YOUTH PROGRAMS

  • Launched in 2021, ¡DALE! empowers high school students to address educational and social justice within their schools. The program strengthens students’ community organizing skills, unites leaders and community organizers dedicated to educational equity, and collaboratively develops a pipeline of youth organizers and leaders in the region.

  • Sanando y Empoderando Relaciones (SER) is a six-week bilingual, family-oriented group counseling program led by On the Margins for middle and high school students and their families. Targeting families from ESL courses, Migrant Education Programs, ELAC members, and non-traditional high schools, SER supports identity development by exploring the impacts of trauma, helps youth plan for healthy transitions, and cultivates love, joy, hope, and intergenerational understanding.

  • Developed through a partnership between On the Margins and the Hanna Center, and supported by Elevate Youth California, HEAL is a transformative eight-session, two-hour peer support program designed for high school students. HEAL encourages a shared exploration of self and community care, allowing young people to learn, practice, and share effective healing strategies. This supportive space helps students cultivate self-acceptance, experience greater well-being, and foster strong connections. The HEAL curriculum provides youth with vital tools and insights for both personal and collective healing, inspiring them to become leaders in their communities and contribute to a more just and equitable world.

  • Radical Imagination Supported Through Exploration (RISE) is a bilingual, family-oriented career counseling program for high school students currently offered in Cloverdale and Roseland. RISE addresses the lack of culturally responsive career counseling for lower-income and BIPOC students. The program aims to enhance students' awareness of their career interests, skills, and personality traits, connect these to career paths, and engage them through professional development seminars, workshops, and a career fair.

    The program embraces culturally responsive approaches and is offered with age-appropriate activities. The program also includes their families into conversations to promote intergenerational connections during students’ career explorations.

 FAQs

  • All of our initiatives for young people are driven by a shared commitment to fostering health, collective liberation, and the creation of abundant futures. These programs prioritize accountability, dedication, and providing access to historically ignored and under-resourced communities, with the overarching goal of co-creating healthier and more resilient communities. We proudly deliver our program curriculum in collaboration and partnership with organizations such as La Familia Sana, Hanna, and Café Puente. Currently, our youth programs focus on supporting middle and high school-aged individuals.  

  • While united by a common mission, our youth programs each have distinct areas of emphasis: RISE focuses on career counseling, HEAL on healing justice, SER on intergenerational healing, and ¡DALE! on educational justice.

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All of our programs can be offered in collaboration with another organization. Interested in bringing one of our programs to your city?

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