Elevate Youth California Program Filter
‘ataaxum Pomkwaan
Standard Cohort 4
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To improve health outcomes of Native American youth in San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino counties through advocacy programs and activities, Indigenous Clubs, mentorship and youth social justice workshops to address substance use prevention among youth.
4th Second
Capacity Building Cohort 1
Solano County
Program Purpose
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.
4th Second
Standard Cohort 5
Solano County
Program Purpose
To empower youth of color in Solano County through youth-led civic engagement, mentorship and leadership opportunities to enhance resilience and prevent substance use.
A Hopeful Encounter Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 1
Fresno County
Program Purpose
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.
A New Path (Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing)
Capacity Building Cohort 2
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower youth of color in San Diego County to become leaders and equip school administrators through training and evidence-based curriculum to effectively prevent substance use.
Action Network
Standard Cohort 1
Mendocino County, Sonoma County
Program Purpose
To empower rural Latinx and Native American youth age 12-18 in Mendocino and Sonoma counties through the “Teen Action Program” which will create an adult-supervised, peer-led youth group that utilizes a three-pronged approach to positively-impacting underserved teens through teen-hosted meetings, increased youth activism and volunteerism, and a drug and alcohol free location where youth can gather in a safe space.
Action Network
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Mendocino County, Sonoma County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Native American and Latinx youth in Mendocino and Sonoma counties to become advocates through hands-on, youth-led projects focusing on social justice to strengthen communities and reduce substance use.
African American Family & Cultural Center
Standard Cohort 5
Butte County
Program Purpose
To promote civic engagement of Black youth in Butte County through youth-driven campaigns and safe spaces on school campuses to enhance overall well-being and prevent substance use.
Ahri Center
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Orange County and Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Latinx and Asian and Pacific Islander youth in Orange County to participate in civic engagement and break the stigma around substance use through mentorship, organizing and advocacy to reduce substance use.
Akoma Unity Center
Capacity Building Cohort 3
San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Black and Latinx youth in San Bernardino County to become leaders through a peer-to-peer youth ambassador program to reduce substance use.
Alcohol Justice
Standard Cohort 1
Marin County
Program Purpose
To build youth activism among Latinx middle and high school students. This project utilizes a trauma-informed care approach to support diversion from probation, encourage relapse prevention and create pro-social prevention activities that increase youth advocacy against harmful drug use in the Canal District of San Rafael in Marin County ultimately decreasing lifetime alcohol use and heavy drug use in past 30 days.
Alcohol Justice
Standard Cohort 4
Marin County
Program Purpose
To promote the leadership of Latinx youth of the Canal district of San Rafael and Marin County by understanding Indigenous and Latinx cultural practices, community organizing and hands-on environmental projects to prevent substance use.
Alianza Coachella Valley
Standard Cohort 5
Riverside County
Program Purpose
To support Latinx and underserved youth in Eastern Coachella Valley through a youth-driven school climate advisory committee, restorative justice training and campaign to promote education equity in school policies and reduce substance use.
Alliance for Community Empowerment
Standard Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the leadership and advocacy skills of Black and Latinx youth in Los Angeles through social justice youth development, mentoring and a Policy Council to address trauma and substance use.
Alliance for Community Transformations
Standard Cohort 4
Mariposa County
Program Purpose
To empower youth in Mariposa County through creative arts, goal setting, mentorship and youth activism to holistically approach policy change and reduce substance use.
Amelia Ann Adams Whole Life Center
Innovation Cohort 1
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To empower Black youth in San Joaquin County to be agents of change through youth-led healing circles among peers and youth informing and leading a citywide educational campaign on policy avenues to prevent and reduce substance use.
America On Track
Standard Cohort 3
Orange County
Program Purpose
To empower low-income youth and young adults in Orange County through individual healing and leadership development opportunities to become agents of policy-driven change.
American Indian Child Resource Center
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Native American youth in Alameda County through peer mentorship, culturally rooted healing practices and youth activism to reduce substance use.
Anamatangi Polynesian Voices
Capacity Building Cohort 3
San Mateo County, Santa Clara County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to support Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander youth in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties through culturally responsive programming and restorative justice advocacy to reduce suspensions and substance use.
Anav Tribal Health Clinic
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Siskiyou County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to increase access to culturally appropriate mental health services for American Indian/Alaska Native youth in Siskiyou County through advocacy and leadership training and campaigns to de-stigmatize mental health and reduce substance use.
Antelope Valley Partners for Health
Standard Cohort 4
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build the capacity of system-involved Latinx and Black youth in Los Angeles County through youth activism, mentoring and peer-to-peer services to support healthy decision-making skills and reduce substance use.
Anti-Recidivism Coalition
Standard Cohort 3
Sacramento County, Yolo County
Program Purpose
To empower system-impacted youth in Sacramento and Yolo counties through leadership development, mental health support, and policy advocacy to improve health and life outcomes for young people returning home.
Arts for Healing and Justice Network
Standard Cohort 4
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To increase the leadership skills of at-promise, system-impacted Black and Latinx youth in Los Angeles County through healing-informed arts education, leadership development, peer mentorship and youth-led advocacy to empower youth to reclaim their narratives and dismantle oppressive systems.
Asian American Liberation Network
Standard Cohort 5
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To increase the leadership development of Asian-American and Pacific Islander youth in Sacramento County through a mentorship and coaching program centering youth-led social justice projects to address youth substance use and improve behavioral health outcomes.
Asian Health Services
Innovation Cohort 1
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the leadership and advocacy skills of underserved Asian youth in Alameda County to reduce substance use, encourage healthy lifestyles, and help youth flourish into future leaders through activism, leadership development and peer-led support.
Asian Pacific Self-Development and Residential Association
Standard Cohort 3
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To build capacity of youth leaders in San Joaquin County through youth-led programming and mentoring to encourage healthy lifestyles and reduce substance use among youth.
Asian Refugees United
Standard Cohort 4
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To improve life outcomes for LGBTQIA+ Asian-American and Pacific Islander youth in Alameda County through creative arts-based mentoring, the cultivation of intergenerational wisdom and community healing to increase youth resiliency and impact local school policy.
Asian Youth Center
Standard Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To develop the leadership and advocacy skills of low-income immigrant youth in Los Angeles County through the Youth and Parent Leadership Development program to decrease substance use and improve academic outcomes.
Auburn Hip Hop Congress
Standard Cohort 3
Nevada County, Sacramento County, Placer County, El Dorado County
Program Purpose
To promote healing, leadership and advocacy skills of youth in Placer County to advance policy change in education, mental health, substance abuse prevention and juvenile justice.
Awoke
Capacity Building Cohort 1
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
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.
AWOKE
Standard Cohort 5
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To empower Latinx and Black youth in Los Angeles County through art-centered hubs that facilitate collective healing and civic engagement to nurture the growth of youth leaders and mitigate at-risk behaviors.
Bay Area Community Health
Alameda County, Santa Clara County
Program Purpose
To engage and educate Black, Asian and Latinx youth in Alameda and Santa Clara counties through the Enabling Youth to Build Healthier Futures program to enact positive policy and systems change.
Bay Area Community Resources
Standard Cohort 3
Marin County
Program Purpose
To increase the advocacy skills of LGBTQ2S+, Latinx and African American youth in Alameda County and Marin County through youth-led substance use prevention and to address substance use prevention among youth.
Be Smooth, Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 2
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to engage and empower youth of color in San Joaquin County through mentorship, culturally rooted and trauma-informed healing practices and youth activism to reduce substance use.
Berkeley Youth Alternatives
Standard Cohort 5
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To build the leadership capacity of system-involved Black, Latinx and Asian youth in Alameda County through training, internships and workforce development opportunities to prevent substance use disorder and broaden economic opportunities.
Berkeley Youth Alternatives
Standard Cohort 2
Alameda County, Contra Costa County
Program Purpose
To increase advocacy and social justice with youth experiencing homelessness in Alameda and Contra Costa counties through a Peer Educators internship and Youth Advisory Board to serve as role models who understand the ramifications of the drug trafficking industry.
Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians
Standard Cohort 1
Lake County
Program Purpose
To create a “Get Drugs Off Our Rez” campaign in Lake County which will elevate Native American youth voice through a Youth Council platform, community substance use educational events, and the establishment of a youth mentorship program to increase awareness of substance use and its effects as well as introduce youth-led change into the tribal community.
Big Valley Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Lake County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Tribal youth in Lake County through peer-to-peer support to illuminate alternative pathways from the criminal justice system and reduce substance abuse.
Binational of Central California
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Fresno County, Madera County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Latinx and immigrant youth in Fresno and Madera counties through credible messengers, leadership development and training to increase peer-to-peer mentorship and prevent and reduce substance abuse.
Black Students of California United
Capacity Building Cohort 2
San Joaquin County, Fresno County, San Diego County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to increase safe spaces, support and training for Black youth in San Joaquin, Fresno and San Diego counties through the inclusion of culturally responsive programming and materials to advance restorative justice policies in schools.
Black Youth Leadership Project
Standard Cohort 3
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To strengthen leadership and advocacy skills of Black youth in Sacramento through an education and leadership program to equip them to take a leading and active role in their success.
Blue Mountain Coalition for Youth and Families
Standard Cohort 5
Calaveras County
Program Purpose
To empower youth to become agents of change in Calaveras County through youth-directed creative storytelling, media workshops and peer-to-peer support programs to amplify youth voices and address substance use.
Blue Mountain Coalition for Youth and Families, Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 1
Calaveras County
Program Purpose
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.
Boyle Heights Beat
Standard Cohort 3
Alameda County, Fresno County, San Bernardino County, Merced County, Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To employ youth activism, civic engagement and peer-led support for system-impacted Latinx and LGBTQ2S+ youth to address systemic and acute environmental trauma that impacts youth substance use in Los Angeles County.
Bridge Builders Foundation
Standard Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To improve health and social outcomes by developing youth ambassadors in Los Angeles County through service, employment, resources and training to enhance leadership skills and build community.
Bridge Builders to the New Generation
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Contra Costa County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Black and Latinx youth in Contra Costa County through culturally responsive college and career readiness experiences to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline and reduce substance use.
Bright Futures for Youth
Standard Cohort 3
Nevada County
Program Purpose
To increase youth engagement in Western Nevada County through peer support, mentorship, basic needs and health services to reduce generational substance use, homelessness and incarceration.
Brotherhood of Elders Network
Standard Cohort 5
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the leadership development skills of system-impacted Black youth and young adults in Alameda County through cohort-based programs and mentorship to enhance academic achievement and life outcomes.
Buena Vista Rancheria of MeWuk Indians
Standard Cohort 5
Amador County
Program Purpose
To improve behavioral health outcomes for Native American youth leaders in Amador County through youth-led civic engagement and to increase cultural awareness and increase protective factors.
C.H.A.M.P.S. for Life
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Black and Latinx youth in Sacramento County to become leaders in their schools and community through mentorship, leadership development and civic engagement to advance health equity.
California Coalition for Youth
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Statewide
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to increase advocacy for youth of color across California through coalition building, statewide convenings and trauma-informed material development to reduce substance use.
