HUNTERS POINT FAMILY
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Mission Statement
Hunters Point Family prepares young people in the Bay Area's toughest neighborhoods to become adults who thrive. We work alongside youth and families to ensure our children become independent, strong, and productive adults through comprehensive support services. We empower our kids to develop their full potential. We succeed when our young people become wise, compassionate, and powerful leaders.
About This Cause
The Hunter’s Point Family agency (HPF) is comprised of five comprehensive youth development programs and three agency-wide components; the Environmental/Healthy Lifestyles programs, the Hunters Point Leadership Institute, and the Ujamaa Employment and Entrepreneurial program. Each youth development program shares the same holistic format of individualized case management, educational support services, and structured enrichment activities within the context of a family environment. While our programs are focused on services to youth, each program works in partnership with the parents of the youth in order to support and stabilize families. The Environmental/Healthy Lifestyles program is a nutrition education, gardening and permiculture instruction program for program youth and works in combination with the Hunters Point Leadership Institute to provide life-skills training, job readiness and community improvement projects focused on urban farming. The program also includes new innovative programming for TAY (transitional age youth) and young adults, such as our Aquaponics training program, Port of SF/landscaping project and youth-run fruit delivery business. The Ujamaa program works to assist young adults through formalized job readiness training, subsidized employment, paid internships within agency-run businesses, referrals to certified training programs and securing paid employment opportunities. HPF provides services to over 300, unduplicated youth per year. Approximately 58% of participants are female; 42% are male; all come from low and very low-income households; and 70% are public housing residents. Although HPF targets young people who are typically described as “at-risk” and “high-risk, we view our participants as “high-potential” youth whose resilience and ability to thrive despite adversity are among their greatest assets. Each HPF program was initiated by natives of Hunters Point who are committed to uplifting and empowering their community. Thus, the Hunters Point Family collaborative grew organically out of the vision to form supportive interdependent relationships and create a sense of family among our children. Youth Program Descriptions: GIRLS 2000 is a female-specific, youth development/violence prevention program designed to meet the needs of “high-risk” girls ages 10 through 18 living in the Harbor Road/Hunters Point public housing developments. Program services and activities include case management, individual counseling, educational advocacy and tutoring, computer instruction, career mentoring, field trips, art/dance projects, nutrition classes, community gardening and beautification, employment and life skills training and leadership development. The Bayview Safe Haven is a holistic, violence prevention and intervention program that provides educational and academic support, and social services to "high-risk" youth, ages 12-21, who live in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point community. The Bayview Safe Haven program operates out of a public housing unit in the Harbor Road area of Bayview Hunters Point. Program services and activities include case management, educational advocacy and tutoring, mentoring, leadership development workshops and counseling, and enrichment activities. The Peacekeepers is a violence prevention, intervention, and response program that provides services to youth and young adults ages 12-21 residing in the Alice Griffith public housing developments. Program services and activities include case management, educational advocacy and tutoring, computer instruction, life skills training, career mentoring, community gardening and employment, nutrition classes and enrichment activities. The Gilman Rec Connect program is a community-driven after-school program that provides academic support, cultural and arts enrichment programming and recreational activities for school age youth. The program operates on a seasonal calendar and provides a comprehensive full-day summer program and monthly community building events. The Candlestick Heights After-School Program is partnership between HPF and C & C Apartment Management (private developer) to provide a supportive after-school program for elementary school-age children who are residents of the Candlestick Heights affordable housing community. The program provides academic support, cultural and arts enrichment programming and recreational activities. The Agency also provides gender-specific leadership development through our Hunters Point Leadership Institute. Youth from within the Hunters Point Family programs and the community at large participate in regular leadership workshops that explore issues of identity, community building, conflict resolution, community accountability and community service. Agency Vision All HPF programs operate from a four-prong approach to build the strengths of young people to develop their full potential: • Hunters Point Family Support Network: Mentoring, individualized case management, family support and advocacy within the Department of Human Services, the schools, the Juvenile Justice System, and referrals to other agencies for complementary services. • The KEYS (Kujichagulia) Educational Youth Services: Educational tracking, tutorial services, advocacy and support within the school system, test preparation, life skills workshops, computer classes, employment readiness and training, employment placement services and community leadership development. • Healthy Lifestyles: Nutritional education and workshops, cooking classes, employment and training in HPF’s community gardens, and distribution of healthy foods at HPF’s food pantry and internships at HPF youth-run businesses. • Everything Arts!: Artistic expression through art classes, poetry and drama workshops, Hip-hop and aerial dance classes & performances, martial arts, music composition, production, and recording, mural classes, journalism, and film development and production.