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We are currently holding Every Youth
Included programs at
North County Community High School, Challenge Charter High School,
Juvenile Hall, and Fairview High School.
If you are interested in having Every Youth Included become part of your organization
please contact Aydin Kennedy at (530) 570-3156 or e-mail at programs@ccychico.org.
Every Youth Included is a strengths-based program
for youth and young adults from diverse cultures and ethnicities
which uses the arts, theatre, interactive events and adventure
outings for self discovery, to build resiliency, and promote
awareness and respect for the rich diversity of humankind.
The emphasis is for participants to have fun and make new
friends, provide peer group support and adult mentoring,
and discover healthy alternatives for recreation.
The Every Youth Included facilitation team is a well-trained
group of young adults from a diversity of backgrounds
who have a rich background working with youth in a variety
of capacities. They provide a lively, fun and safe environment
for young people to creatively and effectively explore the
sensitive issues they face in their lives
The Every Youth Included facilitation team
is available to implement programs at schools, community centers
and other youth-serving agencies through-out the North Valley
region at minimal cost. For more information about bringing
Every Youth Included to your school or agency, contact
CCY.
Every Youth Included themes:
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Journey Within: Honoring Self begins with introductory activities and establishment
of safe space, where each participant commits to acceptance
and respect for the other group members. Themes are self-awareness,
self care and building resiliency. Participants identify
their inherent strengths, and consider goals for a successful
future, including recognizing healthy ways to deal with
stress and avoiding the dangers of substance abuse. Youth
have the opportunity to tell their story in a safe and
supportive environment.
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Journey With Others: Family and Friends addresses the dynamics of primary relationships – family
and friends – particularly the factors that support healthy
relationships and help avoid unhealthy consequences. Themes
include communication and refusal skills, conflict resolution,
and awareness of the dangers of unsafe sex practices.
The goal is to provide a foundation to build positive,
satisfying personal relationships.
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Building Inclusive Community celebrates the diversity of peoples in our community,
and addresses issues of stereotyping and prejudice and
the violence associated with these issues. Themes include
awareness of the value of all cultures, personal growth
and healing, and violence prevention. The session concludes
with exploration of the richness that diversity in human
cultures can bring to our lives and our community. Emphasis
is on the personal experiences of the participants.
Every
Youth Included was developed as a cooperative project involving
youth and adults from five community-based programs in the
Chico area, all affiliated members of CCY: Focus on the Future,
Nia Learning Academy, Stonewall Alliance Youth, A Theatre
On The Inside-Out and T.E.A.M. Chapman. The curriculum is
an integration of approaches used by CCY member programs:
A Theatre On the Inside-Out, Journey-Coming of Age in Today's
World, and Beyond Violence Alliance.
Funding for development of Every Youth Included came from
a planning grant from The California Endowment, awarded in
November 2001. The grant brought youth together from diverse
sectors of the local community to conduct a needs assessment,
develop a program based on recommendations from the needs
assessment, and train a Youth Leadership Team of youth
and young adults to facilitate the new program.
Following the planning grant, on March 1, 2003, CCY was awarded
a three-year $446,575 grant from The California Endowment
to implement Every Youth Included. In year one, the grant
provided funding for a pilot Every Youth Included group to
be held at the CCY Center, and facilitated by the Youth Leadership
Team who received training during the planning phase. In year
two, we began programs at Prospect High in Oroville and North
County Community Day School in Chico. In year
three, the program expanded to include a total of five programs,
located at the CCY Center, Prospect, North County, and additionally
at South County Community School and Juvenile Hall in
Oroville. At the present time, the majority of youth served
by EYI programs are on probation or in Juvenile Hall. Facilitators
have been successful in engaging many participating youth,
inspiring a sense of hope and determination to overcome obstacles
in their lives. Early evaluation outcomes suggest promising
results , and the program has been highly acclaimed by teachers
and principals associated with the various sites.
The California Endowment, a private, statewide health foundation,
was established in 1996 to expand access to affordable, quality
health care for underserved individuals and communities, and
to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of
all Californians. Headquartered in Woodland Hills, The Endowment
has regional offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento,
Fresno and San Diego, with program staff working throughout
the state. The Endowment makes grants to organizations and
institutions that directly benefit the health and well-being
of the people of California. For more information about The
California Endowment, visit their web site at www.calendow.org.
