Whatever It Takes
Overcome barriers and stay on track toward graduation through individualized guidance and wraparound support.
Full details
WIT Advisors help students earn missing credits toward on-time graduation. Last school year, we helped students recover 32 credits.
The Whatever It Takes (WIT) program offers personalized mentoring and support to students at risk of disengagement, credit deficiencies, or delayed graduation. WIT Advisors work one-on-one with students to build personalized plans for academic and career success, support includes academic monitoring, mentoring, home visits, scholarships, internships, leadership development, and career exploration opportunities.
Students must be referred by school administrators or counselors. Eligible participants face challenges such as credit deficiencies, attendance issues, or minor behavioral concerns. The program's goal is to re-engage youth through consistent check-ins, incentives, and barrier removal.
PY+ Impact 2024/25 School Year
- 533+
Participants
- 70%
Graduation rate
- 88%
School credits earned
- 32
Credits retrieved last school year
Who it's for
Students at partner schools at risk of disengaging from school, credit deficiencies, attendance issues, or minor behavioral concerns. Students are referred by school administrators or counselors.
How it works
WIT Advisors build a personalized academic and career plan with each student and support it with academic monitoring, mentoring, home visits, scholarships, internships, leadership development, and career exploration.
Getting started
The goal is re-engagement through consistent check-ins, incentives, and removing whatever is in the way.
Student spotlight
Kylee and Jasmine
Whatever It Takes
Kylee and Jasmine each faced significant challenges that made staying engaged in school difficult, but neither gave up.
Kylee became a dependable member of the SOSA work crew and an active leader on the Student Council. Jasmine embraced every opportunity, working closely with her WIT Advisor to overcome barriers and complete her diploma.
With resilience, determination, and support from their WIT Advisor, Jessica, both young women proudly graduated from SOSA.
Partner schools
- Butte Falls Charter School
- Crater High School
- Eagle Point High School
- Gladiola High School
- Grants Pass High School
- Innovation Academy
- Kalmiopsis Community Arts High School
- REACH: River's Edge Charter School
- Rogue River High School
- South Valley Academy
- Southern Oregon Success Academy
Community Resources
A first stop for families, not just students
Our Community Resource Specialist, Lili Vargas, provides individualized support to youth and families across Josephine, Jackson, and Southern Douglas Counties, helping stabilize basic needs like housing and food, connecting families to medical, behavioral health, financial, and legal services, and enrolling families in the Oregon Health Plan. She shares information about culturally and status-specific issues and advocates for families in the broader community.
Community Food Pantry
In partnership with the Josephine County Food Bank, our weekly Community Food Pantry is often a family’s first contact with Project Youth+, and, in our own words, “an entry-point for families to build trust with our organization.”
- 4,500+
Food boxes distributed annually
- 200
People served weekly, up to
The Community Food Pantry operates in partnership with the Josephine County Food Bank and follows USDA nondiscrimination requirements. Read the USDA nondiscrimination statement
Community partners
- AllCare Health
- Choices
- Coalición Fortaleza
- Community Works
- Department of Justice
- Jackson Care Connect
- Josephine Community Library, Grants Pass Branch
- Josephine County Farm Collective
- Josephine County Food Bank
- Medford LINC
- NeighborWorks Umpqua
- Oregon Health Authority
- SO Health-E
- Southern Oregon University Youth Programs
- Visión Comunitaria
- White City Library
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