Capacity Building Cohort 1
August 2021 – August 2023
Awarded Program Highlights
Mending Fences at JM Ranch
Mending Fences received funding in 2021 to implement an Equine Youth Development Program in Tulare County. The program provided opportunities for young people to work with horses to improve confidence, goal-setting skills, social and emotional well-being and healing.
Divine Truth Unity
Fellowship Church Ministries led the Pride Youth Leadership and Resiliency Project (PYLRP), a program designed to improve protective factors for LGBTQ+ youth in the Inland Empire. PYLRP featured a summer camp and other enrichment opportunities to support healthy relationships, coping strategies and spirituality.
Time of Change
increased its capacity to empower young people of color to advocate for justice through its mentorship and Senior Fellows Program, which improved life skills and understanding of public policy.
Learn how our 18 Capacity Building Cohort 1 partners are strengthening the operational, programmatic, financial or organizational structure of their community-based organizations.
4th Second
Solano County
$299,999.70
To build organizational capacity to promote healing and build an ecosystem of trauma-informed support for youth of color in Solano County through resiliency, advocacy and community capacity to prevent substance abuse.
A Hopeful Encounter Inc.
Fresno County
$298,411.80
To build organizational capacity to develop leadership and analytical skills of Hmong youth in Fresno County through a youth-led culturally responsive leadership development program to reduce substance use.
Awoke
Los Angeles County
$299,992.80
To build organizational capacity to improve health and social outcomes of youth and young adults of color in Los Angeles County through cross-cultural engagement, arts, sports and youth development integrated programs to empower young people to advance cultural equity and social inclusivity through local advocacy efforts to reduce substance use.
Blue Mountain Coalition for Youth and Families, Inc.
Calaveras County
$164,376.00
To build organizational capacity to empower and employ youth and young adults from upcountry Calaveras County through mentorship, civic engagement, skills-building and support to reduce unemployment and drug use.
Divine Truth Unity dba Rainbow Pride Youth Alliance
San Bernardino County, Riverside County
$300,000.00
To build organizational capacity to improve health and social outcomes of LGBTQ+ youth in the Inland Empire through enhancing young peoples’ internal strengths and resiliency while reducing the risk for negative social adjustment issues, social isolation and stigmatization.
Gender Health Center
Sacramento County, San Joaquin County, Placer County, Yolo County, Yuba County
$257,700.00
To build organizational capacity to improve the social and emotional health of LGBTQ+ youth of color in Sacramento and neighboring counties through harm reduction, case management and education services to reduce the impact of substance use disorders.
Mending Fences at JM Ranch
Tulare County
$140,000.00
To build organizational capacity to increase confidence, motivation and self-esteem among youth of color in northern Tulare County through mentoring, support, substance use education and positive youth development to create alternatives to substance use.
MILPA
Solano County, Santa Cruz County, Monterey County
$300,000.00
To build organizational capacity to increase healing of youth of color in Solano, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties through community-led and collaborative narrative change, mentorship and skills-building to move toward community actualization, cultural healing, leadership development and civic engagement to prevent substance use.
Native Directions, Inc. dba Three Rivers Indian Lodge
San Joaquin County, Stanislaus County, Tuolumne County
$298,515.60
To build organizational capacity to improve the health and well-being of Native youth in San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties through adapting an evidence-based curriculum, formalizing relationships with Title VII Indian Education programs, partnering with foster care programs and establishing a student advisory committee to guide implementation to reduce substance use.
Native Star Foundation
Tulare County
$278,008.10
To build organizational capacity to honor cultural values and increase healthy outcomes in Native youth in Tulare County through a youth-led learning collaborative focused on skills building and stigma-informed practices to reduce the health and environmental harms of marijuana consumption.
PCS Family Services
San Bernardino County, Los Angeles County
$263,400.00
To build organizational capacity to promote healing for youth of color in San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties through mentorship and coaching, exposure to career pathways and a restorative justice curriculum to reduce substance use.
Rincon Indian Education Center
San Diego County
$300,000.00
To build organizational capacity to increase leadership among Native and Indigenous youth in San Diego County through identifying systems of trauma and narrative change to reduce substance use and misuse.
Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos, Inc.
Santa Cruz County, Monterey County
$299,998.00
To build organizational capacity to empower youth and young adults in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties through mentorship, credible messaging, leadership skills and critical thinking and advocacy to dismantle racial inequities and reduce substance use.
The Source LGBT+ Center
Tulare County, Kings County
$300,000.00
To build organizational capacity to increase opportunities to uplift BIPOC LGBTQ+ youth voices in Tulare and Kings counties through asset-based wellness and recovery models, resiliency, leadership development, peer support and art to reduce substance misuse.
Time of Change
Sacramento County, Yolo County
$300,000.00
To build organizational capacity to empower youth of color, youth in foster care, youth in unstable housing, undocumented youth and justice-involved youth in Sacramento and Yolo counties through mentorship, leadership development and hands-on advocacy experience to address substance use disorder.
True North Organizing Network
Del Norte County
$300,000.00
To build organizational capacity to support youth leadership and social justice youth development among young people, including Tribal youth in Del Norte County, through the Communities that Care model to reduce substance use.
Youth Empowerments Finest
San Diego County
$299,598.00
To build organizational capacity to train systems-involved youth in policy advocacy and develop countywide partnerships through the Trauma-Informed Care Code of Conduct to reduce substance use.
Youth Spirit Artworks, Inc.
Alameda County
$300,000.00
To build organizational capacity to improve the health of youth in Alameda County through behavioral health supports, leadership development and arts to reduce substance use.