Something worth showing up for.
When a young person feels stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed, or written off, the answer is not always “try harder.” Sometimes they need a different way back.
We help families reconnect young people with emotional health, learning, community, confidence, and real-world possibility — then build partnerships that open doors beyond the office.
Find the right support Help build what’s next
What brought you here?
Three different visitors. Three obvious ways into the mission.
You can rescue the dog. Then another. Then another.
Eventually, you begin to see the bigger picture. Animals often arrive at the end of a human crisis — instability, disconnection, limited resources, or a family that needed support long before everything fell apart.
Helping the animal matters. But if you want fewer lives reaching the crisis point, you have to work farther upstream too.
So now we work on both sides of the fence.
Start with what this person actually needs.
Not every problem needs the same kind of support. ReFocus, ReShift, and HighOctane Heroes create different entry points while the larger ReConnect model keeps the whole person in view.
ReFocus℠
Therapy that connects back to real life.
Individual, family, and group therapy focused on emotional health, relationships, communication, coping, confidence, and meaningful change.
- Individual therapy
- Family therapy
- Group therapy
- Communication, coping, confidence, and relationships
ReShift℠
Shift the strategy. Find the missing step. Move forward.
ReShift helps children and teens strengthen academic skills, executive function, organization, learning strategies, confidence, motivation, and practical life skills.
- Academic support
- Executive function & organization
- Learning strategies & study skills
- Confidence, motivation & life skills
Support should feel like somewhere a young person wants to be.
We are creating spaces that feel comfortable, creative, useful, and real — not like another institutional office.
Therapy, learning, media, mentorship, and connection can happen in a place that invites young people to participate rather than simply sit through it.
Help us keep buildingWhat if the community became part of the program?
Young people need more than people telling them what life could be. They need chances to see it, try it, build something, meet people doing real work, discover interests, and belong somewhere that matters.
HighOctane Heroes
HighOctane Heroes creates real-world youth experiences through rescue, media, mentorship, hands-on projects, creativity, adventure, community connection, and signature opportunities including motorsports.
Explore HighOctane HeroesYour business does not have to become a youth program.
It can simply share one thing it already does well: a skill, a space, a tour, an experience, a mentor, a project, a job shadow, a story, an introduction, or an opportunity.
Meet some of the animals behind the mission.
Rescue is where this organization began, and the animals are still part of the story. Follow their real lives, personalities, recoveries, adventures, and the work happening around them.
Good ideas need enough support to become real.
Community support determines how much access, staffing, space, equipment, transportation, programming, rescue work, and opportunity we can responsibly sustain.
Give someone something worth showing up for.
One-time and monthly support help provide the resources behind the mission.
Donate to the Mission See All Ways to HelpBuild a place young people want to belong to — and a community willing to help them get there.
Parents. Donors. Businesses. Clinicians. Educators. Tradespeople. Animal professionals. Creators. Mentors. Neighbors. Different roles. One bigger possibility.
Explore Programs & Services Become a Partner Ways to Help Donate