Associated Community Action Program - Youth Services Division
The Alameda County Associated Community Action Program (ACAP) undertakes actions to eliminate the causes of poverty within the twelve cities and the unincorporated communities of the ACAP consortium--Piedmont, Pleasanton, Hayward, Union City, Alameda, Albany, San Leandro, Newark, Emeryville, Dublin, Fremont, Livermore and the Unincorporated Communities such as Ashland/Cherryland and San Lorenzo. To that end, ACAP’s Community Services Block Grant is used to provide services and to fund community programs supporting low-income families and individuals to become economically self-sufficient through jobs/housing linkages.
Youth Services Overview: The Youth Services Division (YSD) embraces a vision that all youth we work with are self-determined, realize their potential to succeed, and utilize their skills to make meaningful change in their lives and their communities. ACAP YSD utilizes a holistic and real-life, authentic approach to employment, education and empowerment by providing opportunities for discovery from the self to the community.
Values: Using a positive youth development framework, our Youth Services Division programs operate with the following values:
· Identifying, acknowledging, affirming, empowering and creating opportunities for young people
· Identifying, capitalizing on, and acquiring resources and creating exposure for young people
· Providing education and continued learning through both formal and non-traditional pathways to education
· Serving young people in an aesthetically pleasing, technologically advanced and welcoming and safe environment
Our Future, Our Youth: The young people that we work with represent a wide demographic in Alameda County (with the exception of Berkeley and Oakland). ACAP works with youth ages 14-24. 100% are from primarily low-income backgrounds and challenged urban communities. A majority of them are at-risk of being directly or indirectly impacted by the “systems” such as the foster care system and/or the juvenile justice system. ACAP participants represent a wide ethnic background: 41% are African American, 18% White, 17% Latino/a, and 13% Asian.
Because we value and believe in the young people that we serve, ACAP YSD is working towards building a youth informed and youth driven division by establishing a youth advisory board.
Youth Services Core Programs:
Youth Services Overview: The Youth Services Division (YSD) embraces a vision that all youth we work with are self-determined, realize their potential to succeed, and utilize their skills to make meaningful change in their lives and their communities. ACAP YSD utilizes a holistic and real-life, authentic approach to employment, education and empowerment by providing opportunities for discovery from the self to the community.
Values: Using a positive youth development framework, our Youth Services Division programs operate with the following values:
- Working with an asset based and strength based approach
- Creating opportunities and challenges while pushing boundaries
- Critical thinking
- Providing an inspiring learning environment
- Leadership and well-being
· Identifying, acknowledging, affirming, empowering and creating opportunities for young people
· Identifying, capitalizing on, and acquiring resources and creating exposure for young people
· Providing education and continued learning through both formal and non-traditional pathways to education
· Serving young people in an aesthetically pleasing, technologically advanced and welcoming and safe environment
Our Future, Our Youth: The young people that we work with represent a wide demographic in Alameda County (with the exception of Berkeley and Oakland). ACAP works with youth ages 14-24. 100% are from primarily low-income backgrounds and challenged urban communities. A majority of them are at-risk of being directly or indirectly impacted by the “systems” such as the foster care system and/or the juvenile justice system. ACAP participants represent a wide ethnic background: 41% are African American, 18% White, 17% Latino/a, and 13% Asian.
Because we value and believe in the young people that we serve, ACAP YSD is working towards building a youth informed and youth driven division by establishing a youth advisory board.
Youth Services Core Programs:
- Employment Readiness: through our 3-Employment Training Academies and Heart of Eden AmeriCorps Program
- Education and Life Skills: offering free GED preparation courses, tutoring and 1:1 youth advocates who work with you to meet your goals
- Empowerment and Leadership: through our Youth Leadership Council, our Youth Transition Program for older youth ages 18-24, and exploratory opportunities.
Associated Community Action Program (ACAP)
Sam Tuttleman
Interim Executive Director
Eden Area Multiservice Center
24100 Amador Street, Third Floor
Hayward, CA 94544-1203
P: 510-690-8546
F: 510-690-8563
