Huckleberry Youth Programs is excited to announce that Huckleberry’s ACE (Access to College Equity) Academy in San Rafael has been selected to be on the 2023 Marin County Participatory Budgeting Ballot! What is Participatory Budgeting (PB)? Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members decide how to spend part of a public budget, giving community […]
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Huckleberry Featured in “Love in Action Social Justice Cookbook”
Super exciting news just in time for the holiday season! We’re thrilled to announce that we have been included in the Venture Leadership Consulting (VLC) “Love in Action Social Justice Cookbook”! The cookbook is a labor of love to express gratitude for the nonprofit sector and the invaluable work done by local nonprofits to create […]
Huckleberry awarded “Stop the Hate” grant to provide support services to youth victims of hate incidents & hate crimes.
The purpose of the “Stop the Hate” funding (Huckleberry was awarded $625,000 over two years) is to provide support and services to victims of hate crimes, survivors, and their families, and facilitate hate incident or hate crime prevention measures. Douglas Styles, PsyD, Huckleberry’s Executive Director/CEO said of the award, “We at Huckleberry Youth Programs […]
Parents Turn Workshops Return – October 15 through November 15, 2023
Parents Turn offers FREE effective tools and real solutions to help: *Improve teen and family safety around difficult behavior *Implement effective boundaries and rule setting *Strengthen communication with your child *Increase ability to manage conflict at home *Support development of healthy coping skills for your teen *Address drug and alcohol use Questions? Email Izzy Kay […]
Learn More About Huckleberry’s Restorative Justice Programming
RESET (Restoring and Empowering Social Equity and Truth) prepares youth that caused harm and persons harmed for restorative circle conferencing as an alternative to the traditional juvenile justice system. Circle conferencing provides a space for those directly impacted by an incident to voice their needs to create pathways to repair harm. This allows the community […]
Nuestra Salud – Peer Education Opportunities for Newcomer and Spanish-Speaking Youth in Marin County
Huckleberry Marin’s Mental Health and Health Education team’s Nuestra Salud (Our Health), is a program that empowers recently immigrated Newcomer, Spanish-speaking, Latine youth, with psychoeducation and information to be transformative health advocates in their respective communities. Newcomer youth are young people who have been in the United States for less than two years. Huckleberry staff trains youth in […]
