Youth Guidance Proud To Partner With Youth Sailing July 20, 2010

Youth Guidance is proud to be partnering with a new nonprofit, Youth Sailing Foundation of Indian River County, Inc. (YSFIRC). The organization was established to help young people become involved in
sailing while using the natural water resources of our area. The program teaches boys and girls, ages 6-16, how to sail and race as well as helps develop self-reliance and discipline in the children who sail the boats they helped build. Qualified volunteers assist parents and their children to assemble the world’s most popular youth sailboat The Optimist Dinghy; it is a safe, competitive design built to controlled measurement rules, principally for training the young to sail, race and learn the rules of the sea. Parents and their children are able to build a boat using a boat kit that includes mast, spars rigging and sail. Youth Guidance mentor/mentee matches are able to build boats and sail for free thanks to the partnership YSFIRC has with Youth Guidance. Adults interested in sailing but that do not have a child can be matched with a Youth Guidance youngster and be their sailing mentor. For more information contact Charlie Pope, 772-567-9000 or visit www.ysfirc.org. Or contact the Youth Guidance office at 772-770-5040 or visit the Youth Guidance website, www.ircyouth.com.