The youth of the United States face increasing universal challenges: limited educational access, rising unemployment, economic stagnation, environmental degradation, often poor access to quality health care and few venues for meaningful, forward-thinking community development activities. 

With the removal and/or reduction of GATE, accelerated classes, extracurricular service clubs, and other cuts, we want to provide opportunities for students to remain focused and motivated to expand their education, and to ensure there will be extracurricular activities available in the community to supplement the development of all students. Research reveals that supplemental school programs in the greater Santa Barbara area lack a globally centered approach in their discussion of the political, social, economic, and environmental forces impacting the world today. In other words, there is nothing quite like Worldhealer here in Santa Barbara.