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West Sacramento Youth a community prole Researched and written by the West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition a Community Action coalition of Sierra Health Foundation’s REACH youth program Our vision for youth In June 2006, the West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition was one of seven community coalitions chosen to receive a REACH Community Action grant from Sierra Health Foundation. The purpose of this grant is to assess the community’s strengths, challenges, resources and readiness to improve conditions for local youth, and then develop an action plan to make long-term changes. In August 2006, we began the work of nding out what it’s like to be a young person in West Sacramento. Coalition members conducted a community assessment, with community meet- ings, focus groups, data collection and a youth retreat. After looking at all of the information collected, we identied the issues young people face, as well as what youth need to grow and thrive in West Sacramento. This community prole is the result of our ndings. West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition’s vision for our community is to: provide a safe place for youth and families support healthy development and opportunities support youth in realizing their potential We formed the West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition (WSYRC) with the common purpose of: fostering broad-based and long-lasting community support for all youth in West Sacramento, including promotion and support of a wide range of youth-based services increasing opportunities for participation and leadership for all youth in the planning processes that lead to sustainable opportunities for youth development throughout the community building capacity to support and sustain increasing collaboration and cooperation between organizations in the coalition and their programs 1 WSYRC includes representation from the youth of our community. It is they who provide the important and authentic voice for developing and realizing the vision and purpose of the West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition. (See a list of coalition members on page 10.) Introduction The City of West Sacramento incorporated in 1987, unifying the small neighboring communities of Bryte, Broderick and West Sacramento. The city includes the Port of Sacramento, commercial areas and transportation/ distribution hubs, and residential areas consisting of the older, original neighbor- hoods and new residential development along the Sacramento River and in areas south of the Port of Sacramento. The 39,649 population reported in 2005 is projected to double over the next 20 years, with the number of households increasing from 14,374 to 32,300 by year 2025. Photo: Juan Oquendo, one of our founding SacTown Heroes.

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West Sacramento Youtha community profi le

Researched and written by the West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition

a Community Action coalition ofSierra Health Foundation’s REACH youth program

Our vision for youth

In June 2006, the West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition was one of seven community coalitions chosen to receive a REACH Community Action grant from Sierra Health Foundation. The purpose of this grant is to assess the community’s strengths, challenges, resources and readiness to improve conditions for local youth, and then develop an action plan to make long-term changes.

In August 2006, we began the work of fi nding out what it’s like to be a young person in West Sacramento. Coalition members conducted a community assessment, with community meet-ings, focus groups, data collection and a youth retreat. After looking at all of the information collected, we identifi ed the issues young people face, as well as what youth need to grow and thrive in West Sacramento. This community profi le is the result of our fi ndings.

West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition’s vision for our community is to:

▪ provide a safe place for youth and families

▪ support healthy development and opportunities

▪ support youth in realizing their potential

We formed the West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition (WSYRC) with the common purpose of:

▪ fostering broad-based and long-lasting community support for all youth in West Sacramento, including promotion and support of a wide range of youth-based services

▪ increasing opportunities for participation and leadership for all youth in the planning processes that lead to sustainable opportunities for youth development throughout the community

▪ building capacity to support and sustain increasing collaboration and cooperation between organizations in the coalition and their programs

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WSYRC includes representation from the youth of our community. It is they who provide the important and authentic voice for developing and realizing the vision and purpose of the West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition.(See a list of coalition members on page 10.)

Introduction

The City of West Sacramento incorporated in 1987, unifying the small neighboring communities of Bryte, Broderick and West Sacramento.

The city includes the Port of Sacramento, commercial areas and transportation/distribution hubs, and residential areas consisting of the older, original neighbor-hoods and new residential development along the Sacramento River and in areas south of the Port of Sacramento.

The 39,649 population reported in 2005 is projected to double over the next 20 years, with the number of households increasing from 14,374 to 32,300 by year 2025.

