Standard Track Cohort 7
January 2026 – December 2028
Learn how our 57 Standard Track Cohort 7 partners are leading change with youth in communities through prevention, outreach and education.
‘ataaxum Pomkwaan
Alpine County, Los Angeles County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County
$1,000,000.00
To increase the leadership development of Native youth in Riverside and San Diego counties through mentorship and advocacy to address the root causes of trauma, promote healing and reduce youth substance use.
Asian Refugees United
Alameda County
$800,000.00
To support LGBTQIA+ Asian American youth in Alameda County through art-based storytelling, mentorship, and community healing to reduce youth substance use and improve health.
Binational of Central California
Merced County, Fresno County, Madera County
$800,000.00
To empower Latinx, immigrant, and system-impacted youth in Fresno, Madera, and Merced counties through leadership training, culturally rooted mentorship, and a credible messenger program to strengthen protective factors, improve health and prevent youth substance use.
California Health Collaborative
Tulare County
$1,000,000.00
To empower 2S/LGBTQIA+ youth of color in Tulare County through healing-centered activities, peer-led talking circles, and youth advocacy to strengthen cultural protective factors, reduce stigma surrounding substance use disorder prevention and improve health.
California Heritage Indigenous Research Project
Butte County, Nevada County, Yuba County
$996,283.00
To empower Native 2S/LGBTQIA+ youth in Butte, Nevada, and Yuba counties through land-based learning, peer-led leadership development, and family-centered engagement to foster intergenerational relationships, promote healing and prevent substance use.
California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
Fresno County, Kern County, Riverside County, San Bernadino County
$621,891.00
To develop the leadership capacity of 2S/LGBTQIA+ Black and Asian youth in the Fresno, Kern, Riverside, and San Bernadino counties through youth-led civic engagement and trauma-informed relationship-building to increase protective factors, promote healing and prevent substance use.
California Youth Connection
Merced County, Monterey County, Orange County, Placer County, Riverside County, Sacramento County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, San Francisco County, San Joaquin County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Shasta County, Stanislaus County, Ventura County, Yolo County,
$900,000.00
To empower systems-impacted and foster youth in Sacramento, San Mateo, and Shasta counties through youth-led civic engagement and systems change to strengthen belonging, community well-being, and increase protective factors for substance use disorder prevention.
Center for Human Services
Stanislaus County
$750,000.00
To empower the leadership of Latinx youth in Stanislaus County through civic engagement and culturally rooted healing approaches to build pathways of resilience and equity to reduce substance use disorder and improve health outcomes.
Central Valley Empowerment Alliance
Kern County, Tulare County
$900,000.00
To engage Asian and Latinx youth in Kern and Tulare counties through culturally relevant mentorship, civic engagement, and peer-led storytelling to foster resilience, prevent substance use and improve health outcomes.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
$1,000,000.00
To engage youth of color in Los Angeles County through youth-led civic engagement and peer support programming to strengthen protective factors, prevent substance use and improve health outcomes.
City of Dreams
San Francisco County
$600,000.00
To empower Black youth in San Francisco County through healing-centered mentorship, peer-led coaching, and leadership development to strengthen young change makers with protective factors that reduce risks tied to substance use.
Community Health Councils
Los Angeles County
$900,000.00
To empower Black and Latinx youth in Los Angeles County through culturally relevant leadership development, civic engagement skills building, and healing-centered peer mentorship to cultivate strong community protective factors to prevent substance use and improve health outcomes.
Community Health For Asian Americans
Alameda County, Contra Costa County
$600,000.00
To enhance the leadership of youth of color in Alameda and Contra Costa counties through cultural peer groups, civic engagement training, and youth-led civic engagement to strengthen community protective factors, prevent substance use and improve health.
Concrete Development
San Joaquin County
$800,000.00
To empower systems-impacted youth of color in San Joaquin County through culturally rooted leadership development, youth-led civic engagement, and mentorship to support community resilience, promote healing and prevent substance use.
Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians
Mendocino County
$800,000.00
To build the leadership of Native youth in Mendocino County through cultural reconnection and youth-led civic engagement to strengthen community protective factors, improve health outcomes and reduce substance use.
Freedom 4 Youth
Santa Barbara County
$999,000.00
To develop the leadership of systems-impacted youth in Santa Barbara County through restorative justice diversion and healing-centered mentoring to promote healing and reduce substance use.
Fresh Lifelines for Youth
Alameda County, Contra Costa County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County,
$800,000.00
To empower Latinx and Black youth in Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties through peer support, mentorship, and youth-led service-learning projects to promote healing and prevent substance use.
Fresno Metro Black Chamber Foundation
Fresno County
$800,000.00
To engage systems-impacted Black and Latinx youth in Fresno County through leadership development, mentorship, and civic engagement to increase health outcomes and prevent substance use.
