✨ About Celestial Celestial is Simply Youth Institute’s 2025 Giving Tuesday campaign, created in loving memory of Amiya Varble (she/they) — a recent graduate of our Sagacity Leadership Program for teen girls navigating foster care, homelessness, and mental health challenges. Amiya was a poet, visionary, and truth-teller who believed that young people don’t just need services — they need to […]

PARTNERS / AFFILIATES: The Los Angeles County Report on the Status of women conclude more women are living in poverty than any other demographic with young women predominantly of color under the age of 18 representing the highest numbers in groups of people likely to be subjected to the harshest realities within poverty stricken conditions.The […]

Our Why Los Angeles County is home to the nation’s second largest public school system that can neither meet young women’s needs for a trusted mentor nor provide critical support services. SYI provides supportive relationships for young people by connecting them to opportunities that lead to successful outcomes. The exempt purpose of Simply Youth Institute […]