Photo: Juan Oquendo, one of our founding SacTown Heroes.

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The coalition’s role in theWest Sacramento community

Many of the organizations in the WSYRC have worked in collaboration with each other and some have served together on previous councils and committees. This, however, is the fi rst broad-based coalition in West Sacramento formed to focus specifi cally on supports and opportunities for youth in West Sacramento.

WSYRC brings together a broad spectrum of stakeholders in West Sacramento youth development, including: nonprofi t organizations that provide direct services and/or programs for youth; faith-based organizations that provide outreach and safe havens for youth; after-school programs; the elementary, middle and high schools and administration of the Washington Unifi ed School District; neighborhood community groups serving immigrant populations; commu-nity volunteers; local law enforcement; city and county departments and agencies; local library; the West Sacramento business community; and UC Davis graduate students in Community and Regional Development.

Our work brings the overarching issues of youth development and youth safety to the forefront of community consciousness. As West Sacramento prepares for explosive growth in the very near future, it is critical to the health and well-being of the entire community that our youth grow up safe and supported in meeting their develop-mental needs, and that the community fosters and promotes a network of relationships and connections needed for youth to succeed.

Youth and families in the community

There are approximately 2,600 youth ages 10 to 15 attending public schools in West Sacramento’s Washington School District.

West Sacramento has a rich diversity of cultures and ethnicities. Many youth speak languages other than English, including Spanish, Hmong, Russian, Ukrainian, Cantonese, Mien, Lao, Khmer, Urdu, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Farsi, Rumanian and others. Latinos make up the largest popula-tion in the public schools; however, ethnic and cultural distribution varies across elementary schools.

Most household incomes in West Sacramento are substantially lower than the county median, and 24 percent of families with children live below the poverty level.

Source: Census 2000 data cited in the West Sacramento Coalition Secondary Data Profi le, UC Davis School of Education/Center for Community School Partnerships

Source: Washington Unifi ed School DistrictFacility Master Plan

November 2005

To facilitate this, we embrace the followingprinciples and values:

▪ Youth are an asset in a community to be nurtured and developed.

▪ Healthy adolescent development includes developing intellectually, socially, physically, psychologically and emotionally.

▪ Youth are more likely to successfully cope with challenges and adversity when supported by a nurturing adult; good role models; a safe, supportive environment; and opportunities to learn and contribute to family and community.

▪ All young people need to develop skills to become self-suffi cient, participate fully in the workplace, assume family responsibilities and become engaged citizens.

▪ The most successful approaches to youth development will be created and developed in partnership with young people, their families, providers and the community.

Our greatest asset for fostering broad-based and long-lasting community support for all youth, and promoting sustainable opportunities for youth development throughout the community, is the core constituency of the coalition itself.

We bring together the community leadership at every level ― schools, civic leadership, city and county agencies, faith-based organizations, business community and service providers ― for accomplishing this common purpose.

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What we’ve learned about West Sacramento youth

Youth need to feel safe and supported in the community in order to provide a fi rm footing for youth development. The safety of youth in West Sacramento is threatened by issues of racism and alienation, violence, gang activity, drugs and alcohol, unsafe school environments, unsafe public spaces, a need for structured and fun activities, and more positive interactions within the community.

We found these interrelated issues as an overall concern for the safety of youth in West Sacra-mento. We also found these issues to be dynamically affected by the transitions youth make from the eight neighborhood elementary schools feeding into one middle school, and the transition from middle school to high school.

Following are the key fi ndings resulting from focus groups we conducted and from our research of supporting secondary data.

Youth in West Sacramento contend with a variety of socio-economic barriers.

West Sacramento is home to an ethnically and culturally diverse population, with many people who do not speak English as their primary language. This presents a substantial barrier for youth and families in engaging services, local institutions and support groups. At 24 percent, West Sacramento has the highest rate in Yolo County of families with children living in poverty.

