Our Mission
The mission of Youth First is to ensure our community is safe for our families, schools, businesses, and visitors by valuing youth. We will do this through coordinating and supporting existing community resources and supporting the creation of additional resources that will provide positive experiences to help develop the necessary qualities that will enable our youth to make positive life choices and avoid criminal activity, substance abuse, and gang activity.
Youth First Mission & Goals
Goals
Youth
- Engage and empower local youth in our schools and community, because young people who are involved in and connected to the community are more likely to engage in positive behaviors.
- Increase positive youth involvement within community and schools.
- Increased opportunities for involvement.
- Increased participation.
- Increased recognition for youth positively involved in the community and school.
- Improve employment opportunities for youth
- Advertisement of youth opportunities
- Increase positive youth involvement within community and schools.
- Engage and empower local youth in our schools and community, because young people who are involved in and connected to the community are more likely to engage in positive behaviors.
Community
- Increase and strengthen community collaboration to reduce crime and violence
- Increase collaboration between law/code enforcement and rental property owners & landlords.
- Decreased calls to problem areas/clusters.
- Continue code enforcement activity.
- Increase community involvement with preventing and reporting crime.
- Community education about gangs.
- Promotion of crime reporting.
- Increase community collaboration.
- Increase attendance in Youth First meetings and support for Youth First missions.
- Review and advise on the SCPP grant.
- Increase community cultural understanding.
- A system for promotion/marketing of youth and family oriented community events/in-services.
- Translation to Spanish of materials.
- Increase collaboration between law/code enforcement and rental property owners & landlords.
- Increase and strengthen community collaboration to reduce crime and violence
Family
- Strengthen families
- Provide workshops and education
- Asset training
- Parenting classes
- Education for parents about why youth join gangs and how to help them
- Develop a stronger support network for families and promote family
- Quarterly publication
- Web Site
- Provide workshops and education
- Strengthen families