08/15/2026
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL REALITY CHECK LOCK-IN! 🙌🔥
What a great night with our RC teens! We’re incredibly thankful for everyone who helped make this lock-in impactful, engaging, and FUN.
A huge THANK YOU to Step Up Ozark, Jameson's , and all of our amazing volunteers and community who gave their time, energy, and support to make the event possible. These events simply don’t happen without people who believe in investing in the next generation.
One thing we’re committed to at Reality Check is continuing to change, grow, and adapt our programs to better reach the teens we serve. We listen to feedback from our volunteers, but even more importantly, we listen to the teens who walk through our doors.
This lock-in, we tried something different.
Instead of bringing in a traditional “speaker,” we created an interactive discussion panel—almost like a game show! We talked through real-life scenarios, difficult choices, relationships, pressures, and situations that teenagers are actually facing every day.
The teens got to participate, think, respond, laugh, and have some real conversations—and that’s exactly what we wanted.
And a special THANK YOU to Silas & Jessica Forrester for bringing some awesome music and helping make the night even better! 🎶
To every volunteer, supporter, organization, and person in our community who continues to stand behind Reality Check: THANK YOU.
We’re not interested in simply giving teenagers something to do.
We want to give them a place to BELONG, a reason to BELIEVE, and an opportunity to BECOME everything they have been created to be.
Another lock-in in the books—and we’re already looking forward to what’s next! 💚
Reality Check
A Place to Belong • Believe • Become