West Sacramento also has the highest number and rate of referrals to Child Welfare Services in Yolo County ― higher than the state average. Police arrest data shows a 25 percent increase in juvenile arrests in the past year.

Focus groups of middle school and high school students reveal a prominent concern with racism, prejudice and stereotyping that is closely linked with violence and lack of safety at school and with gang activity.

Focus groups of middle school and high school students reveal a prominent concern with racism, prejudice and stereotyping that is closely linked with perceptions of violence and lack of safety at school and with gang activity. Negative percep-tions of “profi ling” that arise in middle school focus groups are further expanded in focus groups of high school students into a broader perception of racism, abuse, harassment, and distrust for law enforcement authority.

Younger youth feel supported and safe at home.

The top response among 201 West Sacramento resident households surveyed in 2005 by Families in Self Help (FISH) for having moved to West Sacramento was “to be near family.”

Despite socioeconomic barriers and issues, focus groups of elementary school students in West Sacramento responded to home being a safe place. Family adults are viewed as supportive and trusted. Extended families, church groups and cultural groups (Russian, in particular) are specifi -cally cited as being supportive and safe. Safety at home and family support are prominent themes of focus groups in this age group, although hardly mentioned among focus groups of middle school and high school students.

▪Youth do not feel safe in public spaces.

Identifi cation of the river and parks as unsafe and negative places were very prominent in focus groups of elementary school students. This theme blends with an overall fear of public places, due to hazing and harassment by older youth, aware-ness of drug and alcohol use in public places and streets, awareness of gang activity and perceived threats from strangers in the neighborhood.

Middle school focus groups also see parks as unsafe and threatening places, and these youth have more awareness of gang activity, though it is more closely linked to schools. Focus groups of older youth single out fewer unsafe places, but these youth are more prominently concerned with the underlying causes of feeling unsafe, charac-terized by statements such as, “Fear is instilled in children about guns and gangs” and “Violence is an accepted part of growing up.”

Drawing of “What Our Community Would Look Like if it Were a Safe Place for Youth,” WSYRC Focus Group,

Westfi eld Elementary School

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Older youth do not feel safe in schools.

The California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) shows Washington School District students in grades 7 and up are challenged by higher rates of violence- related behaviors and experiences, and lower rates of school connectedness than reported state averages. Additionally, CHKS data indicates that youth in West Sacramento have dramatically decreasing perceptions of safety at school as they transition from grades 5 through 11.

Focus groups of elementary school students prominently portrayed their neighborhood schools as safe, positive places where adult teachers and staff are trusted and safety concerns are relatively minor.

Middle school focus groups saw their school environment as much more threatening, with prominent themes of inadequate security and safety, stereotyping and racism, gang awareness, uncaring teachers, bad reputation and threats of fi ghts and violence.

High school focus groups were prominently concerned with the alienation and social splinter-ing that they see as starting in middle school. They identify middle school as a time of diffi cult and unsupported transition that leaves youth socially alienated, untrusting of adults and peers, and at risk for gang involvement, drug and alcohol abuse.

▪There is a need for community support for youth activities at every level.

A priority area identifi ed by the FISH Community Health Survey of 2005 was after-school programs/ areas for children to play. When asked to identify improvements that would make the neighborhood an even better place to raise children, a number of participants felt after-school activities and creation of areas for organized sports and physical activity (pools, parks and playgrounds) were important. Several participants specifi cally mentioned programs targeting adolescents.

Responses from our focus groups at every age group agree that the community needs to support more structured activities and safe places for youth to meet. Focus groups at every level over-whelmingly called for more and improved sports facilities (particularly swimming) and more organized sports.

Elementary school groups value structured, adult-supervised sports and after-school activities as safe places to have fun with friends.

Focus groups in middle school added more emphasis to structured activities and adult participation creating feelings of safety and helping to create better bonds between youth.

High school focus groups showed a prominent need for more “fun” safe places with unstructured free time to be with friends, such as dance clubs and movie theaters, and expressed their boredom in a community with very limited entertainment options, as well as a need for affordable entertainment.

