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Achievements
1993-1995
- Our non-profit organization was founded in 1984 and revitalized in 1993
- Developed Youth HIV Prevention Project (YPP) and trained first group of peer educators
- Raised 1st year foundation grant to conduct YPP in San Francisco and Alameda Counties
- Raised 2nd year of funding for the YPP and matching grant from the Design Industry Foundation on AIDS (DIFFA)
- Reached youth in over 20 schools and community settings in two counties
- Wells Fargo Bank donated office space to The Center for Youth
- The Center was selected as organization of the month by KFRC radio who also hosted an "Oldies Music" fund-raising cruise on the San Francisco Bay
- Consulted to CDC Committee on Community Partnerships for HIV Prevention
- YPP was highlighted in Public television documentary (WGBH- Boston)
entitled "AIDS Research: The Story so Far"
1996-1999
- Subcontractor for U.S. Centers for Disease Control - Edited and piloted one of eight HIV education programs that qualified for CDC's research publication "Educational Programs that Work"
- Conducted trainings for actors in Kaiser Permanente's HIV educational theater program "Secrets"
- Received funding support from Providian Financial Corporation and the
Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund
- Conducted YPP and custom-designed Health Education programs and workshops for youth and parents in schools and community settings in 6 Bay Area Counties
- Expanded trainings and workshops to locations beyond the San Francisco
Bay Area:
- Provided Health and HIV education to 75 youth in Sacramento, CA
- Provided HIV education to 750 youth and adults in rural settings in Wyoming
- Provided HIV education to over 1500 youth and adults in rural settings in
North Dakota
- The Center's health education work in North Dakota was featured on the nightly TV news in Fargo, ND
- Presented at National Peer Helping Conference in Seattle, WA on the methods and effective results of The Center's peer education trainings
2000-2003
- Developed the Center's Life Skills Program and Peer Educator training
- Formed community collaboration with San Mateo Union High School District, San Francisco Unified School, the YMCA and the University of California San Francisco's Division of Adolescent Medicine
- Awarded $300,000 CommunitiesFirst grant from The California Endowment to further develop, conduct and evaluate the Life Skills Program over 2 years
- Awarded federal government grant from the U.S. Office of Population Affairs
- Awarded grant from the McKesson Foundation
- Peer Educators trained in the Life Skills program were featured in news story on KRON-TV on effective peer education prevention programs to combat the rising rates of HIV infection
- Our research partner from the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) presented a session on the effectiveness of the Life Skills Program at the national conference of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
- The Center's programs on providing health and HIV education to teens in a weekend YMCA basketball program were featured in a radio interview on KCBS in San Francisco
- In partnership with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, conducted a spoken word event "Waking Up" emphasizing self esteem and HIV prevention for youth in San Francisco
- Conducted in-depth Life Skills Program sessions for over 1,800 youth
- Published article on UCSF study documenting the effectiveness of the Life Skills Program in reducing risk behaviors and increasing self esteem in the April 2003 edition of AIDS Education and Prevention: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
- Awarded funding support over two years from the Peninsula Community Foundation
- Awarded funding support from The California Endowment's Local Opportunities Fund
- Awarded funding support from The San Francisco Foundation
- Completed yearly evaluations of the Life Skills Program demonstrating the program was making a significant impact on reducing young peoples' risk behaviors and increasing their access to health care.
- Completed yearly evaluations of our Peer Educator trainings which demonstrated its impact on increasing self esteem, communication and leadership skills, altruism and decreasing risk behaviors
- Developed and piloted the Voices program - our diversity and social justice program
- Received commendation from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for
our "education, inspiration and commitment" to the well-being of the city's greatest resource(youth) and for the "leadership and creativity" of our program
2004-2006
- Piloted and evaluated our new social justice and violence prevention program
"Voices" with the following results:
- 33% decrease in physical fights
- 30% decrease in verbal arguments
- 20% decrease in alcohol abuse
- 88% reduction of disciplinary referrals among high-risk youth
- Awarded initial 18 months of funding for Voices from the Criminal Justice Council of San Mateo County
- Awarded 3 years of continued funding (October 2006 - October 2009) from The California Wellness Foundation to conduct Voices for high risk youth in central San Mateo County
- Awarded capacity building grant from Northern California Grantmakers, which resulted in the following:
- Initiated community-school partnership in central San Mateo County to plan for the establishment of a new school health center
- Awarded primary funding for School Health Center Planning Project from The California Endowment - as well as funding support from The Peninsula Community Foundation, the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health and key project partners.
- See description of The Center's "School Health Center Project"
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