Sacramento Region Community Foundation (SRCF) is pleased to share that the Junior League of Sacramento is issuing a Request For Proposals looking for impactful projects in the Sacramento region with a focus on nutrition and nutrition education. The Junior League will make cash grant awards up to $5000 and provide 200 volunteer hours for a minimum of 3 years.

The deadline has been extended to Wednesday November 23rd, 12 noon.

Please take a look at the RFP and consider submitting a proposal.

FRESH PRODUCERS:  Building Health, Wealth and Skills for Life

Job description for school site coordinators/health educators:

Fresh Producers is looking for qualified candidates to fill part time positions at elementary, middle and high schools in the Sacramento City Unified School District.

Minimum requirements: 
Valid California driver’s license; background check (fingerprinting); must pass tuberculosis test.
Desired characteristics:  Fresh Producers is looking for trustworthy, high energy, enthusiastic, self-starters who like working with students (scholars) and have an interest in health, nutrition, cooking and/or business/finance issues. Candidates will work with area program managers in after-school settings,  teaching students health, wealth and skills for life. 

Required experience:  Candidates should have completed at least 48 college credit units, or equivalent, be computer literate in Microsoft programs (word, excel, access, power point, publisher), know how to use social media effectively, and have a minimum of one year experience working with youth.

Preferred requirements:  Candidates, who are bi-lingual, have business or entrepreneurial background, and food system or cooking experience.

The part-time position pays $10-$12/hour (no benefits), with an expectation that the candidate will work 12-20 hours/week.

Please contact Claudia Reid, Fresh Producers executive director, claudiareid@freshproducers.org for a job description and application.
 

Please review the information below to better identify youth whose interests and needs best match our program.

We are aiming to enroll 12-14 youth in the next month. Thank you very much for your support!!

We encourage interested students and adult allies to attend our program information sessions to learn more about the Green Corps program.

*Information sessions will be held at the SacWorks One-Stop Career Center, 10381 Old Placerville Road, Rancho Cordova  CA, 95827  *(916) 563-5147

- Thursday, November 3rd 4pm-5pm
- Thursday,November 19th 4pm-5pm

GREEN CORPS PROGRAM DESCRIPTION AND REQUIREMENTS:

The Soil Born Farms Green Corps Job Program aims to connect Sacramento youth  facing diverse barriers to employment, with hands-on training and work experiences that will lead them to higher education or employment in a Green Career pathway.

Green Corps is a job program for high school seniors who wish to build leadership skills through community-focused projects.   Our primary considerations for participating youth are their personal motivation and attitude.  We are looking for youth who want to build job and life skills, have a positive attitude, and wish to help their community.  In addition, it helps if youth have experience working outdoors or within a team and have an interest in one of our four project areas (sustainable urban agriculture,environmental stewardship, health education, and food access).

TARGET APPLICANT

In order to be eligible for our program, youth must meet the following criteria:

•  Youth must be a HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR
•  Youth must be low income (i.e. their household income is at or below the poverty line)

• Meet one or more of the following:
  •  Basic skills deficient (possess and Individual Education Plan (IEP), functioning below 9th grade level, behind in Math, English, or Science)
  • Homeless or runaway
  • Disability, including learning disability
  • Foster youth
  • Pregnant or parenting
  • Offender
  • Someone who requires additional assistance to complete their education or obtain employment.

Youth will be expected to gain skills in the following areas:

• Understand and be able to teach others the basics of sustainable gardening and farming.
• Successfully plant, weed, harvest, and pack fruits and vegetables.
• Understand Sacramento food systems and local food access concerns.
• Understand the importance of sustainable agriculture to human health and the environment.
• Educate local communities about nutrition, health, cooking and sustainability.
• Lead healthy cooking demonstrations for the public.
• Help conduct a farmer’s market.
• Lead younger students in gardening, cooking, or exploration activities.
• Work well within a team of peers.
• Assume a leadership role in youth-led community service projects.
• Act as an advocate for Soil Born Farms.

Applicants should be willing to learn new skills, maintain a positive attitude, and work outdoors for several hours during varied weather conditions.

APPLICATION PROCESS

All youth applicants will be required to submit the following documents to our American River Ranch office, located at 2140 Chase Drive, RanchoCordova, CA 95670.  Youth may drop off their applications to the front desk from 9:30-4:00pm or call if they need accommodations.

1)      SacWorks Registration Form (completed in full, available on-line)
2)     SacWorks Youth Addendum  (completed in full, available on-line)
3)     Green Corps Questionnaire (available on-line)
4)     Resume (typed)
5)     Cover letter (typed)
6)     References

Contact: Sara Smith-Rubio  916-363-9685

People Reaching Out has the great fortune of continuing the Youth @ City Council Program started by Michael Minnick at Sacramento Enriches. Youth @ City Council is a program that educates youth in 8th-12th grade about municipal government. The program prepares youth to be more civically informed and prepared for service learning opportunities within their communities. Youth attend weekly City council meetings on Tuesdays and civic education trainings on Thursdays at Sacramento City Hall.

We are currently accepting applications from youth in middle and high schools residing in ANY of the 8 City Council Districts for the class of Spring 2012. The program will begin in January of 2012 and run through June 2012. Please share this information with your networks and youth you work with in the community. There are only 30 spots available for class of Spring 2012.

Should you have any questions or would like PRO to make a presentation to your agency or group of youth, please contact me at your earliest convenience. Application deadline is December 2, 2012. Application is attached along with a flier.

There is a free resource you may not know about which may benefit children/youth with no insurance or whose private insurance doesn't cover the cost of counseling services.  Through a grant awarded by California Emergency Management Agency, Child & Family Institute is able to provide free counseling services to children/youth who have experienced or witnessed some sort of trauma in their lives and do not have the insurance to cover counseling.  This program was designed to be the safety net for the victim/witness program, serving those who do not qualify for victim/witness for one reason or another - or whose victim/witness funding has been exhausted, but continued services are needed.  Attached is an info sheet which gives more detail around the types of trauma which would qualify an individual for this program (you will find that the criteria is very broad).  If you know of anyone who can benefit from this free resource, please direct them to the CFI Referral Line 916-736-1720.  If you have any questions or would like to meet to discuss service collaboration, please contact Abigail Nosce at 916-736-0828 x311 or anosce@cfisac.com.

Please consider supporting the Project 680 Underwear Drive! http://project680.org/projects/underwear-2011/

Year after year, California's teen birth rates have dipped lower and lower — a positive development state health officials attribute to a variety of programs to prevent kids from having kids.

Teen births across the state were down to 47,811 in 2009 from 53,393 in 2007. The state's teen birth rate of 32.1 per 1,000 females in 2009, ages 15 to 19.