Youth Nexus grantees
Fall 2006
Oroville High Friday Night Live- “The After Party” – Oroville High School is organizing an alternative activity for youth to do after a sporting event. The event will be held to prevent underage drinking and to give youth a fun and safe environment. This organization will be working with ASB and adult volunteers. The event will have various activities. Food and drinks will be provided.
Total Funding: $250.00
Las Plumas High School Friday Night Live- “The Bomb Prom After Party”- This organization is planning an after party for prom night to reduce the amount of underage drinking. The goal of the project is to show youth and adults alike that it is possible to have fun without drinking. The event will be held after prom and LPFNL is planning on working with the Livespot and parent volunteers.
Total Funding: $250.00
Hmong Student association of Chico- “Hmong in Higher Education” – This organization is holding held a higher education conference on December 2nd, 2006. The conference included several workshops covering the following topics: work after college and grad schools, women’s issues in education from Hmong perspective, communication between youth and parents, how to keep your child out of trouble, how the university system works, and communication with your child. The HMSA is also looking to promote awareness on the dangers of alcohol by handing out drinks with alcohol effects written in Hmong and English. HMSA is working with California Health Collaborative, The Hmong Women Circle, Career Planning and Placement Center, Upward Bound Alumni Association, and multicultural Affairs Council.
Total Funding: $370.73
Pleasant Valley Friday Night Live- “POM’P IT UP!”- Pleasant Valley will be hosting a booth at 3 home games. The booth that will be hosted at these games will focus on alcohol being supplied to minors from parents. The issue will be addressed by giving out pompom’s to parents. The pompom’s read, “Parents Who Host Lose The Most.” At the booth they will have informational packets and a pledge to be signed by parents that states that they will not host alcohol to minors.
Total Funding: $350.00
Biggs Club Live- “Operation Alcohol Prevention”- The youth will be making their way around to the community liquor stores in a decoy operation. They will also be educating the merchants on the consequences of hosting alcohol to minors. They will be awarding complying merchants with a plaque and a window sign for the front of their business. They youth will also be asking the storeowners to relocate the liquor to a less accessible place of the store and away from the juices and milk.
Total Funding: $265.00
Gridley High School Friday Night Live-“Taking Back Our Bulldog Pride”- The youth at Gridley High will be handing out promotional items at minimally two home games. The promotional items will read “Parents Who Host Lose The Most” The students will also have a booth at the home games which will have free information on the consequences of hosting alcohol to minors. They will also have a pledge for the parents to sign saying that they will not host alcohol to minors. They will also be putting an article in the Gridley Herald.
Total Funding: $250.00
Four Winds of Indian Education- “Native Chance Sober Dance”- They will be making Regalia and Drum Sticks to use in a performance to promote being alcohol free. They will be dispersing brochures explaining why it is important to be drug and alcohol free. During the dancing, they will also be educating the families that attend on the dangers of alcohol use among minors. They will also be showing a power point presentation.
Total Funding: $550.00
Fall 2006
Oroville High Friday Night Live- “The After Party” – Oroville High School is organizing an alternative activity for youth to do after a sporting event. The event will be held to prevent underage drinking and to give youth a fun and safe environment. This organization will be working with ASB and adult volunteers. The event will have various activities. Food and drinks will be provided.
Total Funding: $250.00
Las Plumas High School Friday Night Live- “The Bomb Prom After Party”- This organization is planning an after party for prom night to reduce the amount of underage drinking. The goal of the project is to show youth and adults alike that it is possible to have fun without drinking. The event will be held after prom and LPFNL is planning on working with the Livespot and parent volunteers.
Total Funding: $250.00
Hmong Student association of Chico- “Hmong in Higher Education” – This organization is holding held a higher education conference on December 2nd, 2006. The conference included several workshops covering the following topics: work after college and grad schools, women’s issues in education from Hmong perspective, communication between youth and parents, how to keep your child out of trouble, how the university system works, and communication with your child. The HMSA is also looking to promote awareness on the dangers of alcohol by handing out drinks with alcohol effects written in Hmong and English. HMSA is working with California Health Collaborative, The Hmong Women Circle, Career Planning and Placement Center, Upward Bound Alumni Association, and multicultural Affairs Council.
Total Funding: $370.73
Pleasant Valley Friday Night Live- “POM’P IT UP!”- Pleasant Valley will be hosting a booth at 3 home games. The booth that will be hosted at these games will focus on alcohol being supplied to minors from parents. The issue will be addressed by giving out pompom’s to parents. The pompom’s read, “Parents Who Host Lose The Most.” At the booth they will have informational packets and a pledge to be signed by parents that states that they will not host alcohol to minors.
Total Funding: $350.00
Biggs Club Live- “Operation Alcohol Prevention”- The youth will be making their way around to the community liquor stores in a decoy operation. They will also be educating the merchants on the consequences of hosting alcohol to minors. They will be awarding complying merchants with a plaque and a window sign for the front of their business. They youth will also be asking the storeowners to relocate the liquor to a less accessible place of the store and away from the juices and milk.
Total Funding: $265.00
Gridley High School Friday Night Live-“Taking Back Our Bulldog Pride”- The youth at Gridley High will be handing out promotional items at minimally two home games. The promotional items will read “Parents Who Host Lose The Most” The students will also have a booth at the home games which will have free information on the consequences of hosting alcohol to minors. They will also have a pledge for the parents to sign saying that they will not host alcohol to minors. They will also be putting an article in the Gridley Herald.
Total Funding: $250.00
Four Winds of Indian Education- “Native Chance Sober Dance”- They will be making Regalia and Drum Sticks to use in a performance to promote being alcohol free. They will be dispersing brochures explaining why it is important to be drug and alcohol free. During the dancing, they will also be educating the families that attend on the dangers of alcohol use among minors. They will also be showing a power point presentation.
Total Funding: $550.00
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