Pro Youth And Families Inc

Programs: Youth advocacy and civic engagementyouth advocacy is a youth-led, project-based program designed to empower youth in disenfranchised communities with the skills, networks, and motivation to leverage their voice and become strong advocates for change. The action-oriented program framework is based on best-practice principles of youth advocacy and social justice. Youth become empowered as they apply the principles, create their own advocacy projects and implement real-world solutions. Through youth advocacy, middle school and high school students have the opportunity to research, develop and advocate around issues that adversely affect them, their school, their neighborhood, and, ultimately, their future. Youth advocacy participants have the option of engaging in a six-week format or a full school-year long program; however, in both cases, all students complete at least one project. Youth advocacy projects, like other environmental prevention initiatives, aim to make change at a community level by influencing community conditions, standards, norms, institutions, structures, systems and policies (cadca, research support for comprehensive community interventions). Projects have included: implementing community assessments measuring the physical vitality, health and friendliness of neighborhoods towards youth; pedestrian safety and transportation; and the development and implementation of social cause marketing campaigns relating to obesity and interpersonal dating violence. Civic engagement is a twelve-month civic education program designed to develop young leaders and foster their civic engagement through hands-on, practical experiences utilizing the capitol city as a textbook landscape. In civic engagement, young people learn about the core values of democracy along with the inner-workings of local, county and state governments. A wide range of meaningful, first-hand opportunities are offered to youth including: participating in city council meetings, developing professional relationships with local leaders, and interacting with staff who work in the state capitol building. In addition, youth demonstrate higher order thinking skills in their knowledge development classes as they critically analyze, debate and discuss current legislative issues. As a result, youth develop a culminating project which requires each participant to identify, research and compose a legislative proposal and then present it during their program graduation ceremony.

training and support servicesin order to fully support young people pro youth & families is committed to strengthening families and communities by developing neighborhood networks, identifying and addressing needs, and providing training and resources. With the addition, in 2016, of the relationship skills centers expertise, and the healthy relationships workshops, pro youth & families is now able to truly support the entire family. Workshops are interactive for youth and adults, equipping participants with skills to improve their relationships (e. G. Communication). Healthy relationships lead to better mental health, lower rates of juvenile delinquency, and improved relationships. Additionally, pro youth & families began the nurturing parenting program for parents and care givers. This is an evidence-based curriculum for the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. The focus is on developing practical strategies to use in the home. Topics include self-worth, empathy, emotional regulation, family cultural practices and empowerment. Staff are certified trainers which enables pro youth & families to train trainers in other communities.

youth and family collectivethe youth and family collective (yfc) is a partnership of nonprofit organizations in the greater sacramento region, joined by private-sector partners and government agencies, designed to integrate the complementary tasks of serving youth and families burdened by trauma. By bringing together dozens of nonprofit, private and public-sector organizations that are involved in addressing youth and family needs, yfc constructs a 360-degree wraparound system to decode and resolve long-entrenched challenges facing low-opportunity communities. The model currently being developed can be used as a template for building other collectives statewide and nationally. Yfc is designed to: (1) build a continuum of care by establishing a systematic level of cooperation between nonprofit organizations of complementary missions to more seamlessly support those who are grappling with multiple interlinked challenges; and (2) produce economies of scale by consolidating the back-office work of multiple nonprofit organizations under one roof so that the experts on staff can focus entirely on advancing their mission, instead of doing paperwork. Yfc will break the cycle of trauma in low-opportunity communities by revolutionizing the way nonprofit organizations accomplish their missions.