| PRIORITY AREA #1 - SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN'S SUCCESS IN SCHOOL | |||
| East Bay Agency for Children | Hawthorne Family Resource Center | $150,000 | |
| East Bay Agency for Children's (EBAC's) Hawthorne School Family Resource Center (FRC) provides after-school and parent programs to support children's success in school and child health and wellness. Student success is supported through the FRC's Eagles' Nest after-school enrichment activities and tutoring. Programs to support parents/caregivers as teachers are provided by our Parent Center. The FRC supports child health and wellness through violence prevention, group activities/healthy choices and case management through EBAC's Prevention and Life Skills (PALS) program. This project serves youth from City Council District 5. | |||
| East Bay Asian Youth Center | San Antonio Village Collaborative After-School Learning Centers | $397,467 | |
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| The San Antonio Village Collaborative After-School Learning Centers offer a multidisciplinary array of engaging learning opportunities to young people at three neighborhood schools-Franklin Elementary School, Garfield Elementary School, and Roosevelt Middle School. The centers will engage over 600 youth in project-based literacy learning, theater arts, break dance, capoeira, jazz arts, steel drumming, bike mechanics and rides, computer technology, Vietnamese language, and sports. The Centers will achieve two major outcomes: 1) young people shall demonstrate improved academic performance, as indicated by grades, standardized test scores, and school attendance; and 2) school communities shall demonstrate improved social climates, as indicated by student suspension data, neighborhood crime data from 3:00pm to 6:00pm, and survey questionnaire data. (TWO YEAR) This project serves youth from City Council Districts 2 and 5. | |||
| East Oakland Boxing Association | Smartmoves | $50,000 | |
| The Smartmoves program is a component of a youth development agency, whose mission is to provide a safe and nurturing environment in which the children and youth of East Oakland can feel secure as they learn life skills, achieve success in school and build self esteem in preparation for their futures. This is accomplished by providing educational enrichment, literacy support, recreational activities, mentoring, conflict resolution, drug awareness workshops, and snacks on weekdays from 3-6pm during the school year and 11-5pm during summer at the East Oakland Boxing Association (EOBA). This project serves youth from City Council Districts 5, 6, and 7. | |||
| Girls Inc. | GIRLStart | $105,000 | |
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| GIRLStart, a two-year, daily after school and summer program offered at Lockwood Elementary School, is designed to increase the literacy skills, self-esteem, and success of first and second grade girls, whose academic performance is below grade level and who, therefore, may be at risk of school failure. Through a variety of hands-on, interactive educational and enrichment activities, GIRLStart increases girls' social skills, confidence, and positive attitude toward school, while providing a safe environment where girls can learn to read, develop their own thoughts, explore their feelings, and build special abilities in science, arts, and sports. (TWO YEAR) This project serves youth from City Council District 6. | |||
| Hearing Society for the Bay Area | Oakland Deaf & Hard of Hearing Youth Project | $155,413 | |
| This project's mission is to ensure that deaf and hard of hearing youth have opportunities to experience full participation as individuals and as members of their families, schools, neighborhoods, and communities. The community served through this project is deaf/hard of hearing youth of all ages and their families, including hearing siblings. Services include an after school/summer program and sign class for hearing peers; weekend group activities, counseling, youth internships and employment, weekly family sign language classes, parent workshops, individualized family communication classes; youth/family support - counseling, home-school liaison, social work, case management, advocacy. This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| Leadership Excellence | Oakland Freedom Schools | $29,850 | |
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Oakland Freedom Schools (OFS) Project provides a 6-week summer program for African-American children ages 6-13 residing in Oakland's low-income neighborhoods. OFS provides appropriate child and youth development activities and comprehensive academic support services with the purposes of: building study skills and abilities in reading, writing and math; enhancing cultural awareness and self-esteem; and fostering leadership development. In summer 2002, OFS will serve 60 children at Cole Elementary School and in the summer 2003, OFS will serve 60 children at Cole and 60 at an East Oakland school site (probably Elmhurst Elementary School), for a total of 120 children in 2003. (TWO YEAR) This project serves youth from City Council Districts 3, 6, and 7. |
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| Lao Family Community Development | Southeast Asian Young Learners Program | $91,909 | |
