Check out our Instagram Live Interview w/ Thea As She chats about:

• The community-based origins for SPY

• Their access center and 7 housing sites

• How moms make the world go round (and make excellent nonprofit founders)

• Their housing-first approach

• Family conflict resolution, youth internship programs, and their community garden project as multi-solution approaches towards helping the youth that they serve with more permanent housing solutions

• The plethora of community partnerships that they’ve brokered

• How they’ve structured their community garden as a start-to-finish farm-to-table project

• Community involvement in their projects

• Their approach to new community partnerships

• The importance that they place on listening to the youth that they serve and how they help to inform the direction of the organization

• The Pie it Forward pizza delivery that we did for them a few weeks ago (sponsored by What's Good Dough's Summer Slice-a-Thon pizza party!)