The Leadership Stockton Class of 2025 completed three transformative, community-centered projects designed to uplift and honor underserved groups in Stockton. These efforts support unhoused youth, women and children in crisis, and local veterans through revitalized spaces of healing, reflection, and recognition.
Together, these projects reflect the Class 2025’s commitment to healing, visibility, and community pride. By engaging artists, nonprofits, and volunteers, LS 2025 created meaningful, lasting contributions to the Stockton community—helping lives thrive through connection, creativity, and care.
The Class of 2025 revitalized “The Spot”—a critical resource for unhoused and at-risk youth into a more welcoming space by painting interior and exterior murals, assembling new furnishings throughout the facility, installing a new washer/dryer and coffee bar, and added inspirational signage to uplift everyone who comes through the doors. With over $30,000 in in-kind donations secured, the remodeled drop-in center now reflects an improved environment that now fosters comfort, dignity, and resilience for the youth it serves.
An underused outdoor area at Haven of Peace is now a peaceful garden featuring citrus trees, a gazebo, solar fountain, and flowering plants. With over $14,000 in donated materials and labor, the garden invites rest, reflection, and connection to nature for the women and children who call The Haven home.
The Leadership Stockton Class of 2025 completed the “Stockton Heroes United” mural at Adventist Health Arena in July of 2025 in collaboration with ASM Global. The class chose artist Flavia Grose, who is a Veteran herself to design and paint the mural.
The “Stockton Heroes United” Veterans Mural stands as a powerful tribute to the courage, sacrifice, and unshakable spirit of the men and women who served in our armed forces. During their time in service, many veterans endured grueling conditions, long deployments, extreme environments, physical danger, and the emotional strain of witnessing the realities of war. They gave up time with family, missed births and funerals, and returned home with the weight of experiences that most will never understand. Beyond the battlefield, their sacrifice continued, often in silence, as they shouldered the emotional burden of trauma, grief for fallen comrades, and the discipline required to uphold honor and duty in the face of uncertainty and fear.
