for Youth, Inc.

      * Youth Succeeding through Training, Restorative Initiatives, Volunteering and Education
 
 
Restorative Initiatives
 
ySTRIVE members identify and cooperate with initiatives that help to restore youth to their families and their families to their communities.
Annual Youth Retreat April 8-10, 2011 Application available soon

Previous Annual Retreats (2001-2009)

Tee Shirt Contest Winning samples

Regulations and What to Pack here

~Additional Pick up location~

La Cuesta High School

710 Santa Barbara Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2232

(805) 966-0883

Organizations listed below such as Homeboy Industries and others have measurable effective change as part of their mission and are not just service agencies...

ySTRIVE for Youth is a proud member of

Making A Difference Intervention Collaborative (website) PARTNER

  • All for One Youth Mentoring Program
  • Homies Turf to Surf
  • Primo Boxing "Say Yes to Kids"
  • Youth Cinemedia
  • ySTRIVE for Youth, Inc
 

Other Initiatives we know make a difference (listed in alphabetical order)

Casa Esperanza (website) - open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Offering a wide array of services for the homeless, with an emphasis on both emotional and physical health

* In collaboration with Casa Esperanza and New Friendship Baptist we provide for a free lunch program (Mon-Fri from 11:30-12:30 pm) at 912 E. Cota in Santa Barbara

Food Bank of Santa Barbara (website) - is a non-profit organization working to eliminate hunger by providing food, education and other resources to a network of hunger-relief charities and their communities.

* Will begin collaboration with Food Bank and New Friendship Baptist to provide a weekly food distribution program for its surronding community (starting February 2010) at 912 E. Cota in Santa Barbara

Homeboy Industries: Trips (website) - Jobs not Jails: Homeboy Industries assists at-risk and formerly gang-involved youth to become positive and contributing members of society through job placement, training and education.

* In collaboration with La Cuesta High School we take students to visit when funds permit. We are still looking to collaborate with them in the future. Some of our past trips:

[March 2006] [Jan 2007] [July 2007] [Nov 2007]

Liberty Program (website) - provides a service for the removal of antisocial tattoos from persons willing to exchange the treatment for community service with the goal of improving body, mind and spirit.Ph. (805) 563-9294

* We have provided community service opportunities that qualify for treatment since 2006. We are still looking to collaborate with them in the future.

Santa Barbara Teen Legal Clinic (website) - To educate (The Street Law)) youth about their legal rights and responsibilities and to empower them to make decisions that will allow them to grow into responsible and productive adults in our community.

* In collaboration with SBTLC we provide community outreach, assistance in fund-raising and act as a liasion to MADIC.

or use the links below to see our photos.

701 E Haley St

Santa Barbara, CA 93103

(805) 884-196

Permission Slips available soon! “Jobs not Jails” in Los Angeles with over 20 years of success in changing the lives of ex-gang members through employment and training.As the G.R.I.P. program and now as ySTRIVE we maintain a productive relationship with the Santa Barbara Teen Legal Clinic, StreetLaw program. StreetLaw continues to be part of our focus as ySTRIVE because it provides classroom instruction for our peers and focuses on a positive and proactive understanding of our legal rights and responsibilities. We have successfully worked with the Santa Barbara Police Department on yearly three-day youth and police retreats. On these retreats an average of 35 youth a year, who would otherwise only have negative interaction with law enforcement on the streets, get to spend positive time with officers in the foothills of Montecito.