| The Southeast Asian Young Learners (SAYL) Program is a collaborative after-school mentoring and enrichment program that builds relationships among Southeast Asian 8-12 year old children and their teenage mentors. The program is held Monday through Friday at Manzanita Elementary School and at a neighborhood community center. By bringing together the children and youth served by Lao Family Community Development, Inc., Oakland Cambodian Buddhist Society and Vietnamese Community Development Inc., the program provides opportunities to build intercultural understanding as well as academic skills, language skills and cultural arts abilities. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 2 and 5. | |||
| Lincoln Child Center | High Hopes After School Program | $150,000 | |
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| The High Hopes After School Program provides a program of academic, recreational and cultural activities that supports the healthy development and growth of urban children who traditionally have limited access to after school activities. The program offers daily after-school programming at 4 school sites from the time school finishes until 5:30 pm. The children who participate in the program share one or more of the following characteristics: they are typically low performing students in need of additional academic support, children who exhibit disruptive behavior during and after school and children who are most in need of positive adult relationships to support their emotional development. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 1, 3, 6, and 7. | |||
| Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute | Smart Start | $210,000 | |
| The Smart Start Partnership (Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute, Oakland Ready to Learn, and the Early Childhood Education Department at Oakland Unified) will mobilize community resources to ensure that children in under served and low-income areas have increased opportunities to build skills for kindergarten. Through family strengthening and research based preventative approaches, Smart Start will promote school success by providing culturally and linguistically responsive educational activities and materials for over 3,000 children (0-5 years old) and their parents, focusing on school readiness. Parents will develop skills and access resources facilitating their role as their child's first and best teacher. This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| Melrose Elementary School | Extended Day - Extended Year Program | $147,798 | |
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| This project extends the school day and school year for 2002-2003. The after-school program, in partnership with DTE, Watershed, Sports4Kids, and community artists, serves 200 underachieving 1st - 5th graders by providing reading, tutoring, homework help, intensive English Language Development training, and enrichment activities including drama, art, capoeira, environmental education, and sports. The Extended Year Program serves 100, 1st-4th grade summer students by extending the summer school day. The Program provides enrichment activities taught by AmeriCorps tutors and teachers. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 5 and 6. | |||
| Melrose Leadership Academy | Community Bridges | $175,000 | |
| Melrose Leadership Academy Community Bridges will be an extended day community-based arts and athletic program as well as an intensive summer arts, oral history, and outdoor education program for middle school youth, based at Melrose Leadership Academy. The program intends to build its 124 participants' academic skills and leadership capacity. The arts program will be built around articulating community investigations, the athletic programs will center on exploration of forms of athleticism and community participation, and the summer programs will explore creative community resources. Extended day and year semesters will culminate in large-scale community expositions of student projects, performances, and demonstrations. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 5 and 6. | |||
| Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) | Project YIELD (Youth In Education and Leadership Development) | $175,000 | |
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| Project YIELD, a comprehensive youth development program, provides daily after school support, 2:30pm to 6:00pm, to 200 low-income West Oakland youth ages 5-16 at Cole School. Throughout Project YIELD, youth develop strong creative, academic, personal and social skills required to become healthy, resourceful, and involved citizens. Project YIELD has 4 strands: 1)art classes (visual, performing, digital, literary arts, 2)leadership development, 3) community public art projects, 4) Learning Center -- intensive academic intervention, tutoring, mentoring. The project YIELD collaborative includes professional artists, youth developers, youth, teen leaders, parent, school staff, and youth-serving agencies. (TWO YEAR) This project serves youth from City Council District 3. | |||
| Oakland Asian Students Educational Services | OASES Youth Programs | $76,000 | |
