Tribal Positive Youth Development
Positive Youth Development adapted for Tribal communities through the incorporation of cultural identity, traditions, language, and community connections.
Family Group Conferencing
A family-led decision-making process adapted from Māori traditions that empowers families and communities to develop solutions for child welfare and social service needs.
Strengthening Families Program
An evidence-based family skills training program that improves parenting practices, youth social skills, and family relationships while reducing substance use and behavioral health risks.
Triple P – Positive Parenting Program
A multi-level evidence-based parenting and family support program designed to strengthen parenting skills and improve child well-being.
Chronic Disease Self-Management Program
An evidence-based workshop that helps individuals manage chronic health conditions through goal setting, problem solving, and peer support.
Communities That Care
An evidence-based prevention framework that helps communities identify priorities and implement programs to improve youth outcomes
Experience Hope for Teens
Experience Hope for Teens is a school-based intervention that aims to prevent and reduce trauma-
related behavior problems for African American students by increasing their access to trauma-informed
services, increasing school capacity to respond in a non-punitive, healing-focused and restorative
manner to trauma-related behavior, and decreasing students’ trauma symptoms, such as Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, dissociation, internalizing, externalizing, and complicated
grief reactions. This Community Defined Evidence Program (CDEP) is designed to create culturally-
responsive places of healing in the African American community.
The Safe Passages Law and Social Justice Life Coaching Projec
The Safe Passages Law and Social Justice Life Coaching Project (LSJ Life Coaching Project) is a prevention and early intervention program that aims to prevent and/or reduce exposure to chronic stress, including trauma from their experiences growing up in poverty, exposure to racism, being disenfranchised from the education system, and being subjected to the Juvenile Justice system, including incarceration, for African American adjudicated youth ages 16 to 21 by decreasing: mental illness or the severity of symptoms associated with trauma or mental illness, suicide, toxic stress on youth and their families, school failure or drop out, unemployment, incarcerations/ recidivism, homelessness, and increasing/improving: seamless coordination among programs and systems, exposure of community to the program and its resources, streamlined access to services, local infrastructure to support the reduction of mental health disparities, program enrollment, relationships with caring adults, healthy relationships, happiness, mental health, family stability, family strength, engagement in learning, academic outcomes, likelihood of high school graduation, enrollment in post-secondary educational and training
The Villiage Project
he Village Project, Inc.’s Emanyatta Project is a prevention and early intervention program that is intended to prevent and/or reduce symptoms of clinical depression and anxiety in children from kindergarten to 4th grade. The project necessarily involves families of these children for the purposes of support in these efforts as well as to strengthen the resilience and internal strengths of the children. It is through this involvement that the Phase I priority of family psycho-education is achieved. An additional component to strengthen the internal resources of the children is the project’s focus on building pride in cultural and ethnic heritage as a means of achieving higher levels of academic achievement and self-esteem.
The Sweet Potato Program
The Sweet Potato program at the West Fresno Family Resource Center is a prevention program that aims to prevent and/or reduce school drop-out, gang involvement, and substance use initiation for African American youth ages 12-15 by decreasing internalized oppression, hopelessness, and low collective efficacy, while increasing engagement in collective economic activity, college intentions, mentoring, and leadership development. It is designed to address the Phase I African American strategic recommendations to focus PEI on community-based efforts specifically addressing African American culture and to address the co-occurrence of mental health conditions and socioeconomic challenges.