•Changing the concept of at-risk to at-hope youth is our challenge today. How can anyone know what is outside their little worlds when they don’t know anything else exists? As concerned educators, parents, and grandparents, we would like to offer some alternatives that bring people, places and things together in new ways, using existing successful individual programs. We believe we have discovered a way that makes logical sense… and potential dollars, too, using current best practices of business and management philosophy. We’