View Attachment A — Oakland City Council, July 7, 2026

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

1 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 1 Alameda Health
System
Foundation
AHS - Health
Excellence &
Academic Leadership
(HEAL) Program
Middle & High School
Healthcare Internship
Career Access and
Employment $236,400.00
HEAL will provide 195 low-income BIPOC
youth grades 8-12 with career training through
healthcare internships. Participants will gain
professional development skills, shadowing in
hospital departments, hands-on skills
workshops, and mentorship by BIPOC
healthcare professionals and college
ambassadors. HEAL’s goal is to increase
educational attainment, prepare BIPOC youth
for healthcare careers, and cultivate a pipeline
of diverse healthcare workers to become the
future workforce of AHS. HEAL will run 12
internships at the Highland Hospital, ranging
from 25-200+ hours for a total of 12,291 UOS.
2 The Center for
Independent
Living, Inc.

Accelerate:

Workforce
Development for
Young People with
Disabilities
Career Access and
Employment $200,000.00
Accelerate is a disability-affirming workforce
development and career access program for
Oakland youth ages 16–21 with disabilities,
prioritizing BIPOC systems-involved, out-of-
school, and disconnected youth in East
Oakland, Fruitvale, and West Oakland. Each
year, Accelerate will serve approximately 250
youth through pre-employment and life skills
training, individualized career counseling, paid
internships, and wraparound support. Based
at CIL’s Fruitvale offices, with remote/virtual
options, the goal is to build pathways to
meaningful, well-paid employment and long-
term economic stability.

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2 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 3 Centro Legal de la
Raza, Inc. Youth Law Academy Career Access and
Employment $200,000.00
The Youth Law Academy (YLA) serves 45
high school and 35 college students, focusing
on low-income youth of color in Oakland. High
school students engage in on-going seminars
and workshops, receive mentorship,
participate in internships, and access college
transition support. College students receive
sustained guidance for academic persistence
and career planning. Programming is culturally
responsive and trauma-informed, delivered at
Centro Legal’s Fruitvale office. YLA’s goal is to
build and strengthen academic skills, foster
resilience, and create clear pathways to
college and career success.
4 Civicorps Conservation Career
Pathways
Career Access and
Employment $150,000.00
Civicorps helps opportunity youth from
Oakland and the greater East Bay gain job
skills, prepare for college, and launch
upwardly mobile careers in land management
and recycling. Civicorps’ Conservation Career
Pathways is a year-round program that
delivers high-impact paid job training, college
and career readiness preparation, and wrap-
around support services to 200 youth
annually. Civicorps’ mission is to re-engage
young adults, age 18-26, to earn their high
school diplomas, gain job skills, pursue
college, and embark on family sustaining
careers.

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3 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 5 East Bay Asian
Youth Center
Career Pathways in
Outdoor Recreation
Education
Career Access and
Employment $200,000.00
Career Pathways in Outdoor Recreation
Education is a Career Access & Employment
program serving 25 Dewey Academy and
recently graduated Dewey Academy students
as Outdoor Educator Apprentices. Apprentices
work 300 hours and earn $20 per hour.

Apprentices will engage in three program
phases: 1) Introduction to Outdoor Recreation
Education Career Pathways; 2) Work
Experience Part One, focused on experiential
job skills development in outdoor recreation
and natural resource education; and 3) Work
Experience Part Two, focused on outdoor
recreation education to elementary school
students.
6 East Oakland
Boxing
Association
EOBA FutureWorks Career Access and
Employment $125,030.00
FutureWorks provides paid workforce
experience, leadership development, and job-
readiness training for youth ages 15 - 24 in
Deep East Oakland. Participants work in
administration, youth mentoring, garden/food
distribution, media, events, and facilities while
receiving Social Emotional skills support,
financial literacy, digital literacy, and life skills
workshops. The program builds job skills,
confidence, and economic stability.

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4 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 7 East Oakland
Youth
Development
Center
East Oakland Youth
Development Center
Career Access and
Employment $150,000.00
Project JOY serves approximately 300 East
Oakland youth, ages 14–26, annually, with
OFCY funding supporting youth, ages 15–21.

The year-round program offers semester and
summer paid internships and comprehensive
employment-readiness services, including job
training, mentoring, financial literacy, and
academic and professional support. The
ultimate goal is to equip participants with the
skills, experience, and networks needed to
pursue meaningful, well-paid careers.
8 Public Health
Institute
FACES for the Future
Coalition
Career Access and
Employment $200,000.00
FACES for the Future Coalition, nationally
recognized in youth workforce development,
will yearly prepare 60 low-income, BIPOC high
school students in East Oakland for health
employment through vocational training, work-
based learning, mentorship, and wraparound
supports. FACES will operate two programs,
Health Scholars and the Public Health Youth
Corps, across three high schools to prepare
underrepresented youth of color for health
careers while advancing health equity and
workforce diversity. FACES also holds an
annual behavioral health career conference at
Samuel Merritt University.

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5 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 9 First Place for
Youth
Youth Earn-and-
Learn for Economic
Empowerment
Career Access and
Employment $150,000.00
First Place for Youth’s (FPY) program, Youth
Earn-and-Learn for Economic Empowerment,
will connect up to 175 current and former
foster youth and homeless youth ages 18-21
annually in Oakland to job readiness skills
development, career coaching, and earn-and-
learn programming, including paid work
experience and career training.FPY provides
housing and wraparound services to promote
financial stability, equitable access to family-
sustaining careers, interpersonal skills, and
long-term self-sufficiency. Youth earn income
while gaining skills, certifications and
experience for upward economic mobility.
10 Genesys Works
Genesys Works High
School Internship
Program
Career Access and
Employment $114,000.00
Genesys Works Bay Area is driving equitable
access to career opportunities by empowering
talented high school seniors from
underrepresented communities to thrive in
today’s evolving workforce. Genesys will
recruit 35 Oakland youth for an intensive 8-
week Summer Training Program, equipping
them with professional and technical skills.

Those who complete training will receive a
10+ month-long internship across the Bay
Area. The program’s goal is to prepare
students to complete their internships and
launch into meaningful post-secondary and
career pathways.

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6 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 11 Junior
Achievement of
Northern
California
JA Workforce
Pathways for Future
Ready Oakland
Youth
Career Access and
Employment $150,004.00
JA NorCal’s goal is to equip low- to moderate-
income Oakland youth with the skills and
confidence to obtain family-sustaining careers.

JA NorCal proposes to serve 1,250 Oakland
youth ages 15–21 annually. Of those youth,
250 will participate in JA Workforce Pathways
and 1,000 youth will participate in Junior
Achievement’s work readiness and financial
literacy programs at high-need schools
prioritized by OFCY and OUSD. Specifically,
JA Workforce Pathways to be delivered in
collaboration with OUSD’s K-12 Highway to
Work initiative at Rudsdale, Dewey, and Ralph
E. Bunche High Schools.
12 Lao Family
Community
Development, Inc.

Oakland Youth
Industries Exploration
(YIE) Program
Career Access and
Employment $200,000.00
LFCD’s Oakland Youth Industries Exploration
(YIE) Program provides year-round career
readiness, paid work experience, and
wraparound support to 42 youth ages 16–21
who face barriers to education and
employment. Services delivered at LFCD’s
transit-accessible site in a Highest Priority
zone include 20 hours of job readiness
workshops with a $200 incentive, case
management, and 100 hours of paid OJT.

LFCD’s longstanding partnerships with Laney
College, OACE, City of Oakland Planning &
Building Dept., and local employers support
youth transitions into training, education, and
employment.

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7 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 13 New Door
Ventures
Comprehensive Job
Training and
Employment
Program for Oakland
Opportunity Youth
Career Access and
Employment $150,000.00
New Door’s Employment Program in Oakland
will serve 75 youth ages 16-21 who are
disconnected from school or work. Over five
months, participants complete pre-
employment training, weekly skill-building
workshops, and 4-month paid internships with
local businesses, alongside individualized
support addressing barriers such as housing
instability, limited access to caring adults, and
educational gaps. Graduates may continue
working with New Door to pursue
postsecondary education and career
pathways.
14 Oakland Leaf
Foundation Roots Internship Career Access and
Employment $150,000.00
The Roots Internship Program provides paid,
yearlong workforce and leadership
development for 35 Oakland high school
students. From September–May, 25 interns
serve as instructor aides and admin support
twice a week at Oakland Leaf afterschool sites
and attend monthly professional development
workshops. In June and July, 10 interns join
summer camp for intensive training, serve as
instructor aides, and lead lunchtime activities
for elementary and middle school youth.

Based at Oakland Leaf sites, Roots builds job
readiness, SEL skills, and pathways to
employment while fostering youth leadership.

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8 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 15 Oakland
Technology and
Education Center
Oakland Story-Work:

Archives, Media &
Workforce Pathways
Career Access and
Employment $83,125.00
OTEC's Oakland Story-Work Program is a
two-year initiative designed to serve
approximately 150 youth and young adults
aged 15 -21, with a focus on low-income,
Black, Latine, Asian, immigrant and historically
marginalized populations. In partnership with
the Oakland Public Library, the program
provides hands-on training in digital
storytelling, community archiving, media
production, and workforce-aligned digital
literacy skills. Participants will engage in
monthly workshops and a cohort of two (2)
individuals will be selected for internships and
apprenticeships for two (2) 6 month
appointments each year, a total of 4
individuals.
16 Planting Justice
Planting Justice Food
Sovereignty Youth
Leadership Program
Career Access and
Employment $200,000.00
Planting Justice’s Food Sovereignty Youth
Leadership Program serves 540 Oakland
youth ages 14–21 through school-based
classes and paid internships. Youth participate
at OUSD sites and at the East Oakland
Nursery and Mother Farm, receiving hands-on
training in gardening, culinary arts, food
safety, and leadership. Programs run during
the school year plus 6-week summer and 2-
week winter internships. The goal is to build
confidence, belonging, and youth leadership
rooted in food sovereignty.