Girls Inc. of the Northern Sacramento Valley
Shasta County, Tehama County
$600,000.00
To empower rural youth in Shasta and Tehama counties through civic engagement and mentorship to increase youth capacity to influence systems change, promote healing and prevent substance use.
Hmong Innovating Politics
Fresno County, Sacramento County
$1,000,000.00
To strengthen the leadership development of Hmong and Southeast Asian youth in Fresno and Sacramento counties through youth-centered healing and leadership development to strengthen civic engagement and reduce substance use.
Hmong Youth and Parents United
Sacramento County
$600,000.00
To empower Southeast Asian youth in Sacramento County through culturally responsive mentorship, leadership development, and youth-led civic engagement to strengthen protective factors, promote healing and reduce substance use.
Improve Your Tomorrow
Sacramento County, Stanislaus County
$900,000.00
To support the leadership of boys of color in Sacramento and Stanislaus counties through mentorship, leadership development, and civic engagement to improve health and reduce substance use.
Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation of the Cortina Rancheria
Butte County, Colusa County, Glenn County, Tehama County
$750,000.00
To engage Native youth in Butte, Colusa, Glenn, and Tehama counties through a peer-led mentorship and civic engagement program to promote healing and prevent substance use disorder.
Koreatown Youth and Community Center, Inc.
Los Angeles County
$1,000,000.00
To develop leadership of Asian, Black, and Latinx youth in Los Angeles County through relationship building, internships, and Youth Participatory Action Research projects to increase protective factors, improve health outcomes and prevent substance use.
Latino Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services
Tulare County
$1,000,000.00
To empower Latinx youth in Tulare County through peer-led support, leadership development, and family engagement to strengthen protective factors against substance use and improve health.
Legacy LA Youth Development Corporation
Los Angeles County
$1,000,000.00
To develop the leadership of Latinx youth in Los Angeles County through civic engagement, mentorship, and youth-led education campaigns to improve health outcomes and reduce substance use.
LGBTQ+ Collaborative
Amador County, Calaveras County, Mariposa County, Stanislaus County, Tuolumne County
$900,000.00
To build the skills of 2S/LGBTQIA+ youth of color in Amador, Calaveras, Mariposa, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne counties through mentorship, leadership development, and youth-led civic engagement initiatives to prevent substance use and improve health outcomes.
Mentoring in Medicine & Science, Inc
Alameda County, Contra Costa County
$750,000.00
To strengthen leadership of Black and Latinx youth in Alameda and Contra Costa counties through peer-led prevention education and youth-led civic engagement to strengthen protective factors and prevent substance use and improve health.
National Compadres Network
Los Angeles County, Santa Clara County,
$750,000.00
To build the skills of Latinx youth in Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties through intergenerational mentorship and culturally grounded leadership development to address the root causes of substance use and promote healing.
North County Health Project
Riverside County, San Diego County
$999,774.00
To empower Latinx youth in Riverside and San Diego counties through youth-led prevention campaigns, leadership development, and civic engagement to reduce substance use and improve health outcomes.
Northern California Indian Development Council, Inc
Del Norte County, Humboldt County, Siskiyou County, Trinity County
$850,000.00
To promote healing of Native youth in Del Norte, Humboldt, Siskiyou, and Trinity counties through culturally-rooted peer support, mentorship, and leadership development to improve health outcomes and reduce substance use.
Oakland LGBTQ Community Center
Alameda County
$766,532.00
To amplify leadership in 2S/LGBTQIA+ Black and Latinx youth in Alameda County through youth-led civic engagement, cultural healing, and intergenerational mentorship to build community resilience, improve health outcomes and reduce substance use.
On The Move
Napa County, Sonoma County
$750,000.00
To empower 2S/LGBTQIA+ Latinx youth in Napa and Sonoma counties through youth-led civic-engagement, peer-led support, and mentorship to foster safe and inclusive spaces of belonging, improve health outcomes and reduce substance use.
One Community Action of Santa Maria Valley
Santa Barbara County
$600,000.00
To engage Latinx and systems-impacted youth in Santa Barbara County through culturally rooted mentorship, youth-led civic engagement, and leadership development to strengthen protective factors, improve health outcomes and reduce substance use.
Opening the World
Marin County, Sonoma County
$600,000.00
To support systems-impacted Latinx youth in Marin County through peer mentorship, prevention education, and social justice youth development to reduce substance use and improve health.
Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance
Los Angeles County, Orange County
$750,000.00
To elevate Latinx, Asian, and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander youth in Los Angeles and Orange counties through leadership development, mentorship, and youth-led civic engagement to promote healing and prevent youth substance use.
PASSION AND PURPOSE MINISTRIES
San Joaquin County
$450,000.00
To empower youth of color in San Joaquin County through peer-to-peer leadership development, civic engagement, and mentorship to reduce substance use and improve health.
