Announcement - Advancing Opportunities for Adolescents Partnerships and Projects

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1	Partnership location	Partnership Name (if applicable)	Lead partner	Other organizations in this partnership	Description of project funded through this AOA effort

2	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Statewide Afterschool Network (GSAN)	Georgia Statewide Afterschool Network	Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta; Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, Fulton County Juvenile Court	The partnership will use youth voice and partner expertise to understand and address barriers court-involved youth encounter. Specifically, we will work to strengthen the Evening Reporting Center model, which combines mandatory reporting with positive youth development and services to combat the sociopolitical factors that cause youth to become court involved.
3	Aurora, CO	Young Men of Color	Aurora Public Schools	Sims-Fayola Foundation, Colorado UpLift, Young Men of Purpose, Conflict Center, YAASPA,Youth on Record	The Young Men of Color program is a collaborative of nonprofit community partners working to advance educational equity through the delivery of positive-youth development programming at Aurora Public Schools’ middle and high schools.
4	Bridgeton, NJ	Bridgeton: Community as a Campus	Hopeloft	Hopeloft, United Advocacy Group, Century Bakery, Mayor's Office of the City of Bridgeton, Rowan College of South Jersey	Hopeloft empowers young people in Bridgeton, NJ facing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) to achieve their goals from graduating college to entering the workforce to earn family sustaining wages. Our partnership establishes a “community as a campus” by transforming vacant storefronts into a full-service educational and career campus where youth grow, learn and lead.
5	Chattanooga, TN	Hamilton County-Chattanooga Children's Cabinet	Chattanooga 2.0	City of Chattanooga, Hamilton County Government, Hamilton County Schools, United Way of Greater Chattanooga, numerous youth-serving community-based organizations	Our project will support the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Children’s Cabinet's focus on systemically at-risk and disengaged youth by improving Cabinet data systems and infrastructure, supporting fiscal-mapping of youth programming, creating youth voice structures and supports, and improving and aligning summer and after-school experiences for youth.
6	Chicago, IL	The Cities Mentor Project (Cities Project for short)	DePaul University	Chicago Public Schools, Loyola University, Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago	The Cities Mentor Project is a collaboration between Chicago Universities and Chicago Public Schools. Our mission is to eliminate inequality through education. Wallace Foundation funding will support the development of infrastructures within each partner to ensure program sustainability.
7	Cleveland, OH	MyCom-VIP	MyCom	PeaceMakers, ChangeSeekers, Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU), Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD)	Our collaborative is working to reduce community violence, especially youth violence, throughout Cleveland. We will not only provide violence prevention services like safe-passages and violence interruption, but will also complete a landscape analysis of all violence prevention programs in order to identify service gaps, community needs, and associated training.
8	Duluth, Minnesota		Northland Foundation	Ely Community Resource, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Moose Lake Community School, North Shore Area Partners, Something Cool, Inc., and Aitkin Public Schools.	The Northland Foundation’s AGE to age program will work with up to 16 rural communities in northeast Minnesota to improve each community’s capacity to address emerging needs of underserved and at-risk youth, and create sustainable, culturally-relevant intergenerational learning enrichment programming to improve mental health and help youth thrive.
9	Hartford, CT		Capitol Region Education Council (CREC)	Compass Youth Collaborative, Connecticut Center for Nonviolence, Peace Center of Connecticut	The purpose of our partnership is to join community and school-based resources to interrupt violence and destructive behavior through positive youth development and position youth for a happy and healthy future. We are three organizations focused on peace and a school district; we recently began working together more purposefully to address violence, trauma and mental health needs. We have seen the benefits of our collaborative approach and have taken steps to sustain the partnership.
10	Houston, TX	Connect Community Partnership	Connect Community	St. Luke's United Methodist Church- Gethsemane Campus; reVision; PX Project	Our partnership will create a data-sharing platform to map the journey and outcomes of Gulfton's majority newcomer youth as they intersect with multiple organizations. This system will allow our youth to feel supported in their journey through our holistic, out-of-school time programs and empowered to track and celebrate their achievements.
11	Kailua, Hawaiʻi	Kaulu Collective	Kauluakalana	Windward Academy for Career and Technical Education Hawaii Workforce Pipeline	Our project will strengthen existing initiatives and map new opportunities for our partners to offer culturally-grounded, ʻāina (land) learning experiences for Native Hawaiian youth that restore identity and pride in self and community and lead them to pursue majors and/or careers that are seeking innovative thinkers with on-the-ground experience who are driven by responsibility to homeland and community.
12	Kingston, WA	Navigating Education	Voices of Pacific Island Nations	Kitsap Strong	Navigating Education (NE) is a tutoring and mentoring program that will improve youth's academic achievement and educational outcomes through positive relationships and social-emotional and academic support. NE will address disparities, monitor student progress, and provide educational support in English Language Arts, Math, Reading, Science, and Social Studies.
