2013
SailFuture was founded in 2013 as a sailing-based mentoring program to boost the graduation rate for high-risk students at Booker high school in Sarasota.
About Us
Who We Are
SailFuture is an innovative foster care agency based in St. Petersburg, Florida. We serve 150 children and families a year across seven different programs.
Our comprehensive continuum of care is designed to serve Florida’s highest-risk teens in foster care, meeting many, if not all, of their needs under one umbrella.
SailFuture’s programs disrupt cycles of poverty, abuse, and incarceration through a continuum of social services that leverage sailing-based interventions.
Our Services
Become A Foster Parent
Helping families and individuals with room in their homes and hearts become foster parents
SailFuture Maritime Academy
Maritime-based high school for 6th – 12th-grade students in Pinellas County
Residential Foster Care
Therapeutic and academically based 60-day sailing journeys throughout the Caribbean and the Americas
Life Skills Center
Sailing-based residential programs licensed by the Department of Children and Families with integrated school, therapy, and job training
Our History
2014
Week-long expeditions for youth on felony juvenile probation.
2015
SV Defy the Odds donated and sailed 20,000 miles from Turkey to Florida with highest-risk juvenile offenders in the United States.
2016
The Waterfront House opens in St. Petersburg, FL providing 24/7 residential care to teens in foster care.
2017
An accredited private technical school opens for youth living in a residential program.
2018
Begin international sailing expeditions with new itinerary traveling through Mexico, the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico
2019
Specialized Case Management division to serve high-risk teens in foster care. Life Skills Center opens to provide daytime support to teens in crisis AHCA license acquired to provide in-house mental health services
2020
White House opens, providing 24/7 residential care to teens in foster care.
2021
SailFuture Maritime Academy opens
SailFuture Philosophy
Whatever it Takes
Our kids and families deserve our best. We meet them where they’re at and when they’re ready, often leading us to find solutions that are outside the box and require personal sacrifice.
We figure it Out
You’ll hear our team say this day in and day out. We’re always innovating to find solutions to daily problems. We don’t run.
Ownership of Outcomes
We believe that the success of our kids and families rests on our shoulders. We take that responsibility to heart and it drives how and what we do.
Depth, not breadth
We don't provide surface-level services. Our focus is ensuring that the depth of our programs meets the true needs of our kids and families.
Family, not colleagues
Our work is emotionally exhausting and comes at a personal sacrifice. The only way we’ve found to go through it is to love the team you work with. As we become family to our kids, we become the same for each other.
Technology
We pioneer technological tools to make us more efficient and effective in the work we do. We live on our phones and laptops.