| OASES Youth Programs are a comprehensive safety net of services for youth with limited resources in the Oakland Chinatown/San Antonio district. These services provide youth (ages 7-18) with 8 programs: Tutorial (Elementary, Middle, High); Kids & Technology; Kids Into Computers; New Immigrant Services; Inspire Mentorship; and Summer Program. Specific strategies range from academic tutorial and enrichment to English language support and college preparation. This safety net supports success in schools and healthy transitions to adulthood for Oakland youth who face challenges in their daily lives. OASES has been providing services since 1983 and is a current OFCY grantee. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 2 and 3. | |||
| Oakland Parks and Recreation | Oakland Discovery Centers | $250,003 | |
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| The Oakland Discovery Centers is a comprehensive, after-school, educational enrichment program with fun hands-on science, computers, conflict resolution, woodworking, gardening, environmental science, art, and music recording. The program serves at-risk, low-income children and youth between the ages of 6 and 17 in the neighborhoods of Central East Oakland and West Oakland. The program will be offered in the after-school hours, from 3 to 7 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, 49 weeks of the year. (TWO YEAR) This project serves youth residing in all City Council Districts. | |||
| Oakland Public Library | PASS! - Partners for Achieving School Success | $175,000 | |
| PASS! Is both Oakland's largest no-fee afterschool homework program and an employment and training program for teens. The program operates afterschool at 8 library sites in Oakland. PASS! Hires teens to provided mentoring and homework help to the younger children and provides the teens with training to enhance college readiness and their skills as tutors and mentors. PASS! Has a teen homework assistance program at two sites, making college mentors available to work one-on-one with teens. This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| Oakland Unified School District - DSFCS | Project Hand in Hand | $100,000 | |
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| Project Hand-in-Hand offers an after-school tutoring and mentoring program providing support for academic achievement to underachieving students aged 11-13, at Carter and Calvin Simmons Middle Schools in the Oakland Unified School District. The Project provides five college mentors and one senior mentor to work with 60 students per site. The senior and college mentors gather input and referrals from parents, students, staff and community. This project serves youth from City Council District 1 and 5. | |||
| Oakland Youth Chorus | Music In the Schools | $175,000 | |
| Oakland Youth Chorus' Music In the Schools program provides after-school multicultural age-appropriate music education programs for low income youth K-8 and after-school audio/visual/production training for teens, addressing the need for increased school attendance, improved academic achievement, adult mentoring, parent involvement, safe after-school programs, and confidence-building activities. Classes meet twice weekly at the school sites and at OYC rehearsal space with artist-teachers, serving 600 students substantively and another 2000 indirectly, with the outcome of enhanced self esteem, emotional safety , quality youth-adult interaction, and healthy transitions to adulthood. This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| Office of Aging, Health & Human Services | Even Start Family Literacy Program: Focus on Early Childhood Education | $90,000 | |
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| The Even Start Family Literacy Program: Focus on Early Childhood is a family-centered educational intervention, designed to serve over 90 low income families with essential literacy needs, who have children, birth - 7 years of age. The program will provide participants with on-site Infant and Toddler Enrichment and Care, during on-site Adult Education and Parent Education instruction. Thus providing a safe, enriching environment for the children that will promote their success in school, while their parents are involved in instruction. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 2, 5, and 7. | |||
| Peralta After School Adventures | Center for Youth and Community (Peralta After School Adventures) | $43,900 | |
| A Center for Youth and Community offers an array of engaging and enriching activities after school and Saturdays to neighborhood youth. Participants can learn bike mechanics, prepare for academic success, plant community gardens, celebrate with food and music, and go on bicycle adventures around the Bay Area. Our program aims to build an extended family of diverse youth who gain a sense of connection to, understanding of, and interest in caring for the place where they live and the world around them. This project serves youth from City Council District 5. | |||
| Prescott Clown Troupe | Prescott Clown Troupe | $67,000 | |
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| The Prescott Clown Troupe is an after-school circus arts and leadership program for children ages 8-11. The core program is at Prescott School in West Oakland where a performing company is developed and performs at community events throughout the year. Adjunct programs at Prescott include Visual Arts Class, Junior Clown Training, and Tutoring. Circus arts training offered at satellite programs at Lockwood and Piedmont Ave. Schools will be expanded and new programs will be started at Garfield and Laurel Schools. Second year funding will support program growth and expansion to serve Middle School students in West Oakland, with Lowell Middle School as host site. (TWO YEAR) This project serves youth from City Council Districts 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6. | |||