Project Optimism
Los Angeles County, Sacramento County
$800,000.00
To promote the leadership of Latinx and Black youth in Los Angeles and Sacramento counties through trauma-informed mentorship, peer-led education campaigns, and restorative justice practices to strengthen cultural identity, promote healing and reduce youth substance use.
Public Health Institute
Sacramento
$1,000,000.00
To engage Black and Latinx youth in Sacramento County through leadership training, peer-led support, and civic engagement to strengthen community protective factors, improve health outcomes and reduce youth substance use.
Queer Humboldt
Del Norte County, Humboldt County, Mendocino County, Siskiyou County, Trinity County
$1,000,000.00
To empower 2S/LGBTQIA+ youth in Humboldt, Mendocino, Siskiyou, and Trinity counties through peer-led skills building, civic engagement, and culturally responsive mentorship to build protective factors, promote healing and reduce substance use.
Realistic Education in Action Coalition to foster Health (REACH LA)
Los Angeles County
$900,000.00
To improve the resilience of 2S/LGBTQIA+ youth of color in Los Angeles County through intergenerational mentorship, culturally rooted peer support, and youth-led civic engagement to reduce youth substance use and improve health.
Reinvent South Stockton Coalition
San Joaquin County
$600,000.00
To empower youth of color in San Joaquin County through leadership development, social justice mentorship, and civic engagement to establish restorative healing practices and reduce substance use.
San Lorenzo Hayward Acres Mobilized (SLHAM)
Alameda County
$600,000.00
To develop the leadership of Latinx youth in Alameda County through peer mentorship, youth-led civic engagement, and internship opportunities to increase protective factors, improve health and reduce substance use disorder.
Santa Cruz County Black Health Matters Initiative Youth Ambassadors Program
Santa Cruz County
$450,000.00
To empower Black and Latinx youth in Santa Cruz County through cultural connection programs, peer support, and social justice leadership development experiences to reduce substance use and improve health outcomes.
The Cambodian Family
Orange County 100%
$1,000,000.00
To engage Southeast Asian and Latinx youth in Orange County through mentorship, culturally rooted leadership development, and participatory action research to prevent substance use and improve health.
The Exception
Riverside County, San Bernardino County
$600,000.00
To empower systems-impacted Latinx and Black youth in Riverside and San Bernardino counties through leadership development, cultural connection, and civic engagement to strengthen family and community connections, improve health outcomes and reduce substance use.
THE LOVE PROGRAM
Riverside County, San Bernardino County
$600,000.00
To empower Black and Latinx youth in Riverside and San Bernardino counties through a culturally responsive trauma-informed prevention program, youth-led storytelling campaigns, leadership development, and civic engagement to reduce substance use and improve health.
The Race and Gender Equity Project
Sacramento County
$900,000.00
To engage Black youth in Sacramento County through peer-led healing programs, leadership development, and youth civic engagement to strengthen protective factors, address the root causes of substance use and improve health outcomes.
The Wall- Las Memorias
Los Angeles County
$800,000.00
To empower 2S/LGBTQIA+ Latinx youth in Los Angeles County through mentorship and civic engagement to reduce substance use, promote healing and improve health.
Underground GRIT
Orange County
$1,000,000.00
To elevate Latinx youth in Orange County through a credible messenger program, youth-led civic engagement, and leadership development opportunities to improve health outcomes and prevent substance use.
Urban Peace Movement – Oakland
Alameda County
$1,000,000.00
To empower Black and Latinx youth in Alameda County through leadership development and youth-led civic engagement to prevent substance use, promote healing and improve health.
Vallejo Commission for the Future
Solano County
$750,000.00
To engage youth of color in Solano County through peer and adult mentorship, youth-led civic engagement, and leadership development to reduce substance use and improve health outcomes.
YES Nature to Neighborhoods
Contra Costa County
$900,000.00
To engage Latinx and Black youth in Contra Costa County through culturally rooted activities, youth-led civic engagement, and leadership development to promote healing and prevent youth substance use.
Young Invincibles
Los Angeles County, Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County
$1,000,000.00
To strengthen the leadership of transitional-aged Latinx youth in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties through peer mentorship, youth-led civic engagement, and participatory research to prevent substance use and improve health outcomes.
Young Women’s Freedom Center
Contra Costa County, Los Angeles County, San Francisco County, Santa Clara County,
$1,000,000.00
To empower systems-impacted Black and Latinx youth in Contra Costa, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Clara counties through mentorship, civic engagement, and leadership development to prevent youth substance use and improve health.
Youth Justice Coalition
Los Angeles County
$1,000,000.00
To support Latinx and Black youth in Los Angeles County through peer mentorship, community education, and youth-led civic engagement to prevent substance use, promote healing and improve health outcomes.
Youth Leadership Institute
Merced County
$1,000,000.00
To support youth of color in Merced County through youth-led storytelling, civic engagement, and leadership development to reduce substance use and improve health.