Recent Grantees
Area 2: Promote Behavioral, Mental, and
Emotional Health in Preteens (ages 9 to 13)
June 2009
After-School All-Stars of Greater San Jose
$25,000
www.afterschoolallstars.org
For Middle School Counseling and Transition Services, a program that will provide counseling to meet the emotional needs of students most at-risk of dropping out of school, and help students and parents prepare for the transition to high school.
Bay Area Partnership
$15,000
www.bayareapartnership.org
For the Funding Sources Project, which will provide two workshops offering concrete, practical information about five public funding streams that have been used successfully by After School Education and Safety and 21st Century Community Learning Center grantees. The grant includes funding for follow-up coaching for San Mateo and Santa Clara after school programs that attend the workshops.
Cleo Eulau Center for Children and Adolescents
$150,000 over two years
www.cleoeulaucenter.org
For the Resiliency Consultation Program, which aims to promote preteen students' social and emotional wellness by strengthening connectedness among teachers and other school staff with students and their families. The program also provides classroom coaches to help teachers implement strategies for managing high-risk youth.
Friends Outside in Santa Clara County
$25,000
www.friendsoutsideinscc.org
For the Youth Program, a year-round, comprehensive after-school program for preteens with incarcerated family members in Santa Clara County.
November 2008
Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI)
$150,000 over three years
www.aaci.org
For Afterschool Youth Programming, a year-round program emphasizing developmental assets and cultural awareness for preteen residents of the largest subsidized housing complex in San Jose.
Community Network for Youth Development
$150,000 over two years
www.cnyd.org
For the Youth Development Learning Network, which provides training and support to San Mateo County nonprofits, schools and government organizations that offer in-school or after-school programs. The Network aims to develop quality programs that will focus on building practices that best support youth and their development.
New Teacher Center
$366,000 over three years
www.newteachercenter.org
For Professional Development on Behavioral Health and Emotional Literacy, a collaboration with the Cleo Eulau Center to develop curricula on emotional and behavioral health for new teachers and their mentors; offer professional development on emotional literacy for school administrators; provide in-depth emotional literacy consulting to two middle schools; and offer professional development to 375 beginning teachers.
Project Cornerstone
$160,000 over two years
www.projectcornerstone.org
For the School Partnerships Program, to provide training and technical assistance for 26 elementary and middle schools to help staff, students and parents develop and implement strategies to decrease bullying and create safe, caring environments that value and promote all students' well-being.
WestEd
$410,000 over three years
www.wested.org
For Promoting Resilience and School Connectedness: A Youth & Data Driven Student-Family-School-Community Partnership Demonstration, to pilot-test a project using data from the California Healthy Kids (student) Survey, focus groups and community forums, to develop a program to improve preteen emotional and behavioral health at Bay Area middle schools.
Youth Community Service
$100,000
www.youthcommunityservice.org
For Service-Learning Quality Standards, to evaluate and revise the curriculum for an after-school service-learning program for underserved preteens from middle schools in the Ravenswood School District, and adopt standards for quality practices.
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