¡POR VIDA!
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¡POR VIDA! Annual Report 2023 – 2024
We’re excited to share our Annual Report with you.
Discover the stories, milestones, and progress we achieved this year.
Our Commitment
¡Por Vida! provides wraparound services, eliminates barriers to access, and coordinates available resources to improvement in:
- Socio-emotional well-being, cultural pride, sense of belonging
- Graduation rates, attendance, grades
- Goal-setting & college-readiness
- Accessing therapy, tutoring, and other services
Our Services
Individual Case Mangement
- Intensive Case Management
- Monitor academic progress, grades, attendance, GPA, credit completion, A-G completion
- Develop Youth Safety Plans and Goals
- Intervention for substance use, suicidality, and other safety concerns
Mentorship
- Open office hours for Por Vida! alumni
- Peer-to-peer mentoring
- Ongoing socioemotional support
- Increase a sense of belonging
- Reinforce teachings for culturally responsive curricula
Student Engagement
- Fieldtrips: Colleges, Universities, Leadership Development
- College & Career Readiness
- Networking Opportunities
- Workshops: Mental health, substance abuse, healthy relationships, and many more!
Culturally Responsive Student Support Groups
El Joven Noble
The Noble Youth Rites of Passage Character Development
A 12-week comprehensive healing centered, indigenous-based, youth leadership development program that supports and guides youth through their initial step of a “rites of passage” process while focusing on the prevention of substance abuse, teen pregnancy, relationship violence, gang violence, and school failure.
El Joven Noble
The Noble Youth Rites of Passage Character Development
A 12-week comprehensive healing centered, indigenous-based, youth leadership development program that supports and guides youth through their initial step of a “rites of passage” process while focusing on the prevention of substance abuse, teen pregnancy, relationship violence, gang violence, and school failure.
Girasol
Young Women’s Rites of Passage
This promising 13-week practice curriculum incorporates a healing informed, culturally responsive philosophy to embrace, engage, and assist female youth to face life’s challenges in a healthy, pro-social way. Topics include, rites of passage, healthy sisterhood, healthy connections, and honoring of the Sacred Feminine.
Girasol
Young Women’s Rites of Passage
This promising 13-week practice curriculum incorporates a healing informed, culturally responsive philosophy to embrace, engage, and assist female youth to face life’s challenges in a healthy, pro-social way. Topics include, rites of passage, healthy sisterhood, healthy connections, and honoring of the Sacred Feminine.
Culturally Responsive Parent Support Groups
Cara Y Corazón
Face and Heart Family Strengthening Program
Cara y Corazón is a culturally based family strengthening/ community mobilization program that assists parents and other extended family to raise and teach their children with a positive bicultural base.
Cara Y Corazón
Face and Heart Family Strengthening Program
Cara y Corazón is a culturally based family strengthening/ community mobilization program that assists parents and other extended family to raise and teach their children with a positive bicultural base.
Parent Engagement
- Family-Strengthening Workshops
- Referrals and warm handoffs to community resources
- Connection and networking opportunities
- Engagement in students education plans and goals
Parent Engagement
- Family-Strengthening Workshops
- Referrals and warm handoffs to community resources
- Connection and networking opportunities
- Engagement in students education plans and goals
Our Locations
Selina King
Case Manager Specialist
Phone: 805.608.8429
sking@onecommunityaction.org
Speaks Spanish and English
Cecilia Corona
Case Manager Specialist
Phone: 805.268.5885
ccorona@onecommunityaction.org
Speaks Spanish and English
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