LINKS
Bay Area Women's and Children's Center
Bay Area Women's and Children's Center is a non-profit organization
located in the heart of the Tenderloin of San Francisco. BAWCC provides
information, referrals, and a free clothes closet for low-income
women, children and families in our community. www.bawcc.org
The Beat Within
The Beat Within is a weekly publication of writings and art from
“inside” juvenile halls around the country. www.thebeatwithin.org
California Youth Connection
California Youth Connection is an advocacy/youth leadership organization
for current and former foster youth. “We are young people,
who because of our experiences with the child welfare system,
now work to improve foster care, to educate the public and policymakers
about our unique needs and to change the negative stereotypes
many people have of us.” www.calyouthconn.org
Enterprise for High School Students
Enterprise for High School Students (EHSS) is a citywide school-to-work/youth
development agency that guides youth to find and retain jobs,
to be trained and engage in experiential learning, and to explore
career interests. www.ehss.org
First Place Fund for Youth
The First Place Fund for Youth is an Oakland-based nonprofit organization
founded in 1998 to remedy the lack of services available to youth
who are making the difficult transition from foster care to independent
living. www.firstplacefund.org
Honoring Emancipated Youth
HEY is a collaborative of public and non-profit agencies dedicated
to helping youth successfully transition out of foster care. www.heysf.org
Legal Services for Children
LSC provides free legal and social services to children and youth
under 18 years old in the San Francisco Bay Area in the following
areas: dependencies, guardianships, emancipations, hearings arising
out of school discipline, special education, benefits, immigration,
and other cases not easily categorized. www.lsc-sf.org
A Miner Miracle
A Miner Miracle provides professional clothing and image counseling
to low income men, women, and young adults seeking employment.
The purpose of the program is to move disadvantaged people into
the workplace by educating them to present themselves well and
with pride. www.aminermiracle.org
SF CASA
San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteer advocate/mentors
are sworn court officers trained to work one-on-one with children
in the Juvenile Dependency Court system, to assess individual
needs, to advocate for necessary services, and to serve as trusted
mentors and friends. www.sfcasa.org/
San Francisco Department of Children,
Youth and Their Families
One of the few city departments in the country dedicated exclusively
to young people, DCYF enhances the lives and futures of San Francisco's
children and youth through innovative partnerships with parents
and youth, community organizations, city departments, schools,
funders and the private sector. www.dcyf.org
San Francisco Department of Human Services
The Department of Human Services serves almost 100,000 San Franciscans
each year. The people we serve are those who suffer hardship or
who have been unable to participate fully in the social and economic
life of the community. www.sfgov.org/site/dhs_index.asp
San Francisco Department of Public Health —Maternal and
Child Health Section
The mission of the Maternal and Child Health Section is to promote
the health and well being of women of childbearing age, infants,
children and adolescents who are at increased risk of adverse
health outcomes by virtue of financial, language or cultural barriers,
or mental or physical disabilities by assuring access to health
promotion and health care services.
www.dph.sf.ca.us/PHP/MCH/MaternalChildHlth.htm
San Francisco Independent Living Skills Program
The San Francisco Independent Living Skills Program supports current
and former foster youth to meet life's challenges and work towards
getting what they need to become self-sufficient, successful adults.
www.sfilsp.org
San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department
The San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department is the city agency
responsible for investigating referrals on youth who are alleged
to be beyond parental control or who are alleged to have committed
a crime. SFJPD provides supervision services for youth who are
wards of the court or who have been deemed in need of such services
by the Superior Court, Juvenile Division, for the City and County
of San Francisco.
As part of these services, the Department operates two facilities:
the Youth Guidance Center where Juvenile Hall is located and the
Log Cabin Ranch School in La Honda.
www.sfgov.org/site/juvprobation_index.asp
San Francisco Youth Commission
The San Francisco Youth Commission is a chartered city commission
made up of a group of 17 young people between the ages of 12 and
23 who advise the mayor and the Board of Supervisors on youth
issues in San Francisco. www.sfgov.org/youth_commission
YO!SF
YO!SF is a program to educate and empower young people ages 14
to 21 years who live in designated "YO! Zones"—Bayview/Hunters
Point, the Mission, South of Market and Visitacion Valley. Sponsored
by the U.S. Department of Labor and the Private Industry Council
of San Francisco, YO!SF is part of a national YO! Movement designed
to create personal growth and employment opportunities for youth
and help them to become self-sufficient adults. www.yosf.org
Youth Speaks
Youth Speaks is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to helping
young people find their "voice" through programs led
by experienced poets and writers; presentation opportunities;
events and competitions; and collaborative experiences with other
young people. Youth Speaks has inspired young people to become
poets and spoken-word artists and has provided them with valuable
empowering experiences that help them hone their creative and
critical thinking skills, writing skills, and presentation skills
and abilities.
www.youthspeaks.org
Youth Treatment and Education Court (YTEC)
YTEC's model - unique among youth drug courts nationwide - integrates
treatment with education to support court and drug involved youth
in addressing their academic, emotional, substance abuse and delinquency
issues in the least restrictive environment.
www.sfgov.org/site/mocj_page.asp?id=4809
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