Immerse Arkansas

Abuse, neglect, and trauma have wreaked havoc on the relationships, identity, and resilience of youth from crisis making their transition to adulthood extremely difficult. Immerse Arkansas surrounds youth from crisis with unconditional relationships, tools that anticipate their needs and dreams, and a vision of their restored future. This approach is woven into a drop-in youth center called "the oc and a transitional living program called "lifebase." Immerse Arkansas' oc youth center provides youth with critical supports for healthy adulthood. Through the oc, Immerse inspires youth to achieve big goals, and connects them with tools and a community of support as provided through case management (coaching), life skills classes, mentorship, tutoring, and tangible supports including showers, laundry, and hot meals. The oc serves as the hub of Immerse operations and serves all youth in Immerse programming. Immerse's transitional program, lifebase, equips youth from crisis as they transition into adulthood. Through lifebase, youth are provided intensive, individualized coaching, life skills training, mentorship, and transitional housing provided through shared housing, apartments, or in foster and adoptive families. Key growth areas include 4 base domains including well-being, at least one (healthy, lasting relationship), safe and stable housing, and earning potential.