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9 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 17 Roots Community
Health Next Level Youth Career Access and
Employment $200,000.00
Next Level Youth is a year-round Career
Exploration and Learning Experience
consisting of 3 cohorts, serving 10-14 Black-
identified transition-age youth (ages 15–21)
per 12-week cohort in East Oakland. Youth
participate in structured job-readiness and life-
skills workshops, career exploration activities,
and guided pathway planning supported by
one-on-one navigation. The program builds
workforce skills, academic engagement, and
career awareness while strengthening long-
term economic stability and self-sufficiency.
18 Safe Passages Life and Career
Roadmap Program
Career Access and
Employment $200,000.00
The Life and Career Roadmap Program will
serve 80 youth ages 15–21 from East and
West Oakland. This year-round program
provides life coaching, school and system
navigation, career exploration, paid work
experience, and summer services. Support is
offered on school campuses, in the
community, and at the Safe Passages’
Wellness Center. The goal is to help youth
gain stability, complete school, build job skills,
and transition into employment or
postsecondary pathways.

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10 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 19 The Hidden
Genius Project
The Hidden Genius
Project: Alumni
Pathways to Wealth
Building Careers
Career Access and
Employment $150,000.00
With this funding, The Hidden Genius Project
will expand Pathways to Wealth Building
Careers, supporting 110+ Oakland Immersion
alumni—primarily Black young men ages 15–
21—as they move into college, training, and
launch businesses and early careers. Through
paid internships, project-based work, and
targeted coaching at the Oakland
headquarters, alumni gain real work
experience, build professional networks, and
accelerate their path toward economic mobility
and transformative leadership.
20 Trybe Inc. Trybe Career Access
and Employment
Career Access and
Employment $250,000.00
Through the Career Access and Employment
strategy, Trybe will connect 70 transitional age
youth with apprenticeships and employment
while providing wraparound services to
support youth ages 15-21 in East Oakland.

Apprenticeships will include Food Systems,
Peace Ambassadors, Outdoor
Equity/Environmental Justice, and Skill Trades
and Industrial Operations. Apprenticeships
include access to mental health and
substance abuse counseling, and connections
to Trybe’s wraparound basic needs services
and programming.
21 The Center for
Young Women
dba Young
Women's
Freedom Center
Young Women’s
Freedom Center’s
Economic
Empowerment
Program
Career Access and
Employment $200,000.00
YWFC will serve 30 Oakland youth ages 15-
21 with pre-employment training, coaching,
and paid work experience. Ten Siblings on the
Rise youth complete 700–750 paid hours, and
20 youth in each ‘Transform Your Hustle’ cycle
complete 36 hours of training and mentorship.

Delivered at Oakland site and partner
workplaces, the program prepares low-income
and opportunity youth for stable jobs and
career pathways.

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11 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 22 The Youth
Employment
Partnership, Inc.

Career Connections Career Access and
Employment $200,000.00
Based in Central E. Oakland, Career
Connections wraps education and paid work
experience together with employability
coaching and support services for 35 Oakland
flatland youth (18-21y), disconnected from
work and school. OCC aligns income with
education and career goal attainment in living
classrooms that bridge education and
vocational training (200h). Youth earn their
diploma at YEP’s onsite high school, and
attain certifications in training pathways with
career mobility, preparing them for job
placement with continuing supports.
23 Youth Uprising
YU Career &
Education Program-
Job Training and
Placement
Career Access and
Employment $200,000.00
Youth UpRising's Career & Education
Program will serve 80 youth (ages 15-21)
experiencing barriers to economic opportunity.

With running cohorts that span 6-8 week at a
time, the program will provide 80 hours of paid
workforce development: 20 hours of job-
readiness training followed by 60 hours of
hands-on work experience at YU or local
partners. Programming takes place at YU in
East Oakland. The primary goal of the
program is to build essential employment skills
and significantly increase participants'
readiness for long-term careers, positioning
them for sustainable economic success.

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12 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 24 Bay Area
Community
Resources, Inc.

Fred T. Korematsu
Discovery Academy
Elementary
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. is
working with Korematsu Discovery Academy
and other partners to provide a
comprehensive EXLP to at least 83 K-5
students (primarily from historically
marginalized communities) per day. The EXLP
operates every school day for an average of

16.75 hours weekly, 36 weeks a year. It will be
a safe space for students to build academic
and social-emotional skills, experience the
arts, science, physical activity, and other joyful
enrichment activities, and strengthen
relationships with peers and caring adults, as
well as their sense of school connectedness.
25 Bay Area
Community
Resources, Inc.

Martin Luther King,
Jr. Elementary
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. is
partnering with MLK Jr., Elementary and other
partners to provide a comprehensive,
expanded learning program (EXLP) to at least
115 K-5 students (primarily from historically
marginalized communities) per day. The EXLP
operates every school day for an average of

16.75 hours weekly, 36 weeks a year. It is a
safe space for students to build academic and
social-emotional skills, experience the arts,
science, physical activity, and other joyful
enrichment activities, and strengthen
relationships with peers and caring adults and
their sense of school connectedness.

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13 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 26 Bay Area
Community
Resources, Inc.

Acorn Woodland
Elementary
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. is
partnering with Acorn Woodland Elementary
and other partners to provide a
comprehensive, expanded learning program
(EXLP) to at least 83 K-5 students from
historically marginalized communities per day.

The EXLP operates every school day, 16.75
hours weekly, 36 weeks a year. It will be a
safe space for students to build academic and
social-emotional skills, experience the arts,
science, physical activity, and other joyful
enrichment activities, and strengthen
relationships with peers and caring adults, as
well as their sense of school connectedness.
27 Bay Area
Community
Resources, Inc.

Global Family
Elementary
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. is
working with Global Family and other partners
to provide a comprehensive, expanded
learning program (EXLP) to at least 83 TK-5
students (primarily from historically
marginalized communities) per day. The EXLP
operates every school day for an average of

16.75 hours weekly, 36 weeks a year.

Provides a safe space for students to build
academic and social-emotional skills,
experience the arts, science, physical activity,
and other joyful enrichment activities, and
strengthen relationships with peers and caring
adults and their sense of school
connectedness.

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14 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 28 Bay Area
Community
Resources, Inc.

Sankofa United
Elementary
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. is
partnering with Sankofa and other partners to
provide a comprehensive, expanded learning
program (EXLP) to at least 100 K-5 students
(primarily from historically marginalized
communities) per day. The EXLP operates
every school day for an average of 16.75
hours per week, 36 weeks per year. It is a safe
space for students to build academic and
social-emotional skills, experience the arts,
science, and engage in physical in other joyful
enrichment activities, strengthening
relationships with peers and caring adults and
their sense of school connectedness.
29 Bay Area
Community
Resources, Inc.

Esperanza
Elementary
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. is
partnering with Esperanza Academy and other
partners to provide a comprehensive,
expanded learning program (EXLP) to at least
83 K-5 students (primarily from historically
marginalized communities) daily. The EXLP
operates every school day for an average of

16.75 hours weekly, 36 weeks a year.

Provides a safe space for students to build
academic & social-emotional skills, experience
the arts, science, physical activity, and other
joyful enrichment activities; strengthen
relationships with peers and caring adults, as
well as their sense of school connectedness.

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15 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 30 Bay Area
Community
Resources, Inc.

Markham Elementary
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. is
partnering with Markham Elementary & other
partners to provide a comprehensive,
expanded learning program (EXLP) to at least
83 TK-5 students from historically
marginalized communities per day. The EXLP
will operate every school day for an average of

16.75 hours per week, 36 weeks per year. It
will be a safe space for students to build
academic & social-emotional skills, experience
the arts, science, and engage in physical &
other joyful enrichment activities,
strengthening relationships with peers &
caring adults & their sense of school
connectedness.
31 East Bay Agency
for Children Achieve Academy
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
East Bay Agency for Children (EBAC) will
provide afterschool academic and enrichment
programming for 100 TK-5th graders at
Achieve Academy, where 92% are Latino/a
and 77.5% are English Learners. The
community faces high poverty, food, housing,
and employment insecurity, and only 26% of
3rd-5th graders are proficient readers.

Students will receive 1 hour of academic
support and 1 hour of enrichment daily. The
program fosters a safe and supportive
environment that builds resilience, life skills,
and assets.

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16 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 32 East Bay Asian
Youth Center
Manzanita
Community School
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
EBAYC After-School Learning and Summer
Learning programs provide a continuum of
comprehensive out-of-school-time learning for
140 Manzanita Community School students.

EBAYC provides students 200 days of safe
and enriching learning experiences that foster
a sense of belonging, caring and supportive
relationships, and increased skills and
motivation to persist in their education.

Students actively participate in a diverse menu
of program activities, including academic
support, arts, dance, sports, gardening,
cooking, dance, cultural events, field trips and
family engagement and support services.
33 East Bay Asian
Youth Center
Garfield Elementary
School
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
EBAYC After-School Learning and Summer
Learning programs provide a continuum of
comprehensive out-of-school-time learning for
200 Garfield Elementary School students.

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17 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 34 East Bay Asian
Youth Center
Franklin Elementary
School
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
EBAYC After-School Learning and Summer
Learning programs provide a continuum of
comprehensive out-of-school-time learning for
160 Franklin Elementary School students.

Students actively participate in a diverse menu
of program activities, including academic
support, project-based learning, arts, sports,
gardening, dance, cultural events, field trips
and family engagement.
35 East Oakland
Youth
Development
Center
East Oakland Youth
Development Center
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$150,000.00
Summer Cultural Enrichment Program (SCEP)
and After-School Leadership Academy (ASLA)
are EOYDC’s elementary extended learning
programs, comprising year-round educational
enrichment programs for 120 K-5 youth. SCEP
is a five-week summer day camp and offers a
range of classes, including science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM);
language arts; cultural heritage; wellness;
dance; and life skills, along with special events
and field trips. ASLA is an enrichment program
that reinforces OUSD academic curriculum
through homework support, academic
activities, and holistic enrichment classes.

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18 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 36 Girls Incorporated
of Alameda
County
Learning Without
Limits
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
The Learning Without Limits (LWL)
Afterschool Program (ASP) will provide a
structured, engaging environment for 3
hrs/day Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and
Friday and 4.5 hours on Wednesdays and
other early release days. 140 students can
enroll in programming, and Girls Inc. AC
offers clubs for families who do not want daily
ASP. LWL ASP will offer daily literacy for 1-
hour per day, using an evidence-based
literacy curriculum as well as STEM
enrichment, homework help, physical activity,
snacks/meals and parent engagement. All
activities will be tailored to support the high
ELL student population.
37 Girls Incorporated
of Alameda
County
Cox Academy
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
The Cox Afterschool Program (ASP) will
provide a structured, engaging environment
for 3 hrs/day Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,
and Friday and 4.5 hours on Wednesdays and
other early release days. 140 students can
enroll in programming, and they offer clubs for
families who do not want daily ASP. CoxASP
will offer daily literacy for 1-hour per day, using
an evidence-based literacy curriculum as well
as STEM enrichment, homework help,
physical activity, snacks/meals and parent
engagement. All activities will be tailored to
support the high ELL student population.

