About Us

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As a former foster youth herself, Victoria Mancheno understands the background of trauma, juvenile delinquency, truancy and at-risk youth and its side effects on the mental scope that affects behavior within a youth's day to day activities. Victoria attended both Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and Florida State University, where she served on the Board of Directors for Florida Youth SHINE (FYS). FYS is a non-profit organization that advocates and legislates for current and former foster youth to enhance a better support system for those in the child-welfare system. During her attendance at FAMU she met Supreme Court Justice Pariente, where she provided Victoria an opportunity to be apart of a life-changing force for the State of Florida. Justice Barbara Pariente made Victoria a part of a three person team in building the www.schooljustice.org toolkit and website for local stakeholders within the Florida courts and school system, an effective way to encourage keeping youth in school and out of the court system by providing alternative methods to handling youth who are often affected by various socioeconomic and demographic issues and training for those directly involved. The Invincible Project was created in Massachusetts to provide a solution to same epidemic.

We believe in changing the narrative among disadvantaged youth, especially within the minority or BIPOC (Black and Indigenous People of Color)  communities where statistically the success rate is low beyond high-school graduation. We do this  by providing Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Arts and Mathematics programs to these underserved youth.

All Board of Directors each have an extensive background in juvenile delinquency population, higher education, serving underserved youth, mental health, social work as well as governmental affairs, non-profit management and public administration.

We also bridge the gap between career curiosity for those students who are interested in military jobs and related industry fields. 

Being that our founder, Victoria is an US ARMY Veteran still currently serving, she believes in providing opportunities for those who are interested yet unaware of the benefits it holds to understand what all servicewomen and servicemen do in a variety of roles, whether reserve, national guard or active duty.

All mentors, participants, and employees are CORI certified, and National Sex Offender Background Checked.