PENINSULA / SOUTH BAY
Bill Wilson Center
Volunteer Coordinator: Erica Werpetinski
The purpose of the Bill Wilson Center is to support and
strengthen the community by serving youth and families through
counseling, housing, education, and advocacy. Bill Wilson
Center serves over 10,000 clients in Santa Clara County annually.
AmeriCorps Job Titles and Descriptions:
Independent Living Skills
Facilitator/Case Aide
Bill Wilson Center provides independent living skills training
for youth in foster care, between the ages of 16-21. The Independent
Living Skills Facilitator/Case Aide will be responsible for
various duties, including: Help foster youth develop a transitional
plan to successfully educate themselves in order to emancipate
out of the foster care system; act as a role model for foster
youth and teach them to advocate for change for themselves
and for the foster care system in an appropriate manner; provide
independent living skills and life skills curriculum to foster
youth on an individual and group basis.
Outreach Counselor
- Drop In Center
The primary emphasis of this position is to conduct street
outreach to areas frequented by street youth, provide HIV/STI
and substance abuse information and services, increase street
youths' awareness of community resources and provide counseling
and follow-up services to street youth.
Location & Contact
Info:
3490 The Alameda
Santa Clara, CA 95050
P: (408) 850-6138
E: ewerpetinski@bwcmail.org
W: www.billwilsoncenter.org
Youth and Family Enrichment Services-Crisis Center
Contact: Amanda Freeman
The Crisis Center is a program of Youth and Family Enrichment
Services that provides support and resources around the issue
of suicide. The Crisis Line was one of the first in the country,
founded by one of the pioneers of the crisis movement, Charlotte
Ross, in 1966. The primary function is to provide immediate,
24-hour assistance to people in times of great stress or
grief.
AmeriCorps Job Titles and Descriptions:
Website Coordinator: The
Crisis Center has a youth run website called onyourmind.net.
This website is "for teens, by teens." It provides
accurate mental health referrals and information for topics
such as suicide, depression, eating disorders, health, sexual
identity and drug abuse. In addition, the site offers a live
online chat that gives youth the opportunity to communicate
with their peers. The AmeriCorps member is responsible for
the recruitment and training of the youth volunteers.
Suicide Education: The
Crisis Center provides interactive workshops covering topics
such as suicide myths and facts, risk factors, warning signs
and how to talk to someone who is suicidal. The AmeriCorps
member is responsible for setting up presentations to local
high schools and organizations as well as executing them.
Location & Contact Info:
610 Elm St., Ste. 212
San Carlos, CA 94070
P: (650) 579-0359
F: (650) 342-6727
E: amanda.freeman@yfes.org
W: www.yfes.org
California Community
Partners for Youth
Contact Person: Jeff Bornfield, Executive Director California
Community
Partners for Youth (CCPY)
focuses on challenged teens who want the ability to make
new life choices. CCPY is currently serving at risk students
with one of the highest high school dropout rates in the
area.
The notion of "by example" is an important
one to CCPY. By having youths and adults interact in an open
and non-judgmental way through group and individual discussion/meetings
and social events, CCPY aims to help the youths imparts a
sense of demonstrates the value of staying in school, and
guides the youths through a process of creating a new vision
for their lives.
AmeriCorps Position Description:
Life Skills/Success Coach for CCPY/Yerba
Buena High School
- To recruit, support and manage the participation
of 16 youth in order to produce intended results
- To recruit,
support and coordinate the 1 to 4 YB school staff supportive
relationships
- To orient, support and interface with the
parents of YB participating youth
- To recruit, support and
manage the participation of 5 to 10 mentors to work with
YB participating youth
- To coordinate all aspects of youth,
parent, YB staff and mentors from Step Up enrollment to
Step Ahead program follow-through
activities.
- To maintain and expand
relationship between CCPY & YB
/ supporting agencies.
- To prepare former Step Up youth
to be assets in Step Ahead and supportive to next Step
Up.