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19 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 38 Life I Love School
Life I Love School -
Wellness Program for
Elementary Girls
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$135,873.00
Life I Love School provides 24 weekly 60-
minute wellness sessions for 20 girls per
school site (160 total) at 8 East Oakland and
Fruitvale elementary schools. Using brain
science and creative art activities, girls in
grades 3-5 learn emotional regulation, conflict
resolution, healthy relationships, and
leadership skills. Programming includes three
90-minute family circles, peer mentorship
opportunities, and two 2-hour community
showcases. All services are trauma-informed,
healing-centered, culturally responsive, and
designed to increase belonging, confidence,
resilience, and school engagement.
39 Lighthouse
Community Public
Schools
Lighthouse
Community Charter
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$100,000.00
LCCS Elementary Expanded Learning
Program (ELP) provides free, on site after
school and summer programming for about
130 TK-5 students at Lighthouse Community
Charter School (LCCS) in East Oakland.

Students receive daily academic support,
enrichment, arts, recreation, and social
emotional learning from dismissal to early
evening to build skills, safety, and connection
to school.

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20 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 40 Living Jazz Carl B. Munck
Elementary
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$31,250.00
RootED will deliver tuition-free, culturally
grounded expanded learning at Carl B. Munck
Elementary, serving approximately 30 TK–3rd-
grade students throughout the academic year.

Although located in a Low Priority
neighborhood, 81.5% of students qualify for
free/reduced lunch, indicating significant
economic need. Students will participate in
weekly (2x week at EXLO Ratio ) rhythm-
based arts classes led by a professional
teaching artist. On-campus programming
strengthens access to safe spaces, caring
adults, and joyful creative expression.
41 Living Jazz Cleveland
Elementary
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$31,250.00
RootED will deliver tuition-free, culturally
grounded expanded learning at Cleveland
Elementary, serving approximately 30 first-
grade students across the academic year.

Although located in a Low Priority
neighborhood, 55.9% of students qualify for
free/reduced-price lunch, indicating significant
economic need. Students will participate in
weekly (2x week at EXLO Ratio ) vocal music
classes led by professional teaching artists
who are also active working musicians. On-
campus programming provides consistent
access to caring adults, joyful creative
expression, and safe enrichment.

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21 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 42 Living Jazz Allendale Elementary
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$31,250.00
Living Jazz (LJ)RootED provides tuition-free,
culturally grounded arts enrichment at
Allendale Elementary, serving about 30 TK–
2nd grade students. Although located in a
Medium Priority neighborhood, 97% of
students qualify for free/reduced-price lunch,
making Allendale one of OUSD’s most
economically impacted schools. Students
receive weekly (2x week at EXLO ratio) on-
campus music, movement, and creative arts
sessions led by a skilled teaching artist who is
also an active working professional, offering
safe spaces, caring adults, and joyful
engagement throughout the school year.
43 Oakland Leaf
Foundation La Escuelita
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
La Escuelita SEEDS is a high quality
expanded learning program serving
approximately 150 of TK to 5th grade students
onsite at La Escuelita, a high-need public
school in Oakland. Operating an average of 3
hours daily, 5 days a week during the school
year from August through May, the program
integrates academic support, social-emotional
learning through their In Full Bloom
curriculum, and enrichment in STEM, Arts &
Culture, and Health & Wellness. The goal is to
nurture confident, curious, and emotionally
grounded youth with strong decision-making
skills and a deep sense of belonging.

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22 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 44 Oakland Leaf
Foundation
Think College Now
Elementary
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$65,000.00
Think College Now SEEDS is a high quality
expanded learning program serving
approximately 120 of TK to 5th grade students
onsite at Think College Now, a high-need
public school in Fruitvale. Operating an
average of 3 hours daily, 5 days a week during
the school year from August through May, the
program integrates academic support, social-
emotional learning through the In Full Bloom
curriculum, and enrichment in STEM, Arts &
Culture, and Health & Wellness. The goal is to
nurture confident, curious, and emotionally
grounded youth with strong decision-making
skills and a deep sense of belonging.
45 Oakland
Symphony
Oakland Symphony
MUSE Stringendo
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$60,000.00
The Oakland Symphony MUSE Stringendo is
an after-school instrumental music program
that serves more than 150 elementary
students from multiple Title I schools in
Oakland. The program provides tuition-free
group music instruction emphasizing musical
excellence and social development. Students,
regardless of musical background, attend two
one-hour classes per week at their school site
throughout the academic year. The goal of
MUSE Stringendo is to improve educational
outcomes, strengthen community leadership
and engagement, and develop students'
sensory, cognitive, and creative capacities.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

23 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 46 Ultimate Impact,
Inc.

Place-based Ultimate
Learning and
Leadership through
Sports (PULLS)
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,516.00
PULLS participants will participate in weekly,
hour-long after-school sessions throughout the
entire school year. This program will serve 900
students per year at the following OUSD sites
in priority neighborhoods: Acorn Woodland,
Bridges Academy, Carl B Munck, Global
Family, Hoover Elementary, Lockwood
STEAM Academy, MLK, Prescott, and
Sankofa. Participants are 2nd to 5th graders
participating in cohorts of up to 20 students.

The goal is to create a safe space for youth to
gain leadership, communication and conflict
resolution skills, healthy habits, and support
SEL development.
47 Youth Cooking
Services dba Kids
Cooking For Life
Franklin Elementary
School
Elementary School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$52,622.00
KCL proposes to run 12 semester courses at
five OUSD schools over the 2026 - 27 school
year and 2 summer courses in 2026. • Each
semester course has 10 weekly classes.

Summer classes run daily for 10 days. • Class
size is limited to 15 or 30 students (depending
on school) for a total reach of 300 students
over program duration. KCL instructors travel
on-site with a mobile kitchen. • Each student
will receive a healthy, take-home dish they
cooked as a direct benefit of the program. •
Internship opportunities with stipend for high
school students to develop leadership and
career skills.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

24 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 48 Afro-Play Oakland Afro-Play
Family Resource
Centers and Parent
Engagement
$143,150.00
Afro-Play delivers a series of culturally-rooted
early childhood and family support programs
that strengthens Black families with children
ages 0–5 through play-based learning, cultural
affirmation, resource navigation, and
community-driven care. Each fiscal year, Afro-
Play operates two Afrocentric Playgroups
hosted at family resource center locations in
East Oakland’s Castlemont Corridor and West
Oakland’s historic 7th Street Corridor. Situated
near major housing developments, public
transit, and neighborhood schools, both
locations provide highly accessible,
community-centered entry points for local
families. Across a 34-week program cycle,
Afro-Play offers an accessible, drop-in model
that supports approximately 120 families
annually, with an 80% participant return rate.

In 2026, Afro-Play anticipates serving 250
families through expanded playgroup capacity,
enhanced resource support, and increased
community engagement activities.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

25 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 49 BANANAS,
Incorporated
Healthy Havenscourt
Cub House
Family Resource
Centers and Parent
Engagement
$500,000.00
The Havenscourt Cub House is located at the
Lion Creek Crossings FRC for families of
young children in the Havenscourt
neighborhood. Their goal is to support
children’s social-emotional development and
kinder-readiness so they will succeed and
thrive in school and life. Services will include
family navigation and referrals,
parent/caregiver-child playgroups, peer
support and social connection for young
families, kinder-transition family activities,
financial literacy, and residential services.

Bananas envisions the Hub supporting 300
children 0 to 5 years old, and 400 caregivers
and parents for a total of 700 participants.
50 Dads Evoking
Change
Family Wellness and
Engagement
Program
Family Resource
Centers and Parent
Engagement
$71,450.00
DEC will serve 70- 100 families over a one
year period. Services will include co-parenting
counseling, parenting workshops, family
engagement activities, and resource and
system navigation support led by Oakland
based staff with relevant lived experience.

Historically, the average duration of
participation has been 6 months, with some
parents/caregivers participating for 2-3 years.

Delivered at the East Bay Agency for
Children’s Family Resource Centers and
accessible community sites such as the
Oakland Public Libraries, the goal is to provide
accessible, culturally responsive support that
helps parents/caregivers strengthen family
relationships, reduce stress, connect to
resources and create nurturing environments
where young children can thrive.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

26 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 51 Destiny Arts
Center
Teddy Bear
Movement
Family Resource
Centers and Parent
Engagement
$50,000.00
Destiny Arts Center's Teddy Bear Movement
Program serves ages 2-5 at eight community
sites through partnerships with the Unity
Council, Oakland Housing Authority, and
TRYBE. Through dance, rhythm, storytelling,
and early martial arts, children build early
literacy, coordination, confidence, and
emotional regulation in safe, welcoming
environments that honor their identities and
lived experiences. Destiny’s Early Childhood
Movement Arts program helps close these
gaps by creating joyful, community-rooted
spaces where young children and their
caregivers can move, play, and learn together.
52 Family Paths, Inc. Parent Education
Program
Family Resource
Centers and Parent
Engagement
$56,448.10
P/OD classes will be provided to caregivers
with children 0-5 who are enrolled in Unity
Council’s childcare centers and who live in
priority neighborhoods detailed on the
Geographic Equity Layer Map-Basemap, such
as Fruitvale, West Oakland, East Oakland and
Adams Point. The program structure is ten 2-
hour sessions. Programming is delivered in 3
English series and 3 Spanish series using an
adult-learning, peer-based model that centers
lived experience, cultural strengths, reflection,
and action. Classes are delivered on the Zoom
platform by an AP/OD–Certified Facilitator.