California Health Collaborative
Standard Cohort 1
Tulare County
Program Purpose
To increase opportunities for Latinx and African American youth to create social change by elevating youth voice and developing youth leadership, through youth coalitions and an annual youth leadership summit that encourages arts and healing centered approaches and addressees environmental, policy and systems change that focus on inequities and aim to impact youth with substance use disorders in Tulare County.
California Health Collaborative
Standard Cohort 4
Tulare County
Program Purpose
To improve educational outcomes of Latinx, Black, Asian/Pacific Islander and LGBT+ youth in Tulare County through culturally rooted and healing-centered social support resources and restorative justice approaches to reduce the number of suspensions and expulsions related to youth substance use.
California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project
Standard Cohort 4
Butte County, Sierra County, Yuba County, Nevada County
Program Purpose
To improve the behavioral health outcomes of Native American youth in Yuba, Butte and Sierra counties through cultural education, mentoring, peer counseling and leadership development to improve social determinants of health and to prevent substance use.
California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Fresno County, Kern County, Los Angeles County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to support system-impacted, undocumented and refugee Queer and Trans youth in the Central Valley and Inland Empire through coaching, mentorship and transformative justice-embedded programming to advance equity and reduce substance use.
California Indian Manpower Consortium
Standard Cohort 4
Fresno County, San Diego County, Shasta County
Program Purpose
To improve the leadership skills and empower Native American youth in California through peer-led support groups, traditional practices and leadership programs to combat generational trauma and reduce substance use in Tribal communities.
California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc.
Standard Cohort 5
Del Norte, Humboldt, Inyo, Modoc, Mono, Placer, Plumas, Sonoma, Tulare, Tuolumne Counties
Program Purpose
To empower American Indian and Alaskan Native youth in Northern California through community data mapping and civic engagement to reduce substance use.
California School-Based Health Alliance
Standard Cohort 3
Contra Costa County, Fresno County, San Bernardino County, Madera County
Program Purpose
To build the power of low-income youth activists of color in Fresno, Madera, Contra Costa and San Bernardino counties through youth-focused trainings, peer collaboration and policy change to improve the health and education outcomes of youth.
California Youth Connection
Standard Cohort 1
Statewide
Program Purpose
To increase knowledge and leadership skills of current and former youth involved in the foster care system. To develop a youth-led SUD prevention strategy creating change policies that relate to the criminalization of youth SUD in five regions in the state.
California Youth Connection
Standard Cohort 4
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the civic engagement and decision-making skills to increase youth power of system-impacted youth in California through regional boot camps, summer leadership and policy conferences, and peer-led community organizing to shift harmful policies that affect system-involved youth.
California Youth Empowerment Network
Standard Cohort 3
Sacramento County, Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To employ youth activism around substance use prevention though social change campaigns and multimedia advocacy art to change system discrimination against communities directly impacted by the War on Drugs in Sacramento and Los Angeles counties.
Captivating Ladies Acquiring Successful Standards Yearly
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Sacramento County and Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to expand opportunities and resources for youth of color in Sacramento County through career-based learning opportunities and youth-led programming to reduce substance use.
Center for Community Health and Well-Being, Inc.
Standard Cohort 2
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To inspire social change and strengthen the leadership skills of young girls and women of color in Sacramento County through an intersectional and multicultural coalition table to increase youth activism for policy, systems and environmental change.
Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants
Standard Cohort 3
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To increase leadership development of Southeast Asian youth in Alameda County through youth activism, leadership development, mentorship and mental health services that connect intersectional issues of intergenerational trauma, poverty, racism, incarceration, deportation and substance use.
Center for Health Justice
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To prevent youth substance use by increasing systems-impacted youths’ capacity to advocate for policy, systems and environmental change around the criminal justice system and recidivism through a mentorship and peer-led approach.
Center for Urban Excellence
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Solano County and Contra Costa County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to increase access to resilience, economic and social opportunities for youth of color in Solano and County Costa counties through art and wellness activities and a youth-led culturally responsive leadership development program to reduce substance use and effects of adverse childhood experiences.
Center for Young Women’s Development – Young Women’s Freedom Center
Standard Cohort 1
Los Angeles County, San Francisco County
Program Purpose
To promote healing and leadership development that will strengthen the economic outcomes for girls and women of color, transgender and gender non-conforming youth and young adults whose family have experienced incarceration. This project uses mentoring, inter-generational healing practices, system navigation, and policy advocacy training to reduce substance use and related harm in San Francisco and Los Angeles counties.
Centinela Youth Services
Standard Cohort 5
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To empower justice-involved Black and Latinx youth in Los Angeles County through peer-to-peer mentorship, education and social justice youth development programs to positively transform systems and reduce youth substance use.
Central Valley Empowerment
Standard Cohort 4
Kern County, Tulare County
Program Purpose
To empower BIPOC youth in Tulare and Kern counties through experiences that embrace local history, leadership summits, fellowships, mental health supports and photography to discover the power within their stories and reduce substance use.
Central Valley Gender Health and Wellness
Standard Cohort 5
San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced County
Program Purpose
To empower 2S/LGBTQ+ youth in San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Merced counties through education, healing-centered art workshops and peer-led support groups to prevent substance use disorder.
Centro de Salud de la Comunidad de San Ysidro
Standard Cohort 5
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To mobilize Latinx and Black youth in San Diego County through peer mentoring, participatory action research training and a youth-driven public education campaign to decrease substance misuse and advance health equity.
Centro del Pueblo Movimiento Indigena Migrante
Standard Cohort 5
Humboldt County
Program Purpose
To support Latinx youth in Humboldt County through mentorship, arts, cultural workshops and leadership training to address harmful systems and reduce substance use.
Changeist
Standard Cohort 4
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To improve the leadership and civic engagement skills of youth in San Joaquin County through peer-led team-based experiences, community organizing, mentorship and storytelling to advance equity and reduce substance use.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Standard Cohort 4
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the agency and self-determination of youth of color in Los Angeles County by creating a youth-led collective that impacts health, policy change and access to opportunities for young people through training and mentorship to address substance use and social justice issues.
City Ministry Network
Standard Cohort 3
Stanislaus County
Program Purpose
To develop emerging Latinx leaders in Stanislaus County through youth-led collective action efforts, building youth power and skills to connect networks for policy change.
City of Dreams
Capacity Building Cohort 3
San Francisco County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to support social justice youth development for transitional-aged Black and Latinx youth in San Francisco County through coaching, mentorship and career exploration opportunities to reduce substance use.
Club Stride, Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Solano County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to promote healing for youth of color in Solano County by expanding healing-centered networks and social justice youth development approaches to reduce exposure to and use of substances.
CommuniCare Health Centers
Standard Cohort 2
Yolo County
Program Purpose
To expand the support of at-risk LGBTQIA youth in Yolo County through youth and young adult peer-to-peer wellness groups and launch of a Youth Advisory Group to prevent and treat substance use and mental health.
CommuniCare+OLE
Standard Cohort 5
Yolo, Napa, Solano
Program Purpose
To empower 2S/LGBTQ+ youth and young adults in Yolo, Napa and Solano counties through peer support, inclusive spaces and leadership opportunities to enhance health outcomes and prevent substance use disorder.
Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice
Standard Cohort 5
Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco
Program Purpose
To strengthen protective factors for systems-impacted and formerly incarcerated young people in Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties through culturally-rooted healing, education and support to prevent youth incarceration and reduce recidivism.
Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice
Standard Cohort 2
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To develop the leadership and advocacy skills of system-impacted youth in Alameda County through individual healing, an intensive fellowship, and individualized mentorship and support to become community leaders and agents of policy-driven systems change.
Community Action Partnership of Orange County
Standard Cohort 5
Orange County
Program Purpose
To increase the leadership skills of Latinx youth in Orange County through innovative peer-led education programs, workshops and art-based initiatives to promote resiliency and prevent substance use.
Community Action Partnership of Orange County
Standard Cohort 2
Orange County
Program Purpose
To increase the leadership development and policy advocacy skills of youth in Orange County through education, prevention activities, workshops and art-based programs, as well as restorative justice to reduce harm, and create strategies for policy, systems and environmental change.
Community Agency for Resources, Advocacy and Services
Standard Cohort 4
Santa Clara County
Program Purpose
To support Latinx youth in rural Santa Clara County to become agents of change through youth-led coalitions, mentoring, coaching and leadership development to decrease disproportionate suspension rates and bring awareness to youth substance use disorder.
Community Health Councils
Standard Cohort 4
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To increase social equity and well-being of diverse youth in Los Angeles, Fresno, San Bernardino, San Diego and San Francisco counties by building community capacity for civic engagement to address youth-identified community needs and reduce substance use.
Community Health for Asian Americans
Standard Cohort 4
Alameda County, Contra Costa County
Program Purpose
To build the leadership capacity of Asian, Latinx and Black youth in Alameda and Contra Costa counties through youth policy advocacy, youth-led town halls and community activism to strengthen access to mental health and substance use resources and services.
Community Initiatives
Innovation Cohort 1
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To empower at-risk Latinx, Black and Asian youth in Sacramento County in an innovative Design Thinking Internship that increases awareness of substance abuse prevention through community outreach and culturally relevant social justice activities that focus on identifying policy, systems and environmental change solutions to improve 14 Sacramento neighborhoods.
Community Interventions
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Kern County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to improve the social and emotional health of LGBTQ+ gender non-conforming youth in Kern County through youth activism to encourage trauma-informed healing toward greater self-determination and healing.
Community Justice Alliance, Inc.
Innovation Cohort 1
Fresno County, Kern County, Madera County, Merced County, Sacramento County, San Joaquin County, Stanislaus County
Program Purpose
To empower undocumented Latinx youth in Fresno County and nearby counties to advocate and lead healing and substance abuse prevention efforts in their communities through case management, weekly peer-to-peer meetings and wraparound services.
Community Medical Centers, Inc.
Standard Cohort 2
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the advocacy and leadership skills of youth of color to address community trauma and other health inequities to prevent youth substance use in San Joaquin County.
Community Partners/Latino Equality Alliance
Standard Cohort 2
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To educate and empower LGBTQ2S+ and allied high school and college students through leadership development, activism and community murals to advocate for restorative justice and support substance use prevention.
Concrete Development Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 3
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower system-impacted youth of color in San Joaquin County through healing-centered leadership development and self-advocacy training to reduce substance use.
Conejo Health
Standard Cohort 5
Ventura County
Program Purpose
To empower Latinx youth in Ventura County through leadership and civic engagement skills building, public speaking training and youth-led campaign development to foster essential life skills and address substance use.
Connected to Lead
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Orange County and Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to develop leadership and resiliency of foster, at-risk and justice-involved youth in Los Angeles and Orange counties through healing circles and a substance use prevention campaign to improve youth mental health and well-being.
Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians
Standard Cohort 4
Mendocino County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the emotional, mental and spiritual wellness of youth and young adult Tribal members in Mendocino County through youth-led engagement, internships and leadership opportunities rooted in the cultural teachings of Tribal values and practices to reduce substance use.
