have relevant 
experience providing similar services to the target population.
• Youth Soulutions has experience working in the communities in which all ethnic and 
culturally diverse youth on probation in Harris County.
• Youth Soulutions can recruit appropriate and qualified parent navigators from the 
relevant communities.
• Youth Soulutions has the programmatic, fiscal, and managerial capability to provide 
the proposed program to ensure successful outcomes.