The goals of the
ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

27 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 53 Lifelong Medical
Care Project Pride
Family Resource
Centers and Parent
Engagement
$99,506.00
LifeLong Medical Care proposes to continue
the Children’s Services Program at Project
Pride, its residential treatment program. The
program will serve a minimum of 20 children
and 20 adults annually. It will provide
developmental assessments, parenting
education groups, parent/child dyad sessions,
case management for parenting needs, and
field trips/activities for the mothers and
children. Length of stay at Project Pride is
typically between 4 to 12 months. The goal is
to reduce the children's risk for adverse
childhood events and strengthen the mother's
understanding of healthy development.
54 Lotus Bloom
Culturally
Responsive Family
Resource Center -
Room to Bloom
Family Resource
Centers and Parent
Engagement
$312,499.52
The Room to Bloom Family Resource Center’s
goal is to create culturally specific and
appropriate prevention and early intervention
programs to ensure children 0-5 and their
caregivers can thrive. The site operates two
successful programs: Playgroups and Family
Navigation services. Playgroups provide a
safe and healthy environment for children and
families and embed case management. Family
navigation services provide essential
resources and referrals. The proposed
program will serve 244 children and
caregivers, and participants are expected to
engage in programs for 2.5 to 3 years
duration.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

28 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 55 Oakland Parents
Together
Parent Cafes and
Early Learning
Workshops
Family Resource
Centers and Parent
Engagement
$50,100.00
Oakland Parents Together (OPT) will serve
approximately 60 parents and caregivers and
75 children ages 0–5 each year in East and
West Oakland neighborhoods designated as
“Highest Priority” by the City of Oakland’s
Geographic Equity Toolbox, including ZIP
codes 94607, 94621, and 94603. Participants
are primarily low-income parents and
caregivers who face barriers related to
poverty, housing instability, language access,
immigration status, and exposure to
community trauma. OPT will provide virtual
Parent Cafes and early learning workshops
using a trauma-informed, culturally responsive
Family Resource Center model. Services
include weekly facilitated group sessions
focused on parental resilience, social
connections, child development, early literacy,
and healthy parent–child relationships.

Programs are delivered in English, Spanish,
and Arabic and include mental-health
professionals. Each participant engages in a
10-week program cycle, with three cycles per
year. The program’s goal is to strengthen
protective factors for families, reduce
parenting stress, increase caregiver
confidence and social support, and promote
healthy early childhood development and
kindergarten readiness for Oakland’s youngest
children. .

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

29 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 56 Oakland Parks,
Recreation, and
Youth
Development
Community
Adventure Pre-K
Playgroups
(C.A.P.P.)
Family Resource
Centers and Parent
Engagement
$115,000.00
Community Adventure Pre-K Playgroups
(CAPP) is a program currently serving 50
families with young children ages 0-5 in the
mid-to-highest priority neighborhoods in
Oakland. CAPP offers play-based learning
and quarterly field trips. The program goals
include supporting positive early childhood
development, preparing young children for a
full-day Pre-K or TK/K classroom environment,
providing parents/caregivers with access to
local resources, and building community. This
program is offered from August-May at
Carmen Flores, Rainbow, Ira Jinkins, Willie
Keyes and the Brookdale Recreation Centers.
57 Our Family
Coalition
Project LIFE (LGBTQ
Intersectional Family
Enrichment)
Family Resource
Centers and Parent
Engagement
$250,000.00
Our Family Coalition (OFC) is a family
resource center whose work focuses on the
healthy development of children ages 0-5
growing up in Bay Area LGBTQ+ families.

OFC provides LGBTQ+ parents/caregivers
opportunities for social networking, learning,
and leadership through peer-led affinity
groups, parent-infant classes,
workshops/trainings, and navigation services,
which will occur in various community sites
across Oakland. The goal is for 200 LGBTQ+
adults with children and 71 children to
participate in an average of 2-3 one-
time/ongoing activities throughout FY 2025-26.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

30 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 58 Refugee &
Immigrant
Transitions
Parent Tot Initiative
Family Resource
Centers and Parent
Engagement
$350,000.00
Refugee & Immigrant Transitions & 3 partners
will serve a hard-to-reach population of
families with children 0-5: low-income, English
learner refugees & immigrants. The
collaborative will offer year-round services to
610 clients at the RIT Family Resource
Center, community sites, & virtually. Services
are centered on family navigation &
parent/caregiver skill-building, with the goals
of improving access to supportive resources &
increasing families’ capacity to help kids 0-5.

RIT ensures equitable access by addressing
population-specific barriers such as
cultural/linguistic considerations.
59 Tandem, Partners
in Early Learning
Early Learning
Everywhere: Building
Family Connections
Family Resource
Centers and Parent
Engagement
$129,499.64
With OFCY support, Tandem’s community-
based Early Learning Everywhere program
has strengthened Oakland’s early learning
ecosystem by engaging families with children
0-5 who are not in formal care over the past
four years. Through multilingual, two-
generational play-and-learn groups and family
workshops hosted with community partners,
this project supports critical early literacy,
math, and social-emotional development.

Reaching 160 children and 250 caregivers
through 1620 total service hours, it further
connects families to local resources and builds
strong networks of support.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

31 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 60 Big Brothers Big
Sisters of the Bay
Area, Inc.

Big Futures Independent Living $75,505.00
BBBSBA's Big Futures program will serve 20
unduplicated Oakland youth, aged 11-21,
prioritizing those aged 16-21 who are
disconnected from school or employment. The
core service is professionally supported, long-
term (45.2-month average, one-year
minimum), one-to-one mentorship delivered
across Oakland. The program focuses on
increasing financial stability, academic
competence, and life skills to ensure a
successful transition to productive adulthood.

The goal is to use mentoring to deliver
evidence-based outcomes that reduce risk
and promote self-sufficiency for high-need
youth.
61 The Center for
Independent
Living, Inc.

Centering
Independent Living
for Youth with
Disabilities
Independent Living $200,000.00
Centering Independent Living will support 100
Oakland youth with disabilities (ages 15–21) in
building the life skills, financial stability, and
confidence needed to live independently.

Through peer-led coaching, benefits and
financial literacy support, travel training,
assistive technology, social connection, and
supported pathways to income and resources,
the program operates year-round at CIL’s
Fruitvale office, virtually, and partner
school/community sites, helping youth
transition into adulthood with dignity and
choice.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

32 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 62 College Track
College Track
Oakland:

Democratizing high
school & college
success for low-
income, first-
generation Oakland
youth
Independent Living $125,000.00
College Track’s 10-year, holistic college
completion program equips first-generation
students to earn bachelor’s degrees and craft
lives of opportunity, choice, purpose, and
power. During the 2025-26 academic year,
College Track will provide academic, social-
emotional, extracurricular, career exploration,
and college access support at their Old
Oakland student center to 270 Oakland high
school students from under-resourced
neighborhoods. College Track catalyzes social
mobility by providing the resources,
relationships, and opportunities to succeed in
school, career, and life.
63 The East Bay
Spanish Speaking
Citizen’s
Foundation
LIBRE - Independent
Living Independent Living $83,475.00
The LIBRE Independent Living project will
serve 35 youth ages 15–21 in Fruitvale and
key neighborhoods, by providing life skills
workshops, mentoring, career exploration,
academic and financial supports over a 9-
month period. Services include bilingual,
culturally responsive instruction, stipends, and
individualized mentoring to build confidence,
independence, and financial stability. Sessions
occur biweekly with additional mentoring and
career exposure activities. The goal is to equip
youth with skills, resources, and adult
connections necessary to transition
successfully to adulthood.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

33 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 64 Spanish Speaking
Unity Council of
Alameda County,
Inc. dba The Unity
Council
Launching
Independence &
Future Empowerment
(LIFE)
Independent Living $250,000.00
The Launching Independence & Future
Empowerment (LIFE) program will serve 100
low-income Oakland students with disabilities
at The Unity Council in Fruitvale with career
exploration, postsecondary enrollment
coaching, self-advocacy coaching, and referral
services. Over three months, each participant
will receive 30 hours of job readiness training,
up to 120 hours of internship, and
individualized and group coaching. The
program goals are to build youths’ confidence
and life skills, increase their access to income
and employment pathways, and support their
successful transition to adulthood.
65 The Center for
Young Women
dba Young
Women's
Freedom Center
Beloved Village Independent Living $312,225.00
Beloved Village will walk alongside 25
systems-impacted Oakland youth ages 15–21
as they cross the threshold into adulthood
without the safety nets they deserve. Over a
12-month period, youth will receive consistent,
culturally rooted guidance, basic income
supports, and practical independent living
skills from trusted adults who refuse to let
them navigate complex systems alone.

Services will be delivered in the
neighborhoods where young people live,
learn, and hustle - building confidence,
stability, and the foundation needed to live
independently and on their own terms.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

34 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 66 The Youth
Employment
Partnership, Inc.

Stable Futures for
Oakland Youth Independent Living $200,000.00
YEP’s Stable Futures Housing Program
(SFHP) serves 30 Oakland youth (18-21) who
are experiencing homelessness, disconnected
from school & work, and systems-impacted.

Residents engage in education & job training,
community-building, and the Self-Sufficiency
curriculum: financial literacy, resource
navigation, executive functioning, debt
elimination, & asset-building via Individual
Development Accounts (IDAs). Over 9-18
months, youth make measurable, tangible
progress toward independence:
postsecondary education, work, savings, a
shift in mindset, and increased confidence in
their futures.
67 Attitudinal Healing
Connection, Inc.
dba The Center
for ArtEsteem
Community School
for Creative
Education
Afterschool
Programming
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$100,000.00
ArtEsteem is partnering with the Community
School for Creative Education (CSCE) to
provide a comprehensive Extended Day
Program (EDP) to primarily low-income TK-8
students of color in East Oakland 180 days a
year. The EDP will serve 100 students after
school five days per week. With a whole-child
approach and curriculum grounded in Science,
Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math
(STEAM), the EDP will create a safe space for
students to develop academic and social-
emotional skills; express themselves;
strengthen relationships with peers and caring
adults; and deepen school connectedness.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

35 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 68 Bay Area
Community
Resources, Inc.

Elmhurst United
Middle
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,000.00
Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. is
partnering with Elmhurst and other partners to
provide a comprehensive, expanded learning
program (EXLP) to at least 100 students,
grades 6-8 (primarily from historically
marginalized communities) per day. The EXLP
operates every school day for an average of

16.25 hours weekly, 36 weeks a year. It is a
safe space for students to build academic &
social-emotional skills, participate in joyful
enrichment activities such as arts, cooking, &
physical activity, and strengthen relationships
with peers & caring adults, as well as their
sense of school connectedness.
69 Bay Area
Community
Resources, Inc.

