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Our Purpose
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Conocimiento is a youth prevention-based program that makes use of a community collaboration process to reduce adverse outcomes in adolescents living with ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences). Youth receive wellness and cultural education and develop leadership skills while breaking down small-town rivalries. ACEs have proven to create an impact on the youth’s long-term health leading to trauma. Being exposed to trauma impacts the youth by creating a toxic-stress response. The response disrupts normal functioning of the human brain and could lead to health and mental health problems to children, teenagers and adults.
YOUTH OUTCOMES
- Provide youth with a safe and healthy environment to accomplish life goals both short and long term.
- Improving resilience to withstand adversity and overcoming hardship.
- Learning cultural values by learning, practicing and celebrating our heritage.
- Breaking the Stigma of gang violence and bringing cohesion with Fillmore and Santa Paula youth.
VALUE PROPOSITION
- Cultivating resilience by unlocking social and cultural awareness.
- Creating and mentoring youth leaders for their success and their community
- Youth engagement to enhance tools to succeed in life and pursue a career.
- Youth attend and plan fun and educational field trips while developing their knowledge.
Conocimiento Youth Leaders
Sharing the Teen Experience
Conocimiento youth experience
Conocimiento alumni experience
Conocimiento alumni experience
“Conocimiento has given me the opportunity to meet new people as well as experiencing and going to places I have never been to before. Before I would be a very quiet person and hangout by myself, so Conocimiento helped me socialize and meet new people.”
Maria Robles
Conocimiento alumni experience
Conocimiento alumni experience
Conocimiento alumni experience
“Conocimiento helped me get out of my comfort zone by improving my public speaking skills and implementing them in my daily life. Therefore, I am no longer shy of speaking in public.”
Juan David Linares
Culturally Based Curricula for Positive Youth Outcomes
COMpadres network
COMpadres network
COMpadres network
The mission of the National Compadres Network is to strengthen and re-root the capacity of individuals, families, and communities to honor, rebalance, and redevelop the authentic identity, values, traditions, and indigenous practices of Chicano, Latino, Native, Raza, and other communities of color as the path to the honoring of all their relations and lifelong well-being.
JOVEN NOBLE
COMpadres network
COMpadres network
El Joven Noble is a comprehensive healing-centered, indigenous based, youth leadership development program that supports and guides youth through their initial step of a “rites of passage” process while focusing on the prevention of substance abuse, teen pregnancy, relationship violence, gang violence, and school failure.
Made possible through the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA)
