Our Programs

We initiate projects that enable compassion and teamwork to create life-enhancing and earth-protecting opportunities.

WOMP

Our Flagship Program, the Women’s Outreach Mentorship Program, works with teen girls to introduce them to the ocean and teach them fundamental lessons of womanhood.

Our 2025 Program has teamed up with the Monarch School of San Diego and the Groundswell Community Project to welcome unhoused teen girls into the ocean.

Group of four women in wetsuits smiling and celebrating on a beach with a surfboard. The ocean and cloudy sky are visible in the background.

People practicing martial arts on the beach with the ocean and cloudy sky in the background.

What Participants Are Saying

"WOMP has taught me how to love myself and how to give me more self confidence"

— WOMP Teen Participant

"The thing I learned from WOMP is that there are a lot of people going through some of the same things you are and you don't have to feel alone."

— WOMP Teen Participant

"I learned that I have a lot of girls supporting me and women who can help me with life and any problems I have."

— WOMP Teen Participant

"My favorite thing about WOMP was being around other women and feeling so empowered."

— WOMP Teen Participant

Support. Guidance. Community.

How it works:

Each teen participant is paired with a surf mentor, who will give them one-on-one help as they are introduced to surfing. This mentor also becomes a friend and support system for the participant over the 6 week program.

Each Wednesday afternoon, there’s a land lesson and an ocean lesson. The land lessons vary from critical topics like: menstrual awareness, body positivity, art therapy, and more. The ocean lessons build the participants’ confidence in the ocean, reading waves, and learning to navigate a surfboard.

A person in a wetsuit riding a surfboard on the water, smiling as they paddle forward.

Two women in white tops and black shorts playfully facing each other on a sandy beach, with other people in the background engaging in similar activities near the shoreline with palm trees and buildings in the distance.

Group of smiling women and girls in swimsuits and snorkeling gear, enjoying a tropical river with lush green palm trees and dense jungle in the background.

A notebook with information about surf therapy is inside a tote bag on the sand, with a flower tucked into the bag. The tote bag has a design of a woman with long hair and waves, with the phrase "Changing tides for" partially visible.

A woman riding a surfboard and smiling at the beach, with ocean waves in the background.

A female surfer riding a wave in the ocean under a clear blue sky.

WOMP HISTORY

The first ever WOMP program was a 7-week program in Bocas Del Toro, Panama in collaboration with Give & Surf.

Since, WOMP has worked with the Mariposa Foundation in Dominican Republic, the Beyond the Surface Foundation in Peru, and small coastal communities in El Salvador.

In 2022-2024, CTF ran three 7-week WOMP sessions each year working with teenage girls from the North County San Diego area.

In 2025, we’re thrilled to be teaming up with the Monarch School in San Diego as well as the Groundswell Community Project to enhance our surf therapy and community offerings.

Jump In.

Check out our WOMP film, which captures the 2022 WOMP Program in motion as participants have life-changing experiences. What they thought was just an introduction to surfing turned out to be a open door to sisterhood.