Causes: Family Planning, Health, Reproductive Rights

Mission: Breakdown stl educates, equips, and empowers teens to make positive life choices related to high-risk youth trends using the peer voice to deliver culturally relevant health education - while raising up the next generation of influencers, leaders and role models.

Programs: Breakdown stl offers 3 programs: (1) leadership: the breakdown stl student leadership program equips students to become leaders and role models in the community. (2) onstage: the breakdown stl onstage program is a high-energy, peer-to-peer, multimedia presentation that utilizes music, dance, drama, video statistics, and motivational speaking. The arts are utilized to educate teens to make positive life choices regarding relationships, sex, alcohol, drugs, bullying, self-harm, and suicide by providing culturally relevant preventative health education. (3) offstage: the breakdown stl offstage program is a high-energy, peer-to-peer, mentor program that meets in participating schools. Preventative health education and character development is taught in a fun, relational, and non-threatening format.

breakdown stl has served 110,000+ students since 2007 with approximately 12,500 served in 2017 alone. Also, during the current tax year, the organization formed structured partnerships with multiple schools and community organizations to best achieve mission, in addition to training 65 students through the intensive servant leadership program. The organization grew its piloted north team - onstage to three unprecedented north county and saint louis city schools