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Beyond Violence
Alliance |
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Top | Every Youth Included | Beyond Violence | Theatre on the Inside-Out | Open Arts | College is Knowledge
 Beyond
Violence Alliance (BVA) is a community-based violence prevention
organization. Our mission is to cultivate a climate of respect
and understanding through exploring the roots of violence
and the roots of peace in our culture and ourselves. The
BVA identifies the underlying causes of
violence in our society as stereotyping, prejudice
and power imbalances, such as economic, racial, and gender
discrimination. Our vision encompasses a society of tolerance,
acceptance, and mutual support for all its members.
We offer violence prevention workshops
and extended programs as interactive tools for self-discovery
and group building. Workshops are designed with the participants'
needs in mind and can be tailored for the workplace, schools,
churches, and community groups. Activities include a series
of experiential exercises such as the "Power Shuffle"
and the "Speak Out", which build self-awareness
and offer a channel of communication about the personal
pain suffered because of stereotyping, harassment, and violence.
BVA workshops and classes engage community members, students,
parents, and teachers in a process to end verbal, emotional,
sexual, and physical violence in our schools and communities.
BVA was founded in September 1997, after
founding members participated in a workshop with the Oakland
Men's Project, a violence prevention organization with a
20+-year track record. Since then, BVA has provided workshops
for school classrooms and the community, and the workshop
curriculum was used effectively at a youth conference with
over three hundred youth from northern California counties.
In the spring of 2001, BVA was awarded a mini-grant from
the North Valley Community Foundation (NVCF) for a daylong
"Exploring the Roots of Violence" workshop, and
another grant from NVCF through CCY to provide violence
prevention workshops for youth in schools throughout the
North Valley region.
As well as workshops for the community, BVA
has provided programs for many local schools including:
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Focus on the Future,
an extended school day program for first offender youth
housed on the Fair View Campus in Chico.
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Straight, a drug diversion
program for youth in Paradise Unified School District..
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Mission High in Durham.
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Four Winds of Indian
Education and the Flint program in Chico, middle school
and independent study students.
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Emma Barkley Continuation
School in Hamilton City.
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Chico and Bidwell Junior
High, Chico High and Pleasant Valley High Schools
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Peace of Mind series
and Social Work classes at California State University,
Chico.
Contact: Diane Suzuki, Coordinator
- 530.342.8804 dreamforpeace@hotmail.com,
bva@ccychico.org
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A Theatre
On The Inside-Out |
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Top | Every Youth Included | Beyond Violence
| Theatre on the Inside-Out | Open Arts | College is Knowledge
Theatre on the Inside-Out (TOIO) uses theatre
as a tool to encourage youth to creatively express the struggles
and challenges in their lives. TOIO offers a process during
which youth participate in experiences, exercises and group
activities derived and developed from several resources
including: Oakland Men's Project, conflict management skills,
and theatre games and practices.
The process begins with establishing a safe environment
among participants and learning the value of becoming strong
allies for each other. This is followed by an exploration
of the chosen issue or theme such as “racism and violence
among youth”, or “family substance abuse”,
or “bullying”. Participants share personal stories
related to the theme, and how it has affected them and their
families. They incorporate their combined experiences into
an integrated performance of scenes, stories, skits, poems,
art and music. The goal is to help youth understand and
heal from these issues, to pass on their wisdom to other
youth and community members, and to come together to learn
how to make the peace.
TOIO has a fifteen-year track record working with youth
using theatre as a tool for self discovery and expression.
They started with a group of local students who developed
a script on child abuse which was performed at the 14th
Annual Child Abuse Prevention Conference. For five years,
Butte County Office of Education contracted for performances
for Red Ribbon Week in area schools. After that, TOIO shifted
its thematic focus to racism and violence, and have contracted
with Chico Unified School District to provide theatre programs
on these issues.
TOIO has a facility for classes and performances located
in the Almond Orchard Shopping Center in north Chico, which
is shared with Chico Cabaret. With this performance space,
TOIO has been able to expand services to include traditional
children's and teen theatre experiences, including musical
theatre & comedies for ages 8-19. For two years they
have done a special summer theatre camp for youth with autism.
The City of Chico awarded TOIO a grant in 2004 to provide
theatre programs around the issue of bullying for students
in Chico schools. TOIO is currently contracted with Butte
County Office of Education through their Safe Schools Healthy
Students grant to provide theatre programs on bullying at
middle and high schools in the Oroville area. The results
have been rewarding, with young people gaining insight into
the ways that bullying hurts and how they can change their
behaviors and even become allies for those who are victims
of bullying. Students have also learned that behind every
bully is a person who has been bullied, and that they have
the power to stop the cycle of violence that bullying creates.