Frick United
Academy of
Language Middle
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,000.00
Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. is
partnering with Frick United and other
community partners to provide a
comprehensive, expanded learning program
(EXLP) to at least 83 students, grades 6-8
(primarily from historically marginalized
communities) per day. The EXLP operates
every school day, 16.25 hours weekly, 36
weeks a year. It is a safe space for students to
build academic & social-emotional skills,
participate in joyful enrichment activities such
as arts, cooking, & physical activity, and
strengthen relationships with peers & caring
adults, as well as their sense of school
connectedness.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

36 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 70 Bay Area
Community
Resources, Inc.

LIFE Academy
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,000.00
Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. is
partnering with Life Academy and other
partners to provide a comprehensive,
expanded learning program (EXLP) to at least
83 students in grades 6-8 (primarily from
historically marginalized communities) per
day. The EXLP operates every school day for
an average of 15 hours per week, 36 weeks
per year. It is a safe space for students to
build academic & social-emotional skills,
experience the arts, science, physical & other
joyful enrichment activities, strengthen
relationships with peers & caring adults, and
their sense of school connectedness.
71 Bay Area
Community
Resources, Inc.

Madison Park
Academy 6-12
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,000.00
Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. is
partnering with Madison Park Academy and
other partners to provide a comprehensive,
expanded learning program (EXLP) to at least
83 6th-8th graders from historically
underserved communities per day. The EXLP
will operate every school day for an average of
15 hours weekly, 36 weeks a year. It will be a
safe space for students to build academic and
social-emotional skills, experience the arts,
science, physical activity, and other joyful
enrichment activities, and strengthen
relationships with peers and caring adults and
their sense of school connectedness.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

37 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 72 Bay Area
Community
Resources, Inc.

West Oakland Middle
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,000.00
Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. is
partnering with West Oakland Middle School
and other partners to provide a
comprehensive, expanded learning program
(EXLP) to at least 83 students grade 6-8
(primarily from historically marginalized
communities) per day. The EXLP operates
every school day for 15 hours per week, 36
weeks per year. It will be a safe space for
students to build academic & social-emotional
skills, experience the arts, science, and other
physical and joyful enrichment activities, and
strengthen relationships with peers & caring
adults, as well as their sense of school
connectedness.
73 Bay Area
Community
Resources, Inc.

Westlake Middle
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,000.00
Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. will
partner with Westlake Middle School and local
organizations to provide a comprehensive,
expanded learning program (EXLP) to at least
83 6th-8th-grade students (primarily from
historically marginalized communities). The
EXLP will operate every school day, 15 hours
per week, 36 weeks per year. It will be a safe
space for students to build academic and
social-emotional skills, experience the arts,
science, and other physical and joyful
enrichment activities, and strengthen
relationships with peers and caring adults, and
their sense of school connectedness.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

38 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 74 East Bay Asian
Youth Center
Roosevelt Middle
School
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,000.00
EBAYC After-School Learning and Summer
Learning programs provide a continuum of
comprehensive out-of-school-time learning for
220 Roosevelt Middle School students.

Students actively participate in a diverse menu
of program activities, including academic
support, project-based learning, arts, sports,
gardening, biking, dance, cultural events, field
trips and family engagement.
75 East Bay Asian
Youth Center
Urban Promise
Academy
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,000.00
EBAYC After-School Learning and Summer
Learning programs provide a continuum of
comprehensive out-of-school-time learning for
160 Urban Promise Academy students.

EBAYC provides students 196 days of safe
and enriching learning experiences that foster
a sense of belonging, caring and supportive
relationships, and increased skills and
motivation to persist in their education.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

39 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 76 La Clinica de La
Raza, Inc. Familia Adelante
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$165,681.19
Cultura y Bienestar’s (CyB) Familia Adelante
program supports Latinx and Indigenous youth
by reducing stress and risky behaviors among
Latinx and Indigenous participants through
family-based coping strategies that address
trauma, acculturation stress, and enhance
psychosocial coping and strengthen life skills.

The 12-session program will bring together
thirty 10 to 14-year-old participants and their
caregivers in CyB’s center in the Fruitvale
District to learn about skill-building including
cultural resiliency, violence prevention,
substance abuse, STDs, teen pregnancy and
communication skills.
77 Lighthouse
Community Public
Schools
Lighthouse
Community Charter
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,000.00
The Lighthouse Middle School Expanded
Learning Program provides free after-school
and summer programming for about 64 6th–
8th grade students at Lighthouse Community
Charter School in East Oakland. From
dismissal to early evening, students receive
targeted academic intervention, homework
help, mentoring, athletics, and enrichment to
build skills, improve attendance, and increase
safety and engagement with school.
78 Lighthouse
Community Public
Schools
Lodestar: A
Lighthouse
Community Charter
Public
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,000.00
Lodestar Middle School Expanded Learning
Program provides free after-school and
summer programming for approximmately 80
6th–8th grade students at Lodestar in East
Oakland. From dismissal to early evening,
students receive targeted academic
intervention, homework help, mentoring,
enrichment, and athletics to improve skills,
safety, attendance, and engagement with
school.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

40 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 79 Living Jazz Claremont Middle
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$31,250.00
RootED will deliver tuition-free, culturally
grounded expanded learning at Claremont
Middle School, serving approximately 30
students throughout the academic year.

Although located in a low-priority
neighborhood, 54% of students are
economically disadvantaged. Students will
participate in weekly (2x week at EXLO Ratio
)drumline instruction led by a professional
teaching artist, building rhythm skills,
discipline, teamwork, and confidence. On-
campus programming provides safe,
structured afterschool spaces and joyful
creative expression that strengthens school
connection.
80 Oakland Leaf
Foundation Bret Harte Middle
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,000.00
Bret Harte SEEDS is a high quality expanded
learning program serving approximately 160
6th to 8th grade students onsite at Bret Harte,
a high-need middle school in Dimond district.

Operating an average of 3 hours daily, 5 days
a week during the school year (August to
May), the program integrates academic
support, competitive sports, social-emotional
learning through the In Full Bloom curriculum,
and enrichment in STEM, Arts & Culture, and
Health & Wellness. The goal is to prepare
youth for a successful high school transition
while strengthening self-agency, leadership,
and community connection.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

41 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 81 Safe Passages Coliseum College
Prep Academy
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,000.00
SP’ CCPA Extended Learning Program
provides academic support, student
enrichment, youth development, mentorship &
leadership, and family engagement to 270
low-income, at risk, students of color every
weekday of the school year. The program
accelerates student learning via increased
attendance & enrichment; supports social-
emotional learning and student connections to
peers & trusting adults; provides students with
opportunities to apply knowledge to solve real
problems and become community leaders;
and provides students a safe afterschool
environment to reduce community-based
violence.
82 Safe Passages United for Success
Academy Middle
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$85,000.00
Safe Passages will serve 200 middle school
youth (190 daily) at United for Success
Academy in District 5. Operating daily from
3:30 pm to 6:00 pm for the full school year,
Safe Passages provides academic support,
STEM, sports, Urban Arts, leadership and field
trips in a program that centers youth and their
families. The goal is to accelerate learning,
foster joy, deepen connections, and build
leadership skills. Through their safe, fun, and
culturally responsive space, they prepare
youth for high school and connect families to
vital resources.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

42 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 83 Original Scraper
Bike Team, Inc.

Elmhurst United
Middle
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$38,971.00
The Scraper Bike Expanded Learning
Program is designed to serve approximately
30 students (grades 7-8) annually in East
Oakland. The core service is a six-week,
weekly Bike Mechanics and Customization
workshop focused on hands-on technical skill-
building, creativity, and self-expression. The
primary goal is to leverage culturally relevant
programming to foster Youth Development
and Leadership and create a direct Career
Access and Employment pipeline by
transitioning committed participants into the
long-term, year-round mentoring and job-
readiness opportunities at The Shed.
84 Original Scraper
Bike Team, Inc. Greenleaf
Middle School-
Based Expanded
Learning
$38,971.00
The Scraper Bike Expanded Learning
Program is designed to serve approximately
30 students (grades 7-8) annually in East
Oakland. The core service is a six-week,
weekly Bike Mechanics and Customization
workshop focused on hands-on technical skill-
building, creativity, and self-expression. The
primary goal is to leverage culturally relevant
programming to foster Youth Development
and Leadership and create a direct Career
Access and Employment pipeline by
transitioning committed participants into the
long-term, year-round mentoring and job-
readiness opportunities at The Shed.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

43 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 85 Entitled Futures
Quria at Tech:

Student Wellness &
Support Hub
Place-Based
Innovations for
Youth Safety
$175,000.00
Entitled Futures will serve 300 Oakland Tech
students through on campus wellness center
services that include drop in emotional
support, short term early intervention, small
group circles, and referral coordination.

Services are offered during the school year
and summer in the two Tech wellness centers.

The goal is to strengthen student well being,
belonging, and engagement through culturally
grounded support.
86 The Family
Violence Law
Center
Fremont High
Gender-Based
Violence Case
Management
Program
Place-Based
Innovations for
Youth Safety
$250,000.00
The Fremont Gender-Based Violence Case
Management Project provides intensive case
management to 40 OUSD students, crisis
stabilization to 40 students, and school-based
prevention programming to over 400 students
and staff annually. Services are school-based
and mobile; include life coaching, income
supports/incentives, mentoring, family support,
and social emotional/mental health support;
and are provided daily over 3 months to 1 year
or as long as needed to ensure youth safety,
all with the goal of reducing violence and risk
behaviors and improving student and family
engagement.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

44 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 87 Fresh Lifelines for
Youth, Inc.

FLY Law-Related
Education Program
(LREP)
Place-Based
Innovations for
Youth Safety
$99,230.00
FLY will provide law-related education and
mentoring to at least 80 Oakland high school
youth through the LREP To reduce system
involvement and increase community safety,
FLY's program equips youth with knowledge
about their rights and responsibilities under
the law and helps them build skills for
success. Through a prevention-focused
approach aligned with CDC violence
prevention strategies, youth develop critical
thinking, conflict resolution, and leadership
skills while building prosocial relationships with
caring adults and peers. Youth with highest
needs receive warm referrals to FLY's
Leadership Training Program or community
partners for wraparound support.
88 Kingmakers of
Oakland TFI Prep
Place-Based
Innovations for
Youth Safety
$200,000.00
TFI Prep will serve 40 rising co-ed 8th graders
(expanding to 80 in Year 2) from West and
East Oakland. The year-long program
provides culturally grounded mentoring, life
coaching, academic support, wellness circles,
family engagement, basic needs support, and
safe after-school and Saturday programming
at KOO Labs and Arroyo Viejo Rec Center.