Diogenes Youth Services
Standard Cohort 2
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To build capacity of youth leaders in Sacramento through a peer mentorship/credible messenger internship program to build awareness about the adverse effects of substance use on physical, mental and emotional health and system navigation.
Divine Truth Unity dba Rainbow Pride Youth Alliance
Capacity Building Cohort 1
San Bernardino County, Riverside County
Program Purpose
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.
Divine Truth Unity Fellowship Church, Inc dba Rainbow Pride Youth Alliance
Standard Cohort 5
Riverside, San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To increase community connectedness of 2S/LGBTQ+ youth in Riverside and San Bernardino counties through leadership development and youth-led civic engagement initiatives to enhance protective factors and reduce substance use.
Dolores C. Huerta Foundation
Standard Cohort 2
Fresno County, Kern County, Tulare County, Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To prepare the next generation of activists, healers, artists and digital organizers through youth-led programming and trainings to increase advocacy, media production, technology and holistic wellness in BIPOC LGBTQ2S+ youth populations.
Dolores Huerta Foundation
Standard Cohort 5
Fresno, Kern, Tulare, Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To empower Latinx youth in the Central Valley to discover their agency and passion through transformative art, civic engagement opportunities and digital media projects to reduce substance use disorder.
East Bay Asian Youth Center
Standard Cohort 5
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the leadership of Southeast Asian youth in Sacramento County through peer-to-peer supports, video production and Youth Participatory Action Research projects to increase access to early intervention mental health services and prevent substance use on high school campuses.
East Bay Asian Youth Center
Standard Cohort 2
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To promote leadership development and policy advocacy with Southeast Asian youth in Sacramento through a substance-use prevention/early intervention program by creating support groups, participatory action/research campaigns, hosting an annual Asian Youth Leadership Summit, and providing intensive case management and life coaching to reduce and prevent substance use.
Eden Youth and Family Center
Standard Cohort 3
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To build youth activism among Latinx youth in Alameda County through Familia Adelante, a behavioral intervention curriculum designed to advocate for the implementation of culturally specific, evidence-based substance use disorder prevention strategies in the California Curriculum Frameworks.
Education, Training, and Research Associates
Standard Cohort 1
Alameda County, Fresno County, Los Angeles County, Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To promote healing, improve the behavioral health outcomes, and decrease substance use for African American and Latinx youth using trauma- informed practices, leadership development, policy advocacy training and youth social justice narrative development through the creation of media and youth centered policy campaigns in Sacramento, Alameda, Fresno and Los Angeles counties.
Education, Training, and Research Associates
Standard Cohort 4
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the leadership and advocacy skills of youth of color in Oakland through a trauma-informed, youth-centered health design project that identifies policy, systems and environmental change solutions to address youth substance use in their communities.
El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center
Standard Cohort 2
San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To strengthen leadership skills and increase social connections through a culturally responsive trauma-informed mentoring program to address gang involvement and substance use among at-risk youth of color in San Bernardino County.
El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center
Standard Cohort 5
Riverside, San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To amplify the leadership of Latinx youth in Riverside and San Bernardino counties through youth-led, trauma-informed and culturally responsive peer mentorship programs and leadership programming to influence school-level policy and address substance use disorders.
Empowering Marginalized Asian Communities
Capacity Building Cohort 3
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to increase access to resources for justice-impacted Asian American and Pacific Islander youth in San Joaquin County through fellowships, advocacy and community-level substance abuse prevention initiatives to reduce recidivism and support healing and recovery.
EmpowHer Institute
Standard Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To support BIPOC girls in becoming agents of change in their schools and communities through mentoring, social-emotional learning, leadership classes, youth-led advocacy campaigns, family engagement and utilizing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) to raise awareness of substance use disorder impact on marginalized communities in Los Angeles County.
Faith Foster Families Network
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Black and Latinx youth in Los Angeles County through youth-led advocacy campaigns to address the effects of trauma and reduce substance use.
Family Assistance Program
Standard Cohort 1
San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To support African American and Latinx youth ages 12-18 from low income communities in San Bernardino County through engagement in Youth Action Boards which will guide project implementation around substance use education, mentorship, and juvenile justice system involvement and diversion leading to a reduction in substance use.
Family Assistance Program
Standard Cohort 4
San Bernadino County
Program Purpose
To empower African American and Latinx youth in San Bernardino County through participation in Youth Advisory Boards, workshops and youth-led activism for policy, systems and environmental change to reduce substance use.
Fathers & Families of San Joaquin
Standard Cohort 1
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To increase understanding of substance use disorders and recognition of the chronic nature of addiction, reduce stigma, and build prevention and education into all programming with incarcerated and transitional-aged youth of color ages 16-25 in San Joaquin County. Increase youth leadership through youth actively developing substance abuse training curriculum and investment into nontraditional modalities of healing and moving youth toward policy, systems and environmental change.
Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Native youth in Los Angeles County through embracing cultural knowledge, advocacy skill development and community health training to reduce substance use.
Fighting Back Partnership, Inc.
Standard Cohort 2
Solano County
Program Purpose
To increase leadership skills and advocacy capacity of youth of color in Solano County through youth-led campaigns, peer mentoring, storytelling and an annual convening to advocate for and effect policy change.
Fighting Back Partnership, Inc.
Standard Cohort 5
Solano County
Program Purpose
To enhance the leadership and civic engagement of Black, Latinx and Asian youth in Solano County through training, empowerment summits and intergenerational and peer mentoring to address and transform environmental conditions that contribute to substance use disorders.
Filipino Advocates for Justice
Standard Cohort 5
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To empower Filipino transitional-aged youth in Alameda County through base-building, leadership development, research and civic engagement to address youth-identified community needs and substance misuse.
Finish First Academy
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to increase leadership skills of Black and Latinx youth in Los Angeles County through a social justice youth development program to decrease substance use and improve health outcomes.
FosterHope Sacramento
Standard Cohort 4
Sacramento County, Yolo County
Program Purpose
To promote healing of foster youth in Sacramento, Yolo and Yuba counties through innovating models of trauma-informed integrated care, relationship building, community collaboration and centering youth voices to address trauma and substance use.
Freedom 4 Youth
Standard Cohort 4
Santa Barbara County
Program Purpose
To improve the civic engagement and leadership skills of system-impacted Black and Latinx youth in Santa Barbara County through a peer-led credible messenger mentorship and advocacy program to advocate for alternatives to incarceration for substance-related offenses in the juvenile and adult legal system.
Fresh Lifelines for Youth, Inc
Standard Cohort 1
Alameda County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County
Program Purpose
To employ youth activism, civic engagement, mentorship/relationship-building, and peer-led support around substance use in a phased leadership program that will reach minority high school aged youth from Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties who are juvenile justice system-involved or at-risk of system involvement reducing substance use and increasing socio-emotional learning skills.
Fresh Lifelines for Youth, Inc.
Standard Cohort 4
Alameda County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the civic engagement skills of youth in Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties through youth-led service-learning projects, mentorship and peer support to become community change agents and reduce substance use disorder.
Fresno American Indian Health Project
Standard Cohort 5
Fresno County, Madera County, Kings County
Program Purpose
To develop the leadership of Native youth in Fresno, Madera, and King Counties through culturally-rooted prevention strategies, mentorship programs and social media campaigns to promote systems change and prevent substance use disorder.
Fresno Barrios Unidos
Standard Cohort 2
Fresno County
Program Purpose
To liberate and transform BIPOC youth in Fresno through a youth-led program to increase access to care, reduce stigma related to substance use, increase empathy for individuals navigating substance use, and foster youth-led systems change efforts impacting the local criminal-legal system.
Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission
Standard Cohort 1
Fresno County
Program Purpose
To improve the health outcomes of school aged youth of color and LGBTQ+ youth through peer-led support groups and school educational presentations that incorporate mentoring, leadership development and advocate for policy, systems and environmental change in Fresno County.
Fresno Metro Black Chamber Foundation
Standard Cohort 4
Fresno County, Madera County, San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To improve educational and life outcomes of systems-impacted young adults in Fresno, Madera and San Joaquin counties through goal and skills development, vocational training and career development to reduce substance use.
Friday Night Live – The Epicenter
Standard Cohort 1
Monterey County
Program Purpose
To address substance use in South Monterey County with a focus on students of color ages 12-24 who identify as LGBTQ+ by creating opportunities for positive youth engagement through increasing GSAs (student-led organizations that unite the LGBTQ+ community) , hosting an annual youth action summit, and increasing the perception of harm from substance use.
Frontline Catalysts
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to promote healing and empowerment for youth of color in Alameda County through youth-led climate justice leadership activities and collective action projects that address environmental disparities and push for systemic change.
Future Leaders of America
Standard Cohort 2
Santa Barbara County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the leadership skills and policy advocacy skills of Latinx youth in Santa Barbara County through a peer-to-peer model and media advocacy training.
Future Leaders of America
Standard Cohort 5
Santa Barbara County
Program Purpose
To advance the academic empowerment of Latinx youth in Santa Barbara County through skill-building workshops, youth organizing and leadership opportunities to reshape narratives and increase educational outcomes.
Gateway Mountain Center Inc.
Standard Cohort 4
Nevada County, Placer County
Program Purpose
To promote healing and increase the leadership skills of youth in rural Placer and El Dorado counties through nature-based, harm reduction retreats and peer leadership programs to create healthy alternatives and reduce substance use.
Gateway Mountain Center, Inc.
Standard Cohort 1
Nevada County, Placer County
Program Purpose
To expand existing harm-reduction and youth leadership services such as the youth wellness center. To increase mindfulness- based substance abuse classes, and whole hearts, minds, and embodies outdoor programming in schools in rural Nevada and Placer Counties for Latinx youth as an alternative to substance use suspensions and disciplinary action.
Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County
Standard Cohort 2
Orange County
Program Purpose
To increase the agency and leadership skills of LGBTQ2S+, BIPOC communities in Orange County through restorative justice activities to mitigate trauma caused by the War on Drugs and empower youth to take ownership of their mental health.
Gender Health Center
Capacity Building Cohort 1
Sacramento County, San Joaquin County, Placer County, Yolo County, Yuba County
Program Purpose
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.
Gender Health Center
Standard Cohort 5
Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Sutter, Yolo, Yuba County
Program Purpose
To improve the social and emotional well-being of LGBTQ+ youth of color in Sacramento and neighboring counties through youth-led systems change initiatives and enhance access to mental health services to decrease substance use disorders.
Gente Organizada
Standard Cohort 5
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To promote the civic engagement of justice-impacted Latinx youth in Los Angeles County through pre-diversion programs, leadership training and youth-led systems change campaigns to address root causes of incarceration and substance use.
Girls Club of Los Angeles
Standard Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To strengthen youth advocates’ capacity to address systemic inequities of the social services and public health systems by reshaping policies that contribute to the risk of substance use in South Los Angeles.
Greater Sacramento Urban League
Standard Cohort 4
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To increase civic engagement outcomes and promote the wellness of Black youth in Sacramento County through youth-led participatory action research projects to empower youth to research and formulate solutions to issues that impact them and their communities.
