SailFuture serves high-risk teens throughout the St. Petersburg community, and with the purchase and recent redevelopment of the historic Norwood Elementary School, the innovative organization is better equipped to prepare kids for success as an adult.
SailFuture opened up its first residential home to teens in foster care in 2016. The organization invited six boys to live in a 4500 square-foot waterfront home and became their caregivers. The kids would spend six months out of the year traveling on the organization's sailboat, an experience that Chief Operating Officer Hunter Thompson called a positive way to build relationships between the children and their guardians.
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