Youth Initiatives

Priority Area: Reducing Alcohol and Drug Use Among Young People

FAST

FAST is a family-building program. We meet with groups of families at school once a week, for eight weeks, and for 2 1/2 hours. The starting time will be determined. The FAST Program supports families like yours: To be stronger communicators, strengthen family ties, to have fun, and learn more and get more out of your community.

The FAST Program is designed and run with these goals in mind: To encourage family members to express their emotions with one another and with respect, to strengthen communication and closeness, to promote student achievement and success in school, to be fun for the entire family and to support parents as they learn about work with their children's schools and other community resources.

YOUTH PARTNERSHIP

Youth Partnership (YP) is an initiative of Fighting Back Partnership that provides Vallejo youth an opportunity to build leadership skills and engage in positive community change. YP focuses primarily on the areas of alcohol, tobacco, and drug prevention, as well as other health and social justice concerns. We seek to provide a safe, supportive, and empowering youth-led, adult-guided environment.

Youth Partnership strives to build a community where youth leadership and civic engagement are valued, and where youth collaborate regularly with adults on important decisions and initiatives that help sustain a healthy and just community.

4 Program Elements of YP: • Supporting the brand-new Youth Community Change Coalition (YC3) • YOU(th)LEAD Leadership Experience • Youth Internship Program • Training and Technical Assistance

For more information, contact: Jason Goltiao Youth Programs Assistant (707) 648-4172 / jgoltiao@fight-back.org. or Mark Mora, Youth Programs Manager (707) 648-4030 / mmora@fight-back.org

SOLANO MENTOR COLLABORATIVE

The mission of the Solano Mentor Collaborative is to carry out a strategy to strengthen local mentoring programs, which includes increasing the number of adult mentors, and to offer our communities' youth a means to make positive choices.

Five Easy Steps to Becoming a Mentor:

  1. Call (707) 648-5230 and ask for Mentoring
  2. Fill out the application that you will receive in the mail
  3. Come to a screening interview. This will include fingerprinting and a background check
  4. Attend an orientation and training session
  5. Pick a mentoring program that fits your skills and interests