Building Resilience, Reclaiming Hope – No Exceptions.
Serving systems-impacted youth and adults through trauma-informed programs
Our Mission
Lionheart develops, researches, and scales high-impact, social-emotional learning (SEL) programs designed specifically for our target populations. These include adults in prisons and jails; youth in residential care, juvenile justice settings, and schools; adolescent parents in group homes, schools, and other community programs; and direct care staff serving trauma-impacted youth.
30+
500+
Organizational Partners
300K+
Resources In Circulation
200K+
Lionheart’s Programming
Provides incarcerated adults with transformative rehabilitation, empowering them to lead dignified lives, whether inside or outside the walls.
Houses of Healing
Equips youth with fundamental skills for healthy social, emotional, and identity development and disengagement from high-risk behavior.
Power Source
Guides adolescent parents in developing the tools they need to raise their children in a healthy way, while becoming healthy adults themselves.
Power Source Parenting
Builds a supported, connected, and self-regulated workforce, empowering staff to help youth heal through trauma-informed practices.
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What Guides Us
At the core of everything we do is the belief that all human life has inherent worth, dignity, and resiliency – no exceptions.Â
Trauma, such as abuse, neglect, community violence, racism, oppression, and disruptive family patterns can undermine the formation of a sense of self and a belief that one’s life has value.Â
By providing high-impact, evidence-informed social and emotional programming, we empower systems-impacted adults and youth to:Â
- Building resilience from the ground up.

- Transforming pain into purpose.

- Empowering lives through emotional understanding.
Stories of Transformation
I’m seventeen and from the Midwest. Before I found Power Source, I thought I was done for. My whole life felt like a long line of people giving up on me. My mom struggled with pills. My stepdad beat on us when he was drunk. By age eleven I slept on couches, in cars, wherever I could land.
I started running with older guys because they treated me like family. By fourteen I was stealing, fighting, and drinking every day…
Power Source Participant
"I didn't know I mattered."
I’m seventeen and from the Midwest. Before I found Power Source, I thought I was done for. My whole life felt like a long line of people giving up on me. My mom struggled with pills. My stepdad beat on us when he was drunk. By age eleven I slept on couches, in cars, wherever I could land.
I started running with older guys because they treated me like family. By fourteen I was stealing, fighting, and drinking every day…
Power Source Participant
"I didn't know I mattered."
I’m seventeen and from the Midwest. Before I found Power Source, I thought I was done for. My whole life felt like a long line of people giving up on me. My mom struggled with pills. My stepdad beat on us when he was drunk. By age eleven I slept on couches, in cars, wherever I could land.
I started running with older guys because they treated me like family. By fourteen I was stealing, fighting, and drinking every day…
Power Source Participant
"I didn't know I mattered."
You Can Make a Difference
For over 30 years, Lionheart has been at the forefront of creating high-impact social and emotional programming for use in prisons, jails, residential treatment, juvenile justice, and community-based settings. We believe all human beings deserve access to high-quality mental health resources, regardless of where they are. Your help allows Lionheart to carry on the mission of helping people heal.Â
With your contribution, we can continue to create and deliver innovative programming, training, and support to individuals and systems in need who might not otherwise have access. Â
Your donation helps to create trauma-informed communities for systems-impacted people.
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In Their Words
“Before reading Power Source I thought that I might be the only one with really big problems. This book has taught me that if you want to give up – you are taking the easy way out. Learn from your mistakes and they will help you grow. Thank you so much.”
Stevie
16 years old, Los Angeles
Power Source
“The training provided new skills. It caused me to stop and think about how I handle situations and about all the trauma that our kids have experienced. It allowed me to look at the youth in a different light and gave me more understanding and patience.”
Direct Care Worker
Residential care
EQ2
“The Power Source Parenting group really helped me out with discipline. It taught me a lot about how to deal with temper tantrums and so much more. It’s like I see parenting in another way now. I don’t want my baby going through what I went through. I want to give him all the love I got.”
Ginny
17 years old
Power Source Parenting