Contact: Natalie Valencia, Director - nataliev@ewtc.org,
www.chicocabaret.com/InsideOut.html
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Top | Every Youth Included | Beyond
Violence | Theatre on the Inside-Out | Open Arts | College is Knowledge
 
Who we are . . . Open Arts is an arts
organization dedicated to providing innovative ways for
young people, families and others to engage in creative
art experiences that can and will transform their lives.
In our experience, it's often easier to paint your feelings
on a canvas than to express them through words. Through
both traditional and untraditional art concepts, Open Arts
offers programs to inspire self-reflection, deeper understanding
and the pure enjoyment of the creative process. Often, when
kids or adults render their emotions and experiences visually,
it is easier to put what they're feeling into words. Open
Arts seeks to provide tools for success--both in art and
in life. Addressing the link between the arts and self expression
to success in school and beyond, Open Arts offers youth
and adults invigorating opportunities to create special
works of art that inspire positive change.
For whom? Open Arts is committed to providing
art and art therapy services to any interested community
group, although special effort is made to target children
and youth, who due to personal, behavioral or economic reasons
are under-served. In addition, Open Arts offers arts-related
workshops, including art therapy, arts education and enrichment
to community businesses, agencies and schools. Our workshops
are designed to inspire and instruct professionals how to
integrate creative expression and the arts into the workplace
or with clientele.
 Some
of Open Arts’ recent community-based programs include:
Self-reflective arts for Academy for Change (AFC) - AFC is a school for Chico area youth who are on probation,
and/or who have alcohol/ drug or school absenteeism issues.
Now in its second school year, this program allows students
to explore their own creativity and self concept through
a variety of art media. Last year’s program concluded
with the creation of an impressive 8’ by 4’
mosaic of a shooting star, the school’s logo, which
will be hung at the AFC campus. The mosaic demonstrates
the creativity and promise of AFC students.
Shatter 2 Matter, a community-based program
funded by a grant from the City of Chico in 2005. With 16
local teens on board, the purpose of Shatter 2 Matter was
to take ordinary objects, break them, and then piece them
back together again, using the "shattered" objects
as a metaphor for shattering incidents in their own lives.
To construct their masterpieces, the youth participants
pieced together chairs, windows, cans and clothing (just
to name a few items). A very successful community art reception
was held at the 1078 Gallery to honor the youth artists.
Open Studios Tour (2000 – Present)
Two Painters and Jazz - Two artists paint
live to improvised jazz as a community fundraiser (October,
06)
Artist in the Schools fine arts program Ophir School, Oroville, CA, grades 1-6
VIVA! A program for kids who have loved
ones with cancer
What’s on Your Plate? Art Therapy and Diabetes
Get Real! A summer arts program for Youth
Express Yourself! Expressive Art classes
for adolescents
History . . Cynthia Scontriano Schildhauer,
MA, ATR, founded Open Arts in 1988, initially forming groups
for individuals recovering from addiction. She has provided
art programs for a myriad of settings including community
centers, treatment programs, public schools, mental health
facilities and senior centers. Cynthia is a Registered Art
Therapist trained in Boston. She received her BA in Psychology
from University of California at Santa Cruz. She received
her MA in Expressive Art Therapy from Lesley University
in Cambridge MA in 1982, training with the pioneers in the
field of art therapy including Shaun McNiff, author and
president of American Art Therapy Association, Peter Rowan,
psychodrama, and Paulo Knill, founder or Inter-modal Expressive
Therapy. She has used the arts as therapy in a variety of
settings including community mental health centers, public
and private schools, senior centers, domestic violence programs
and the California correctional system. She currently directs
Open Arts in Chico, CA, a program offering art therapy and
art enrichment services to youth, families and various agencies
in and around Butte County. An accomplished artist and encaustic
painter, her work has been shown throughout California and
the East Coast, and is part of numerous private and corporate
collections. Cynthia’s work can be viewed at www.chocoartcenter.com/cynthia
or cynthiasart.blogspot.com.
Contact: Cindy Schildhauer, Director,
530-521-6460, cindys@saber.net
www.chicoartcenter.com/cynthia
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