TFI Prep prepares at-risk youth to feed into
the cohort based high school fellowship
program—ultimately building safety,
belonging, and strong transitions into high
school so students can thrive—on a path of
their choosing.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

45 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 89 Lincoln
ACORN- Advancing
Community
Opportunity &
Resilience for the
Neighborhood
Place-Based
Innovations for
Youth Safety
$310,609.00
The Advancing Community Opportunity &
Resilience for the Neighborhood (ACORN)
youth program is a dual track prevention and
early intervention program that will support a
safer community for all individuals at the Acorn
apartments in West Oakland. Providing a
consistent safe haven, youth will receive
mentorship, life skills, SEL supports, and
culturally responsive life coaching. By
centering 125 youth ranging across the
developmental continuum as leaders and co-
creators of neighborhood safety, wellness, and
empowerment, West Oakland youth will define
and catalyze positive community change.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

46 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 90 Motivating,
Inspiring,
Supporting and
Serving Sexually
Exploited Youth,
Inc.

Restoration and
Safety for Oakland’s
Sexually Exploited
and Vulnerable Youth
Place-Based
Innovations for
Youth Safety
$250,000.00
MISSSEY’s Strategy 8 program will serve
approximately ___ girls and gender-expansive
youth ages 12–24 who are impacted by or at
high risk of sex trafficking, exploitation,
violence, and housing instability. Centered at
the STaR Drop-In Center and the Nyoti
Restoration & Healing Center in East Oakland,
the program provides daily, low-barrier safety
and stabilization supports including access to
basic needs, weekly hot meals, crisis
response, and supportive adults. Youth can
participate year-round and engage at their
own pace. Services include Transformation
Coaching, MISSSEY’s expanded, intensive
model of case management; MISSSEY
workshops and healing-centered
programming; Let’s Talk About It, the youth
discussion and empowerment series; and
group outings that give youth opportunities to
explore Oakland, practice life skills, and build
community. Youth and families also engage
through Meet Me at the Market, MISSSEY’s
bi-monthly community event offering free
produce, connection, and resource access.

The goal of the program is to increase safety,
stability, and belonging for exploited and
vulnerable youth by providing consistent,
culturally rooted, place-based supports that
strengthen protective factors, reduce harm,
and create multiple pathways to healing and
long-term well-being.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

47 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 91 Oakland Kids First OKF Castle Cares
Place-Based
Innovations for
Youth Safety
$288,452.00
OKF Castle Cares serves 100 Castlemont
students yearly including 20 students assigned
to care managers, 30 in skill-building
workshops, and 50 receiving academic
support and resources to meet attendance
contract goals. OKF works in collaboration
with the Coordination of Services Team
(COST) and Attendance Team to assign care
managers who support youth to meet
individualized goals, build plans and track
improvements in attendance, grades, and
engagement at school. Students receive
resources including stipends, tutoring,
job/internship connections, workforce
readiness and life skills development.
92 Safe Passages
Place-Based
Innovations for Youth
Safety
Place-Based
Innovations for
Youth Safety
$309,998.75
Safe Passages will partner with four high
schools – Coliseum College Prep Academy,
MetWest, McClymonds, and Oakland
International – to provide comprehensive
place-based services to 679 young people at
risk of systems involvement and to families
with children who live in neighborhoods
experiencing disparate rates of community
violence and crime. Year-round services will
include peer mentoring; health education; life
coaching; access to visual arts and
enrichment activities that foster social
emotional learning and improved mental
health outcomes; and family engagement and
basic income supports.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

48 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 93 Special Service
for Groups, Inc.

OTTP-NorCal ACOE
Program
Place-Based
Innovations for
Youth Safety
$250,000.00
SSG/OTTP-NorCal proposes a partnership
with ACOE to strengthen student mental
health. Mental health OTs will serve 85 youth
(ages 13–20) at three community school
sites—Quest, Emerge, and Hobbs—which
serve as hubs for services. Many students are
expelled, on probation, or parenting, and face
housing instability, trauma, and high ACEs.

Individualized trauma-informed, activity-based
OT provided to youth for 3-12 months build
positive self-concept, emotional regulation,
vocational, and independent living skills, with
additional home and community-based
services tailored to their needs and goals.
94 The Mentoring
Center
The Mentoring
Center's
Transformative Youth
Violence Prevention
Program
Place-Based
Innovations for
Youth Safety
$200,000.00
The Mentoring Center offers services for youth
across the City of Oakland’s continuum of
violence prevention/interventions strategies.

TMC’s program for OFCY has three main
components that promote violence prevention:
1) Life Coaching 2) Transformative Mentoring
3) Leadership Development TMC will serve 35
youth annually, on a weekly basis at TMC’s
offices and in the community. The goals of this
program are to: 1) Reduce the likelihood of
being impacted by violence 2) Increase school
achievement. 3) Reduce recidivism and
increase the successful transition from
system-involvement.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

49 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 95 Youth ALIVE Pathways
Place-Based
Innovations for
Youth Safety
$200,000.00
Youth ALIVE!’s Pathways program provides
intensive life coaching and wraparound
support to over 75 at-promise, Oakland youth
annually, ages 13 to 24. Coaches are based at
Skyline, Castlemont, and Rudsdale high
schools, serving youth at risk of violence,
school pushout, and system involvement.

Services include weekly coaching, crisis
support, goal setting, and referrals. The goal
of the Pathways Program is long-term safety,
stability, connection, and participant success.
96 Alameda County
Health
Alameda County
Court Appointed
Special Advocates
Youth Development
and Leadership $200,000.00
Alameda County Court Appointed Special
Advocates (ACCASA) will support 85 Oakland
foster youth ages 0-21, with most 12 and
older. ACCASA volunteers will mentor and
advocate for their youth, attend cultural and
community events together, provide
educational support, help access
extracurricular experiences, and foster
independent living skills. The program aims to
ensure that each youth is safe at home,
receives educational support and physical and
mental health services, develops independent
living skills, engages in fun activities, develops
their interests, and prepares for economic
security.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

50 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 97 American Indian
Child Resource
Center
Culture Keepers Youth Development
and Leadership $164,515.79
Culture Keepers (CK) is a year-round,
culturally based after-school program serving
AI/AN youth in grades 6–12. The animating
goal of the program is to connect AI/AN youth
with their cultures, their peers, and their local
AI/AN community. CK operates five days per
week for three hours per day including cultural
enrichment, academic support, access to
cultural and healthy foods. Culture and
connection are the two most powerful tools
available to promote social-emotional learning,
create belonging, and develop community
leaders.
98 ARISE High
School
Leaders on the Rise
Enrichment Lab
Youth Development
and Leadership $200,003.00
The Leaders on the Rise Enrichment Lab at
ARISE High School serves 365 East Oakland
youth ages 14–18 through year-round
enrichment, restorative practices, and
leadership development. Located on ARISE’s
Fruitvale campus, the program provides 68–
134 hours of arts, wellness, STEM, digital
media, and college/career activities. The goal
is to build belonging, identity, and youth
leadership while strengthening connection to
school and community.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

51 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 99 Asian Health
Services
Empowering Asian
and Pacific Islander
(API) Youth and
Southeast Asian
(SEA) Young Women
through Culturally
Tailored Leadership
and Development
Programming
Youth Development
and Leadership $200,000.00
AHS’ aims to empower, engage, and elevate
Asian and Pacific Islander (API) youth and
Southeast Asian (SEA) young women to be
active leaders in their community. Services will
directly train 175 youth leaders, who will
further impact an additional 400 youth through
peer engagement per year. AHS will primarily
serve API youth and SEA young women ages
11-21 residing in high-priority neighborhoods
in Oakland. Programs range from 8 weeks to
10 months with youth and meet at least 2-5
hours per week. Programs will be primarily
located at the Asian Resource Center in
Oakland Chinatown.
100 Aspire Education
Project
Community Reading
Buddies
Youth Development
and Leadership $130,000.00
Community Reading Buddies (CRB) is a
unique, dual-impact program that trains and
supports young adults throughout Oakland to
provide one-on-one reading mentorship to
elementary students. Mentors meet with their
elementary “buddies” at community-based
spaces throughout Oakland for one hour twice
weekly over the course of ten weeks. Since
Aspire’s founding in 1994, CRB has served
6,000+ Oakland youth, empowering teens as
community leaders while building the literacy
skills of young learners. Continued OFCY
funding would enable CRB to serve 500
participants annually.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

52 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 101
Attitudinal Healing
Connection, Inc.
dba The Center
for ArtEsteem
ArtEsteem
Leadership Program
Youth Development
and Leadership $200,000.00
The ArtEsteem Leadership Program (ALP) will
empower 975+ students from high priority
neighborhoods in West and East Oakland to
express themselves artistically, gain
environmental knowledge, and develop
leadership skills. Tiered programming will
provide 350+ middle and high school students
with 10-90 hours each of STEAM
programming during and after school, 20 high
schoolers with 200 hours each of intensive
leadership development programming at the
ArtEsteem studio and in communities, and
another 600 students, ages 12-18, with one-
hour grade-aligned ArtMobile activities at their
school.
102
Center for
Empowered
Politics Education
Fund
AYPAL: Building API
Community Power
Youth Development
and Leadership $80,000.00
AYPAL develops the leadership of high school
aged Asian and Pacific Islander (API) youth
empowering them to make positive change in
Oakland. Throughout the school year youth
leaders hold weekly programming in Oakland
Chinatown centering ethnic studies, cultural
history, and arts activism, serving up to 160
youth annually. Service types include youth
led programming, community service and
engagement, base building, cultural arts,
outdoor experiences, and civic engagement.

The goal is to build youth power, cultivate
investment in Oakland, and grow the
organizers and leaders for tomorrow.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

53 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 103
Bay Area
Outreach &
Recreation
Program, Inc.

