Youth Opportunities Collaborative
Project Overview | Youth Violence Prevention News
Overview: About the Collaborative
CalSAC's Youth Opportunities Collaborative (YOC) is a network of South Santa Clara County violence
prevention
stakeholders, including: afterschool programs; community organizations; juvenile justice, health, and social work programs; parents; youth and more.
The project was designed to identify sustainable strategies
to curb youth violence and promote youth development.
Funded by a grant from the federal Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration, the major
goals of YOC include:
- increasing the number and scope of protective-factor development activities available to youth in
Santa Clara County;
- addressing the most urgent risk factors in the community
by mobilizing stakeholders to promote the increase
of youth development programs in high-risk areas;
- developing a strategy of sustainability for all youth
development projects implemented or promoted by the
Collaborative; and
- educating the community on youth development, with
outreach to at-risk populations.
As of January, 2007, this project has been folded into the South County
Collaborative, a collaborative that brings together
education, health, workforce, homeless, and welfare
advocates from across Southern Santa Clara County to
help fill the many needs of the area's communities.
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