City Youth Now

We have been honored with a Top-Rated Award for 2020 from GreatNonprofits! We appreciate all of your contributions! https://greatnonprofits.org/org/city-youth-now

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The staff and Board of City Youth Now would like to welcome Mr. Anthony Williams to our Board of Directors! Anthony comes to us with over 22 years of experience providing individual and group holistic health programs including Transformational Life Coaching. . . . We are very excited to have Anthony as a member of the City Youth Now family and look forward to his guidance for improving our programs and services for the youth in our community! #nonprofit #support #boardofdirectors #boardmember #boardservice

Prioritizing kinship care is one of the best uses of agency resources. Kin care improves child and family well-being and at the same time keeps children out of costly, developmentally inappropriate congregate placements, Gasca-Gonzalez says. Most important, engaging families in caring for children strengthens family ties and keeps kids safe and thriving. https://www.aecf.org//aecf-supportkinshipcaregivers-2020.p

Beautiful day soaking up the sun with our City Surf Project family This weekend we got a small group together for another weekend surf camp. Tons of positive interactions, first-times and I’m definitely doing this again ‘s

"When you look beyond the headlines about gun violence in New York City and actually spend some time in neighborhoods like East Harlem, it is clear that what our community doesn’t need is increased policing and incarceration what we need is more basic resources and opportunities. " https://jjie.org//for-community-policing-to-work-we-need-/

There are still slots left for families to participate in family paint night! Know a youth or family that might be interested? Send us an email at [email protected]

We are elated to shared our Annual Impact Report with you! You can find it here: www.cityyouthnow.org/reports

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic local youth and families have experienced a variety of challenges. We have been able to provide individualized, impactful, direct support to approximately 320 foster and justice involved youth and families in the community during this time. As the COVID-19 situation continues to develop we will work to stay on the frontline by providing immediate and accessible support foster and justice involved families and youth in need. #communityservice #communitysupport #bettertogether #covid19support

Teenaged voting is on the ballot! https://www.potreroview.net/teenage-voting-transfer-parcel/

"California continues to see significant changes to its criminal laws. In 2011, AB 109 shifted the responsibility for many felony prisoners from the state to the counties. In 2014, Proposition 47 re-designated many theft and drug crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. In 2016, Proposition 57 allowed serious felony offenders early release on parole." https://www.plumasnews.com/new-criminal-laws-and-propositi/

Join us along with some amazing panelists for a virtual higher education series. Want to know more about college, trade schools, financial aid, transitioning from a community college to another school? We’ve got you covered! This will be an educational & fun series of workshops! Did I also mention we have prizes?

Planning to do some shopping for #AmazonPrimeDay ? Make City Youth Now your AmazonSmile charity! Every time you shop we get a donation to help further our mission of providing programs and services to youth in the San Francisco foster and juvenile justice systems.

Looking for a way to celebrate & learn today? Join the National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian for a virtual program: https://nmai.brand.live/c/indigenouspeoplesday