Our staff visiting our partner site in El Salvador during Spring Break 2026! Dear Support Team, If you’re not familiar with an NFL Football “Draft Board,” it’s a wall-sized grid where team owners, coaches, and staff recruiters place their desired players in the positions they hope to have them play on the field. Each player has a certain set of skills. Those skills need to not only be fit for the position they will play, but also be complementary to the other players already

Dear Support Team, There’s nothing like a big surprise to put a smile on your face. Last week, 111 guests attended the One-Eighty Counseling & Resources fundraiser, and it ended with a surprise tour of our newest counseling center. To be fair, we are only in escrow. Nothing is for certain. But walking a few feet from the Teen Center into the steps of what will probably be our counseling center is nothing short of a miracle. Let’s start at the beginning . .. (Click the PDF t

Dear Support Team, As you have most likely heard by now, One-Eighty Programs has started a brand new “gap year” type program for young adults called “The Central Street Residency.” This program is designed to give students an unprecedented opportunity to grow physically, mentally, and spiritually while doing life on mission with One-Eighty Programs. We’re halfway through our pilot year of this program and we’re already seeing results we never imagined. Each of our three res

Dear Support Team, It’s currently 11:43 AM on December 12th, and Alison & I would like to share our last 24 hours with you. Yesterday at this time, we were meeting with a local high school principal. We were excited to share about our counseling services and the One-Eighty Central Residency, which is just about 6 months into its pilot year. It is a small Christian school that sits about a mile south of our campus on the same street. As we sat and swapped stories of the beau

Dear Friends of One-Eighty, “I can’t believe we just did that...” Sitting in the warm sand, a teenaged girl named Claire was looking up,...

Dear Friends of One-Eighty, Walking into the teen center today, I was joined by Misty, who was returning her collection of large bags...

Dear Friends of One-Eighty, I’m sitting here at the Teen Center on a Thursday afternoon, and I can’t help but smile. Josh, our resident...

Dear Support Team, Q: Where might you find 40+ grown adults playing the old playground game “steal the bacon” with a rubber chicken at...

Dear Support Team! I used to say that One-Eighty would be a temporary stop on my career journey. As it turns out, Alison and I are now in...