Sports, Fitness, &
Recreation for Youth
with Disabilities
Youth Development
and Leadership $155,000.00
BORP's year-round sports and recreation
program for youth with disabilities will serve 50
Oakland youth ages 6-21 with a variety of
accessible activities including weekly fitness
classes at BORP's accessible gym, adaptive
cycling at Oakland schools and BORP's
center, wheelchair basketball at James
Kenney gym, field trips, and nature and
community-based outings. Transportation,
outreach and family engagement are included
components. Youth will improve their physical
and mental health, peer and community
connections, independence, self-confidence,
and leadership skills.
104
Center for
Empowering
Refugees and
Immigrants, Inc.
(CERI)
Clinton Park Youth
Collaborative
Youth Development
and Leadership $400,000.00
The Clinton Park Youth Collaborative will
serve 327 middle and high school refugee,
immigrant, BIPOC, and violence-impacted
youth in Oakland. Year-round programs at
Clinton Park will include cultural arts and
wellness groups, a low-barrier summer camp,
youth leadership pathways, and monthly
family events, along with mentorship and
wraparound support. Led by four Oakland-
based organizations with deep community
roots, CERI, Trybe, FICA, and ARTogether
aim to promote youth leadership, wellbeing,
and belonging while strengthening Clinton
Park as a trusted neighborhood hub.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

54 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 105 Chapter 510 INK
Write, Speak, Heal:

Oakland Youth Arts
Collaborative
Youth Development
and Leadership $300,000.00
The Oakland Youth Arts Collaborative
(Chapter 510, Divine Radiance, and Youth
Speaks) will serve 110 low-income, BIPOC,
and LGBTQIA+ youth ages 11-19 in Oakland.

Year-round programming at Chapter 510’s
Writing Center will include teen podcasting;
creative writing and publishing for middle
school students; intensive creative mentorship
and wellness programs; and a writing, poetry
and performance program. The goal of this
collaboration is to create a dynamic,
intergenerational space for Oakland youth to
find belonging, mentorship, and creative
expression among peers and creative leaders.
106
Communities
United for
Restorative Youth
Justice
Homies 4 Justice Youth Development
and Leadership $155,125.00
H4J is an entry-level leadership development
program for systems-impacted youth ages 13-
18 who are interested in improving their
communities. Participants meet weekly to
build their leadership skills and are supported
to heal from past trauma through healing
circles and cultural activities. Their goal is to
elevate the voice and power of young people
to heal, grow, and thrive. H4J starts every fall
and culminates every spring. Because they
know that economic needs and stress can
lead to dangerous behavior, they offer
stipends, incentives, and access to other basic
needs to maintain engagement.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

55 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 107 Community Works
West, Inc.

Project WHAT!
(We're Here and
Talking)
Youth Development
and Leadership $194,608.00
Project WHAT! is a leadership and advocacy
program designed for and led by youth ages
12-21 in Oakland who have or have had an
incarcerated parent (CIP) or are otherwise
justice-involved. Participants access learning
and leadership development in a peer-based
setting. Participants raise awareness about
issues and policies impacting them, educate
and train service providers, law enforcement,
and policymakers, and advocate for improved
services and policy changes. The program
employs the young people as the primary
curriculum content developers and facilitators
for trainings.
108 Cycles of Change Ride and Wrench
Youth Program
Youth Development
and Leadership $150,000.00
The program creates a scaffolded year-round
youth leadership pathway, “Ride & Wrench,”
bridging the Bike Clubs (BC) & youth
mechanic program at the Bikery, serving 65+
OUSD students yearly. For 27 years, Cycles
of Change has supported youth development
in East Oakland. BC brings the transformative
effects of cycling as affordable transportation,
exercise, & connection to nature. Interns gain
pride & self-efficacy by applying mechanical
skills to assist community members. This
series supports youth development through
experiential learning, exercise, workforce
training, & community service.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

56 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 109
Dimensions
Dance Theater,
Incorporated
Rites of Passage Youth Development
and Leadership $96,500.00
OFCY funding will support the Rites of
Passage afterschool program serving 95 youth
annually. Programming is held at the Malonga
Casquelourd Center for the Arts in 3 sessions
(Summer, Fall, Spring) including: dance &
drumming classes; creation & performance of
new choreographic work; field trips;
Internships & Apprenticeships; mentoring; and
integral life skills workshops. Participants are
primarily Black, aged 8-18, and 95% identify
as female. The goal is to create a space of
belonging that centers youth and their voices
through culturally relevant arts education.
110 Dream Youth
Clinic
Youth #GOALS
Program
Youth Development
and Leadership $193,000.00
The Youth #GOALS Program is a holistic
program intentionally designed to position
youth to achieve their personal, vocational,
and academic goals. The program
incorporates a diverse range of services,
including youth recreational activities, arts,
leadership development, youth-led workshops,
and culturally-relevant afterschool and
tutoring support. Youth #Goals will touch the
lives of 200 youth over the course of one year
at the Youth Empowerment Lounge and
Dream Wellness Center, restoring hope and
opening possibilities for vulnerable, at-risk,
and marginalized youth.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

57 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 111 East Bay Agency
for Children
Youth Empowerment
Services: Leadership
Pathways (YES
Pathways)
Youth Development
and Leadership $225,000.00
YES Pathways is an enhanced, year-round
cohort-based program serving 200 middle and
high school youth in Oakland's highest-priority
neighborhoods. The model builds academic
success, social-emotional resilience, and
career readiness through three integrated
pillars: Academic Excellence, Joy & Wellness,
and College & Career Readiness. Delivered
after school in safe, trauma-informed
community spaces, the program provides
mentorship, enrichment, and coordinated
support for long-term success.
112
East Bay Asian
Local
Development
Corporation
Roaring Forward Youth Development
and Leadership $101,164.43
Roaring Forward programming will provide
culturally relevant leadership and enrichment
opportunities for 22 East Oakland youth age
13-21, mostly residents at Lion Creek
Crossings (LCC) affordable housing.

Participants can participate in 3 different year-
round leadership projects at LCC: (1) Teen
Book Club, (2) After School Traineeship, and
(3) Youth Empowerment and Leadership
Program (YELP). Scaffolding supports
leadership development within and across
each of these projects, with basic leadership
skills cultivated in Teen Book Club and the
most intensive leadership skills facilitated in
YELP.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

58 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 113
East Oakland
Boxing
Association
East Oakland Boxing
Association After
School Program
Youth Development
and Leadership $60,350.00
EOBA’s After-School Program serves 55
youth through daily enrichment, social
emotional learning, academics, and leadership
development in Deep East Oakland. Operating
Monday–Friday, the program integrates near-
peer mentoring and youth internships, allowing
teens to serve as leaders while supporting
younger children. This intergenerational model
builds leadership identity, belonging, and a
pathway from participation to employment.
114 Eastside Arts
Alliance, Inc.

EastSide Arts
Alliance - Youth
Community Culture
Builders
Youth Development
and Leadership $200,000.00
ESAA’s Youth Community Culture Builders
program serves 150 youth (ages 11-18) in San
Antonio district through four arts-based
programs: GIRL Project (interdisciplinary arts
cohort for girls), Neighborhood Arts
(community mural and graffiti arts), Beats
Flows (lyrical arts, music production), and
Sistema Africanx-Indigenx (drumming,
movement). Programs run year-round at the
Cultural Center, with 1-2 sessions weekly and
summer camps. Through trauma-informed,
culturally responsive arts education and
mentorship, youth develop leadership skills,
creative expression, and career pathways.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

59 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 115 Fresh Lifelines for
Youth, Inc.

FLY Programs for
Young Leaders
Youth Development
and Leadership $124,200.00
FLY will support Oakland youth impacted by
the justice system through the Leadership
Training Program (LTP) and Youth Leadership
Council (YLC). In Year 1, 17 youth will receive
10 months of case management, coaching,
peer mentorship, a retreat, and social and
community service events. During the civic
engagement phase, LTP youth will lead focus
groups and contribute ideas to inform the new
design for YLC’s relaunch in Year 2. This
phased approach builds a pipeline of system-
impacted youth leaders, providing structured
civic engagement and a clear pathway to
becoming community changemakers.
116
Friends of Peralta
Hacienda
Historical Park
Peralta Hacienda
Youth Programs
Youth Development
and Leadership $200,000.00
PHHP Youth Programs serve 605 low-income
BIPOC youth year-round through science,
arts, culture, history, and community-building.

Students flourish through programs,
experiential field trips, job-readiness training,
video production and media internships, and
youth leadership roles that strengthen
academic skills, cultural pride, and
environmental stewardship. Oakland youth
participate in staff-led outdoor education
activities at Peralta Hacienda that immerse
them in the East Bay’s diverse cultures,
environments, and histories through hands-on,
experiential arts, crafts and nature.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

60 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 117 Frontline
Catalysts
Climate Justice
Youth Leadership
Development
Youth Development
and Leadership $148,637.00
Climate Justice Youth Leadership
Development (CJYLD) serves about 120 youth
ages 11-20 each year at most low resourced
schools in OUSD through school-day and
project-based sessions. Youth build
leadership, environmental and climate
resilience knowledge, media and storytelling
skills, and civic engagement experience. They
examine root causes of inequities, reflect and
heal from community stressors, conduct
community science, and create art and action
projects. The goal is to prepare youth to
organize for justice solutions that strengthen
school and neighborhood resilience.
118
Girls Incorporated
of Alameda
County
GIAC Downtown
Oakland Middle &
High School
Programs
Youth Development
and Leadership $100,000.00
GIAC programming serves over 364 6th –12th
youth free of charge. They offer mentorship
from trained professionals in supportive, pro-
girl environments. Participants gain the
confidence to set and achieve ambitious
goals, overcome challenges, resist peer
pressure, see higher education as an
attainable path, and explore nontraditional
careers, including those in STEAM. School
year programming is offered 1 – 4 days a
week for 90 minutes and 4-weeks 7 hours a
day in summer. Programming primarily takes
place in the downtown Oakland office, OUSD
schools and Cal State East Bay in the
summer.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

61 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 119 Health Initiatives
for Youth, Inc.