13	Long Beach, CA	Long Beach Youth Opportunities Partnership	Mayor's Fund for Long Beach	Pacific Gateway Workforce Innovation Network; City of Long Beach Office of Youth Development	Long Beach Partners are committed to continuing to enhance and leverage the work of multiple organizations and programs to address/reduce systemic barriers and create more holistic opportunities captured within the goals of the Long Beach Strategic Plan for Youth and Emerging Adults - particularly within our Black and Latino communities. Partners seek to support the development of skills among local youth, facilitate greater engagement in decision making settings, and increase youth influence and involvement in Long Beach civic work.
14	Los Angeles, CA	Arts for Healing and Justice Network	Arts for Healing and Justice Network	LA Youth Uprising (LAYUP) Coalition, Department of Youth Development, AHJN member organizations including Jail Guitar Doors, No Easy Props, & The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company	AHJN hopes to transform the landscape of the juvenile justice system in LA County and beyond. In our Youth Leadership Development program (where our partnership focuses its cross-learning activities) we help to connect advocacy to those most impacted; centering arts and art-making as a way to build community, partnership, and resilience in systems-change work; and using the arts to shift how people see each other as a way to increase empathy and solidarity.
15	Los Angeles, CA	Los Angeles County Arts Education Collective	Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture	Los Angeles County Office of Child Protection, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Arts for Healing and Justice Network, Arts Ed Collective Funders Council	To advance shared leadership of the LA County Arts Ed Collective, a community working group will implement a Countywide framework for arts-based, healing-centered engagement that honors culturally- and community-specific approaches; a new leadership body that reflects our communities will be formed; and youth will contribute their expertise through paid opportunities.
16	Milwaukee, WI	Milwaukee Succeeds' Youth Forward MKE Coalition	Milwaukee Succeeds	Teach For America Milwaukee, MENTOR Greater Milwaukee, Black Educators Caucus, Urban Underground, SKY Schools	Launch the Milwaukee Freedom Academy, which will provide youth with personal and professional leadership development in the areas of anti-racism, organizing and advocacy, culturally and community responsive pedagogy, and trauma-informed healing approaches to create an education-focused autonomous youth council and a local talent pipeline to education.
17	Minneapolis, MN	Better Together Hennepin	Better Together Hennepin, Hennepin County Public Health	NorthPoint Health and Wellness, myHealth for Teens and Young Adults, Neighborhood HealthSource, Prairie Seeds Academy, Sojourner Truth Academy, Hopkins Public Schools, Community Research Solutions and Informed Change Consulting	The Health Mentor Model promotes adolescent sexual health and wellbeing by partnering with schools, adolescent-friendly clinics, and organizations to offer sexual health and healthy youth development programming that is innovative, responsive, and focused on health equity.
18	Nashville, TN	Nashville After Zone Alliance (NAZA)	Nashville After Zone Alliance (NAZA)	Metro Nashville Public Schools Nashville Public Library Juvenile Justice Center/Juvenile Court of Nashville	Our project will focus on youth with multiple barriers, including youth in alternative learning centers, justice-involved youth, youth from concentrated refugee or immigrant communities, youth living in public housing projects, etc. The project will pilot youth development and enrichment opportunities for these groups to remove barriers to access. Additionally, we will create a referral mechanism between NAZA, MNPS and Juvenile Justice Center to be able to systematically route youth with barriers to regular NAZA-funded afterschool and summer programs to create opportunities for youth learning and development.
19	New York, NY		ExpandED Schools	New York City Public Schools New York City Department of Youth and Community Development City University of New York various community based organizations	We seek to increase access to work-based learning opportunities for youth grades 6 to 16 that allow them to explore their interests, identities, and passions and navigate the educational and professional steps to a fulfilling career, with specific focus on multilingual learners, students with disabilities, and career pathways for educators.
20	Philadelphia, PA	Career Connected Learning Alliance (CCLA)	Philadelphia Works	City of Philadelphia-Office of Children and Families; School District of Philadelphia	The goal of this partnership is to further the Career Connected Learning work to ensure every student is connected to a career pathway and graduates ready to succeed in local and regional employment. This grant activity will focus specifically on ensuring seamless access to programming for young people and improving programmatic quality.
21	Poughkeepsie, NY	Poughkeepsie Children's Cabinet	Poughkeepsie Children's Cabinet	The Art Effect; Boys & Girls Club of Poughkeepsie; City of Poughkeepsie; Community Matters 2; Dutchess County; Family Services; and Poughkeepsie City School District	Our project will focus on generating and aligning sustainable resources for our city’s youth services sector through strategic financial planning, cost-modeling, policy recommendations, and the creation of a local dedicated fund for youth services, with outcomes and priorities guided by the development of a permanent youth engagement infrastructure.
