Mission
Bud & Bloom provides resources to bring wholesness to the at-risk community of youth and elders. We help culitvate leaders by euipping youth to successfully transition into healthy responsible adults and impart value into our elders through community engagement, counseling and supplmental support.
Equally Important Issues
Florida is facing an unprecedented youth crisis. A growing number of urban youth between ages of 14 -18 leave home because parents can not provide for them financially or due to neglect. More than 23,000 youth between the ages of 18 and 21 "age out” or emancipate out of foster care every year with incomplete education, little work-place readiness & job skills, or life problem solving skills. Twenty six percent of these young adults will experience homelessness within the first year of aging out, with a high risk of becoming a victim of sex-trafficking or opioid overdose – a disastrous epidemic.
Obsolescence
Tragically, the aging population, "Silver Tsumani", faces four critical issues that require solutions to help them experience wholeness so they can have a longer, healthier life. We believe providing resources & tools that can help with loneliness, restoring value and honor instead of feeling obsolete, cultivating healthier choices and provide grief and life counseling are key to solutions. Our pathways help address these issues - by building community helping to bridge the generational gap where elders can share their wisdom and knowledge, mentor youth allwoing them to contribute and feel valued. A place where the grow food in a "raised -bed" garden designed for ease of use, and aid a therapuetic and educational tool so they feel a sense of belonging in a place that fosters value for all lives.
Tyrome's Story
We first met Tyrome five years ago outside of our coffee shop. Now 31, he has lived on the streets since he was 16 years old.Tyrome worked beside us at our coffee bar for more than 1 1/2 years. He shared with us, "After my grandmother died, I went to live with my uncle and it wasn't safe because of the violence, abuse and drugs - it felt safer on the streets so one day I left and never went back to that place - never."
He had an amazing work ethic but he lacked problem solving skills for living a sustainable healthy life. His had one goal, survive the day.. His story is too familiar to us. We often helped homeless young women and men outside our cafe doors. Tragically, many were sexually exploited or would die within 6-12 months from overdose, suicide or murder. We became more aware of the growing youth crisis and needed to find prevention methods to address the growing Youth Crisis of homelessness and addiciton. Bud & Bloom was formed to aid in this issue by providing pathways for creating healthy independent living.
He had an amazing work ethic but he lacked problem solving skills for living a sustainable healthy life. His had one goal, survive the day.. His story is too familiar to us. We often helped homeless young women and men outside our cafe doors. Tragically, many were sexually exploited or would die within 6-12 months from overdose, suicide or murder. We became more aware of the growing youth crisis and needed to find prevention methods to address the growing Youth Crisis of homelessness and addiciton. Bud & Bloom was formed to aid in this issue by providing pathways for creating healthy independent living.
Without your generous donations, none of this would be possible.
Thank you for impacting a life.
Thank you for impacting a life.
