🌿Who we are

About Sacred Youth & Families

Sacred Youth & Families (SYF) is a trauma-informed community wellness and advocacy initiative supporting individuals and families impacted by relational trauma and systemic harm.

We work with survivors of institutional abuse—past or present—including experiences within juvenile justice, child welfare, professional licensing boards, education systems, and public service roles such as first responders and healthcare workers.

Our focus is the healing journey of those affected by:

  • Childhood and generational trauma

  • Religious or spiritual wounding

  • Identity suppression and developmental harm

  • Community-level injustice and exclusion

  • Government retaliation and systems-based abuse

Through peer mentorship, advocacy navigation, holistic support, and collaborative partnerships, SYF helps clients reclaim agency, access resources, and rebuild trust in themselves and their communities.

Step away from traditional therapy that seemingly is endless and learn the tools necessary to heal the wounds of the heart and spirit. A healed spirit will return you to a place of safety, sovereignty, agency, radical self love and acceptance. This is where your life is your own. Not what others who were not healed, raised, told you, or forced you to be.

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  • Founder of Sacred Youth and Families | Trauma-Informed Mentor & Spiritual Guide

    Jill S. Howard is a trauma-informed mentor, writer, and holistic healing specialist with a Master’s in Social Work and a lifelong dedication to healing systems, hearts, and homes.
    Holistic support for those healing from systemic abuse, spiritual trauma, and generational wounds.

    With decades of experience working with youth and families across multiple domains, Jill brings both professional insight and personal truth to the sacred work of restoration, restoring spirit, identity, and voice through intuitive mentorship and integrative healing, while providing holistic support for those recovering from systemic abuse, spiritual trauma, and generational wounds.

    Her own journey through religious wounding, childhood trauma, systemic betrayal, and governmental abuse shaped the foundation of Sacred Youth and Families—a place where survivors can reclaim their voice, reconnect to their spirit, and reimagine what healing truly looks like. The catalyst in her journey was not seeing results from traditional therapy solely used in healing her own wounds, but also the variety of models she employed in both private practice and public service. These ultimately led her to seek another way. There had to be a better way—one that truly breaks the cycle.

    The good news is: there is a better way. You already possess it. You simply need help locating it—and that’s when healing begins. Healing allows you to finally lay down the burdens you've longed to be free of, once and for all.

    Through one-on-one mentorship, family guidance, and spiritually rooted peer support, Jill creates space for those navigating grief, identity repair, trauma healing, and soul-level transformation. Her work blends evidence-informed practices with intuitive wisdom, radical self-love, honesty, and authenticity—always guided by the belief that healing is not a fix; it’s a remembering.

  • Natural Health Practitioner | Spiritual Advisor | Ordained Minister

    Dawn White walks with reverence at the intersection of natural medicine and spiritual awakening. As a certified natural health practitioner, spiritual advisor, and ordained minister, she brings decades of sacred listening, embodied wisdom, and intuitive care to those seeking restoration in body, mind, and spirit.

    Rooted in a deep connection to Creator and Earth, Dawn’s work honors the whole person — helping others access the clarity, healing, and spiritual authority already living within them. Whether through nutritional guidance, energetic clearing, or prayerful mentorship, she gently reconnects people to their own inner medicine.

    Her path has been one of both surrender and strength — shaped by personal healing, profound spiritual initiations, and a calling to walk beside others on their journey home to themselves. Dawn’s presence is calm, clear, and nourishing, offering a safe space for individuals, couples, and families navigating physical imbalance, emotional grief, spiritual disconnection, or identity transitions.

    At Sacred Youth and Families, Dawn serves as a steady guide for those who are ready to heal holistically — and remember who they are beneath the wounds.

    Dawn’s services are independent of SYF and is paid directly. Click link below to contact Dawn!

Link to Contact Dawn Directly