22	Providence, Rhode Island		Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Rhode Island	Pawtucket Central Falls Health Equity Zone, the Pawtucket Family YMCA	The Pawtucket Central Falls Health Equity Zone, led by LISC as the backbone agency, has prioritized youth engagement as an important metric to support improved health outcomes and has created a task force that brings together the Pawtucket and Central Falls school districts, after school programs, social services, youth and families in a united effort to address low graduation rates.
23	Red Wing, MN	RiseUp Red Wing Youth Partnership	RiseUp Red Wing	Red Wing Public Schools, Goodhue County Education District, Hispanic Outreach of Goodhue County, Goodhue County Health and Human Services	Our partnership spurs shared action among committed partners to support youth in unleashing their potential. This project will expand a key goal of advancing youth advocacy by creating spaces for our youth to express concerns, making room at leadership tables for them, and providing them resources to support their ideas.
24	Richmond, VA	Richmond Out-of-School Time Alliance	NextUp RVA	City of Richmond Richmond Public Schools Additional Partners: YMCA of Greater Richmond Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond Community Foundation of Greater Richmond Communities In Schools of Richmond United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg various OST providers in Richmond	We are building a strong year-round system of accessible and equitable out-of-school time learning resources for Richmond City teens so that they discover their talents and build positive relationships. This involves capacity building and public-private funding to a diverse network of providers, landscape mapping, shared data management, online program locator, and public awareness campaign on the importance of out-of-school time.
25	Salinas, California	Youth Modern Life Skills Mentoring Initiative - Rural Central Coast Rising	Hartnell College Foundation	Center for Community Advocacy (CCA), Partners 4 Peace (P4P) and Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance (PVPSA)	Our Modern Life Skills Mentorship program will serve first generation immigrant youth by providing guidance on career pathways through five success elements: social/emotional well-being, money management, career readiness, civic engagement and leadership development, and academic success. A success team and an advisory committee will offer additional wrap around support.
26	Santa Fe, New Mexico	Santa Fe Community Educators Network (SFCEN)	Santa Fe Community Educators Network (SFCEN)	Partners in Education, Santa Fe Public Schools, City of Santa Fe, Nonprofits, museums, etc	SFCEN will reevaluate how we are structured and how we incorporate youth voice in our work, creating a youth advisory council for the network, responding to those voices with action, and offering more choice in programs in partnership with the City and Public Schools. We want to better understand and meet the changing needs of our community through providing equitable access to the rich cultural and environmental resources across our community.
27	St.Paul,MN	Tech Geeks Partnership	30,000 Feet	Ramsey County Corrections, Health Partners, Ramsey County Workforce Solutions, Xchange	The goal of the partnership is to provide a safe space for youth to receive pro-social support while completing their probationary terms, while also diverting them onto a career pathway that will improve the quality of their lives. A key result of the program is bringing wealth to BIPOC communities in St. Paul.
28	Taos, NM	Taos Education Collaborative: Pipelines and Pathways	Taos Education Collaborative	Taos Behavioral Health (The Nurturing Center), Taos Alive, Twirl Taos, True Kids 1	This TEC project, Pipelines and Pathways: Closing the Opportunity Gap for Rural New Mexican Youth, focuses on building a networked system of comprehensive out-of-school opportunities for Taos County teens in order to re-engage Taos youth and families in positive, impactful learning experiences.
29	Vicksburg, MS	The United Way of West Central Mississippi's Middle School Coalition	United Way of West Central Mississippi	The City of Vicksburg, Warren County Board of Supervisors, Warren County Youth Court, Vicksburg Police Department, Vicksburg Warren School District, Vicksburg Family Development	The following activities are critically important to advance our cross-sector partnerships focusing on middle school adolescents: 1) formal asset mapping of current after school tutoring/mentoring programs in the community; 2)develop and implement a literacy tutoring/mentoring program tailored to middle school students; 3) standardize data collection and sharing protocols in order to understand program-specific as well as community wide growth and needs.
30	Wayne County, NY (Sodus, NY)	The Wayne County Partnership for Strengthening Families	Sodus CSD	County of Wayne, Literacy Volunteers, Finger Lakes Community Action, Network for Youth Success	Wayne County Community Schools is a shared initiative between government, organizations and school districts in Wayne County. We aim to strengthen formal partnerships for a more robust service platform and increasingly activate youth voice to address voids in workforce opportunities and absence of youth voice.
31	Windham, CT	Windham Youth Advocacy Collective	GROW Windham	EASTCONN, Eastern CT State University, Quinebaug Valley Community College, Windham Public Schools, Town of Windham, Project Imo, Loida Reyes, PhD (Equity Consultant)	The Windham Youth Advocacy Collective builds and amplifies the voices of youth - particularly disconnected youth - within our community; and convenes youth, community members, and school- and community-based partners to respond, both by advocating for the opportunities and supports that youth are asking for, and addressing the barriers that are holding youth back.
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