Mission Statement

The mission of FOCUSfish, a non-profit for public benefit, is to offer movement arts and physical education programs to people of all ages, abilities and identities.  Our teachers give their students the permission to be themselves in the practice of accepting all people to do the same.
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Vision Statement
The vision of FOCUSfish is to inspire all types of bodies to move creatively in pursuit of health, wellness, and community.  
Our Values
We nurture people to be accepting of their own bodies as a practice of accepting all bodies, no matter their size, skin color, gender identity and expression, or sexual orientations.
We highlight creative expression as a means to maintaining healthy habits.
We encourage all identities to work and play with us as we create safer spaces in the communities we move.
We believe that great music and lots of joy keep our bodies moving.
We understand and deliver the science, that a body in motion stays in motion.

​​FOCUSfish Community Programs and Services

Through FOCUSfish Community programming, people of all ages and fitness levels receive high-quality exercise programming consisting of high-end circus training for low-income demographics. From circus immersions in schools to community fitness outreach for children with special needs, FOCUSfish enables families of all kinds to find quality time together while exercising their creativity and compassion.

Fitness Statistics

  • According to the National Diabetes Fact Sheet, about 186,300 young people in the US under age 20 had diabetes in 2009.
  • About 2/3 of AMAB (assigned male at birth) and almost half of AFAB (assigned female at birth) in California are overweight or obese.
  • At present, approximately 9 million children over 6 years of age are considered obese and 15% are considered at risk of becoming overweight.
  • Psychological consequences of overweight children are at an increased risk for discrimination, low self-esteem, and poor body image.
  • In 2000, a survey found that only 8% of elementary schools, 6.4% of middle schools, and 5.8% of senior high schools provided daily physical education for the entire school year for all of the students in each grade.
​* All statistics cataloged on the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources website fact sheet

​Help us to improve our community & public school physical education programming

Help us to improve our community & public school physical education programming
  • $800 sponsors circus aerial arts classes for a single child in an under-served community , once a week, for an entire year.
  • $3500 will sponsor a class of one of our programs (dance, sports, Capoeira, aerial arts) for an entire school year.
  • $1200 facilitates a training program for school teachers and a one-day student workshop for a school in need of inspiration, in the areas of arts and physical education. 
  • $15,000 purchases an entire year of PE programming for a school of  your choice.
​"If life is a circus, we might as well train for it." ~ Kristy Beauvais, Flounder for FOCUSfish
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FOCUSfish is a nonprofit 501c3 organization | EIN # 26-0530647 | View Guidestar Profile
FOCUSfish is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal opportunities and prohibits discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, FOCUSfish expects that all relationships among persons in the workplace will be business-like and free of bias, prejudice, discrimination, and harassment.

In order to keep this commitment, FOCUSfish maintains a strict policy of prohibiting unlawful harassment of any kind, including sexual harassment and harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, sex, age, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by state, federal or local employment discrimination laws. This policy applies to all FOCUSfish agents and specialists, including supervisors and non-supervisory employees, and to independent contractors who engage in unlawful harassment in the workplace.

Sexual harassment includes, but is not limited to, making unwanted sexual advances and requests for sexual favors where either:
  1. Submission to such conduct is made an explicit or implicit term or condition of employment; or
  2. Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis of employment decisions affecting such individual; or
  3. Such conduct has the purpose or effect of substantially interfering with an individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.

Employees who violate this policy are subject to discipline up to and including the possibility of immediate discharge. Examples of unlawful harassment include, but are not limited to:
  • Verbal conduct such as epithets, derogatory jokes or comments, slurs or unwanted sexual advances, invitations or comments.
  • Visual conduct such as derogatory and/or sexually oriented posters, photography, cartoons, drawings, e-mail and faxes or gestures.
  • Physical conduct such as assault, unwanted touching, blocking normal movement or interfering with work directed at an employee because of the employee’s sex or other protected characteristic.
  • Threats and demands to submit to sexual requests in order keep one’s job or avoid some other loss, and offers of employment benefits in return for sexual favors.
  • Retaliation for having reported or threatened to report unlawful harassment.

Any employee or other person who believes they have been harassed by a co-worker, supervisor, or agent of FOCUSfish or by a non-employee should promptly report the facts of the incident or incidents and the names of the individual(s) involved to their program coordinator or advisory council contact, or in the alternative, to a board member. Upon receipt of a complaint, FOCUSfish will undertake a prompt, thorough, objective and good faith investigation of the harassment allegations.

If the organization determines that harassment has occurred, effective remedial action will be taken in accordance with the circumstances involved. Any employee determined by the FOCUSfish to be responsible for harassment will be subject to appropriate disciplinary action, up to and including termination.

​Employees will not be retaliated against for filing a complaint and/or assisting in a complaint or investigation process. Further, we will not tolerate or permit retaliation by supervisors or co-workers against any complainant or anyone assisting in a harassment investigation.