Huckleberry’s HIV Prevention Workshops were recently featured in Kenneth Cole PSA series. One of our speakers, Austin, is a hero in the fight against HIV. He shares his story with some of our Huckleberry youth. PrEP is now available at the Huckleberry Youth Health Center and is: • A once-a-day pill • An HIV […]
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A Victim of Human Trafficking – Jayden’s Story
Jayden (whose name has been changed), is a sixteen-year-old who has been the victim of sexual exploitation since she was fourteen. Jayden was referred to the Huckleberry Advocacy and Response Team (HART) by a medical provider who suspected Jayden had been trafficked due to the number of times she requested testing for sexually transmitted infections. […]
Catch Up With HWA Alum William Liem
Like all of our Huckleberry Wellness Academy students, William had difficult choices to make the spring of his senior year, and many questions to answer – What school should he choose? How far away should he go? How would the finances work? To his credit, William wasn’t focusing only on prestige or ratings, but rather […]
Huckleberry News Archive
Huckleberry’s latest press and media coverage and our news archive: Huckleberry House doors wide open to runaways 50 years on: The SF Chronicle covers the beginnings of Huckleberry Youth Programs and the importance of our work, July 2017 A Flare In the Dark: SF Weekly article that explores the evolution of Huckleberry through the years, June 2017 Huckleberry Celebrates […]
Huckleberry is a Beneficiary of the Falletti Foods Bag Donation Program
Thank you to Falletti Foods for choosing Huckleberry as one of their fall Bag Donation beneficiaries! Stop by Falletti’s at 308 Broderick in San Francisco from Oct. 1, 2016 to Jan. 31, 2017, bring your own shopping bag, and Falletti’s will donate 5 cents to Huckleberry for every shopper who brings their own bag! Win/Win!
Huckleberry House Client Paying It Forward
Soy Kim has been a Huckleberry CARC Mentor for a little over a year and feels a very special connection to Huckleberry’s programs. When she was 15 years old her, “situation at home wasn’t pleasant,” she says. The police brought her to Huckleberry House where she stayed to work through the issues with her family, […]
