2009 SAFE SUIMMER INITIATIVE LIST OF SERVICE PROVIDERS |
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PHONE NUMBER |
MGPTF DIVISION |
ACTIVITIES |
| San Jose State University Research Foundation Fiscal Agent for CommUniverCity San José |
(408) 924-5854 |
Central |
Supplement and support summer field trips for the Late Night Teen program, which have been planned by Safe School Campus Initiative (SSCI) and CommUniverCity. These field trips include: outdoor overnight trips, overnight college visit, local venue trips, and local educational trips. |
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| Silicon Valley FACES |
(408) 286-9663 x325 |
Central |
Silicon Valley FACES' Camp Evertown is a 4-day/3-night residential retreat for high school youth that helps reduce stereotypes, bias, and prejudice and increases understanding and respect for differences in race, ethnicity, religion, culture, and other factors that act to divide us. Camp is based on respect, acceptance, and responsibility -- core values that promote non-violence in our local communities. |
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| Third Street Community Center |
(408) 295-8722 x305 |
Central |
Summer of Learning Program (SOL) creatively combines recreational, educational and enrichment activities that connect at-risk youth to mentors, build literary skills, and help keep at-risk youth safe and engaged in pro-social behaviors. Mentoring is a core program component and is intentionally integrated in all activities. SOL will serve at-risk youth who live in the greater downtown area of San Jose and in the City's Central Police Division, a known "Hot Spot." |
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| Pacific News Service (DBA) Silicon Valley De-Bug |
(408) 971-4965 |
Central / Foothill |
Provides the space for predominantly at-risk, low-income young people from San José with leadership development and art and media opportunities and equips them with skills to be life-long advocates and voices for themselves and others. |
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| Generations Community Wellness Centers, Inc. |
(408) 736-8326 |
Central / Foothill / Western |
The Girls on the Move! Program targets at-risk, high-risk adolescent girls, ages 11-16, for a unique, innovative, new program designed to teach healthy lifestyle choices to enhance girls' abilitilies to take full advantage of their talents, academic interests, career pursuits, potential for healthy relationships while preventing the onset of chronic disease such as diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. |
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| Community Partners for Youth (CCPY) |
(408) 396-4782 |
Central / Foothill / Western |
Program will teach youth life skills, positive choices, promoting health, well-being of themselves and their familes, providing opportunities to be safe, and explore much of the world they have not yet experienced. |
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| Family & Children Services |
(650) 326-6576 x5401 |
Central / Southern / Western |
FASTWorks Summer Program will engage youth and their family members in three Hot Spot areas of San Jose in biweekly workshops that will focus on family communication, community resources, stress management, critical thinkg and decision-making, anger and conflict management, team work and leadership skills. A variety of field trips around the Bay Area is also provided. |
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| Bill Wilson Center |
408-802-6132 |
Citywide |
Youth Revolution Leadership Development Program for high-risk & at-risk youth. |
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| Maranatha Outreach Center |
408-821-8696 |
Citywide |
Provide recreational outings, arts/crafts, indoor & outdoor sports. |
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| National Hispanic University |
(408) 729-2206 |
Citywide |
Provide a dance program to teach participants about cooperative, supportive relationships. |
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| The Tenacious Group |
(408) 258-8564 |
Citywide |
Provide a positive and entertaining atmosphere to motivate participants to excel academically and socially in upcoming school year. To empower students with purpose thinking tools, team building skills and assume responsibility for education. The participants will also attend hiking trips at Alum Rock Park. |
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| Union Athletic Association |
(408) 772-7079 |
Citywide |
A summer baseball instructional clinic/league for at-risk youth. The program will assist participants with increasing their motor and social skills and will provide field trips around the Bay Area. |
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| Victory Outreach Community Service Agency (VOCSA) |
(408) 578-0800 |
Citywide |
Agency is proposing a Mobile Crisis Response Service Respopnse team who will be available to mediate, intervene, and assist during times of crisis related to gang activity. The program will also serve as a preventative measure, providing transportation services to youth in danger of gang violence. |
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| Victory Outreach Community Service Agency (VOCSA) as Fiscal Agent for Alcance Victoria San Jose |
(408) 570-0800 |
Citywide |
The Girls Delcaring Peace Fire Summit is designed to bring opposite views together with the intent of difusing tensions between rival gangs. |
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| ACE Charter School |
(408) 677-1546 |
Foothill |
Ganas Summer Program is an intensive five-week academic intervention program for low-achieving students entering 5th or 6th grade in Alum Rock School District. |
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| Alum Rock Counseling Center, Inc. (ARCC) - Turning Point Mentoring Summer Program |
(408) 240-0070 x109 |
Foothill |