Level Up
Relationships
Youth Development
and Leadership $65,768.08
Level Up Relationships is an 8-session,
cohort-based youth development program
held 3 times a year at 3 sites and designed to
engage 75 unduplicated youth per year in
exploring identity, relationships, and
community. The program is LGBTQ+-forward,
but welcoming of all youth. Each session
supports youth building knowledge,
developing and practicing skills, and engaging
in reflection through a highly participatory
curriculum with skilled facilitators. The
program culminates in a youth-driven project
focused on a topic addressed.
120 Improve Your
Tomorrow
Pathways to
Promise: IYT College
Academy
Youth Development
and Leadership $154,981.50
IYT’s College Academy will serve 75 middle &
high school boys of color at Madison Park
Academy in Oakland. Through near-peer,
identity-affirming mentorship, academic
coaching, SEL workshops, family
engagement, & college exposure, students
receive weekly & monthly support across the
school year. The goal is to build brotherhood,
strengthen belonging, offer structure, &
cultivate academic persistence, leadership, &
a college-going pathway. At the heart of their
model is near-peer mentorship, where each
student is paired with a Mentor Fellow who
shares similar racial, cultural, & lived
experience.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

62 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 121 Museum Of
Children's Art
Community Futures
School_Black
Nourishment Network
Youth Development
and Leadership $400,000.00
The Black Nourishment Network is an initiative
led by Community Futures School Co-
founders with MOCHA, Oakland Public
Library, Black Cultural Zone CDC, and
AfroRithm Futures Group, serving up to 60
East Oakland teens. Through school-day,
afterschool, and summer internship
experiences, youth engage in arts-based
learning, Afrofuturist futures literacy,
leadership, civic engagement, and workforce
development with wraparound support. Using
an urban think tank model, participants design
community-centered prototypes that frame
food as nourishment, currency, and a pathway
to self-determination.
122
Native American
Health Center,
Inc.

NAHC Youth
Development and
Leadership Program
Youth Development
and Leadership $225,000.00
This program will serve to support the
emotional and social well-being of
underserved 6th-12th grade Oakland youth,
creating a safe space for youth to access an
array of enriching, skill-building activities
including arts, recreation, and leadership. Due
to the focus on AI/AN youth, the program will
include cultural activities rooted in AI/AN
history, culture, and traditions. The program is
implemented in the Fruitvale/San Antonio
District and will reach 250 youth annually.

Services will be provided on a year-round
weekly basis, with the main goal to support the
healthy development of youth.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

63 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 123 Oakland Genesis Oakland Genesis
Academy
Youth Development
and Leadership $166,000.00
In 2026, the OG Academy will serve about 330
students in 13 groups. Groups are led by a
soccer coach and an instructor who are
focused on SEL and academic progress and
achievement. There are three weekly sessions
per group, consisting of 90 minutes in the
classroom and 90 minutes on the field, plus a
game on the weekend. This is a year round,
multi-year program. Youth join in 6th grade
and continue until they graduate high school.

The goal is for 100% of youth to graduate with
college eligibility and job experience, and with
college applications and financial aid
applications completed.
124 Oakland Goes
Outdoors
Oakland Goes
Outdoors: Outdoor
Learning for Middle
School Students
Youth Development
and Leadership $200,000.00
Through a coordinated school-based
partnership between Oakland Goes Outdoors
(a fiscally sponsored program of the Ed Fund),
Bay Area Wilderness Training, and OUSD,
1,000 middle schoolers from primarily Title I
schools will take part in free overnight outdoor
learning trips throughout the greater Bay Area.

These trips build leadership, recreation skills,
belonging, and community connection while
supporting mental health and expanding
equitable access to nature, offering many
students their first encounters with the ocean,
redwoods, and local parks.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

64 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 125 Oakland Kids First
OKF Youth
Leadership and
Organizing Programs
Youth Development
and Leadership $225,000.00
OKF Youth Leadership and Organizing
Programs work with OUSD high school
students to cultivate community, develop their
leadership skills, research the needs of their
peers, and lead organizing campaigns that
improve their material conditions, develop
more equitable systems, and build power for
Oakland youth. OKF engages 300+ base
members a year at Castlemont, Fremont,
Oakland High, Oakland Tech and Skyline high
schools; prepares 85 Emerging and Core
Leaders through REAL HARD; and develops
20 Core Leaders in a Summer Organizing
Institute and weekly Youth Organizing Council
to lead campaigns.
126 Oakland Lacrosse
Club
Oakland Lacrosse:

Mentoring and
Leadership
Youth Development
and Leadership $225,000.00
The Oakland Lacrosse Club will serve
approximately 275 middle- and high-school
youth (grades 6-12) annually — with ~160
from Oakland’s highest-need neighborhoods
— through free, school- and community-based
programming. Services include spring
lacrosse teams, after-school and summer
clinics, wellness education, paid summer-
ambassador jobs, and year-round mentoring.

Programs run across school semesters and
summer at partner schools and recreation
centers in East and Central Oakland. The
goal: build belonging, leadership, wellness,
and long-term academic and life success.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

65 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 127
Oakland LGBTQ
Community
Center
LGBTQ Youth
Leadership Program
Youth Development
and Leadership $225,000.00
For the last six years, the Oakland LGBTQ
Community Center’s LGBTQ Youth
Leadership Program has created safe spaces
for LGBTQ+ youth and allies to heal trauma,
get support accessing medical care, housing,
food, and other basic needs, and deepen their
engagement with wellness and community
advocacy. The program is run out of the
Center's Town Youth Club (TYC), Oakland's
only dedicated drop-in space of LGBTQ+ and
allied youth, located in the Lakeshore LGBTQ
Cultural District. The goal is to equip LGBTQ+
youth, their allies, and their families with
resources to building lasting health and
stability.
128
Oakland Parks,
Recreation, and
Youth
Development
Camp L.E.A.P.
(Lead. Empower.

Adapt. Play.)
Youth Development
and Leadership $149,162.00
Camp L.E.A.P. (Lead. Empower. Adapt. Play)
is an inclusive recreation and life-skills
program with Oakland Parks, Recreation &
Youth Development (OPRYD) serving youth
ages 14–21 with developmental and
intellectual disabilities. Through camps, after-
school sessions, and socials, participants build
independence and community through
adapted recreation, arts, cooking, community
service, travel training, wellness activities, and
more. The goal is to provide intentional
opportunities that empower youth to take the
LEAP toward adulthood with confidence,
community, and joy.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

66 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 129 Oakland Unified
School District
Innovative EFG
Internships and Field
Trips
Youth Development
and Leadership $200,000.00
The Center at OUSD in West Oakland serves
over 3,000 youth on site annually and over
30,000 at school sites districtwide. With this
funding, The Center will provide hands-on field
trips for 600 6th–12th grade students and
summer/year-long paid high school internships
for up to 30 high school students annually,
targeting students from West and East
Oakland’s high-need neighborhoods. Field
trips and internship programming is focused
on environmental justice, food systems,
culinary arts, sustainability, entrepreneurship,
mentoring for younger students and
community leadership.
130
Restorative
Justice for
Oakland Youth
RJOY Youth
Leadership Program
Youth Development
and Leadership $225,000.00
RJOY’s Youth Leadership Internship Program
serves 50 Oakland youth ages 13–21 through
a year long leadership and restorative justice
program. Youth meet in three 10-week cohorts
three times a week during the school year and
two 2-week cohorts five days a week during
the summer for restorative justice training,
healing circles, life planning, cultural outings,
and retreats at the Ubuntu Farm and Healing
Center. The program builds youth leaders,
supports life planning, strengthens wellbeing,
and fosters belonging, cultural pride, and
community connection.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

67 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 131 Safe Passages Get Active Youth Development
and Leadership $200,000.00
The SP year-round Get Active program uplifts
the innovation of youth leadership and the
brilliance of Oakland youth. Get Active
provides a positive vehicle for 200 youth of
color leaders in the Oakland community to
design and implement innovative, positive
community-building strategies and messaging,
using Aerosol Writing Cultural Arts with a
focus on Ethnic Studies and social justice. Get
Active will provide youth-enriching activities in
safe community spaces, opportunities to
recognize and enhance their strengths, and
allow them to foster relationships with caring
adults.
132
S.P.A.A.T.
(Student Program
for Academic and
Athletic
Transitioning)
Athlete Leadership
Institute (ALI)
Youth Development
and Leadership $100,000.00
SPAAT’s Athlete Leadership Institute (ALI)
provides year-round, after-school leadership
development, enrichment, and athletics-based
programming for 350 middle and high school
student-athletes across five OUSD schools.

Youth participate twice weekly in athlete
performance sessions, conditioning and
fitness workouts, skill-building workshops,
case management, tutoring, and culturally
relevant community events. ALI strengthens
leadership, belonging, and school culture
while preparing student-athletes for college,
career, and life success.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

68 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 133
Spanish Speaking
Unity Council of
Alameda County,
Inc. dba The Unity
Council
Latino Men & Boys Youth Development
and Leadership $225,000.00
Latino Men & Boys is a year-round, culturally-
rooted youth development and mentoring
program operating at five OUSD middle
schools. They strengthen the socio-emotional
wellness and empowerment of 85 youth (ages
11-15) annually while preparing them to
succeed in school. Youth Achievement
Specialists provide trauma-informed individual
and group interventions, education, and
resources to create healthy relationships and
resilience. LMB improves attendance rates,
grades, and student engagement. It is the only
public-private partnership specifically serving
Latino boys in Oakland public schools.
134 Summer Search
Summer Search’s
Youth Development
and Leadership
Program for Oakland
Youth
Youth Development
and Leadership $200,000.00
Summer Search offers year-round enrichment,
safe spaces, and culturally responsive
programming to 75 high school students ages
15-18 from low-income communities in
Oakland. Programming includes: 1)
professional 1:1 and group mentoring with
peers on-site at four Oakland high schools to
support youth in developing agency, positive
self-identity, sense of belonging, critical
consciousness, and socio-emotional learning,
and 2) outdoor and service-learning summer
programs that offer opportunities for joy,
improved physical fitness, increased
confidence, and leadership development.

ATTACHMENT A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended For Awards

69 Agency Name Program Name Funding Strategy Grant Amount Program Description 135 Youth ALIVE Teens on Target Youth Development
and Leadership $225,000.00
Teens on Target will serve 140 high school
youth leaders at three OUSD high schools and
engage 80-100 middle school students
annually through violence prevention
workshops, leadership training, 1:1 mentoring,
and community engagement. Youth will also
participate in 70+ workshops, 1,900+
mentoring hours, and 40+ community events
each year. TNT equips young people with
skills to prevent violence and strengthen
safety in their schools and neighborhoods.
136 YouthBeat
YouthBeat Media
Arts Training and
Leadership
Development
Youth Development
and Leadership $190,000.00
YouthBeat's Media Arts Training and
Leadership Development program will serve
355+ Oakland youth through creative,
culturally responsive media programs that
build leadership, identity, and digital well-
being. High-dosage media arts training,
middle-school media literacy residencies, and
school-based Media Ambassador cohorts offer
safe, affirming spaces where youth strengthen
their confidence, community, and future
orientation while gaining valuable skills that
support success in college and career.

Oakland City CouncilJuly 7, 2026

Oakland City Council
July 7, 2026