project180
Project 180 Partners
Ebony Counseling Center - After-School, Community Service and Community Learning Programs
- http://kcsos.kern.org/ebony/
- Provide After-School Program curriculum focusing on gang prevention subject matter to specific elementary and middle schools in Bakersfield.
- Provide Community Service Learning Projects to youth involving them in positive activities and projects in the arts, school sports, club sports, sporting events and development and involvement in public forums.
- Establish a Community Service Youth Advisory Committee utilizing youth from identified High Schools to assist with workshops and participate with the younger youth in the Community Service Learning Projects.
Garden Pathways, Inc. (661) 633-9133 – Comprehensive Youth and Adult Mentoring Services
- http://www.gardenpathways.org
- http://www.facebook.com/gardenpathways
- Overview of Garden Pathways Youth Mentoring Services
- Mentors Give Family Hope (published in The Bakersfield Californian 2009)
- 4 Success Stories: Mentoring (all names have been changed)
- 4 Success Stories: Afterschool (all names have been changed)
- Provide comprehensive group and individual youth mentoring services promoting healthy life skills to at-risk youth ages 14 to 21. Additional services include group mentoring events with practical application of daily-living and relationship skills, crisis intervention, resource and referral, and long-term follow up to address individual needs. Mentoring events encompass community service projects, sports events, and other life enrichment experiences.
- Provide comprehensive group and individual adult mentoring services promoting healthy life skills to parents of at-risk youth. Additional services include crisis intervention, resource and referral, and long-term follow up to address individual needs. (Referrals through County gang-prevention funding are limited to the Probation Department.)
Garden Pathways, Inc. – Performing Arts After-School and Day Camp Services to Youth
- Provide opportunities to at-risk youth ages 6-12 to engage in a broad spectrum of the arts, academic enrichment, physical activities, and character education in the arts-based after-school and day camp programs of E3 Performing Arts, a fully-licensed day care center. (Referrals through County gang-prevention funding are limited to a designated school.)
Kern County Superintendent of Schools – Youth and Family Services Programs and Parent Project Facilitator Training
- www.kernparentproject.org
- www.kernstayinschool.org
- Coordinate the early identification and referral of at-risk students and their families to after-school mentoring and parent skills building programs.
- Expand and recruit the Parent Project facilitators, including the outlying areas of Kern County.
New Life Recovery and Training Program - Vocational Training and Employment Program
- http://newlifetrainingcenter.org
- Provide training program to males who “age out” of the Foster Care System, those identified in the CalWORKs and Cal-Learn programs and those in the Independent Living Program and to other low income disadvantaged male youth who are at-risk of gang involvement.
- Provide, in conjunction with Bakersfield College Construction Technology Program six months of classroom instruction and six months of employment development activities as referred from the Department of Human Services.
Stay Focused, Inc. – Mentoring, Crisis Intervention Programs and Community Based Outreach Services
- www.stayfocused.org
- Provide youth mentoring activities to children between the ages of 4 and 18.
- Provide individual or group mentoring services to youth identified as high risk, at risk and gang involved.
- Provide a training session for youth released from incarceration to change future decision making. Provide home calls to the homes of youths in the training program to stay involved and connected.
- Provide community based mentoring and partnership with organizations to provide opportunities for attendance at athletic events and socialization.
- Conduct outreach events including Neighborhood Rallies and Summits, and gang awareness training for parents, school staff, community members and workshops in neighborhoods as needed with the use of the Youth Intervention Specialists.
Stop the Violence - Community Rallies and Youth Leadership Opportunities
- http://stoptheviolencekern.org
- Conduct community rallies to promote gang awareness using speakers from law enforcement, youth and gang-involved individuals.
- Conduct outdoor week-end leadership outings for at-risk youth.
- Conduct monthly outings that are cultural, educational or recreational to at-risk youth.
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