▪Youth in West Sacramento want more input and connection to the community.

The CHKS shows opportunities for meaningful participation at their schools among 7th-, 9th- and 11th-grade students in the district at rates 16 percent to 29 percent below the state average. Results of our focus groups at every age level support this.

Younger youth prominently seek more connections to adults in the community as role models. Our focus groups showed a prominent theme that youth at every age group want to be more con-nected and heard, with more opportunities to contribute to improving youth safety in schools and the community. Older youth expressed the need for more mentoring opportunities ― adults mentoring youth and older youth mentoring younger youth ― in helping to overcome the fear and alienation that accompanies transitions between schools. They want more opportunities to be heard, respected, cared about and have their ideas count in the community.

Drawing of “What Our Community Would Look Like if it Were a Safe Place for Youth,”

WSYRC Focus Group, River City High School

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Supports and opportunitiesfor West Sacramento youth

Youth development experts have identifi ed fi ve core supports and opportunities that youth need to achieve their fullest potential: physical safety, emotional safety, relationship building, commu-nity involvement and youth participation. As part of our research, we found that West Sacramento provides a range of these supports and opportunities.

Youth Health Advocates and HOT TOPs are two programs administered through Communi-Care Health Centers that focus on youth safety and youth development. Youth Health Advocates trains youth to become peer educators in reproductive health issues and drug/alcohol issues, and provides stipends for peer educators. HOT TOPs is a program that encourages youth to identify areas of need in the community that are of particular interest to them, and provides support to help them work on developing solutions for these issues, for which they can earn community service hours.

The Department of Parks and Recreation offers many programs for youth in West Sac-ramento, including popular after-school sports programs. One of the programs most pertinent to youth development principles is its Teen Heroes Program, a summer program that serves youth of all ages. It provides childcare for the younger ages, while offering middle school and high school students an opportunity to mentor them. The mentoring program helps these students develop job skills and presents opportunity for their recruitment into paying jobs with the Department of Parks and Recreation.

Club West and The KidZone are free after- school programs of Parks and Recreation offering a safe place to meet, activities and opportunities for organized trips to places of interest outside the community. Club West serves youth in 7th and 8th grade, and has its own facility and an Activity Committee run by youth that helps in planning Friday Night Live events. The KidZone is an after-school recreation enrichment program for elementary-aged youth on fi ve elementary school campuses.

Collings West Sacramento Teen Center, along with Club West, are two assets that youth use and appreciate. Both provide a safe place for older youth to convene, have fun and be safe and supported. The Teen Center is in the process of developing a youth board. It offers the Computers 4 Kids program to supply computers to underpriv-ileged youth. Computers 4 Kids also offers older youth mentors the chance to develop job skills by coaching younger participants in developing com-

puter skills. Unfortunately, these two entities are offered only to middle school and older students, leaving elementary-aged youth, especially 5th-and 6th-graders, without a similar dedicated space.

Leadership classes and site councils in most of the public schools also provide structure and opportunity for youth engagement. However, our perception is there is not signifi cant opportunity for equitable representation in these councils for all youth, and there is an over-representation of “leadership youth” ― students already engaged in school leadership.

Sarah Yang and Bradly Palmer get down to business at a West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition meeting.

Youth involvement in the coalition

We kicked off our coalition’s youth engagement process in September 2006 with an overnight Youth Leadership Retreat at Collings Teen Center, which was attended by about 75 youth.

We recruited a wide range of young people, including youth in recovery, low-income and at-risk, as well as youth already involved in leader-ship. The retreat included many ethnic/cultural groups, including East Indian, Russian, Latino, white and African-American, as well as youth with various English-speaking abilities. About 25 of these youth then came to a follow-up action-planning meeting about three weeks later.