| Spanish Speaking Citizen's Foundation | After-School Youth Program | $187,500 | |
| For the last 3 years, SSCF has been funded by OFCY to provide a bilingual comprehensive After-School youth Program targeting low-income Latino children and youth living in the Fruitvale/East Oakland Neighborhoods. Components include: tutoring and academic support, cultural arts, leadership development, community internships, community benefit projects and college preparation workshops. Services are provided in partnership with local schools, as well as colleges, community-based agencies and local businesses. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 5 and 7. | |||
| West Oakland Community School | Extended Day Program | $112,800 | |
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| The West Oakland Community School (WOCS) is a charter school serving students in the middle grades (6th - 8th grades) with a focus on college preparation, leadership development, and African American history and culture. Our Extended Day Program offers hands-on, project-based learning activities that strengthen students' academic skills, leadership abilities, and knowledge of their history and culture. The program serves 50 WOCS students ages 11-13. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 3, 5, and 7. | |||
| YMCA of the East Bay | Bret Harte Area Community Academies | $300,000 | |
| The Bret Harte Area Community Academies serves 440 program participants, ages 6-13, (1st-8th grades) in a variety of after school programs offered at four schools and one community site within the Bret Harte Middle School attendance area. These programs, organized into four strands: Arts, Athletics, Leadership, and Science and Technology, are offered Monday through Friday, from 3:15 to 5:30pm. In addition to the four program strands, the Bret Hart Community Academy also offers a Youth Center, which provides mentoring, tutoring, and less structured activities. All Community Academies also provide regular tutoring/homework assistance as part of their regular programming. This project serves youth from all of the City Council Districts. | |||
| PRIORITY AREA #2 - CHILD HEALTH AND WELLNESS | |||
| Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program (BORP) | Physically Disabled Youth Sports Program | $49,476 | |
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| BORP provides a sports program for Oakland youth with physical disabilities from ages 5 - 19. Sport activities offered include Wheelchair Basketball, Track & Field, and Power Soccer. Nineteen youth are served every Saturday from September to July, and accessible transportation is provided to any participant that requires this service. The program conducts extensive outreach to all Oakland public schools, Rehab Hospitals and Adaptive P.E. Instructors. This project serves youth from all City Council Districts. | |||
| Dimensions Dance Theater | Rites of Passage | $35,000 | |
| Rites of Passage is a free community based dance program designed to develop caring and responsible youth through the arts. The classes we offer on a rotating basis are jazz, modern, tap, ballet, Dunham Technique, hip hop, traditional African, Haitian, and other forms. After school dance classes are enhanced by education and training in music, drama, and the literacy and visual arts. The purpose of Rites of Passage is to increase the health, well being, self-esteem, and empowerment of youth through dance education, training, and cultural exposure by 100% in the short-term. This project serves youth from all of the City Council Districts. | |||
| Friends of Oakland Parks and Recreation | Water Safety and Health Awareness | $26,065 | |
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| The Water Safety and Health Awareness program serves 144 youth annually--48 youth in each of three, eight week sessions. OCPP services focus on 6 to 13 year old youth. In each session, youth receive two, 40 minute after school classes per week focused on water safety. On Fridays a Nutrition and Health Instructor conducts health awareness workshops. To ensure safety and full enrollment, a Site and Outreach Coordinator supervises youth at the site before, during and after each session, and is responsible for recruiting youth. This project serves youth from City Council District 3. | |||
| Henry Robinson Multi-Service Center | Henry Robinson Multi-Service Center | $100,000 | |
| This projects provides child-centered programming for the 62 homeless families residing in the Henry Robinson Multi-Service Center. Programs include: a play group for parents and their children, ages 2-5, an after-school homework club, social and recreational activities for youth and families, a leadership group, a teen girls group, a teen boys group, art activities, and special events and outings provided to youth ages 5-17. Through this program services are offered in the center, and throughout the Bay Area, to over 200 residents. The program's goals are to provide educational programming and recreational activities, increase access to community resources, and teach vital life skills. This project serves youth from City Council District 3. | |||