Location & Contact Info:
Yerba Buena High School
1855 Lucretia Ave.
San Jose, Ca 95112
P: (408) 392-8544
E: jeffb@ccpy.org
W: www.ccpy.org
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Middle School-Youth Engaged in Learning and Leadership
(YELL)
Youth Development Coordinator: Jennifer Carleton
Based on the premise that youth have important and valuable
insights into school and community improvement, the YELL
project guides youth through a process that helps them
learn how to think critically about their environment,
access the tools and resources to become knowledgeable
people, and draw upon their experiences and skills to
be active decision-makers in their schools and communities.
AmeriCorps Job Description:
The AmeriCorps members develop and facilitate the after-school
YELL program for the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades.
The AmeriCorps members supervise and support in youth
service projects, fundraisers, and field trips.
Location & Contact Info:
2521 Goodwin Ave.
Redwood City, CA 94402
P: (650) 365-4611
E: Jennifer.carleton@yfes.org
W: gardnercenter.stanford.edu/
support_community/rwc_yell.html
New Perspectives-East Palo Alto
Program Director: Stacy Nitta
New Perspectives assists students
with the productive management of their lives. Students
involved in the program are presented
with the necessary tools for affecting and maintaining
positive academic, social and family environments. We build
lasting partnerships with community services, school faculty
and students. New Perspectives is dedicated to creating
positive change in our students and their community. We
do this by providing quality, developmental services to
the youth.
New Perspectives provides on campus, after school
recreation services at several school sites in the
Ravenswood School
District. These services are provided to 5th – 8th
grade students with parental permission.
Services include:
sports, arts and crafts, environmental education, Lifeskills,
developmental lessons, drug and
alcohol prevention, team building and leadership activities.
Additionally there are field trips during program and
monthly field trips on weekends. AmeriCorps Job Description:
AmeriCorps members work
directly with the youth in the after-school program.
Location & Contact
Info:
1798B Bay Road
East Palo Alto, CA 94303
P: (650) 330-7452
E: snitta@bacr.org
W: www.bacr.org/2203_np_epa_after_school.htm
East
Palo Alto High School
Contact: Rebecca Altamirano
East Palo Alto High School is a small, neighborhood
public high school that is preparing its diverse student
body for college and the 21st century workplace. As a
charter public school, they are open to all students,
have no admission requirements and do not charge tuition.
This school aims to meet the needs of students by combining
the most successful models of urban school reform, with
highly qualified teachers and a curriculum that connects
the work of the school to the life of the community.
The opportunity to create East Palo Alto High School
was realized when a collaboration was established between
Stanford University, Aspire Public Schools and Ravenswood
School District. Today East Palo Alto High School is
a Stanford University school.
AmeriCorps
Job Title and Description:
The AmeriCorps members run the community service
class doing service learning in a collaboration with the
high school students and students at the Menlo Oaks Elementary
School. The AmeriCorps members also play a vital role in
helping prepare seniors for college by assisting them with
college applications. The members also run an after-school
tutoring program.
Location & Contact Info:
475
Pope Street
Menlo Park, CA 94025
P: (650) 329-2828
E: raltamirano@stanfordschools.org
W: www.epahs.org
49er’s
Academy
Program Director: Heather Turoczi The 49ers Academy
serves 6th, 7th and 8th grade students from East
Palo Alto. These kids
benefit from a small,
nurturing and personalized environment. The
population is primarily
made up of low-income minority youth and
it is safe to say that many of the kids served by the
49ers
Academy exhibit high-risk behaviors. These
children are often
characterized
as hard to reach and hard to teach. Next
to
the family, the Academy is the major source of development
for
these
students. Our goal, quite simply, is to keep
these kids in school.
AmeriCorps Job Description:
The AmeriCorps members work
alongside a teacher in the classroom. They assist in
instruction
and provide
one
on one tutoring to those students who
need extra support. The members also provide
homework assistance
after-school.
Location & Contact Info:
2086 Clarke Avenue
East Palo Alto, CA 94303
P: (650) 614-4319
E: Heather_49ersacademy@hotmail.com
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