Turning Point Mentoring Summer Provide will provide both Life Skills classes and pro-social activities/field trips. |
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| Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI) |
(408) 975-2730 x131 |
Foothill |
AACI's Youth Development Services Summer Program will provide positive alternative activities for youth in East San José that creates a safe environment with caring adult supervision and an opportunity to explore new ideas and places. The program will include field trips around the Bay Area. |
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| Breakout Prison Outreach (DBA) California Youth Outreach (CYO) as Fiscal Agent for Gateway East, East Valley / 680 and Mayfair SNI |
CYO - (408) 280-0203 / SNI - (408) 757-2834 / (408) 396-2308 |
Foothill |
Agency will provide Community Building Exercises/Field Trips that will expand horizons and challenge our youth. Eastside youth, who are low-income and at-risk. |
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| East Side Union High School District (ESUHSD) - James Lick High School |
ESUHSD - (408) 347-5234 / James Lick HS - (408) 347-4448 |
Foothill |
Summer Bridge Program is a social and academic summer program which engages previously reluctant learners and truant students so they take positive actions to future study ad decision making. |
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| East Side Union High School District (ESUHSD) - W.C. Overfelt High School |
ESUHSD - (408) 347-5234 / Overfelt HS - (408) 347-5910 |
Foothill |
To offer extended services to their Summer Bridge Program for incoming at-risk and high-risk 9th grade students, including fun and educational field trips and assessments on all students in order to identify needs and link to appropriate services. |
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| Filipino Youth Coalition (FYC) |
(408) 205-4772 |
Foothill |
Provide a summer program for at-risk and high-risk youth under-served youth and their families in targeted Hot Spot areas, offering educational workshops that focus on developing life skills and building leadership abilities. |
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| Firehouse Community Development Corporation |
(209) 534-9161 |
Foothill |
Firehouse is proposing to work with the Samoan Community in the Foxdale area. Samoan youth have displayed some recent gang activity with the Norteño population. The Firehouse would like to provide leadership/life skills training in an effort to begin to tear down the gang mentality and bring out the true positive leader in each youth. Field trips in and outside of the community will also be implemented. |
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| Pathway Society, Incorporated |
(510) 501-0359 |
Foothill |
To assist at-risk, high-risk, gang/drug involved youth who live in a low-income neighborhood of the Foothill Division. |
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| Rohi Alternative Community Outreach, Inc. |
(408) 926-2926 |
Foothill |
RACO's Get Up, Get Out, Get Active program is designed to help at-risk, high-risk, and impacted youth ages 6-14 get motivated to go outside and get involved in safe outdoor activities while providing jobs and community service opportunities for at-risk, high-risk and impacted teens ages 15-18. The program helps to provide a positive, social and learning environment as a deterrent to gangs, violence and criminal behavior during the summer. |
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| Roman Catholic Bishop of San Jose for Most Holy Trinity Parish |
(408) 202-4198 cell. |
Foothill |
Provide activities to give young people several alternatives that will lead to building self-confidence and self-esteem, and therefore building self-confidence. A blend of fun activities and learning experiences designed to show them where their strengths are, and engage them to culminate in a discussion and online survey of their inborn strengths. |
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| Santa Clara County Black Chamber of Commerce Fiscal Agent for Element 151, Inc. |
(408) 277-3342 |
Foothill |
Safe Summer Film Project will teach high school age youth in East Side Union High School District how to make a public services announcement video based on a topic that they feel passionale about. It will also expose partipants to the arts and which has been proven to ehhance youth's engagement in school and improve school performance. |
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| Unity Care Group, Inc. (UCG) |
(408) 510-3480 x101 |
Foothill |
Provide dance and art activities for at-risk youth with an emphasis on serving youth in East San José's Foothill Division, an identified Hot Spot Area. Recruitment will target students attending James Lick High School, Ocala and Pala Middle Schools where our program currently operates during the school year. Program participants will have the opportunity to engage in 2 hour dance/art sessions 4 days a week at Alum Rock Youth Center. In addition, youth will participate in 2 field trips and take part in character building workshops which focus on topics such as self estreem, positive communication, understanding choices and consequences, strategies for self control, constructive management of anger and how to set positive goals. |
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| Breakout Prison Outreach (DBA) California Youth Outreach (CYO) |
(408) 280-0203 |
Foothill / Central |
Provide new and expanded summer recreation/social activity program for youth and adolescents ages 12-18, residing in San Jose "hot spots"neighborhoods. The target service populations will include youth from the categories of at-risk, high-risk, impacted and intentional. |
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| Alum Rock Counseling Center, Inc. (ARCC) - Enhanced Truancy Summer Program |
(408) 240-0070 x109 |
Foothill / Southern |
