Programs

Youth Leadership Institute

Kallpuli

is a mentoring program for middle school aged youth that supports developing positive peer to peer relationships, youth and positive adult relationships, school and family connectedness, and middle school matriculation to high school. It also works to prevent violence and school push-out.

Joven Noble

is a certified evidence based curriculum from the National Compadres Network and is a rites of passage program for boys of color to prepare youth with character and life skills. The curriculum address risk areas such as substance abuse, gang violence, teen pregnancy, school failure and other self-destructive behaviors to transform them into community leaders and healthy young adults.

Girasol

is also a rites of passage program from the National Compadres Network for girls of color. We see rites of passage as a monumental event in the lives of girls that is empowering, honors their girlhood and is a stepping stone into the journey of becoming a young woman. We know if these spaces are not provided, the potential to engage in negative rites of passage increases (drugs/alcohol, join gangs, self and community harming behavior etc.)

Hueliti

is a program developed by girl participants who wanted to have a space to build power, use their voice and make change in their community on a deeper level. Hueliti specifically centers the theory of intersectionality to center the unique experience of girls of color. The programs is rooted in healing, empowerment and specifically examining and working to dismantle racism, sexism and gender violence, anti-immigrant and hateful rhetoric based on the identity of girls of color. The program is anchored in developing activism and self determination for girls of color that attacks intersectional oppression.

Women and Family Services

Cara y Corazon

is a family strengthening, leadership development program from the National Compadres Network that maintains that at the base of every culture, community, family and parent are the resiliency factors that can be tapped to assist parents and family members to build positive, healthy relationships with their children and themselves. By building on positive cultural values and traditions the curriculum guides parents/guardians to reflect on how they can maintain this positive form of identity while integrating and adapting the positive elements to today’s contemporary society.

Circulos de Sanacion

is a transformational healing collective for women of color that focuses on combating trauma, stress, crises, and builds resiliency and a sister circle for women of color. Through this program we support mothers and women family members who have been impacted by the criminal justice system, the murder of a child, the incarceration of a child and other crises that have impacted their wellbeing. Healing circles are held for women to develop connected, a sense of community and to share stories and learn from each other’s experience so they can be their best. Women of color experience specific forms of discrimination in the workplace, housing, and other basic functions of life that create disparities however also carrying stress, trauma and generational wounds only exacerbates these disparities. We want to support women to be healthy and self-determined.CCFC also provides healing circles retreats for women of color who serve there community through service work including non-profit work, school teachers etc. Those who carry this work experience vicarious trauma and emotional residue from championing challenging people centered work. This increases their stress, anxiety, burnout and ability to be healthy and do their best work. We work to provide opportunities for healing, rejuvenation, self-nurturing, and community building.