| La Clinica de La Raza - Fruitvale Health Project | Teens and Tots Program | $168,675 | |
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| La Clinica's Youth Development Program targets East Oakland Hispanic youth between the ages of 0-5 and 12-20. The program targets pregnant and parenting teens and their children. This program is made up of medical, psychosocial, educational, and youth developmental components. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 2, 4, 5, and 6. | |||
| Oakland Butterfly & Urban Gardens | Planting a Future | $49,900 | |
| Through a network of neighborhood based urban farms and school gardens, OBUGS operates a school-site and community based after-school programs that educates and provide opportunities for youth to improve academic skills, cultivate personal skills, develop community values, and build business and job skills. OBUGS opens opportunities for community members to transform their neighborhoods into villages where youth are cared for by an integrated network of family, school, neighbors and service providers who work together to provide the sense of belonging and care that fosters confidence and responsibility in young people. This year an additional 115 youth will be served. This project serves youth from City Council District 3. | |||
| Sports4Kids | Fit-to-Learn Afterschool Program | $225,000 | |
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| The Sports4Kids Fit-to-Learn Afterschool Program offers free tutorial and sports/recreation/fitness programs at 22 underserved Oakland public elementary schools. Serving 600 children every school day (Monday-Thursday), the program responds to Oakland's shortage of quality afterschool programming, and to two disturbing trends: (1) children of the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) are under performing academically, and (2) children of the OUSD are alarmingly unfit physically. Independent evaluations of their model reveal positive outcomes beyond increased fitness, including: a reduction in aggressive behaviors, improved grades, and a sense of safety at school. This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| Youth ALIVE! | School-Based Violence Prevention & Intervention Project | $175,000 | |
| This project serves East Oakland middle and high schools with a comprehensive range of school-linked violence prevention and intervention programs. Teens on Target (TNT) high school after-school leadership development program members lead violence prevention workshops for over 960 middle school students and serve as peer mentors in the TNT middle school after-school violence prevention program for at least 240 higher risk students. The 90 highest risk students and, as appropriate, their family members, receive comprehensive case management services. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 3, 5, 6, and 7. | |||
| PRIORITY AREA #3 - HEALTHY TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD | |||
| Black Dot Artists, Inc. | EastSide Arts Alliance's Visual Element | $49,735 | |
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| The participants of Visual Element learn a variety of visual art skills that include spray can techniques, "graffiti" writing, mural brush painting and computer/digital photography and graphic design. By creating a class in an art form that is criminalized and stigmatized this project opens the door so the greater community can understand youth on their terms. Students of Visual Element are trained on how to approach a client, using their portfolios as entry to store owners and other owners of available walls. They will then negotiate with property owners on design concepts and costs involved. Students will be paid for their work. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 2, 5, 7. | |||
| Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice | Pathways to Change | $139,663 | |
| Under Safe Passages' Youth Offender Strategy entitled Pathways to Change, youth on probation with multiple felony arrests are eligible for intervention services including individual and family assessments, case-planning, community resource referrals and case-mentoring. By working with the repeat offender population and their families, youth will be given the support and resources to transition back into the community, which will lead to fewer repeat offenders re-entering the juvenile justice system. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 2, 5, 6, and 7. | |||
| CHALK | Youthline Oakland | $112,561 | |
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| CHALK's Youthline Oakland is a 7-day-a-week telephone-based service fully staffed and operated by young people, called "Youthline Listeners". Youthline is a toll-free-service, providing callers with confidential and anonymous peer-to-peer support, the ability to get detailed information about all youth programs and services in Oakland, and first-stage crisis intervention. CHALK provides employment or Americorps service opportunities to 20 Oakland youth in a high-tech workplace. CHALK also provides technology training to an additional 60 unemployed youth. CHALK gives preference for youth employment and service opportunities to court involved youth and youth at risk of school drop out. This project serves youth from all City Council Districts. | |||
| Change Thru Xanthos, Inc. | DreamCatcher | $195,977 | |
