Needs
NW needs resources to support three of our four impact programs: Restore Legacies, Higher Heights and Pacers Take Space. All programs intersect at Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the correlation to patterns of disparities of poor health outcomes, substance use disorders, illiteracies, socioeconomic immobility, violence and incarceration. When our neighbors have the necessary awareness and resources to build capacity, improve health, relieve economic stress, engage in educational and employment opportunities, the results are healthier families, schools, neighborhoods and cities.
$100,000
Restore Legacies have been designed to disrupt the cradle to prison pipeline and the transfer of adversity for both youth, adults and families with legacies of incarceration. The program provided support for unhoused residents disproportionally impacted by ACEs.
Resources needed include sustainable support for:
1. A housing and drug support peer specialist to help both our unhoused and housed residents navigate resources. Blacks represent more than 30% of Sacramento's unhoused residents.
2. Resources to maintain economic stability for our grassroots neighborhood navigators for professional workforce development and other ongoing capacity building tools to help sustain a healthy way of life and their paid positions on our team. Neighborhood Wellness serves and has employed the highest need and most difficult to reach Black adults and youth in Del Paso Heights who are legacies of poverty, addiction, illiteracies, violence and incarceration. With both incremental and huge successes, NW is working to reestablish a social structure that creates and supports violence mitigation improvements in health outcomes, educational attainment and economic stability. We are building healthy living and learning environments that disrupt the intergenerational transfer of adversity and poverty.
3. Individual therapy from both licensed practitioners and mentorship.
4. Outdoor Educational Activities expose our youth and adults to positive experiences with exposure to healthier environments to begin and sustain a normalization towards achievement and improve home environments, schools and overall public safety.
$20,000
Higher Heights focus is on youth and adult college or vocational matriculation and sustainability. Resources will be used to help lower barriers by providing ongoing school support such as transportation and materials, clothing and school housing for our students in high school, college and vocational training to ensure successful engagement, completion, graduation and matriculation.
$30,000
Pacers Take Space is a School-Based Health Center on the campus of Grant High School. Resources needed include support for our essential pantry, youth internships, support for participation in mental health Healing Circles on campus that improve behavior, attendance and academic achievement.