Hanna Center
Standard Cohort 5
Sonoma County
Program Purpose
To improve the social, emotional and behavioral health support systems of Latinx and underserved youth in Sonoma County through peer-to-peer networks and healing-centered civic engagement opportunities to reduce harm and substance use.
HC Black Music and Arts Association
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Humboldt County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Black youth in Humboldt County to become leaders through identity and cultural affirming safe spaces and leadership development to support mental health and reduce substance use.
HealthRIGHT360
Standard Cohort 5
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the leadership of Latinx and Asian youth in Los Angeles County through mentorship, life skill development and youth-led wellness programming to foster a culture of prevention and reduce favorable attitudes towards substances.
Healthy Rural California
Standard Cohort 2
Butte County
Program Purpose
To build youth leaders in Butte County through a youth development, environmental prevention and mentorship program to reduce youth substance use, strengthen policies and shift social norms.
Helpline Youth Counseling, Inc.
Standard Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To empower BIPOC youth experiencing or at risk of probation, incarceration and substance use through peer support, community organizing, advocacy, leadership training and communications to create environmental change in Long Beach.
Hmong Cultural Center of Butte County
Innovation Cohort 1
Butte County
Program Purpose
To reduce the likelihood of substance use disorder among Hmong youth in Butte County by fostering community and social-emotional support through youth-led coalitions and leadership development opportunities.
Hmong Innovating Politics
Standard Cohort 3
Fresno County, Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To create a space of healing and growth for Hmong and Southeast Asian youth to explore their identity, acknowledge harm, develop tools for harnessing their collective leadership and build solidarity with other communities through youth-centered healing, wellness and leadership development programs in Sacramento and Fresno counties.
Hmong Youth and Parents United
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Southeast Asian youth in Sacramento County through culturally responsive programming opportunities, internships and resource navigation to address substance use.
Hooked on Fishing Not on Violence
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to improve wellness and self-esteem for youth of color and young adults in Sacramento County through mentorship to prevent and reduce substance use.
Horizons Unlimited of San Francisco, Inc.
Standard Cohort 2
San Francisco County
Program Purpose
To increase the advocacy capacity and leadership skills of Latinx, African American and Pacific Islander youth through a trauma-informed, health-centered and asset-based approach to effect transformative and peer-led policy, systems and environmental change in San Francisco.
Horizons Unlimited of San Francisco, Inc.
Standard Cohort 5
San Francisco County
Program Purpose
To invest in the leadership development of system-impacted Black and Latinx youth in San Francisco County through a culturally responsive Credible Messenger Mentorship program, project-based learning opportunities and a youth-led communication campaign to enhance protective factors and reduce recidivism and substance use.
Horn of Africa Community in North America
Standard Cohort 4
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To improve leadership and civic engagement skills of refugee youth in San Diego County through community engagement, assessment and education to develop cultural best practices of prevention programming to reduce and prevent substance use.
Huckleberry Youth Programs
Standard Cohort 5
San Francisco County
Program Purpose
To empower transitional-aged youth of color in San Francisco County through leadership, civic engagement and a dynamic youth-driven harm reduction campaign to shift narratives and policies from punishment to prevention and reduce substance use.
Human Response Network
Standard Cohort 5
Trinity County
Program Purpose
To increase belonging and connectedness for youth in Trinity County through peer-to-peer mentoring, leadership development and civic engagement opportunities to address substance use.
Humboldt State University Sponsored Programs Foundation
Standard Cohort 4
Del Norte County, Humboldt County
Program Purpose
To empower Native American youth in Humboldt and Del Norte counties through youth camps, cultural practices, traditional ecological knowledge and food sovereignty to reduce health disparities and reduce substance use.
Improve Your Tomorrow
Standard Cohort 1
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To improve the educational and health outcomes of young men of color attending local community colleges by providing mentorship, leadership development and culturally responsive wrap-around support in preparation for policy internships in Sacramento.
Improve Your Tomorrow
Standard Cohort 4
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To improve the educational and health outcomes of young men of color attending Sacramento community colleges by providing mentorship, leadership development and culturally responsive wrap-around support in preparation for policy internships in Sacramento.
Indigenous Community Initiatives
Standard Cohort 5
Mendocino County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the emotional and mental wellness of Native and Indigenous youth in Mendocino County through mentorship, peer and intergenerational engagement and culturally-rooted programming to improve life skills and reduce substance use disorder.
Inland Congregations United for Change
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Riverside County, San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to improve the social and emotional health of LGBTQ+ youth in Riverside and San Bernardino counties through safe spaces, education and leadership development to reduce harm and prevent substance use.
Inland Empire Coalition for Youth Justice
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Riverside County, San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower youth of color in Riverside and San Bernardino counties in the juvenile justice system through community-based solutions to address systemic injustices.
InnerCity Struggle (ICS)
Standard Cohort 5
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To mobilize and empower Latinx youth in Los Angeles County through educational workshops, leadership development opportunities and youth-led media campaigns to increase resiliency and reduce substance use.
Inspire Together
Capacity Building Cohort 2
San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to increase leadership skills among youth of color in San Bernardino County through training, leadership development and trauma-informed approaches to increase peer-to-peer mentorship and reduce substance use.
Institute for Public Strategies
Standard Cohort 3
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To establish a coalition of immigrant youth disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs to examine the physical, social, political and economic contexts and injustices that influence substance use behavior and decision making through youth-led participatory action research and leadership and advocacy training, grounded in social justice youth development and healing-centered and trauma-informed mentoring in San Bernardino County.
International Rescue Committee
Standard Cohort 3
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To build capacity of immigrant and refugee youth in Sacramento County through harm reduction and cultural humility and to develop safe places to reduce youth substance use and promote healthy life choices.
Invest in Me
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Stanislaus County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower youth of color in Stanislaus County who have been impacted by the War on Drugs through educational training on substance use disorder prevention, social justice youth development and healing-centered practices to prevent youth substance use.
Jakara Movement
Standard Cohort 2
San Joaquin County, Stanislaus County, Sutter County, Fresno County, Kern County, Madera County
Program Purpose
To empower Punjabi and Latinx youth across the Central Valley through culturally rooted, trauma-informed education, outreach and harm reduction practices to reduce stigma and address the chronic and intergenerational trauma of substance use and addiction.
Jakara Movement
Standard Cohort 5
Alameda, Fresno, Kern, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Sutter County
Program Purpose
To empower Punjabi and Latinx youth across Northern and Central California through peer-led programming and civic engagement campaigns to enhance health outcomes and prevent substance use.
Japanese Community Youth Council
Standard Cohort 2
San Francisco County
Program Purpose
To expand trauma-informed life skills and mentoring services for Asian/Pacific Islander youth through youth-driven culturally responsive programming to promote self-esteem, develop healthy lifestyles and build resiliency skills.
Japanese Community Youth Council
Standard Cohort 5
San Francisco County
Program Purpose
To increase civic engagement of Asian-American and Pacific Islander youth leaders in San Francisco County through dynamic youth-led environmental prevention initiatives, life skill training and civic engagement programs addressing policy change to reduce youth access to substances.
Kids In Konflict
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Riverside County, San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Black and Latinx youth in San Bernardino and Riverside counties through strength-based, healing-centered activities to reduce harm associated with substance misuse and advance health equity.
Kids in the Spotlight, Inc.
Innovation Cohort 1
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To empower and educate Black and Latinx foster youth and stakeholders in Los Angeles County about the connections between the War on Drugs and substance use disorder through producing a documentary and increasing the capacity of youth to lead social justice movements and policy change in their communities.
Kings Partnership for Prevention, Inc.
Standard Cohort 4
Kings County
Program Purpose
To increase the resiliency of youth in Kings County through a youth-led coalition, civic engagement, early intervention and recovery services to reduce youth substance use.
Kno’Qoti Native Wellness, Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Lake County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower and honor the cultural values of Tribal youth in Lake County through youth prevention programs and trainings to prevent substance use and bring awareness to suicide prevention.
Koreatown Youth and Community Center, Inc.
Standard Cohort 1
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To reduce use and exposure to marijuana and tobacco-related secondhand smoke among low-income youth of color ages 12-26 at MacArthur Park located in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles by establishing a community council and developing and adopting a citywide smoking initiative that reduces use and exposure to marijuana, tobacco products and secondhand smoke.
Koreatown Youth and Community Center, Inc.
Standard Cohort 4
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To strengthen leadership and advocacy skills of Asian, Black and Latinx youth in Los Angeles County through youth-led advocacy efforts to minimize exposure to tobacco and cannabis product waste at local parks and improve community health outcomes.
Latino Center for Prevention & Action in Health & Welfare
Standard Cohort 4
Orange County
Program Purpose
To increase advocacy skills and empower Latinx youth in Orange County through peer mentoring, creative arts, leadership development, and strengthened resource and referral connections to reduce harm and youth substance use disorder.
Latino Center for Prevention & Action in Health & Welfare
Standard Cohort 1
Orange County
Program Purpose
To partner with low-income immigrant Latinx youth in Santa Ana to implement a youth-led SUD education campaign and build and sustain youth leadership creating mechanisms of participation by youth that lead to risk prevention and system-wide change to increase responsiveness to SUD-related health needs of youth and decrease substance use by youth in the city and county of Orange.
Latino Coalition for Healthy California
Standard Cohort 3
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To educate and build power among Latinx youth through an innovative trauma-informed upstream primary and secondary substance use prevention program that will fuel youth activism through interactive and cross-cultural civic engagement, peer-led substance awareness campaigns, leadership development and nurturing collective efficacy in Sacramento.
Latino Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services
Standard Cohort 4
Tulare County
Program Purpose
To improve the self-esteem and interconnectedness of Latinx youth in Tulare County through programming that equips youth with healthy coping skills, knowledge and confidence to build protective factors and improve life outcomes.
Latino Equality Alliance
Standard Cohort 5
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To empower 2S/LGBTQ+ Latinx youth in Los Angeles County through school-based clubs, peer-to-peer support and youth-driven social media campaigns to increase access to safe spaces and address substance use.
Latino Leadership Council, Inc.
Standard Cohort 5
Placer County
Program Purpose
To improve the mental health and wellness of Latinx youth in Placer County through mentorship, leadership skills development and the implementation of school-based restorative healing circles to promote resiliency and mitigate risk factors for substance use disorder.
Latinos United for a New America
Innovation Cohort 1
Santa Clara County
Program Purpose
To equip and empower Latinx youth in Santa Clara County to effectively engage with elected and appointed officials through social justice youth development and education.
Legacy Alliance Outreach
Standard Cohort 4
Stanislaus County
Program Purpose
To empower Asian, Black, Latinx and Pacific Islander youth in Stanislaus County through peer-to-peer support and civic engagement opportunities to disrupt familial cycles of generational substance abuse and reduce youth substance use and overdose deaths.
Legacy LA Youth Development Corporation
Standard Cohort 4
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To increase leadership skills of Latinx youth in underserved Boyle Heights and East LA neighborhoods through mentoring and a youth-led campaign to address the over-saturation of cannabis billboard advertising and increase community understanding of youth substance use disorder.