| DreamCatcher Emergency Youth Shelter and Support Center, a program of Xanthos, Inc., provides outreach, comprehensive case management, health, mental health, educational support, youth development activities and social services to Oakland's runaway and homeless youth to provide alternatives to street life and to enable them to successfully transition into stable life situations. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. | |||
| First Place Fund for Youth | Foster Youth Alliance | $377,300 | |
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| The Foster Youth Alliance is a collaboration of nonprofit and public agencies serving Oakland youth ages 15-21 who are preparing to emancipate or who have recently "aged out" of the foster care system. The Foster Youth Alliance is applying under the Healthy Transitions to Adulthood funding priority. Over the two year grant term, the Foster Youth Alliance will provide services to 1,100 youth in six program areas: education, life skills, housing, mental health, leadership development and community building. All programs are offered in safe, accessible community spaces. Staff to client ratio is low to promote meaningful relationships with caring adults (TWO YEAR) This project serves youth from all of the City Council Districts. | |||
| Native American Health Center | Native American Community Collaborative | $400,000 | |
| Native American Health Center has developed a comprehensive culturally appropriate continuum of care that targets Native American youth, but serves a broad spectrum of Oakland youth from all ethnic backgrounds. The rationale for the program is based on enhancing resiliency factors and reducing risk factors in the youth served. (TWO YEAR) This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| Project Reconnect | Project Reconnect | $50,000 | |
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| PRC is an educational counseling program to assist "high risk" youth, ages 12-17 years, who are referred by the Juvenile Justice System. The primary goal of PRC is to facilitate the functioning of the youth in their home, society and school. This program addresses the need of parents and children in developing strategies that prepare them for making positive life changes, and to divert these "high risk" youth from further involvement with the Juvenile Justice System. This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| SMAAC Youth Center | SMAAC Youth Center | $250,000 | |
| This drop in center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Questioning Youth offers supportive services including: Support Groups, Youth Advisory Council, Leadership Development Training, Health Education, GED Education and a Computer Lab. (TWO YEAR) This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| Young Women United for Oakland (YWUFO) | Young Women United for Oakland (YWUFO) | $70,000 | |
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| YWUFO is a grassroots organization run by and for young women of color (14-21 years old). YWUFO provides street outreach, health and wellness information, support and referrals to low income, disenfranchised young women ages 14-21 who are supporting themselves on the street economy and/or are living in poor communities. YWUFO works to empower low income, disenfranchised young women ages 14-21 who are living and/or supporting themselves on the street economy, specifically, by providing employment and leadership opportunities within the agency at a living wage. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 3, 6, and 7. | |||
| Youth Employment Partnership | Career Try-Out | $174,000 | |
| Career Tryout provides 300 youth with leadership development, career exploration, and paid work experiences. One hundred and thirty-five Team Members participate in pre-employment training, whose topics include resume-writing, employer expectations, how to keep a job, and career exploration. After fulfilling their pre-employment competencies, each participant completes 120 hours of paid work experience. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7. | |||
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| Asian Community Mental Health Services | Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership (AYPAL) | $175,000 | |
| AYPAL involves 200-250 youth, age 12-18, in six Youth Leadership Organizations based in ethnic communities and neighborhoods throughout Oakland. These YLOs serve as alternatives to gangs and other negative peer influence groups by (1) creating safe spaces where youth can socialize, support each other, and feel part of a community; (2) giving young people alternatives to using violence as a form of power by promoting youth participation in self-led community organizing campaigns; and (3) giving youth alternatives to destructive expression of personal and cultural pride (like tagging) by engaging them in artist-in-residence projects with community artists. (TWO YEAR) This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| Community Health Academy | Youth Grants for Youth Action | $300,000 | |
