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THE DARE2BE PROJECT THE DARE2BE PROJECT DEFENDING POTENTIAL WHILE BRINGING HOPE TO LIFE ABOUT US The Dare2Be Project is a community action agency focused on interrupting the cycle of poverty by leveraging highquality youth development programs in combination with a wide range of supportive services. These services are designed to improve the socialemotional wellbeing and economic status of the adults that influence and take care of our community39s most precious resource youth. OUR MISSION The Dare2Be Project believes in theresiliency of youth and their families and defendstheir potential by leveraging community based projects that simultaneously cultivate their voice and social capacities. It is through this defense that we endeavor to undo interpersonal institutional and systematic inequities as well as establish the resources necessary to ensure that youth Dare2Be their best selves.