In order to recruit and maintain a consistent working group of youth, we offered a stipend of $10 per hour to attend and participate in the coalition. This resulted in a core team drawn from the elementary, middle and high school ages that named themselves the SacTown Heroes. This group has now grown to 10 youth who regularly attend meetings.

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Our community assessment goal was to analyze the safety of youth in West Sacramento and to identify needs for improving the safety of youth. This goal relates directly to our vision of the com-munity being a safe place for youth and families.

To determine the goal and focus of our community assessment, a prioritizing exercise was carried out with our coalition members, as well as with 68 youth attending an overnight leadership retreat at Collings Teen Center.

The issue of youth feeling safe in their community was the dominant concern resulting from both of these exercises. In addition, youth at the work-shop articulated drugs and alcohol, gangs and violence, and police harassment and racism in the community as being specifi c major problems.

In developing the community assessment, we created a set of overarching questions to guide the processes of data collection, data analysis and reporting. These questions were:

▪ Where do youth feel safe (in relation to school, home and free time)?

▪ How do the responses to the above vary by age, ethnicity or socioeconomic group?

▪ What roles do youth currently play and what roles do they want to play in our community?

▪ What do we know about how to support a safe environment in our community (in relation to

effectiveness of existing programs/services/ activities that support a safe environment for youth, overall perception of how safe our community is for youth, and what our community would look like if it was safe for all 10- to 15-year-old youth)?

Focus groups of six to 11 students were facilitated at each public school in the Washington Unifi ed School District. Two focus groups were convened at each school, and additional groups were convened at Club West, Juvenile Hall and at John H. Jones Community Clinic, for a total of 23 focus groups.

UC Davis graduate students concurrently worked on the Photo Voice project. The objective of this project was to visually capture youth perceptions of safe and unsafe places in their community. Youth took photographs of the places and took notes about each photograph during the trip, and then as a group chose the photos they wanted to use in creating posters. Youth from SacTown Heroes and the Teen Center added their comments to each photo.

We received secondary data from the UC Davis Center for Community School Partnerships. Data describes the community (U.S. Census 2000) and the youth population (California Department of Education school-level data), as well as supports and opportunities for youth (California Depart-ment of Education and Department of Social Services data). To the extent possible, this data is refl ective of our geographical focus. Data is avail-able online at www.reachyouthprogram.org.

How we did it

“This project to bring the community of West Sacramento together led by the youth of the community has been a most rewarding adventure. The direction, goals, focus and mission directed by students has become an eye-opening process and has set the standard for the next genera-tion of our community.”

Tony AsaroSenior Director of Community RelationsSacramento River Cats

Viddell Geter, a driving force for our youth

“I get to express myself. I get to tell you how I feel about West Sac ... to make it a better place.”

River City High School student, age 15

The team continues to be diverse, and consists mostly of youth who have not participated in other leadership projects or groups. They are fi ll-ing roles in collaborative decision making with the entire coalition, focus group facilitation and data collection on the community assessment team, as well as qualitative data analysis, media develop-ment, recruitment and outreach.

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“For the past six years I have seen a discon-nect between our community nonprofi ts, schools, city and faith-based organizations of the resources they offer to our youth and their families. However, through this coalition there has started an important streamlining in the delivery of information and services. Also, we have been able as adults to learn to play together with youth. I personally have learned to listen more intently to youth about how they view our community and the ser-vices offered to them. I fi nd working alongside youth as equal partners to be inspiring. It has inspired a child-like spirit and hope in me that the future of West Sacramento is very bright.”

Loretta BonillaCollings West Sacramento Teen Center

“For the past six years I have seen a discon-nect between our community nonprofi ts, schools, city and faith-based organizationsof the resources they offer to our youth and their families. However, through this coalitionthere has started an important streamlining in the delivery of information and services. AAlso, we have been able as adults to learn to pplay together with youth. I personally have learned to listen more intently to youth about how they view our community and the ser-vices offered to them. I fi nd working alongside youth as equal partners to be inspiring. It hasinspired a child-like spirit and hope in me that the future of West Sacramento is very bright.”

