Cascade Leadership Challenge brings teenagers together through adventure travel. We work with youth in the East Hill community of Kent, WA. Our community is racially and ethically balanced.  This can mean fantastic opportunities for kids to build friendships with people from literally every corner of the globe--if we can overcome stereotyping,  alienation and "us vs. them" thinking. Cascade Leadership Challenge was created to help Kent kids meet this challenge--and have fun doing so.

Why "Adventure Travel"?

Because teenagers need to get out and see this world! A big American high school is a scary place. Many teenagers cope by finding a small, safe little niche and staying there for years. They hunker down and wait it out. Avoiding and ignoring cuts young people off from a world that is generous, interesting and inspiring. Adventure travel takes people into the world, which ironically, FEELS safer than the home neighborhood. With good leadership and a plan to hold things together, travel opens minds and hearts.

In our Cascade Challenge programs, we get in the vans and we go, go, go. "Out there", we discover an interesting world, new friends, and new capacity within ourselves. When we come back home, we have something new to say and to share.

To learn more about CLC, browse this website and send us an email.