Programs: Youth services: youth for change is an after school and summer comprehensive youth development program which provides teens the opportunity to develop resiliency and life skills necessary to promote positive life choices. Exploring health careers is a hands-on learning program designed to expose students in our community to the various health care professions they can pursue in the future. The academy aims to address the shortage of minorities in the medical field serving as primary care physicians, public health practitioners, nurses and other health professionals. Team mentoring program is a new and exciting mentoring program that focuses on pairing current foster and probation youth between the ages of 13-21 with mentors who are former foster or probation youth who have demonstrated successful emancipation. The roam program is our more traditional mentoring program which has a proactive approach to helping at-risk youth grow and learn valuable life lessons while also having fun! Roam is for youth ages 13-18 years of age who reside in the inland empire and pomona valley (upland, ontario, rancho cucamonga, pomona, montclair, claremont, victorville, and riverside area). Roam provides 1:1 mentoring and monthly group activities for youth. Through regular interactions, our mentors provide positive support and encouragement for young people to deal with, and overcome, the challenges they face in their lives. Student assistance program (sap)sap is a comprehensive group counseling program, utilizing research-based curriculum, focused on the prevention of alcohol and drug use among youth. Students are referred by their school counselors and/or teachers dependent on characteristics and behaviors which may be preventing them from reaching their full potential in school. The focus of each group is to build resiliency by providing students with the necessary skills to be successful in school. Group topics target specific needs such as: anger management, grief and loss, self-esteem, motivation, substance abuse, coping skills and divorce. Students are provided outside referrals if more support is needed. Tobacco awareness program (tap) tap is an eight session program designed to help high school students quit smoking. This program is led by student peers who facilitate the sessions with a prevention specialist from reach out present in an advisory role. Project alert is a drug prevention and awareness program for middle and junior high grades. It has been designated an exemplary model program by both the u. S. Department of education and the u. S. Department of health and human services. Proven results show the reduction in marijuana initiation, decreased current and heavy smoking, reduced pro-drug attitudes and beliefs, success in helping smokers quit; proven effectiveness for both high and low risk adolescents. The goal of project alert is to reduce the use of those dangerous substances by keeping nonusers from trying them and by preventing nonusers and experimenters from becoming regular users through a variety of teaching techniques. Youth grantmakers (ygm) is an innovative process to help cultivate young philanthropists who will follow the traditions of giving and serving their community throughout their lives. Reach out and the community foundation serving riverside and san bernardino counties have partnered to stimulate the development of youth as change agents in the community and inspire a lifelong interest and commitment to others. As a group, youth grant makers learn about the non-profit sector, the role of nonprofits in addressing community needs, and an understanding of how economics have an effect on their delivery of services to people in need. This group of youth acts as an advisory committee and makes all decisions based on group consensus, with adults acting in an advisory role. The ygm conduct their own county needs assessment, develop funding priorities based on the assessment, prepare requests for proposals, submit it throughout the community, review grant applications and decide on whom to fund. Once a funding decision is made, the youth host an award ceremony, distribute grant awards, and follow up with the agencies through site visits and grant reports. Their goal is to ensure that they are truly impacting youth and the community. The youth health policy initiative promotes youth leadership in health policy development within the coachella valley. High school aged young people are trained on the youth health policy initiative (yhpi) curriculum. A cohort of 15-20 youth meet 2 times per month on weekdays after school. Youth learn the necessary steps to identify a health policy issue, develop a campaign to address the issue, identify power structures and key leaders/stakeholders, and then implement their campaign. The outcome of this program is a strengthened capacity of youth in the inland region of southern california to understand the social determinants of health, policy advocacy approaches and related careers.