Enhanced Truancy Summer Program will provide both Life Skills classes and pro-social activities/field trips. |
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| Crosscultural Community Services Center (CCSC) |
(408) 223-6628 x108 |
Foothill / Southern |
A summer team of at-risk students that will learn socialization, leadership and community skills by developing and implement community support programs, working on reading, writing, learning computer skills, media, and understanding the potential for higher education. |
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| East Side Union High School District (ESUHSD)-Independence High School |
(408) 347-5234 |
Foothill / Southern |
The Extended Summer Opportunity Program (ESOP) will serve at-risk, high-risk, intentional, and impacted 14-15 year old youth from the San Jose Police Department Southern Division and Foothill Division. |
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| Friends Outside in Santa Clara County |
(408) 295-6033 x102 |
Foothill / Southern / Central |
Provide an extra day of summer camp activities through a 10-week series called "Computer Camp." Through this program, 30 youth will participate in a one day a week program for 10 weeks where they spend part of the day receiving fun and educational computer training. The benefit of this program is to engage youth in technology, thus promoting new skills that will transfer to their educational success. |
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| Asian American Recovery Services, Inc. (AARS) |
(408) 271-3900 x302 |
Foothill / Southern / Western |
Project ASAP will provide structured, supportive, experiential, and transformative activities for youth ages 11-18 who are at-risk, high-risk, intentional, and/or gang-impacted. |
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| Kalanz Fashion Training Inc. |
(408) 772-0919 / (408) 377-3408 |
Foothill / Southern / Western |
Provide training seminars to at-risk teens in the fashion industry. This workforce training will enable teens to obtain jobs in the fashion industry while raising their self-esteems and building confidence in their abilities. |
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| Mid-Peninsula Housing Services Corporation |
650-356-2954 |
Foothill / Southern / Western |
Summer Youth Enrichment Program including team projects, field trips, educational presentations, sports, and the Youth Gang/Violence Prevention Week. |
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| Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley |
(408) 957-9685 |
Southern |
Provide a safe and positive place for unsupervised and underserved youth in the Edenval community. |
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| Joyner/Payne - Youth Service Agency |
(510) 435-2807 |
Southern |
Provide Summer Violence Prevention and Leadership Development Programs to 50 African American and other minority Boys and Girls referred to the Aquarius Project from the Carolyn Davis Summer School Program counselors and staff. |
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| Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) |
(408) 504-6066 |
Southern |
FLY will provide high-risk and at-risk youth ages 14-18 with safe and fun recreational activities during the summer months. Enhanced summer activities will be provided to you in the following programs: Mentor Program; Goal Oriented Leadership Development (GOLD); Middle School Program; Aftercare Program; and Legal Education Program. |
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| Positive Alternative Recreation Teambuilding Impacting Program (P.A.R.T.I.) |
(408) 561-4664 |
Southern/ Western |
The program provide a five-week summer program that will include a variety of activities such as spoken word, plays, dance performances, movie nights, pizza parties and family barbeques. Program Participants will volunteer for community events and health fairs. |
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| Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County |
(408) 200-0981 / (408) 202-2913 Cell. |
Western |
Program will offer a variety of field trips around the Bay Area for at-risk, high-risk, impacted and intendtional youth in the Washinton United Youth Center neighborhoods. |
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| East Side Union High School District (ESUHSD) - Yerba Buena High School |
ESUHSD - (408) 347-5234 / Yerba Buena HS - (408) 347-4716 |
Western |
To deter gang affiliated offenses of identified gang affiliated male and female and female students entering the 9th grade at YBHS, to reduce their risk of recidivism, and to instill a desire for higher education. |
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| Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) |
(408) 938-3594 |
Western |
Provide art/life skills to at-risk and high-risk participants, ages 12-18, to gain vital tools to succeed in today's rapidly changing urban lifescape. Program activities will include literacy training, digital media and photography, building your own low-rider bicycle, and field trips. |
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| Prince of Peace Fiscal Agent for Pueblo de Dios |
Prince of Peace - (408) 253- 7167 / Pueblo de Dios - (408) 248-8402 / (408) 239-9667 |
Western |
Offering a performing arts program (music, theater, art) to challenge the Cadillac youth to explore different and positive avenues that lead to better life choices by discoving their potential and improving their esteem. |
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| Sacred Heart Community Service |
(408) 278-2175 |
Western |
To fight poor academic outcomes and help students increase their attachment to school through academic work that bridges the summertime achievement gap and helps improve school performance. Program is designed to build healthy behaviors, pro-social connections, and resiliency assets that will facilitate a lifetime of success, in a safe, and well-supervised environment. |
