Safe Passage Partners

Our organization is built on a foundation of Volunteers with compassion, integrity. We believe in being grass roots, all volunteer led and treating everyone with dignity and respect, and we are committed to using our resources in the most effective and efficient way possible.

The proof of our values is in the kid’s smiles and the silence where gunfire used to be. Families who once feared walking outside now say they feel safe, watched over, cared for. 

Former underserved and at risk kids become CPR-certified teen lifesavers, camp counselors, engaged in school, volunteers themselves. 

Gang recruiters? We keep them at bay. They know who we are and what we do. They move on—there’s no room when a child’s days are filled with mentors, food, housing, safety, field trips to islands, and adults who show up for them every single day.

Families struggle and with Safe Passage, moms and even the grandmas breathe easier knowing someone has their back. 

A sheriff’s deputy isn’t just an officer anymore— A doctor doesn’t just heal with medicine— A barber isn’t just cutting hair—but building confidence. Your neighbor isn’t just donating food—they are volunteers and changing destinies.

This is Safe Passage: not a program, but a promise kept. 

We turn fear into hope, poverty into possibility, and children into the leaders who will one day keep the next generation in your community safe.

Because every child deserves hope and a safe passage to their dreams—and every mother and grandmother deserves to sleep knowing their infant and child made it through another day whole, happy, and headed for greatness.

In the heart of Ventura County, where hidden pockets of poverty cast long shadows over playgrounds and crammed apartment complexes, a quiet transformation began. It started with Sheriff Deputies and Police Officers who looked at the "at-risk" kids in neighborhoods, and saw something the world had missed: promise.

Safe Passage Youth Foundation was founded with a simple, unbreakable belief: empower youth when they are young, wrap the community around their families, love them hard, and gangs will never get a foothold.

Today, the entirely volunteer-led and 100% free, 

Safe Passage wraps its arms around more than 600 children and families each year—mostly K-12 th grade kids who are not only food insecure but wake up hungry for a sense of safety, joy and hope. 

Every school day, volunteers turn kid’s bus stops into celebrations, helping as little ones board for schools miles away because there's no neighborhood campus. 

After the end of the day bell rings, the real magic happens:  snacks waiting, homework help from youth mentors, retired teachers, STEM labs where art meets math and kids build robots instead of walls, free haircuts that save struggling moms $50 a month, medical care, swimming lessons where mothers and children learn to save each other's lives.

When crisis hits—an eviction notice, a sick baby, medical bills that could break a family—Safe Passage is there in hours, not weeks, calling in doctors, covering rent, delivering free groceries by the week in thousands of pounds, handing the emergencies, so parents can get to work.