Loretta BonillaCollings West Sacramento Teen Center

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What we learned through the process... and where we go from here

Establishing the West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition and producing this community profi le have proven to us that this coalition is the best opportunity and resource for recognizing and addressing the support needed for youth in our community.

As a starting point, a gathering place, center of recruitment and advocate for youth development at every level, WSYRC offers a unique opportunity for long-lasting engagement that is meaningful to youth.

We must tell the story.

It is imperative that the fi ndings of our commu-nity assessment be made known to stakehold-ers throughout our community. Our community profi le presentations will be developed, in large part, by our youth partners. By asking our youth to share what they want their community to know about them, we are empowering them to use their own voice.

We will look for opportunities to tell our story at meetings, in the media and on the Web. We will seek audience with the City Council, the Wash-ington Unifi ed School District Board of Education, the Chamber of Commerce, service organizations, community organizations, faith-based organiza-tions and the boards of directors of each agency providing services in West Sacramento.

We also will look to coordinating with the Wood-land REACH coalition to jointly present our fi nd-ings to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors.

We must sustain the coalition.

As a key component of our future development, WSYRC must plan for sustaining the membership and the work of our coalition. It is important for us to continue to increase and broaden opportuni-ties for participation by all interested groups and individuals.

In order to support our vision and our common purpose, we must welcome diversity in our ranks, continue to recruit youth as members, and develop infrastructure that is supportive and sustainable.

We must continue our outreach and maintain a consistent visible presence at meetings, in the media and on the Web, so that all those interest-ed in reaching us, supporting us and joining us can do so easily.

We must increase our knowledge and adoption of youth development principles.

In order to affect long-lasting change that leads to youth feeling safer at school and in the com-munity, we need to engage everyone in our community with the power to make change. As a coalition, we need to look for every opportunity to advocate, teach, mentor and celebrate. We realize we are not keepers of the answers. Rather, we are facilitators of dialogue and processes that incre-mentally will help youth in our community to rise in leadership in search of answers.

What can I do?

We invite community members to join us in the West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition to help make the community a better place for our youth and for all residents. Everyone in West Sacramento can make a difference for youth!

Get involved with the

West Sacramento Youth

Resource Coalition!

Call Karen Larsen

at (916) 371-1966

or e-mail

[email protected]

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Thanks to the following individuals and organizations for their assistance in conducting and preparing the Community Profi le:

Our SacTown HeroesJuan Oquendo, Bradly Palmer, Sarah Yang, Dominic Venditti, Paul Anderson, Brejanae McCrory, Viddell Geter, Michael Valtierra, Ricardo Arauza, Tu Hoang,

Sage Smith and Julian Quintero— every step of the way

The Met Sacramento High SchoolKate Cottrell and Elizabeth Dios

CommuniCare Health CentersJudy Thornhill, Karen Larsen, Andy Bein, Lindsay Lopez,

Pauline McNabney and John Bonner

Collings West Sacramento Teen CenterDave Dove and Loretta Bonilla — every step of the way

UC Davis 440 StudentsBernadette Austin, Samantha Sommer, Kate Wright, Marisela Rodriguez,

Jillian Drewes, Elizabeth Sterba, Colleen Hiner, Amy Nelson, Tenzin Youdon, Luis Sierra, Kendra Johnson, Kristy Doud, Denise Jones, Amy VanScoik, Daniel Woo, Roxanne Smolko for Data Analysis and Photo Voice Project

Yolo Family Service AgencyJim Rodgers and Jody McCarthy

Parks and RecreationLucy Ramos, Eric Rommell, Christine Prater for focus groups and data analysis

Public HealthDonna Nevraumont for data analysis

Washington Unifi ed School DistrictCarol Ferre, Nancy Erickson, Chris Mireles, Alex Semeryuk, Dianne Smith, Frances Quinn, Barley Parrish, Tim Fegan, Maria Jacquez and Alex Yang