| "Youth Grants for Youth Action" is both a youth-to-youth grant-making program and leadership development program. The purpose of the program is to promote youth empowerment while providing resources for positive youth-determined activities. It builds the capacity of youth to make grants for youth-initiated projects, and take leadership in improving the community. Youth will be mentored and trained to develop projects, write and review proposals, make grants, administer their own projects, and monitor funded projects. The program will serve 266 youth, 6-20 years old, after school and at other times of day. Program components include recruitment, training, outreach, technical assistance, youth-to-youth grant making and project monitoring, infrastructure setup, and other activities. This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| DiversityWorks | DiverseCITY (Challenging, Inspiring, and Teaching Youth) | $57,100 | |
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| The DiverseCITY (Challenging, Inspiring, and Teaching Youth) Program is a peer education initiative that matches high school aged youth interns with after-school programs/clubs to provide multi-session diversity awareness workshops. This program will bring interactive workshops to 489 Oakland youth during the 2002-2003 academic year. The program reaches out to a broad cross-section of youth and gives voice to many young people who otherwise might not have avenues to express themselves. We are requesting funding for this program as well as a portion of two training programs, the Summer Institute and Reality Check, that feed into DiverseCITY. This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| Donald P. McCullum Youth Court, Inc. | Oakland Youth Court | $98,883 | |
| The Donald P. McCullum Youth Court is a youth-driven peer court for teens. Youth Interns and volunteers, many of whom are former offenders or at risk of educational failure and entanglement with the juvenile justice system, coordinate real court hearings where their peers hold youth who have committed criminal offenses accountable. Youth offenders are offered services and support which enable them to stay free from violence and further law contacts, and to make a healthy transition from adolescence to adulthood. This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation | Oakland Youth Asset Building Opportunity (OYABO) | $80,000 | |
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| The Oakland Youth Asset Building Opportunity (OYABO) is not just a savings program but an opportunity for the youth of Oakland to improve their situation by taking control of their future. Fifty youth will save up to $500 over a 6 to 12-month period and receive a maximum of $1000 in match for a total of $1500. This money may be used for continuing their education, job-training, small business development, computers, or additional uses approved by youth committee members at monthly meetings. This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| Kids First | Kids First Leadership Institute | $75,000 | |
| The Kids First Leadership Institute is a year-round leadership and youth advocacy training program for youth, ages 13 to 18, from low-income neighborhoods throughout Oakland. The Leadership Institute integrates an array of youth development strategies with a centralized youth activism project developed through skills trainings, and concrete organizing experiences that result in substantial community benefit. Youth participants put their skills to practice by planning and facilitating membership events, showcases, creative arts workshops and classroom presentations for students - thus providing for peer learning, an essential part of their development. The program encourages youth to unleash their creativity and utilize their cultural skills and talents as a vehicle for civic engagement and empowerment. This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| La Clinica de La Raza - Fruitvale Health Project | Youth Development Program | $81,325 | |
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| La Clinica's Youth Development Program targets East Oakland Hispanic youth between the ages of 12-20. The Youth Development Program (YDP) provides youth with safe opportunities, support, and relationships to caring adults that are needed for youth to live up to their full potential. The program targets high-risk teens in East Oakland and brings them into a leadership training program on a regular after-school schedule. Youth identify markers for implementing a successful community action. They then use critical analysis skills to examine their community action, its success, and identify next steps. This project serves youth from City Council Districts 2, 4, 5, and 6. | |||
| Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute | Children & Youth Grants Initiative | $100,000 | |
| This Initiative will provide, through a grant application process, the opportunity for over 400 economically challenged children and youth (0-20) to attend conferences, camps, trainings, and workshops. Grant review and approval will take one week and will occur weekly over a two-year period. Guidelines and policies will be developed by youth and parents/careproviders. Evaluation will include children and youth feedback through focus groups and post-activity reports. The anticipated outcome for young people as a result of this initiative will be to enhance their development and resiliency for life's challenges. (TWO YEAR) This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| Volunteer Center of Alameda County | Force of Change Youth-Initiated Grant making | $300,000 | |