Legacy LA Youth Development Corporation
Standard Cohort 1
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To increase at-risk and system-impacted youth’s capacity to advocate for policy change around youth substance use in Los Angeles County as well as address conditions that contribute to youth substance use through the implementation of a 10-month leadership development and mentoring program.
Level Up NorCal
Standard Cohort 4
Butte County, Glenn County, Shasta County, Tehama County
Program Purpose
To improve health and social outcomes of Latinx and Southeast Asian youth in Shasta, Butte, Glenn and Tehama counties through activism, leadership development and mentorship to heal intergenerational trauma and reduce substance use.
LGBTQ Center OC
Standard Cohort 5
Orange County
Program Purpose
To empower and uplift voices of 2S/LGBTQ+ BIPOC youth in Orange County through mentorship, training and education to prevent substance use disorder.
LGBTQ+ Collaborative
Standard Cohort 4
Stanislaus County, Tuolumne County
Program Purpose
To increase civic engagement skills and amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ youth and young adults in Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties through advocacy, mentorship, community planning and mobilization to achieve inclusion and equity in local policies and improve health outcomes.
Lily of the Valley Emmanuel Church of Jesus Christ
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Fresno County, Tulare County, Kings County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to promote leadership for youth of color in Fresno, Tulare and Kings counties through peer mentoring and youth-led community advocacy work to reduce substance use.
Little Manila Foundation
Standard Cohort 5
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To empower Latinx, Asian, and Black youth in San Joaquin County to thrive as leaders through workforce preparation and professional development programs to broaden economic outlooks and capacity to excel in diverse professional spaces.
Local Indians for Education, Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Shasta County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to promote and honor cultural healing for Native youth in Shasta County through traditional teachings and resources to increase resilience and reduce substance use.
LOUD for Tomorrow
Standard Cohort 3
Tulare County, Kern County
Program Purpose
To address substance use disorder and mental health among high school students through youth-led campaigns at the city and school district level to destigmatize substance use disorder and mental health by increasing resources for community healing through education, youth leadership development and empowerment in Delano.
M.A.L.O Motivating Action Leadership Opportunity
Standard Cohort 5
San Berardino County, Riverside County
Program Purpose
To empower Tongan/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NHPI) youth in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties through culturally-rooted healing and leadership development to disrupt inequitable systems and reduce substance misuse.
Madera Coalition for Community Justice
Standard Cohort 3
Madera County
Program Purpose
To build leadership and advocacy skills of underserved youth in Madera County through a youth leadership program to advance civic engagement and community action.
Marshallese Youth of Orange County
Los Angeles County, Orange County, Riverside County, Sacramento County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, Tulare County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to improve health and well-being of Pacific Islander youth statewide through a youth ambassador program to increase self-reliance and reduce substance use.
McKinleyville Community Collaborative
Standard Cohort 3
Humboldt County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the leadership skills of youth of color in Humboldt County through leadership training, coaching and substance use disorder prevention to increase health and life outcomes for youth.
Mending Fences at JM Ranch
Tulare County
Program Purpose
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.
Mending Fences at JM Ranch
Standard Cohort 5
Tulare County
Program Purpose
To empower Latinx and marginalized youth of color in Tulare County through the development of a youth-centered communications campaign to raise community awareness and prevent substance use disorder.
Mendocino County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services
Innovation Cohort 1
Mendocino County
Program Purpose
To promote resiliency, community and healing and prevent substance use among Native American and Latinx youth in rural Mendocino County through developing culturally responsive programs and leadership groups.
Mental Health California
Standard Cohort 3
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To reduce disparities, promote healing and improve mental wellness among boys and men of color through multimedia education on substance use prevention, engaging a cohort of young males of color to express hardships and recovery through digital storytelling and provide multimedia resources to Sacramento County school systems on trauma along with policy recommendations.
Merced Lao Family Community, Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Merced County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Asian youth in Merced County through educational workshops focusing on mental health, leadership and social skill development to grow transformational leaders and boost substance use awareness.
Mi Familia Vota Education Fund
Standard Cohort 3
Stanislaus County, Fresno County
Program Purpose
To improve the social and emotional outcomes of Latinx and youth of color through a peer mentorship program to improve conditions within their communities and create a healthier population in Stanislaus and Fresno counties.
MidCity Community Advocacy Network
Standard Cohort 5
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To empower Latinx youth and youth of color in San Diego County through school-based youth councils, civic engagement opportunities, leadership programs and healing circles to build community and disrupt the impacts of substance use.
MILPA
Capacity Building Cohort 1
Solano County, Santa Cruz County, Monterey County
Program Purpose
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.
MILPA
Standard Cohort 5
Monterey, Santa Cruz, Solano, Yolo County
Program Purpose
To increase the civic engagement skills of Latino youth in Monterey, Santa Cruz, Solano and Yolo counties through an intergenerational peer mentorship program to address the challenges exacerbated by climate change and increase positive opportunities for youth in the region.
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project
Standard Cohort 2
Santa Barbara County, Ventura County
Program Purpose
To engage Indigenous youth in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties through culturally relevant, social justice youth development approaches to reduce substance use/abuse in the community.
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP)
Standard Cohort 5
San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura County
Program Purpose
To develop social justice leadership skills of Latinx and Mexican Indigenous youth in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties through a culturally grounded, trauma-informed curriculum to advance school policies and improve behavioral health outcomes.
Museum of Children’s Art
Standard Cohort 4
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To empower Latinx and Black youth in Alameda County through transformational youth-led school and community-based interventions, youth activism and mentorship to reduce absenteeism and youth substance use disorder.
NAMI San Diego
Standard Cohort 2
San Diego County, Imperial County
Program Purpose
To empower peer mentors in San Diego and Imperial counties through peer-led youth empowerment and leadership development to impact policy and create awareness of mental health, harm reduction and substance misuse.
National Foster Youth Institute
Standard Cohort 3
Sacramento County, Alameda County, San Mateo County, Contra Costa County, San Francisco County, Fresno County, San Diego County, San Bernardino County, Napa County, Monterey County, Merced County, Los Angeles County, Kings County, Kern County, Madera County
Program Purpose
To promote healing by mobilizing current and former foster youth to partner with decision makers to design policy, programs and reform systems that criminalize substance use disorder by using a healing-centered leadership development model, youth activism, mentorship and peer-to-peer coaching throughout California.
Native Alliance of the Sierra Nevada Foothills
Standard Cohort 3
Nevada County, Sacramento County, Placer County, El Dorado County
Program Purpose
To improve health outcomes for Indigenous youth by increasing awareness of substance use prevention, strengthen youth protective factors and reduce barriers to addressing root causes of substance use through youth activism, mentorship and peer education in the Sierra Nevada Foothills.
Native Dads Network
Standard Cohort 3
Sacramento County, Yolo County, Glenn County, Sonoma County, Lake County, Humboldt County
Program Purpose
To improve health, reduce and ultimately eliminate the cycle of alcoholism and addiction among Native youth and families through comprehensive and culturally rooted services and healing practices, combined with political and historical education and empowerment in Sacramento and nearby counties.
Native Directions, Inc. dba Three Rivers Indian Lodge
Capacity Building Cohort 1
San Joaquin County, Stanislaus County, Tuolumne County
Program Purpose
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 Sisters Circle Inc.
Standard Cohort 5
Kern, Mendocino, Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To empower Native and Indigenous girls in Sacramento County through leadership, mentorship and youth-led community action to promote healthy behaviors and reduce substance use disorder.
Native Star Foundation
Capacity Building Cohort 1
Tulare County
Program Purpose
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.
Neighborhood Rising
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Solano County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower BIPOC young men in Solano County through leveraging Barber Ambassadors as trusted messengers to destigmatize mental health conversations and community health issues and support.
New Birth Community Development
Standard Cohort 3
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To improve the health and social outcomes of youth by cultivating a desire for change in Stockton communities impacted by the War on Drugs through youth activism, mentorship and peer-led support to address the challenges that lead to risks of substance use.
No Drugs America
Capacity Building Cohort 3
San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Black and Latinx youth in San Bernardino County to make informed decisions regarding substance use through education and peer support to address substance misuse.
North County Health Project, Inc.
Standard Cohort 1
San Diego County, Riverside County
Program Purpose
To improve the behavioral health outcomes and substance use awareness of Latinx/Hispanic youth and young adults through leadership development and peer-to-peer education in North San Diego and Southern Riverside counties.
North Valley Community Foundation
Standard Cohort 5
Butte County
Program Purpose
To empower youth in Butte County through youth programming and civic engagement to build sustainable community support and culturally responsive solutions to reduce suicide and substance use.
Northern California Indian Development Council, Inc
Standard Cohort 1
Humboldt County
Program Purpose
To promote healing through culturally rooted lessons, develop social/emotional competency and support the training and development of youth advocates on policy, systems and environmental change to prevent substance use among middle and high school Native American students in Humboldt County.
Northern California Indian Development Council, Inc.
Standard Cohort 4
Del Norte County, Humboldt County
Program Purpose
To promote healing among middle and high school Native American students in Humboldt County through culturally rooted lessons, social-emotional learning and youth advocacy to prevent substance use.
Northern Valley Indian Health
Standard Cohort 5
Butte, Glenn County
Program Purpose
To engage Native youth in Butte and Glenn Counties through a culturally-rooted substance use prevention program, peer groups, recreational activities and traditional healing practices to build protective factors and improve life outcomes.
Oakland LGBTQ Community Center
Innovation Cohort 1
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To heal trauma and disrupt racism, homophobia, transphobia and other factors that contribute to disproportionate rates of substance use disorders among queer and trans youth of color in Alameda County through an LGBTQ Youth Leadership Program that utilizes a peer-led wellness and harm reduction curriculum.
Oliview Farm
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Shasta County, Siskiyou County, Tehama County, Trinity County, Lassen County, Modoc County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to support youth under the supervision of the Shasta County Juvenile Rehabilitation Facility through applied learning on Oliview Farm to improve health, life and educational outcomes for youth.
One Community Action of Santa Maria Valley
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Santa Barbara County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower youth of color in Santa Barbara County through education, training, creative expression and community action to advance solutions that address systemic inequities and reduce substance use.
One Day at a Time
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Contra Costa County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to increase empowerment for Latinx and Black youth in Contra Costa County through youth-driven activism and education to support relationship-centered schools and prevent substance use.
Opening the World
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Marin County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to expand opportunities for youth of color in Marin County through leadership and career development to reduce substance use.
Oracles of Truth
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Sacramento County and San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower and build the confidence of at-risk youth of color in San Joaquin and Sacramento counties through healing, mentorship and leadership experiences to improve quality of life.
Pacific Clinics
Standard Cohort 2
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the leadership skills of low-income Latinx and Asian immigrant youth in Los Angeles through a culturally rooted, trauma-healing youth and parent education model to overcome the challenges that lead to risks of substance use.
Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance
Standard Cohort 2
Santa Cruz County, Monterey County
Program Purpose
To increase youth civic engagement in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties through the Youth Reclaiming Youth Voice Project to increase substance use prevention policy change.
Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance, Inc.
Standard Cohort 5
Monterey, Santa Cruz County
Program Purpose
To increase civic engagement practices in Latinx youth in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties through student engagement and healing-centered mentorship opportunities to increase access to resources and reduce substance use.
Parenting for Liberation
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to support Black youth in Los Angeles County through a multigenerational approach engaging teens and parents with culturally appropriate programs to increase positive outcomes and reduce substance use.
Passion and Purpose Ministries
Capacity Building Cohort 3
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to support, educate and empower youth of color in San Joaquin County through education, training and resources to become leaders in social justice activism who champion health equity in their communities.
Paving Great Futures
Standard Cohort 3
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To strengthen youth social outcomes of young leaders of color by educating on the history and lasting effects of the War on Drug in their communities and an understanding of culturally relevant substance use prevention strategies, and training to organize and mobilize their communities to advocate for resources and policies that holistically address the root causes and corruptive effects of substance use/abuse in San Diego County.
PCS Family Services
Capacity Building Cohort 1
San Bernardino County, Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
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.
Peace4Kids
Standard Cohort 5
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To empower Black and Brown transitional-aged foster youth in Los Angeles County through civic engagement, mentorship, peer-based support groups and leadership development to advance health equity and address the disproportionate rates of youth substance misuse.
Pinoleville Pomo Nation
Standard Cohort 4
Lake County, Mendocino County
Program Purpose
To improve the behavioral health and educational outcomes of Native youth in Mendocino and Lake counties through culturally rooted practices, leadership development, prevention education and policy advocacy training to promote educational equity and reduce substance use.
Pinoleville Pomo Nation
Standard Cohort 1
Mendocino County, Lake County
Program Purpose
To improve the behavioral health and educational outcomes of American Indian youth through culturally rooted practices, leadership development and policy advocacy training to address educational equity and reduce substance use in Mendocino and Lake Counties.
Pomona Pride Center Inc.
Standard Cohort 4
Los Angeles County, San Bernadino County
Program Purpose
To empower 2S/LGBTQ+ youth in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties through art, mentorship and youth-led activism leading to policy change and strengthened community-based efforts to reduce substance use.
Project Optimism
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Los Angeles County, Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to increase the network of support for Black and Latinx youth in Los Angeles and Sacramento counties through mentorship, curriculum building, youth engagement and activism to prioritize harm reduction and public health solutions that reduce substance use.
Project Q
Standard Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To improve health and social outcomes of Black and Brown queer youths that are experiencing houselessness due to the War on Drugs through a peer-led youth support program that provides work skills development, free trauma-informed therapy, knowledge making on the impact of substance use and promoting healthy alternatives to substance use in Los Angeles County.
Public Health Institute
Standard Cohort 4
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To increase leadership skills of Black youth in Sacramento County through youth-led advocacy campaigns, peer-to-peer learning, leadership opportunities, mentorship and referral pathways to prevent substance use disorder.
Pueblo Y Salud, Inc.
Standard Cohort 5
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To enhance leadership of youth of color and LGBTQ+ youth in Los Angeles County through skill-building programs and youth-driven coalitions that influence policy and promote community well-being to reduce substance use disorder.
Queer Humboldt
Standard Cohort 4
Del Norte County, Humboldt County
Program Purpose
To improve the civic engagement skills to empower and support 2S/LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC youth in Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Siskiyou and Trinity counties and local Tribal lands through school-level advocacy, mentorship, peer-to-peer support and queer-informed direct services to treat and prevent youth substance use disorder.
Rainbow Labs
Standard Cohort 5
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build social-emotional protective factors for 2S/LGBTQ+ youth in Los Angeles County through peer-to-peer support, mentorship and a city-wide youth council summit to promote protective factors and reduce substance use.
Raizes Collective
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Sonoma County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower of Latinx and Indigenous youth in Sonoma County through art and youth-led advocacy to mitigate harm and reduce substance use.
Realistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health (REACH LA)
Standard Cohort 4
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To improve the leadership skills to empower 2S/LGBTQ+ students of color in Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties through substance use prevention campaigns, promotion of healthy relationships and prevention education using multimedia production to improve school climates and reform exclusionary policies.
Redwood Community Services
Standard Cohort 3
Lake County
Program Purpose
To address policy, systems and environmental change focusing on substance use, poverty and violence by empowering Native American, Latinx and youth with disabilities through a healing-centered youth development program and engaging with elected and public officials regarding restorative justice practices, cultural representation and public advocacy in Lake County.
Reinvent South Stockton Coalition
Capacity Building Cohort 3
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to support Black and Latinx youth in San Joaquin County through participation in action research projects to bring awareness to community needs and reduce substance use.
Restoring Justice for Indigenous People
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Sacramento County, Shasta County, Alameda County, Siskiyou County, Lassen County, Modoc County, San Francisco County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to support Indigenous youth and young adults in California through mentorship, land-based healing practices, culturally rooted activities and training to reduce harm and create collective healing.
Richstone Family Center
Standard Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To improve youth mental health, increasing school engagement, helping youth build social-emotional skills to help navigate stressors that lead to substance use, offering educational workshops in the community to improve mental health literacy and reduce stigma, and creating a community council that works to identify local substance use issues and generates potential solutions in Los Angeles County.
Rincon Indian Education Center
Capacity Building Cohort 1
San Diego County
Program Purpose
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.
Ríos to Rivers
Standard Cohort 5
Del Norte, Humboldt, Modoc, Siskiyou, Trinity County
Program Purpose
To increase resiliency and wellness of Klamath River Basin youth in Del Norte, Humboldt, Modoc, Siskiyou and Trinity counties through youth-led environmental justice programming to address the root causes of environmental damage that have exacerbated rates of youth suicide and substance use.
Rising Stars Business Academy
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Riverside County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to support Black and Latinx youth in Riverside County through youth development, mentorship and training to create a generational legacy of healthy communities.
Roots Community Health Center
Standard Cohort 3
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To improve youth well-being and address the root causes of youth substance use through peer support and education, reduction strategies and policy change advocacy with youth of color in East Oakland.
Rose Family Creative Empowerment Center
Standard Cohort 4
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To improve educational and health outcomes of African American students in South Sacramento through wraparound support, expanded academic services and a youth-driven substance use awareness campaign to inform policymakers on youth substance use issues.
Rose Family Creative Empowerment Center Inc.
Standard Cohort 1
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To improve educational and health outcomes and reduce substance use in African American students in South Sacramento through wraparound support, expanded academic services and a youth-driven substance use awareness campaign to inform policymakers on youth substance use issues.
Round Valley Indian Health Center
Standard Cohort 2
Mendocino County
Program Purpose
To increase protective factors for youth substance abuse prevention on Round Valley Indian Reservation through Project Native WAY to facilitate policy, systems and environmental change.
Round Valley Indian Health Center
Standard Cohort 5
Mendocino County
Program Purpose
To support the well-being and development of American Indian youth in Mendocino County through youth leadership, peer-led support, restorative justice models, conflict resolution and civic engagement to transform norms around substance use and reclaim community health and safety.
Rural Innovations in Social Economics, Inc.
Standard Cohort 3
Yolo County
Program Purpose
To improve the health and well-being of young people by increasing protective factors for youth in Yolo County through a culturally responsive program to prevent and treat substance use and improve mental health outcomes.
RxSafe Marin
Marin County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to improve the health and well-being of youth of color in Marin County through a youth-led, action-oriented collaborative that will identify substance use needs for youth to achieve equitable health outcomes.
RYSE, Inc
Standard Cohort 5
Contra Costa County
Program Purpose
To increase healing for Black and Indigenous and young people of color in Contra Costa County through mentorship and development opportunities to foster community, build youth power and reduce substance use disorder.
RYSE, Inc.
Standard Cohort 2
Contra Costa County
Program Purpose
To build power through leadership development and advocacy skills of young people of color and their families in Richmond and West Contra Costa through tailored supports and programming to recover, reconnect and repair the multi-level, multi-system harm created by the War on Drugs.
SAC Connect
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to improve coping skills and well-being of youth and young adults of color in Sacramento County through a youth-led art and wellness group to reduce substance use.
Sacramento Native American Health Center, Inc.
Standard Cohort 2
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To strengthen the leadership skills of young people in Sacramento through leadership activities to improve policy, system and environmental changes related to substance use and harm reduction.
Sacramento Youth Center
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to train and certify peer specialists in Sacramento County through a comprehensive program to address community inequities including mental health, wellness, safety and substance abuse.
Sacred Generations
Standard Cohort 4
Madera County, Sacramento County, San Joaquin County, Solano County, Sonoma County
Program Purpose
To promote healing of system-impacted Tribal youth and young adults in Madera, San Joaquin, Solano, Sonoma and Sacramento counties by creating art, film and new media to increase awareness of mass incarceration and the effects of substance use.
Sacred Path Indigenous Wellness Center
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Alameda County, Fresno County, Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Native American youth in Los Angeles, Alameda and Fresno counties through community-driven interventions to decrease the impact of historical trauma and prevent substance use.
Safe Passages
Standard Cohort 5
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To increase the leadership capacity of youth of color in Alameda County through civic engagement, education and youth-led arts and media productions to address substance use disorders.
Safe Place for Youth
Standard Cohort 2
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To develop youth leaders experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity in Los Angeles through the Equity, Empowerment, and Youth Development Program to participate in systems change work that supports holistic and youth-driven substance use prevention strategies.
Safe Place for Youth, Inc (SPY)
Standard Cohort 5
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To improve life outcomes for youth of color in Los Angeles County through a youth-led intermediary group and civic engagement programs that center youth voices to advance local policies and supports for youth experiencing homelessness.
San Diego LGBT Community Center
Standard Cohort 2
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To empower LGBTQ2S+ youth of color through behavioral health services, leadership development opportunities, civic engagement opportunities and peer-to-peer support to improve well-being, behavioral health outcomes and school engagement, and to decrease substance use among program participants.
San Diego Organizing Project
Standard Cohort 5
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To increase safe and authentic civic engagement opportunities for system-impacted Latino and Black youth in San Diego County through leadership development and community organizing training programs to address housing insecurity and justice system inequities.
San Diego Refugee Communities Coalition
Capacity Building Cohort 2
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower refugee and immigrant youth in San Diego County through linguistically and culturally relevant substance use disorder prevention, education and early intervention services to reduce substance use.
San Fernando Valley Partnership
Standard Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To improve youth health and social outcomes through youth activism by developing a coalition and school-based chapters to address policy, systems and environmental change to prevent youth substance use.
San Lorenzo Hayward Acres Mobilized
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to develop Latinx youth in Alameda County to strengthen community and uplift youth voices through advocacy and participation in local committees to address systemic disenfranchisement and reduce substance use.
Sanctuary of Hope
Standard Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To increase BIPOC youth’s voices and social capital through youth empowerment and leadership, policy and advocacy skills development in Los Angeles County.
