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SocialServiceHumanRelationsBoard | 2011-12-01 | 2 | development programs focused on Multimedia, Child Development, Health & Human Services, and Legal Studies West End Alameda students attending Encinal, ACLC, Alternatives in Action's BASE, [and list others] have benefited from participating in our career prep programs, paid & unpaid internships, and college & career guidance and workshops. Youth founded Home Sweet Home preschool in 1998, and today it serves 42 children and families with licensed daycare. Currently, 31 youth interns receive professional career training in Early Care and Education. Home Sweet Home interns partner with Head Start to support children and families in the Alameda community. Edgar has more than 100 hours direct service with children through Home Sweet Home preschool. He attended a four day professional development conference through NAREA which networked him internationally with Early Childhood educators - Edgar brought his learning back to Home Sweet Home and has shared it with children, youth and families in his work as a student intern. Media studies provide over 60 youth a year with technical training in video production and sound engineering. Project Youth View is the premiere Alameda event identified with this project group, impacting over 500 people annually and offering youth the opportunity to share their stories and viewpoints through the Art of filmmaking. Current partners include HBO and the Bay Area Video Coalition. Dee has a strong career interest in event production, and has applied his technical training to attain a paid job in this field, where he was recently promoted as manager. Dee represented Alternatives in Action at the Comcast Youth Tech Summit in Sept 2011, sharing the stage with the mayor of San Francisco as issues and concerns around youth social networking were highlighted. Alternatives in Action's Legal Studies project group provides over 40 teens a year with legal training and partners with McCullum Youth Court to provide a restorative justice opportunity for teens who take responsibility for their actions to make appropriate restitution through community service. Becca has partnered with both the Legal Studies program and Home Sweet Home, driven by her strong interest in support of children and families; she is researching best college programs for family counseling and has her eye on University of Chicago. Through our work with Alternatives in Action, we understand and have identified that access to transportation, especially affordable youth access to enable their ability to independently travel to jobs and internships; and affordable, full day childcare for working and return-to-work parents are two significant needs of the Alameda community. Liz Varela, ED - Building Futures with Women and Children (BFWC): Ms. Varela thanked the City and the Community for being a great partner to Midway for the 25+ years it has operated in Alameda. She explained that1/2 of BFWC's programming is in the City of Alameda, and includes their operation of Midway Shelter, Bessie Coleman Court on Alameda Point, and other DV services. She expressed the concern that, with reduced funding from CDBG and other DV and Shelter programs, combined with the elimination of HAP funds, agencies like BFWC will reach the "tipping point" This is a point where programs and services can no longer be trimmed down any more and agencies face the possibility of needing to close. It forces an agency like BFWC that operates three Shelters and the Housing at Bessie Coleman Court to look at making some incredibly difficult decisions. BFWC has also provided the case-management for the Homeless Prevention - Rapid re housing Program (HPRP) at the Mid-County Hub for the past two years. This has been made possible by Stimulus Funding, which is scheduled to go away in six months. Over the past two years, the program has provided $500,000 in rental assistance to families-in-need in Alameda County. (She has offered to put together a presentation for the board regarding HPRP) | SocialServiceHumanRelationsBoard/2011-12-01.pdf |