| Force of Change (FOC) is a youth-initiated grant-making program sponsored by the Volunteer Center of Alameda County. Under the direction of a Program Director and an assistant, it works with a grant council of eight Oakland youth to disburse $180,000 for youth grants ranging from $1,000 to $7,500. The program has a solid infrastructure and reputation as it was created with OFCY funding in 2000 and was known as the Youth Catalyst Grant Program. A community service and leadership component complement the work of FOC as it builds an ethic of community engagement and philanthropy in Oakland's youth community. (TWO YEAR) This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| Youth Empowerment Center | Mandela Arts Center | $50,000 | |
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| The Youth Empowerment Center seeks to provide a diversity of youth development programs to meet the diversity of needs of Oakland's youth. The Mandela Arts Center was created as a program of the Underground Railroad to meet the specific artistic and cultural needs of Oakland's youth populations. Mandela Arts Center bases its programs in youth culture, primarily hip-hop and other forms of urban-based expression. By tailoring art programming to community issues, young people learn to integrate expression through art into the environment around them and become active in bettering their own lives and the lives of those around them. This project serves youth from each City Council District. | |||
| Youth Together | Youth Together: One Land, One People Collaboratives and Youth Centers | $320,000 | |
| Over the past few years, young people at Castlemont and Skyline have spearheaded needs assessments, planning efforts, and the commitment of community and institutional support for youth centers. The youth centers will serve as the centralized structure to support the healthy development and empowerment of over 4,000 young people. In addition, we seek support for the Youth Together program at Fremont High to develop young leaders and facilitate school community change. This proposal is submitted by the One Land, One People (OLOP) collaboratives at Castlemont and Skyline, with specific funding requests for Youth Together (YT), Caught in the Crossfire, Academics for Success, Bridge Over to Success, the CHS Tutoring Program, and Renegade Inc. (TWO YEAR) | |||
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| Alameda County Youth Development, Inc.- George P. Scotlan Youth & Family | Pathways to Change | $39,134.00 | |
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ACYD-Scotlan Center seeks to collaborate under Safe Passages' Youth Offender Strategy entitled Pathways to Change. Through Pathways to Change, youth on probation with multiple felony arrests will be eligible for intervention services, including individual and family assessments, case-planning, community resource referrals, and case-monitoring. By working with the repeat offender population and their families, youth will be given the support and resources to transition back into the community, which will lead to fewer repeat offenders reentering the juvenile justice system. |
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| Asian Community Mental Health Services | Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership (AYPAL) | $39,990.00 | |
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AYPAL involves 200-250 youth, age 12-18, in six Youth Leadership Organizations based throughout Oakland. These YLOs serve as alternatives to gangs and other negative peer influence groups, positive peer support services, and community building activities. Through the YVDPP proposal, we plan to expand AYPAL to add more anti-drug and anti-violence workshops to the AYPAL Training Curriculum and to systematically provide more individualized referral services to youth who need it. |
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| Donald P. McCullum Youth Court | Oakland Mentor Project | $25,000.00 | |
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The Oakland Mentoring project is designed to provide continued care and support for middle-school aged Oakland youth who have successfully been diverted from entering the juvenile justice system through participation in core MYC programming. Mentors and mentees spend 2-5 hours per week together, doing enrichment activities, education and emotional support activities setting, and decision-making. The goal of the project is to prevent recidivism and help these youth to prevent further violence in their schools and communities. |
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| East Oakland Boxing Association | Smartmoves | $23,376.00 | |
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The Smartmoves program is a component of a youth development agency, whose mission is to provide a safe and nurturing environment in which the children and youth of East Oakland (primarily District 7) can feel secure as they learn life skills, achieve success in school and build self-esteem in preparation for their futures. This is accomplished by providing educational enrichment, literacy support, recreational activities, mentoring, conflict resolution, drug awareness workshops and snacks on weekdays from 3-6pm during the school year and 11-5pm during summer at the East Oakland Boxing Association (EOBA). |
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