Santa Barbara Alternatives to Violence Project
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Santa Barbara County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Latinx youth and their communities in Santa Barbara County by providing alternatives to the ways society often criminalizes, marginalizes or excludes youth to reduce substance use.
Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos
Standard Cohort 5
Monterey, Santa Cruz County
Program Purpose
To empower youth of color in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties through leadership training, policy and civic engagement experiences, vocational training and Indigenous ceremonies to address substance use disorder.
Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos, Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 1
Santa Cruz County, Monterey County
Program Purpose
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.
Santa Cruz County Black Health Matters Initiative
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Alameda County, Santa Cruz County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to elevate the mental health and wellness of Black youth in Santa Cruz County through relationship building, community engagement and leadership opportunities to reduce substance use.
Santa Ynez Valley People Helping People
Standard Cohort 3
Santa Barbara County
Program Purpose
To improve health and social outcomes by preventing youth cannabis misuse through training and supporting peer promotoras, or messengers, to educate on the effects of cannabis in Santa Barbara County.
Save California Salmon
Innovation Cohort 1
Del Norte County, Fresno County, Humboldt County, Mendocino County, Sacramento County, San Francisco County, Shasta County, Siskiyou County, Sonoma County, Trinity County, Yolo County
Program Purpose
To empower Native American youth in Siskiyou, Humboldt, Shasta, Trinity and Del Norte rural Tribal communities to influence education and environmental policies that affect their schools and neighborhoods through mentorship, internships, and cultural and education opportunities.
SBX Youth and Family Services
Standard Cohort 5
Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To empower Black, Latino, and LGBTQ+ youth in the Inland Empire through culturally sensitive mentorship and civic engagement training to be agents of change and improve life outcomes.
Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians
Standard Cohort 5
Contra Costa, Lake, Mendocino County
Program Purpose
To empower Scotts Valley Pomo Band of Indian youth in Contra Costa, Lake and Mendocino counties through a youth-led leadership program to revitalize cultural traditions and break the cycle of intergenerational oppression and trauma that drives substance use in Native youth.
Services, Immigrant Rights & Education Network (SIREN)
Standard Cohort 5
Fresno, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Madera County
Program Purpose
To empower and develop the leadership skills of immigrant and refugee youth in Fresno, Santa Clara, San Mateo and Madera counties through youth development, civic engagement and community engagement opportunities to address systemic inequities and prevent substance use.
Sigma Beta XI, Inc.
Standard Cohort 2
Riverside County
Program Purpose
To build youth-centered power in Riverside County through the Youth Mentoring and Advocacy Project to advocate for and repair the inequalities that contribute to substance use disorders and to create policy and systems change.
Sistabees
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to build inclusive spaces for young Black women and femmes in Sacramento County to connect, learn, heal and celebrate the power of women and sisterhood to lead and achieve healthy futures.
Sisters Warriors Freedom Coalition
Standard Cohort 3
Alameda County, Santa Clara County, San Francisco County, Fresno County, San Diego County, Los Angeles County, Kern County
Program Purpose
To create a cadre of youth and young adults across California through programming and policy change to advance policy goals for the decarceration and decriminalization of and family reunification of formerly incarcerated, systems-involved cis- and transgender women, transgender men and gender expansive people.
Social Advocates for Youth San Diego, Inc.
Standard Cohort 4
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To improve behavioral health outcomes for system-impacted, homeless youth and young adults of color in San Diego County through referral to substance use treatment, mentoring, counseling and leadership development to advocate for policies that address the criminalization of youth substance use.
Social Advocates for Youth San Diego, Inc.
Standard Cohort 1
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To improve the behavioral health outcomes including referral to substance use treatment of justice system impacted, homeless youth and young adults of color in San Diego County through mentoring, counseling and leadership development to advocate for policies that address the criminalization of youth substance use.
Somali Family Service of San Diego
Standard Cohort 3
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To increase awareness about opioid abuse and prevention among refugee and immigrant youth in San Diego County through a youth-led LION Opioid Taskforce to increase youth and community access to Narcan and increase availability of Narcan at community sites frequented by youth.
Somos Familia Valle Central LGBTQ+ Resource Center
Standard Cohort 5
Merced County
Program Purpose
To cultivate inclusion of Latine and other intersecting 2S/LGBTQ+ youth and young adults in Merced County through LGBTQ+ youth-centered civic engagement and mobilizing programming that promotes sustainable and inclusive systems change in education, housing and behavioral health to improve life outcomes.
Stanislaus County Youth Empowerment Program
Standard Cohort 3
Stanislaus County
Program Purpose
To increase the capacity of African American student advocates as changemakers through a youth empowerment program that supports youth with advocacy, systems change efforts and overall wellness support in Stanislaus County.
Stockton Scholars
Standard Cohort 5
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To create social and academic support systems for girls and young women of color in San Joaquin County through sister circles, leadership development and civic engagement opportunities and mentorship to pave accessible pathways to higher education.
Stockton Service Corps
Standard Cohort 4
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To increase the civic engagement outcomes of Latinx, Asian and Black youth in San Joaquin County through mentorship, wraparound services, a youth-led council and community-based projects to reduce substance use.
Tarzana Treatment Centers, Inc.
Innovation Cohort 1
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build the capacity of 150 Black and Latinx youth leaders in Los Angeles County through engaging them in leadership training that utilizes a harm-reduction drug education curriculum and emphasizes critical thinking, advocacy and skill-building.
The AMAAD Institute
Standard Cohort 3
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To strengthen Black and Brown LGBTQ+ youths’ capacity to contribute to local and national efforts to reduce substance use disorder, other health disparities and social injustices through a strengths-based fellowship program focused on providing leadership training, mentoring support and motivational interviewing in Los Angeles County.
The American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco
Standard Cohort 5
Alameda, Mendocino, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Sonoma County
Program Purpose
To promote the leadership and well-being of American Indian and Alaskan Native youth in the Bay Area through cultural programming and the development of Gathering of Native Americans training to cultivate belonging, cultural preservation, awareness and respect.
The Cambodian Family
Standard Cohort 4
Orange County
Program Purpose
To empower Vietnamese, Cambodian and Latinx youth in Orange County through mentorship, peer-led activism training and implementation of a culturally and linguistically tailored curriculum to prevent substance use.
The Cambodian Family
Standard Cohort 1
Orange County
Program Purpose
To reduce substance use among middle school-aged Southeast Asian and Latinx youth in Orange County through the implementation of the Project ALERT curriculum and establish a youth advisory council to identify and move forward a policy goal.
The Church of the Nazarene, Inc. (Liberty Towers)
Standard Cohort 4
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To build leadership skills of youth in Sacramento County through advocacy training to make healthy decisions to create solutions in their own lives and address systemic barriers in their community.
The Echo Chamber
Capacity Building Cohort 2
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower youth in San Joaquin County through evidence-based and community-driven activities to improve the health and life outcomes of youth.
The Exception
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Riverside County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to engage Latinx and Black youth in Riverside County through evidence-based interventions and creation of a youth coalition to support youth and families in overcoming generational challenges.
The Freedom Bound Center
Standard Cohort 3
Sacramento County, Yolo County
Program Purpose
To amplify the narratives of disproportionately underrepresented youth in Sacramento and Yolo counties through hands-on arts and media training, and the creation of community wellness and advocacy campaigns to promote narrative and policy change.
The Gathering for Justice
Standard Cohort 3
San Joaquin County, Ventura County
Program Purpose
To build a movement of youth leaders in San Joaquin and Ventura counties through culturally rooted and healing-centered activism and leadership development, mentorship and peer support, and intergenerational convenings to promote healthy and safe communities.
The Gifted Living Institute, Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to amplify Black and Latinx youth voices in Los Angeles County through the Exceptional Leadership (ExCEL) Youth Initiative to advance health equity and environmental justice.
The Legacy Center dba Positive Images
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Sonoma County, Marin County, Mendocino County, Humboldt County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower 2S/LGBTQ+ youth of color in Sonoma County through culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate programs and leadership development to prevent and reduce substance use.
The LOVE Program
Capacity Building Cohort 3
San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to support Black and young women of color in San Bernardino through mentorship, service-learning, job readiness and career development opportunities to reduce substance use.
The Race and Gender Equity Project
Standard Cohort 4
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To promote healing and improve health outcomes for Black youth in Sacramento County through performing arts, motivational workshops, life coaching and mentorship to reduce and prevent substance use.
The RightWay Foundation
Standard Cohort 5
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To empower Black transitional-aged foster youth in Los Angeles County through healing-centered mentorship, civic engagement and education on effective strategies for policy change to inspire systems change that prioritizes substance use prevention and improves life outcomes.
The RightWay Foundation
Standard Cohort 2
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To promote healing, well-being and self-care of foster youth in Los Angeles through a comprehensive trauma-informed, healing-centered program to elevate youth voice in substance use education and youth-led change.
The Sacramento LGBT Community Center
Standard Cohort 4
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To promote healing and life outcomes for BIQTPOC youth in Sacramento County through an educational hub that will foster peer-to-peer support, center youth voice and increase access to culturally responsive mental health to reduce substance use.
The Source LGBT+ Center
Standard Cohort 5
Kings, Tulare County
Program Purpose
To empower queer youth in King and Tulare counties through an evidence-based harm reduction and civic engagement program to promote education, community building and positive coping skills that address substance use and resiliency of transitional-aged youth.
The Source LGBT+ Center
Capacity Building Cohort 1
Tulare County, Kings County
Program Purpose
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.
The Village Project, Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Monterey County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Black and Latinx youth in Monterey County through a youth-driven program utilizing grassroots movements with modern technology to decrease substance use.
The Wall Las Memorias Project
Standard Cohort 1
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To support the leadership development of Latinx and LGBTQ+ youth and young adults by developing campaigns and building public will for SUD prevention policy change in South, Southeast and East/Northeast Los Angeles.
The Wall-Las Memorias
Standard Cohort 4
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To support the leadership development of Latinx and LGBTQ+ youth and young adults in Los Angeles through campaign development, mentorship and building public will for substance use disorder prevention policy change.
The Young Peoples Foundation, Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower foster and system-involved youth in Los Angeles County through psycho-social substance abuse education, recovery groups and engagement services to live healthy lives.
Time of Change
Standard Cohort 5
San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To empower Latinx and Black youth in San Joaquin County through holistic support groups, mentoring and civic engagement opportunities to cultivate a community of empowered changemakers addressing substance use disorder and driving positive change at local and state levels.
Time of Change
Capacity Building Cohort 1
Sacramento County, Yolo County
Program Purpose
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.
Tiny Mighty and Strong
Standard Cohort 5
Modoc, Siskiyou County
Program Purpose
To mobilize and support the leadership development of youth in rural Modoc and Siskiyou Counties through education and youth-led conferences and campaigns to promote healthy decision-making skills and reduce substance use.
TLC Child and Family Services
Standard Cohort 3
Sonoma County
Program Purpose
To empower foster, LGBTQ2S+, BIPOC, homeless and transition-age youth in Sonoma County through peer-to-peer mentoring, skill development, trauma-informed and culturally sensitive clinical services and advocacy training to increase policy change and address conditions that contribute to substance use.
