Programs / Youth & Young Adults

Find Your People. Find your voice.

The OG circle

This is where Pridelines began. In 1982, before there were six circles, there was one: a room where young people in South Florida could be fully themselves. Forty-four years later, the Youth & Young Adults circle is still the founding promise in motion, serving ages 13 to 24 with programs that are free to attend, bilingual, and led by trained, background-checked adults who stay to listen. The heart of the model hasn’t changed since the folding chairs: peers heal what programs alone can’t reach, so everything here is built to help young people find each other, and then find their own voice.

A safe space, for real

Every youth program is facilitated by trained, background-checked adults and grounded in affirming, trauma-informed practice. Confidentiality is honored within the limits of safety and the law, and joy is taken seriously as a health outcome.

Hero Academy:Leadership with a moral spine

A youth leadership program co-created with the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Miami, where young people build confidence, organizing skills, and the courage to lead in public. Hero Academy is where a young person who found their voice learns to use it: for themselves, for their peers, and for a South Florida that needs them.

The Pride Lounge: Where fandom is family · Young Adults 18+

Our home for fandom, cosplay, and gaming community, with Florida Supercon as its flagship activation every year. The Pride Lounge lives in the Youth circle because that’s where it was born, but the door is open to all 18+ because finding belonging in shared imagination doesn’t expire. Come for the games, stay for the people who get the reference.

Ready to join this circle?

Questions about our programs?

Call 305.571.9601 or email our Youth Director & Academy Chancellor, Jessica Lam, and she will connect you to the right program for your high school or college youth.