Mission Statement

Vallejo's Fighting Back Partnership is a non-profit collaboration that partners with business, residents, and government to improve neighborhoods, strengthen families, and support youth development creating a safe, healthy and thriving community.

History of Fighting Back Partnership

Concerned Vallejo citizens and the City Council expressed alarm in 1988 at the increasing use of alcohol and drugs within the community and formed a Red Ribbon Committee to address this problem and explore programs and services that could potentially result in a meaningful reduction of substance abuse.

In 1988 four representatives from this committee, Jane Callahan, Tony Pearsall, Henry Elliott and Cynthia Kay went to Nashville to attend a mandatory presentation by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They were awarded a 2 million grant to unite the community to comprehensively address its substance abuse problems. This sparked the creation of Fighting Back Partnership, a non-profit agency that partners with businesses, residents, community organizations and local governments to improve neighborhoods, strengthen families and support youth development. The agency was formed for the purpose of orchestrating Vallejo's fight against drug and alcohol abuse and the suffering they cause.

Over the past 18 years, Fighting Back Partnership has worked to dramatically reduce drug and alcohol use among Vallejo children and families and related crime and violence.

There are three main initiatives the agency focuses on: Families, Neighborhoods and Youth.

Current programs that cover these areas include: Neighborhood Revitalization, Family Resource Center, FAST (families and schools together), Youth Partnership and Mentoring Collaborative.