Touro University California
Standard Cohort 3
Solano County
Program Purpose
To improve the social and emotional outcomes of youth and decrease the use of and risk of use of substances through expanding a mentorship program to include a peer youth-developed and led culturally responsive substance use disorder curriculum in Solano County.
Trans & Queer Youth Collective
Standard Cohort 3
Sacramento County, Placer County, Amador County, Yolo County, El Dorado County, Marin County, San Bernardino County, Lake County
Program Purpose
To improve the health and well-being outcomes of LBGTQ2S+ and QTBIPOC youth and reduce mental health crises and rates of substance use and abuse by promoting healthy lifestyles, good decision making, advocacy and community building with peers in Sacramento.
Transitional Youth Mobilizing for Change (TYM4Change)
Standard Cohort 3
Kern County
Program Purpose
To empower youth of color to become agents of change through participatory action research, mentoring and documentary filmmaking to advocate for infrastructure and systems change at the city and county level of Bakersfield.
True North Organizing Network
Standard Cohort 5
Humboldt County
Program Purpose
To support Tribal and Latinx youth in Humboldt County through evidence-based community organizing, mentorship and social justice initiatives to reimagine communities and forge healthy pathways through wraparound supports addressing adolescent risk factors for substance use, misuse and disorder.
True North Organizing Network
Capacity Building Cohort 1
Del Norte County
Program Purpose
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.
TrueCare
Standard Cohort 4
Riverside County, San Luis Obispo County
Program Purpose
To empower Latinx/Hispanic youth in San Diego and Riverside counties through leadership development and peer-to-peer education to improve behavioral health outcomes and substance use awareness.
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Education Program, Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity for organizing and activism skills among Black and Latinx unhoused, formerly incarcerated and foster youth in Los Angeles County region through a peer-led support and leadership program to reduce substance use and improve life outcomes.
Two Feathers Native American Family Services
Innovation Cohort 1
Humboldt County
Program Purpose
To build the capacity of Native American youth and young adult leaders in Humboldt County through an intergenerational youth employment program that promotes the development of leadership and advocacy skills, while also expanding connection to cultural learning and knowledge.
Underground GRIT
Standard Cohort 4
Orange County
Program Purpose
To improve the health and social outcomes of youth credible messengers in Orange County through education, advocacy and narrative change to reduce substance use.
United Way of Santa Cruz County
Standard Cohort 4
Santa Cruz County
Program Purpose
To promote the well-being of Latinx youth in Santa Cruz County through connection to resources, positive peer-to-peer relationships, decision-making and leadership opportunities to reduce substance misuse.
Urban Peace Movement
Standard Cohort 4
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To increase the health and social outcomes of Black and Latinx youth in Alameda County through leadership development, civic engagement and youth-led community organizing to transform the youth justice system and increase awareness of positive coping mechanisms to prevent substance use disorder.
Urban Strategies Council
Standard Cohort 5
Alameda, Solano County
Program Purpose
To increase knowledge and self-efficacy of Black and Latino youth in Alameda and Solano counties through an evidence-informed youth fellowship program that influences practice, equitable policies and accessible systems to promote positive youth mental health.
Urban Strategies Council
Standard Cohort 2
Alameda County, Solano County, Contra Costa County
Program Purpose
To develop the leadership skills of youth of color through the Community Health ‘Fellows in Residence’ youth program in Alameda County, which will utilize mentoring/relation-building and peer-engagement strategies to advance policy changes and advance substance use prevention policies and programs in Oakland’s new Department of Violence Prevention.
Vallejo Commission for the Future
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Solano County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to promote the well-being of Black and Latinx youth in Solano County through civic engagement, peer mentorship and healing activities to increase resilience and reduce substance use.
Valley Dream Center
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Fresno County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to develop future leaders in Fresno County by training young adult peer mentors on leadership development and offering opportunities to gain leadership experience with other nonprofits.
Valley Health Associates
Standard Cohort 3
Monterey County, San Benito County
Program Purpose
To advance the leadership skills of youth in Monterey County through engaging and activating a youth coalition to advocate for policy, systems and environmental change aligned with harm reduction.
Valley Improvement Projects
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Stanislaus County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to provide Latinx youth in Stanislaus County with culturally appropriate opportunities to promote safe and enriching environments to reduce substance use.
Viet Rainbow of Orange County
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Orange County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to promote healing and build an ecosystem of trauma-informed support for LGBTQ+ youth of color in Orange County through community-led narrative change, cultural healing and community capacity to prevent substance abuse.
Vista Community Clinic, North San Diego County NAACP Youth Council and North Coastal Prevention Coalition
Standard Cohort 3
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To improve the health and social outcomes of African American and Hispanic students by addressing the disproportionate felony juvenile arrest rates by building leadership and advocacy skills among Youth Council members to advocate for youth prevention and utilize peer support and policy change to prevent youth vaping in San Diego County.
Walter Lee Wilmore (WLW) Foundation
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower youth of color in Los Angeles County through a public policy and media advocacy project to build community and improve life outcomes for youth.
Waymakers
Standard Cohort 3
Orange County
Program Purpose
To address the racial and socio-economic factors that lead to high rates of suspensions and juvenile arrests through a peer-led support program, leadership development and systems change campaign led by system-involved youth in Orange County.
Westminster Free Clinic
Standard Cohort 3
Ventura County
Program Purpose
To increase protective factors among immigrant, first-generation Latinx youth in Ventura County through a youth-led social justice advocacy and workforce development pipeline program that provides trauma-informed, culturally relevant trainings, mentoring, peer support, service learning and activities to promote healing and instill cultural pride.
Wraparound Enterprises
Capacity Building Cohort 3
Sacramento County, San Bernardino County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower Black youth in Sacramento and San Bernardino counties through media arts education to inspire creativity and instill confidence and skills to reduce substance.
Wukchumni Tribe
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Fresno County, Tulare County, King County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity for Wukchumni youth in Fresno, Tulare and Kings counties by training staff, youth leaders and community members to utilize the Gathering of Native Americans and White Bison curriculums to reduce substance abuse.
Yes 2 Kollege Educational Resources, Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 2
Sacramento County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to empower African American youth in Sacramento County through mental health and substance use disorder counseling with dedicated health professionals who reflect the community they serve to reduce stigma and prevent substance use.
YES Nature to Neighborhoods
Standard Cohort 4
Contra Costa County
Program Purpose
To promote healing and strengthen the leadership and civic engagement skills among Richmond’s Black and Latinx male and male-identifying youth and young adults to cultivate change-makers through empowerment activities, advocacy groups and family camps to strengthen communities and reduce substance use.
YES Nature to Neighborhoods
Standard Cohort 1
Contra Costa County
Program Purpose
To improve the health outcomes of African American and Latinx youth and young adults through peer-to peer mentoring, leadership development and policy advocacy minimizing access to substances in the city of Richmond in Contra Costa County.
YMCA of San Diego County
Standard Cohort 3
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To engage BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ youth through skills building, identity development and holistic services to empower youth to promote equity-focused policy and systems change.
Young Invincibles
Standard Cohort 4
Los Angeles County, Riverside County, Sacramento County, San Bernadino County
Program Purpose
To strengthen civic engagement outcomes of youth across California through community organizing, advocacy, narrative change, financial literacy and trauma-informed care to advance health equity and economic security.
Young Women’s Freedom Center
Standard Cohort 4
Alameda County, Contra Costa County, San Francisco County
Program Purpose
To promote healing and improve health outcomes by developing a collaborative of BIPOC formerly incarcerated, systems-impacted girls, women and trans people of all genders in Alameda and San Francisco counties through family unity and intergenerational healing practices to advance transformative justice processes and community-based alternatives to incarceration.
Youth ALIVE!
Standard Cohort 5
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To cultivate healing and empowerment for Latinx and Black youth in Alameda County through peer-led violence prevention and youth leadership programs to foster a thriving community of leaders and break the cycle of violence and youth substance misuse.
Youth Alliance
Standard Cohort 3
San Benito County, Santa Clara County
Program Purpose
To reduce the criminalization of youth of color and build youth-centered restorative school and community culture through healing, mentorship and social justice leadership development in at-promise and high-promise youth of color in San Benito and South Santa Clara counties.
Youth Empowerments Finest
Capacity Building Cohort 1
San Diego County
Program Purpose
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 Justice Coalition
Standard Cohort 4
Los Angeles County
Program Purpose
To empower Black and Latinx youth leaders in South Los Angeles communities of South Central, Watts and Compton through Street C.R.E.D. (Community Resources, Education, and Distribution) to address the overwhelming health and safety impacts of substance use disorder.
Youth Leadership Institute
Standard Cohort 4
Merced County
Program Purpose
To promote transformational healing of systems-impacted youth in Merced County through creative arts and culturally rooted enrichment activities that foster positive youth leadership development to achieve narrative change and reduce substance use.
Youth Leadership Institute
Standard Cohort 1
Merced County, San Joaquin County
Program Purpose
To promote healing through culturally rooted practices, support youth leadership and media advocacy skills for youth involved in the state prison system returning to Merced County, and to reduce the number of school suspensions or expulsions related to substances.
Youth Outreach and Learning Institute (YOALI)
Standard Cohort 5
Merced County
Program Purpose
To improve social and emotional outcomes of Latinx, Native, and Indigenous youth in Merced County through youth power building, civic engagement, narrative change media campaign and connection to traditional healing practices to increase resilience and reduce substance use.
Youth Radio (DBA YR Media)
Standard Cohort 5
Alameda County
Program Purpose
To amplify the voices of youth of color in Alameda County through the Youth Radio Stars young content creator program that uplifts youth artistic creation and perspectives to promote racial and health equity.
Youth Spirit Artworks, Inc.
Capacity Building Cohort 1
Alameda County
Program Purpose
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.
Youth Transforming Justice
Standard Cohort 3
Marin County
Program Purpose
To promote advocacy skills in Latinx youth to decrease disproportionate suspension rates through restorative and trauma-informed practices and harm-reduction diversion for substance use violations within the city of San Rafael schools and county probation.
Youth Utilizing Power and Praise Organization
Capacity Building Cohort 2
San Joaquin County, Alameda County, Santa Clara County, Contra Costa County
Program Purpose
To build organizational capacity to boost confidence and leadership skills among youth of color in San Joaquin, Alameda, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties through performing and fine arts, public speaking and sports programs to prevent risk factors that lead to substance abuse.
Youth Will
Standard Cohort 3
San Diego County
Program Purpose
To increase youth voice in decision making and criminal justice reform in San Diego County through increasing youth of color representation and a youth justice campaign to create a Transitional Age Youth Unit, trauma-informed justice system and age-appropriate supervision.
Yurok Tribe
Standard Cohort 2
Humboldt County, Del Norte County
Program Purpose
To reduce substance use and addiction among Yurok youth through traditional activities and programming to allow for deeper cultural connections, restorative justice, career development and activities that promote holistic health.