policy advocacy programs:partners for innovative communitiesthe partners for innovative communities (pic) believes that all children and families in our region should have the right to live in communities with ample resources, including quality educational institutions; health care systems that are responsive to the needs of families; after school activities and programs that stimulate and challenge young people; secure neighborhood spaces to play and gather; adequate housing, and nurturing home environments. In many communities across the region, young people live in communities where the infrastructure that should provide opportunities for healthy development is under-resourced, and where social, economic, and political conditions pose daily struggles and numerous threats to their health and long-term well-being. The stress in these environments can erode healthy development for young people and adults alike. The presence of gangs, ease of access to both illegal drugs and violence exponentially increases the level of stress, contributing to morbidity and mortality by violence and drug use. In these communities children and youth experience disproportionately poor outcomes. The partners for innovative communities (pic) work to date has demonstrated the commitment and innovative determination of our members; the strategic planning summit in september 2010 allowed us to create a formal process to engage stakeholders. In september 2011, in our pic planning retreat, we developed a comprehensive plan to expand our area of focus for reducing violence and substance use in los angeles, san bernardino and riverside county with focus on specific cities such as:fontana, rancho cucamonga,ontario,montclair, upland, chino hills,chino,pomona,claremont,la verne,jurupa valley,rialto,bloomington,colton,san bernardino,highland,redlands,riverside,eastvale,corona,sun city,menifee,hemet,san jacinto,moreno valley,norco,lake elsinore,murrieta,and temecula. The strategic plan will assure that our cities address the negative underlying factors and systems that create and perpetuate violence, injury, and substance abuse to shift norms, build resilience, and increase the effectiveness of prevention efforts in our region. Preventing gang violence and drug use will require a concerted, concentrated and long-term effort with communities at the locus of control. We must work in partnership with a vast array of resources responsive to each community's unique need to create safe, peaceful, and healthy environments. Focus areas: parts of riverside county, san bernardino county and the pomona valley. Fontana community coalitionreach out is also part of the fontana community coalition which focuses on creating and maintaining safe, healthy and drug-free communities. Currently, the coalition is working on reducing underage access to alcohol through development of a social host ordinance as well as promotion of alcohol-free events. The reach out environmental prevention program, supported in part by the san bernardino county department of behavioral health, is focused on reducing and preventing underage alcohol use. Cities we are partnering with include chino, chino hills, fontana, rancho cucamonga, ontario, montclair, and upland. The center for civic policy & leadershipthe vision of the center for civic policy and leadership is that the inland empire will develop a critical mass of multi-sectoral individual and organizational leaders that results in impactful field building to effect large-scale social change. Inherent to social change in the inland empire are inspirational policy and advocacy leaders. These leaders will have the capacity and dedication to develop and steer the policy, system and social change needed to improve community health, safety and well-being in san bernardino and riverside counties. Overview of program ccpl will provide training and support to 15 selected current and emerging leaders. Curriculum will focus on a range of leadership skills in the following realms: individual, team-based, cooperative and community-based. Fellows will also gain aptitudes related to leading policy and upstream change and ultimately work toward a collective policy that advances their community health and violence prevention work. Reach responsible beverage sales & service classesthe reach program is a comprehensive responsible beverage sales and service training designed to assist liquor permit holders and their employees to understand, california state, local, and establishment level laws and policies, the consequences for failing to comply with such policies, and to provide the necessary skills to comply with these policies. The training equips employees, managers, supervisors, and owners with the knowledge and skills needed to maintain the legal sale of alcohol. 1. Provides retailers with a clear understanding of state and local alcohol regulations. 2. Limits retailer? S liability due to unsafe alcohol sales and service practices. 3. Teaches owners, managers, and their staff the skills to refuse sales to minors and intoxicated persons. 4. Assists retailers with the specifics of store or house policies. Latino health collaborative (lhc) is a coalition of community stakeholders focused on finding solutions to increase access to health and to eliminate health disparities in our communities. In the past few years, lhc has grown to a coalition of more than 75 member agencies representing a wide range of communities and disciplines, and is recognized for its expertise in coalition building, health advocacy, and community organizing. In the interest of addressing our mission in a more sustainable way, lhc has merged with reach out, one of the founding members of latino health collaborative and an agency dedicated to strengthening communities in the region. The two organizations share a history of collaborative work, and spearheaded both the san bernardino county capacity building consortium and the inland coalition advancing diversity and education in the health professions. The agencies share mission alignment through their focus on systems-level strategies for health and place-based solutions to create healthy communities. Lhc's mission and passion for the work we do on latino health remain unchanged. The strategic alliance of these two respected agencies strengthens our capacity to carry out that mission and will ensure the ongoing development of effective policies, delivery of program-based and place-based interventions to build healthier communities throughout the region.
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