June 2008

Area 2: Promote Behavioral, Mental, and Emotional Health in Pre-Teens
(ages 9 to 13)

Asian American Recovery Services, Inc.
$220,000 over 2 years
http://www.aars-inc.org/
For Em-Power (Vietnamese for Sister Power), an after-school culturally focused pilot program designed to promote the developmental resilience of preteen A sian Pacific Islander girls at Morrill Middle School in San Jose.

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County
$135,000 over 2 years
http://ccsj.org/
For El Toro Youth Center, which provides after-school academic, behavioral, recreational, and developmental support for preteens, primarily from very low-income, immigrant, monolingual Spanish-speaking homes in Morgan Hill.

Citizen Schools
$100,000 over 2 years
http://www.citizenschools.org/
For Leading the Way in A fter School Learning, to support partial salary and programmatic supply costs for after-school programming at six middle schools in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties serving low-income youth.

Coastside Children's Programs
$105,000 over 2 years
http://www.coastsidechildren.org/
For Preteen Youth Enrichment Program, to provide ongoing enrichment activities, special creative presentations and staff training at a comprehensive after-school program located on-site at three elementary schools in the under-resourced Coastside region.

Mexican American Community Services Agency
$135,000 over 3 years
http://www.macsa.org/
For Gilroy Zero Drop Out Leadership Academies, serving Latino preteens living in an extremely high poverty area and providing year-round programming to build leadership, cultural pride and academic skills.

Mid-Peninsula Boys and Girls Club
$100,000 over 2 years
http://www.midpenbgc.org/
For CORE Enrichment Programs, College Park, which offers school-aligned skill-building, enrichment and recreational programs to 4th and 5th graders at the College Park Clubhouse, located in the high-need neighborhood of College Park in San Mateo .

Sacred Heart Community Service
$115,000 over 2 years
http://www.shcstheheart.org/flash.html
For Turn the Tide Youth Education Program, which provides after school mentoring, academic support, social and cultural enrichment, and family support services to students in grades four through eight from the low-income Alma-Washington-Gardner neighborhoods south of downtown San Jose.

Santa Clara County Office of Education
$90,000 over 3 years
http://www.sccoe.k12.ca.us/
For Santa Clara County After School Collaborative, to strengthen and expand a network of after-school programs, which offers a central mechanism for programs to connect with each other, share information, leverage efforts, and access resources such as staff trainings. The collaborative also will implement strategies to address systemic shortages in qualified staff for after-school programs.

Third Street Community Center
$95,000 over 2 years
http://www.3street.org/
For After School Program, an enrichment program that aims to promote leadership, foster resiliency, and increased academic achievement in students (ages 8 to 11) who attend Horace Mann Elementary, an under-resourced school in downtown San Jose where 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced price lunch.