Save Our Youth (SOY) After-School and Enrichment Programs
2045 Meyer Place, Building E, Costa Mesa, CA 92627
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Save Our Youth (SOY) After-School and Enrichment Programs offers activities such as College-Bound Academic Tutoring, Youth Leadership, Sports & Fitness, Dance, Arts & Music, Health & Wellness, Community Service, Career Development, and Summer Activities. Students can take part in soccer and basketball, fitness classes like spin, yoga, Pilates, and boot camp, a weekly bike club, and monthly hiking. The program also offers Summer Camps, music lessons in voice, piano, drums, and guitar, music production and DJ, art lessons, mural painting, exhibitions, an annual talent show, outside spin and outside soccer, as well as food distribution days and vaccination clinics.
• Price: SOY’s life-changing programming, provided free of charge to our students
Save Our Youth (SOY) has served youth since 1993 and opened the SOY Center in 1993, celebrating its 30th Year Anniversary in 2023, and moved to its current location in 2016. The organization’s mission as a non-profit is to provide a safe and welcoming space for teens to find hope, nourish a sense of self and an ability to grow, and develop interests and skills to become productive members of society. SOY has served over 15,000 low-income, at-risk youth from the Newport-Mesa Unified School District since 1993 and has provided more than $5 million in scholarships to first-generation college students, including over $4 million in scholarships to first generation youth. The program provides a $1500 to $5500 scholarship for every college-bound SOY senior each year, and 100% of its graduating seniors in the college-bound program receive a scholarship to college. Named scholarships include the Isidore & Penny Myers Scholarship, currently a $50,000 scholarship, the Lamb Family Foundation Scholarship for $40,000, and two Jean Forbath Scholarships for $5,000 each, all exclusively for SOY students. SOY also had a scholarship program that paid students for good grades and awarded them a grant upon graduating equal to the amount of money they earned during their years at SOY.
SOY empowers the youth of Newport Mesa and serves low-income, at-risk youth from the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, with collaborations and partnerships with local non-profit, governmental, and private entities, including a partnership with OC hiking club, the YMCA, and other groups like OCC and Volcom. A parents group called “Madres de Costa Mesa” helped found SOY, and generous donors support scholarships and programming. During the pandemic, SOY provided after school activities and a place for youth to go after school, created an outside study area with internet, and gave college students grants to help them continue their coursework while at home and far from college resources. SOY was chosen as the Nonprofit of the Year for CA Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris’ District. The leadership team includes Executive Director Mary Cappellini, City Councilman Joe Erickson, Mayor Mary Hornbuckle, Jean Forbath (founder of SOS), and Nora Maher.
Last updated July 4, 2026.
• Price: SOY’s life-changing programming, provided free of charge to our students
Save Our Youth (SOY) has served youth since 1993 and opened the SOY Center in 1993, celebrating its 30th Year Anniversary in 2023, and moved to its current location in 2016. The organization’s mission as a non-profit is to provide a safe and welcoming space for teens to find hope, nourish a sense of self and an ability to grow, and develop interests and skills to become productive members of society. SOY has served over 15,000 low-income, at-risk youth from the Newport-Mesa Unified School District since 1993 and has provided more than $5 million in scholarships to first-generation college students, including over $4 million in scholarships to first generation youth. The program provides a $1500 to $5500 scholarship for every college-bound SOY senior each year, and 100% of its graduating seniors in the college-bound program receive a scholarship to college. Named scholarships include the Isidore & Penny Myers Scholarship, currently a $50,000 scholarship, the Lamb Family Foundation Scholarship for $40,000, and two Jean Forbath Scholarships for $5,000 each, all exclusively for SOY students. SOY also had a scholarship program that paid students for good grades and awarded them a grant upon graduating equal to the amount of money they earned during their years at SOY.
SOY empowers the youth of Newport Mesa and serves low-income, at-risk youth from the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, with collaborations and partnerships with local non-profit, governmental, and private entities, including a partnership with OC hiking club, the YMCA, and other groups like OCC and Volcom. A parents group called “Madres de Costa Mesa” helped found SOY, and generous donors support scholarships and programming. During the pandemic, SOY provided after school activities and a place for youth to go after school, created an outside study area with internet, and gave college students grants to help them continue their coursework while at home and far from college resources. SOY was chosen as the Nonprofit of the Year for CA Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris’ District. The leadership team includes Executive Director Mary Cappellini, City Councilman Joe Erickson, Mayor Mary Hornbuckle, Jean Forbath (founder of SOS), and Nora Maher.
Last updated July 4, 2026.
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