About Us
MISSION
OUR MISSION:
To inspire, cultivate, and celebrate growth.
Vision
Quest Youth Development envisions empowering youth to become confident, resilient leaders in their communities through innovative programs that foster personal growth, academic achievement, and social responsibility.
Quest & The Dandelion
Quest means a search or pursuit made to find or obtain something. Going on a quest means a long search for something that is difficult to find, or an attempt to achieve something difficult. The youth we serve have plan a quest with a tour guide, a roadmap, and are given guides and resources to help them navigate the paths in front of them.
Our tour guides are more than just mentors that meet youth once a week for an hour or two during the school year. Our tour guides are direct services professionals that focus on meeting the needs of the youth we serve so they may create a road map and navigate the paths in front of them in healthy sustainable way. We help them identify and dissect the obstacles they come in contact with on their path.
The dandelion was chosen as our logo because some see weeds, we see wishes. Youth are exposed to content that contributes to at-risk behaviors, mental health issues, depression and suicide. Many of those youth are seen as a weed. The dandelion is a powerful plant that produces seeds that will fill a field full of little rays of sunshine. We cultivate the dandelion once it begins to sprout and blossom. By doing so the plant blooms and the entire plant provides health benefits. Once the flower dies and the seeds are blown into the air, the seeds start the process all over again. We want those seeds to produce a healthy sustainable plant for generations to come.
