Skye's The Limit Foundation

"My daughter Skye, 03/07/1995 – 09/30/2014, faced incredible challenges with trauma. She died of an overdose at the age of 19 in 2014. Awareness on trauma informed care/response/approach was not readily available for her or myself at the time. I strongly believe that it's important and life-saving to understand trauma and how to live life and respond with an intentional, trauma-informed and empowered mindset. An integrated, trauma-informed approach for substance abuse and suicide prevention programming through arts engagement, kayaking outings and trauma education are a few ways in which we can build peer support, resiliency and empower our minds. Making these connections, enables us to speak out and ask for help."

-Keiko Ratcliffe, Founder & President of Skye's the Limit Foundation

Services:

TRAUMA INFORMED COMMUNITY: AWARENESS, ADVOCACY TRAININGS AND EDUCATION

Our Trauma Informed Community program is building a coordinated response to childhood trauma by training parents, teachers, staff of youth-serving organizations, and other adults to employ a trauma-informed approach when caring for youth impacted by trauma.

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT: BUILDING CONNECTIONS

Our Youth Empowerment program employs a trauma-informed approach designed to help youth and young adults impacted by trauma heal, build resiliency, and connect to peers with similar life experiences. The program also helps young people develop safe relationships with caring adults trained in ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and Trauma-Informed Care. According to the Arizona Trauma Institute, the key to recovering from trauma and building resilience is forming a positive, trusting and long-term relationship with a guardian, parent, or peer. Therefore, this Youth Empowerment program intentionally strengthens peer to peer, parent and child, and youth leader to youth relationships. The program offers the following engagement peer support activities to youth (typically 13-21 years old) who have experienced trauma: Kayaking and Visual Arts.

HARM REDUCTION & SUBSTANCE OVERDOSE EDUCATION
Our substance misuse prevention program includes a comprehensive training on the facts around fentanyl, various harm reduction approaches that reduce danger for fentanyl users, a Narcan administration training, and education on stigma and how to combat it in communities. This program provides training to organizations that serve people who use substances as well as to Parent groups. After this training, an individual will understand how to implement harm reduction practices in their organization and be a distributor of harm reduction materials in the community.

Topics in our Harm Reduction Education training are:

- Substance Misuse Education

- Understanding Overdose Prevention strategies

- Harm Reduction Response

- Naloxone Training

- Healthy relationship and the responsibilities overview

- An overview in Understanding Trauma for prevention & Trauma regulation breathing techniques

FOLLOW SKYE'S DREAM NURSING SCHOLARSHIP

To honor Skye's dream of becoming a nurse, Skye's the Limit Foundation offers a scholarship program designed to encourage and support aspiring nurses who are dedicated to helping others overcome their illnesses, challenges, and adversities. Scholarship recipients each receive a $500 scholarship to help with the cost of books and supplies.

Empower Life by supporting Skye's the Limit Foundation

Individual donations are 100% tax deductible

WHEN WE EMPOWER LIVES, WE PROVIDE DIRECTION FOR HOPE AND HEALING. SKYE’S THE LIMIT FOUNDATION RECOGNIZES THE NEED FOR COMPASSION AND CONNECTION TO COMBAT THE SOCIAL ISOLATION THAT CAN LEAD TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND SUICIDE.

Skye’s the Limit was founded in light of the trauma-related overdose of 19-year-old Skye Gina Ratcliffe Pilato on September 30, 2014. After two suicide attempts, Skye resorted to drugs to numb the pain she was feeling in isolation. In her honor, Skye’s the Limit now educates the community on trauma, harm reduction, and self-care and works to provide safe spaces for youth to speak out, express themselves, and ask for help.

Your donation will help those living in trauma and silently fighting for hope by providing free, trauma-informed and resilience building programs. We empower youth, families, and communities through trauma-informed care support trainings, peer support, art, and wilderness therapy.

If you are interested in volunteering please fill out our contact form here.

As we enter our Fourth year of operations in 2023, we are seeking support for our DREAM CAMPAIGN to support Operational, Additional Staff, and Facility needs. We are in search for a place to call HOME to house our growing services and programming.

We are very grateful for your contribution. It takes a Village!

Skye's the Limit Foundation is a 501c3 Public Charity. Individual donations are 100% tax deductible.

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Mailing address:

Skye's the Limit! Foundation

PO Box 266, Phoenix, AZ 85001

To learn about our campaign and facility needs, Please Contact, Founder & CEO, Keiko Ratcliffe at office@skyesthelimit.org

THANK YOU!!

Resilient Youth & Trauma-Informed Community Program

Skye's the Limit Foundation

Thank you! It Takes a Village!