PRO YOUTH AND FAMILIES
5299 Auburn Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95841 www.proyouthandfamilies.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: PRO Youth & Families is a Sacramento-based non-profit organization. In the summer of 1980, problems of youth drug and alcohol use in Fair Oaks Park catalyzed a group of community leaders to come together to study solutions to the problem. Nine task forces were formed; one evolving into the grass-roots, non-profit organization, PRO Youth & Families. Today, PRO Youth & Families confronts the trauma youth, families and communities face, by inspiring, educating and mobilizing young people. Many youth today hunger for a place to belong, to be recognized, to realize their own strengths and abilities and to voice their ideas in order to make a difference. The Organization is firmly committed to providing the vehicle that taps that hunger and engages youth as leaders and change agents through Civic Engagement, Advocacy, Mentoring and Summer Learning programs.

PRO Youth & Families confronts the trauma youth, families and communities face, by inspiring, educating and mobilizing young people.

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.

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.

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.

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