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Mentoring Programs:
- Leaders in Future Environments (LIFE) Project
Leaders in Future Environments (LIFE) Project aims to strengthen and promote leadership in youth throughout the San Francisco Bay Area who have been impacted by parental incarceration. The LIFE Project provides one-on-one mentoring, group activities every six weeks, and an annual retreat.
Become a Mentee with the LIFE Project
- Family and Corrections Network Mentoring Children of Prisoners Information
Check out their website for updates on Mentoring Children of Prisoners and other events important to working with children and families of prisoners. For a direct link to the Mentoring for Children of Prisoners Fact Sheet, click here!
- Friends for Youth Inc.
An agency dedicated to supporting youth in need through mentoring. Friends for Youth works to achieve its mission through the Mentoring Services and the Mentoring Institute. For more information on their mentoring services, click here!
- Project AVARY
Project Avary's mission is to cultivate a community of support for children whose parents are imprisoned or otherwise involved with the criminal justice system. Avary targets the neglected population of pre-adolescent children who have not yet entered the cycles of violence and incarceration, and we work with them through young adulthood. Year-round programming gives the children ongoing opportunities to work and play cooperatively within a consistent community of peers and adults; to learn how to manage anger and resolve conflict; and to discover and develop unique personal strengths. Avary offers structure, a network of positive relationships, and experiences that promote the resiliency children need to thrive in life.
- Mentor/ National Mentoring Partnership
This agency is an advocate for the expansion of mentoring and a resource for mentors and mentoring initiatives nationwide.
- Omega Boys Club Street Soldiers
Through their day to day work with youth, the founders of Omega BoyClub/Street Soldiers identified violence as a public health issue, and developed an approach to helping youth move from the culture of violence to safer, more personally and socially productive alternatives.
Currently, the Club has four primary programs:
- The Omega Leadership Academy - this weekly program provides academic preparation and life skills education for all Club members. They also receive counseling, college placement assistance and scholarship support. This component also provides non-college bound Club members with social and employment skills necessary to enter the job market.
- The Omega Training Institute - this program trains individuals and professionals in violence prevention/conflict reduction skills, based on the Omega Boys Club/Street Soldiers model.
- The Street Soldiers Violence Prevention
- The Nationally-Syndicated Street Soldiers Radio
- The Mentoring Center (TMC)
TMC has served as a regional mentoring think-tank since 1991, providing consultation, technical assistance, and mentor training to agencies and institutions developing and operating youth mentoring programs (ages 5 through 25).
TMC also assists existing mentoring programs enhance and strengthen their current efforts.
Other Programs and Services for Youth:
- Adolescence Directory On-Line (ADOL)
Information on adolescent issues including: conflict and violence, mental health issues, health and health at-risk issues, counselor resources, teens only site, and more.
- Alternatives in Action
After school information, community events, and various resources.
- Beacon Centers
The Centers offer youth a vibrant array of programs focused on: education, career development, arts and recreation, leadership, and health. Centers are located throughout San Francisco.
- Chowchilla Family Express
Offers free transportation for families to visit their loved ones in Chowchilla women's prisons.
- Destiny Arts Center
Giving youth the opportunity to share the message of peace and empowerment, through performances, events and workshops in the community.
- Girls Inc.
Inspiring all girls to be strong, smart, and bold.
- Jobs for Youth
Job search and guides to resume building.
- National Runaway Switchboard
They facilitate relationships that ensure that youth and families have access to resources in their communities. Are you having problems at home? Are you thinking about running away? Have you already run away and need to find a place to stay, food, clothing, legal or medical assistance? For a direct link, click here!
- Youth Radio
Provides free after-school training programs in broadcast journalism, radio/web production, engineering, and media advocacy and literacy.
- Youth Speaks
Spoken word performance, education, and youth programs
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