Sacramento River CatsTony Asaro

Yolo County CASANicole Harada for data analysis

Yolo County ProbationShaunda Cruz and Jeff Goldman

West Sacramento Police DepartmentSheri Wright, Martha Griffi n, Jerry Bacon, Billie Ruddell

for focus groups and Photo Voice Project

Turner LibraryCathy Lorda for data analysis

Umpqua BankStephanie Schiffman for data analysis

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West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition

Karen Larsen CommuniCare Health Centers Judy Thornhill CommuniCare Health Centers John Bonner CommuniCare Health Centers Kimberly Balog CommuniCare Health Centers Andrew Saucedo CommuniCare Health Centers Dave Dove Collings West Sacramento Teen Center Loretta Bonilla Collings West Sacramento Teen Center Chuck Lowas Collings West Sacramento Teen Center Stephanie Pereira Pandect Consulting Lisa Borrego Pandect Consulting Oscar Villegas City Council, City of West Sacramento Rachel Fusi City of West Sacramento Connie Leek City of West Sacramento Louise Collis City of West Sacramento Andre Pichly City of West Sacramento, Parks & Recreation Jennifer Hall City of West Sacramento, Parks & Recreation Christine Prater City of West Sacramento, Parks & Recreation Lucy Ramos City of West Sacramento, Parks & Recreation Erik Rommel City of West Sacramento, Parks & Recreation Sheri Wright West Sacramento Police Department Kellie Kijanka West Sacramento Police Department Martha Griffi n West Sacramento Police Department Sean Saylor City of West Sacramento Marc Kirkland West Sacramento Police Department Nicole Harada CASA Kandice Richardson Fowler CASA Edianne Duedall CASA Sheila Macias California State University, Sacramento Pam Dehn Campus Life Connection Carolyn Castillo-Pearson Community Member Katy Curl County Librarian Sister Cora Salazar Families in Self Help (FISH) Susan Wilson Health Education Council Gretchen Mounier Washington Unifi ed School District Carol Ferre Washington Unifi ed School District Mike Woodcock Bryte Elementary School Chris Mireles Bryte Elementary School Diane Smith Southport Elementary School Nancy Erikson Southport Elementary School Paul Orlando Golden State Middle School Tim Grisaffi Golden State Middle School Frances Quinn Golden State Middle School Maria Vasquez Westfi eld Elementary Sandi Reese River City High School Estella DelaTorre River City High School Phyllis Deats People Reaching Out Tamaira Sandifer Studio T Dance Tony Asaro Sacramento River Cats Baseball Club Alex Semeryuk Slavic Community Representative Charlotte Howison Southport Town Center - Wells Fargo Bank Bernadette Austin UC Davis Katie Villegas Yolo County Children’s Alliance Anne Ofsink Yolo County Department of Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services Angela Angel Yolo County Friday Night Live Jan Babb Yolo County Health Department Panna Putnam Yolo County Offi ce of Education Edgar Lampkin Yolo County Offi ce of Education Shaunda Cruz Yolo County Probation Jeff Goldman Yolo County Probation Donna Nevraumont Yolo County Public Health Jim Rodgers Yolo Family Service Agency Eileen Spoth Yolo Family Service Agency Jody McCarthy Yolo Family Service Agency Sergio Cuellar Youth In Focus Reid Thompson Youth Prevention Programs Tolerance/DARE Sherry Atkins 15th Street Fitness Deanna Hanson Consultant Danny and Christina LULAC Anita Royston LEED Vanessa Cajina UC Davis Bradly Palmer Youth Ricardo Arauza Youth Dominic Venditti Youth Tu Hoang Youth Juan Oquendo Youth Samantha Mendoza Youth Brejanae McCrory Youth Phi Dinh Youth Viddell Geter Youth Javier Padilla Youth Sage Smith Youth Olajuwan Curtis Youth Garrett Morrice Youth Sarah Yang Youth