How Can I be Part of SOS?

SOS has crafted a new organizational structure with two specific goals in mind. First, continue to grow the peer to peer preventive educational effort through performance. Second, utilize our 21 years experience in working with youth to create additional opportunities for young people to become healthy productive leaders in their communities. If you would like to be part of the SOS family involving community service and leadership, please contact

Division of Community Service

Mission: SOS Youth Service is dedicated to producing future leaders committed to their communities.

SOS will match the interests and skills of each teen with the needs in the Twin Cities and St. Croix Communities. “SOS for Youth” works with the homeless, cares for the environment, assists the elderly, tutors youth, and provides educational opportunities to disadvantaged children.

Division of Leadership Development

Mission: SOS Youth Leadership promotes positive attitude and action to create respect and success.

SOS Youth Leadership believes that every teen can be a leader. That's because leadership is not just about taking the lead in big ways, but in everyday small things, too. SOS will guide teens to explore what it means to be a leader, how to work with others, ethical decision-making, risk-taking, team-building, communication, creative thinking, and more.

Impact of Activities

SOS for Youth” will have multiple areas of impact among the youth who participate and the community at large:

  • The collaborative, intergenerational nature of SOS creates an important source of support for the teens. Youth who participate in SOS are enmeshed in a community that’s committed to supporting them in responsible decision-making and to being a resource when participants are dealing with problems in their own lives.

  • SOS will guide teens to explore what it means to be a leader, how to work with others, ethical decision-making, risk-taking, team-building, communication, creative thinking, and more.

  • SOS will engage young people in their communities today; we will produce a generation of leaders who are socially conscious and dedicated to service.

  • Beyond being an after-school program, SOS Players is a unique, year-round educational opportunity. The youth involved will continue to send powerful messages related to issues that are crucial to the life and health of young people: substance abuse, domestic abuse, violence etc. As a result, both community and participants become better educated about these issues and inspired to take responsible action when called to confront them.

  • Again and again, teens are not only educated but also moved by seeing the SOS messages presented powerfully by their peers. After each presentation, many teens and adults reach out to contact the SOS youth and staff, sometimes asking for the first time for help with a significant problem.

  • SOS serves as a liaison between youth and the adults who serve and care about them; for example, groups of social workers, teachers, and law enforcement officers who have seen the SOS educational presentations have learned in a striking way—from teens’ perspective—about issues that teens face.