Students working at the dissection benches
An artist showing a young student how to work a palette knife
An instructor teaching a student to mount a camera on a slider
Three students setting up canvases on easels
A student operating the camera while another performs on set
A young athlete working battle ropes beside the track at night
San Diego · Free youth programs

Let them hold the instruments.

Global MAP Foundation runs free, physician-assistant-led programs that put San Diego young people inside real clinical and creative work — with the professionals who do it every day.

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Youth Med-Surg Discovery · Grossmont Healthcare District, La Mesa

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Programs
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Young people served
$0
Cost to families
10+
Clinicians teaching
The MAP framework

Medicine. Arts. Pathways.

Three strands, ten programs, one idea underneath all of them: a young person changes course when they experience the work, not when they hear about it. Every program is free, and every one is taught by someone who does that job for a living.

M — Medicine & Mastery

Health literacy, body awareness and direct exposure to clinical practice. Our Youth Med-Surg Discovery program is the flagship.

A — Arts & Expression

Creative voice and technical craft, taught in working studios and galleries, ending with the students’ own work on a wall.

P — Pathways & Purpose

Practical tools for adulthood: money, enterprise, argument, study. In development, and the first place a sponsor’s money starts something new.

A working gallery studio with young people and adults at easels
Art Discovery · taught inside a working gallery, not a classroom
A student in scrubs walking into a hospital corridor
Youth Med-Surg Discovery · scrubbing in
A student holding the canvas he painted while another works behind him
Art Discovery · a student with the canvas he painted
A group of young athletes running resisted sprints down the track at night
Speed, Agility & Conditioning · returning free through the Foundation

The talent did not disappear. The opportunities did.

Music, studio art, vocational training, debate, photography, strength and conditioning, basic laboratory science — stripped out of schools that could no longer afford them. The young people are the same. What they are offered is not. We put it back, free, taught by people who do the work for a living.

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Two students working a specimen with a clinician beside them
Youth Med-Surg Discovery · a clinician works a specimen with two students
Two doors

Whichever brought you here

A student working on a canvas at an easel

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Program dates, ages, what a day looks like, who supervises, and what you sign. Registration takes about a minute.

For parents
A clinician working a specimen while students and a nurse watch alongside

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What sponsorship funds, what we report back, and the paperwork your giving officer will ask for — all on one page.

For sponsors
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Hear about the next session first

We announce dates about six weeks ahead and places are limited by how many clinicians and artists we can put in a room. Subscribers hear before anyone else.

Program dates, what we have delivered, and how to take part. A few emails a year, never more. We do not share your address with anyone, and you can unsubscribe from any email. For parents and adults — students should ask a parent to sign up.