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.
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.
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.
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.
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...