Huckleberry House history

1974 – Nine Grove Lane opens in San Anselmo, Marin County.

1988 – Bruce Fisher becomes Executive Director.

1989-92 Youth Advocates creates a program to address HIV prevention among runaway and homeless youth.

In 1991, Nine Grove Lane was also designated by the county to be the primary shelter for abused teenagers.

In 1992, Danny passes away from AIDS. Huckleberry Youth Programs names an annual staff award in his honor.

1996 – Huckleberry’s Teen Health Program opens in San Rafael’s Montecito Plaza Doctor Tom Peters, then Director of Marin’s Department of Health and Human Services, holds a series of county-wide roundtables on the “epidemic” of STD’s in teens in Marin.

1998 – Youth Advocates, Inc. legally changes its name to Huckleberry Youth Programs (HYP)

The program is so successful in San Francisco that in 2008, the Huckleberry Wellness Academy-Marin opens.

In June, the second graduating class of the Huckleberry Wellness Academy – San Francisco (HWA) sends 11 new graduates off to college, joining the 14 graduates from our 2009 inaugural class.

Douglas Styles is hired and begins on July 1, 2014 Huckleberry is one of two San Francisco organizations to win a highly competitive $50,000 regional Northern California Kaiser Permanente grant to expand services for youth exposed to trauma.

Huckleberry’s 7th Annual Run for the Roses wine tasting and auction event was held at the Clubhouse at Peacock Gap on Saturday, May 2, 2015.

Huckleberry’s substance use counseling and treatment services were embedded in eight Marin County schools, including Marin County’s first school-based Wellness Center in 2016.

On November 30, 2017, Huckleberry hosted a 50th Anniversary Gala! Our supporters helped us raise $450,000 for our programs! Willie Brown was honored with the Bruce Fisher Community Partner Award and Union Bank was honored with the Corporate Partnership Award.