Speaker: Lauren Uyeshiro
Huckleberry Youth Programs is a model effort based in San Francisco, California, to help youth and their families deal with a variety of challenges.
This week's presenter is Lauren Uyeshiro, part of the Huckleberry Youth Programs team in San Francisco, California. Uyeshiro, a former high school teacher, will introduce Huckleberry Youth Programs and finish with a request.
It is common enough for Rotarians to hear a pitch for financial support at a meeting, but this request is a little different. Huckleberry Youth wants ideas for a new effort, and they figure (correctly!) that Rotarians are a good group to tap for ideas, given our experiences with all manner of volunteer projects. Please do take time to both leave a comment and to send an e-mail to Huckleberry Youth with your ideas.
UyeshiroHuckleberryYouthPrograms.pdf
This week comments: 144, this week visitors: 73
A wonderful program that should serve as a pilot for communities nationwide.
Good work
Great program. Enjoyed it very much.
My Best Wishes for a very Happy Birthday to you all and have a exelent week
A great program for children. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of such programs in California. This contributes to a seemingly unending cycle of runaway/risky behavior leading to drug abuse and delinquency.
How wonderful to know if a Teen or Pre-teen want's help they can get it and not have to live in a world of disruption.
This is a wonderful program, thnaks for brining it to all rotarians.
This sounds like a wonderful program -- I think every major city should have something like this!! Thank you for presenting this at our eClub!
What a great program - well-written and considerate of the program recipients.
The Huckleberry Youth Program sounds wonderul - a great idea for communities who do not have programs for at-risk youth.
Good meeting ... excellent induction speech ... love the new website; I hadn't been here in a couple of years ... I'll look forward to making up here in the future ... I enjoyed being able to "pay for my lunch" so easily, also, especially knowing that 100% of my ten bucks was going to do Rotary Good somewhere, rather than just for feeding me!
This sounds like an outstanding program. Perhaps volunteers could extract out of Rotary's RYLA programs worthwhile experiences which could be presented in one day seminars?
First time attendee
I enjoyed learning about the Huckleberry Youth Programs.
always enjoy reading the how you sargaent at arms conducts his/her portion of the meeting
I don't know of any short term programs but am happy to be infromed about the Huckleberry Program.
Excellent program. These folks are doing important work. Not only are they saving lives, but they are creating citizens for the future.
VERY INTERESTING.
I am struck by how effective a private non-profit organization can be when it partners with other organizaitons. Huckleberry Youth and its off-shoot programs appears far more effective than many government run programs with similiar purposes.
Many Rotarians in the Bay Area would be willing to be long term volunteers. I suggest you begin speaking at the area clubs and begin asking. This is the type of service we love to do.
Great program. This is the kind of thing that will help steer people from a life time of abuse.
I enjoyed the content, style was easy to follow and would complete and e-meeting again!
Interestinmg way to do makeups.
Please provide an easy way for new registrants input email address of club secretary on the signup page. Now, one has to back track to "My Account" and look for the right place to ebter the info.
Very informative on the Huckleberry Youth Program. I also liked the new member orentation emphasis.
Great website improvements
Great program I did not know about in my own backyard - the Huckleberry Program
I don't yet know the details of the 4-Way Test project at the college in Arizona, but I can say that anyone who volunteers for it will be well rewarded. I participated in a 4-Way Test program at a local high school in Colorado Springs for 5 years. Each year all freshmen were exposed to that two-day workshop. The results have been excellent.
The Huckleberry Youth Program seems to be very well adminstered with leaadership that is responding to changing conditions. Very good.
Excellent Program. Huckleberry Youth Center really sets the standard to help troubled youth. This program should be implemented across the nation in numerous communities.
I do pocess very interesting. I will surely be visiting. Thanks
The Huckleberry Youth Program is an excellent project. I wish I lived in CA and could help. I worked in youth services in the UK for many years but at the time, we didn't have anything like this. I hope the Program continues to attract the support it needs for many years to come, it is clearly invaluable to the SF community.
Unfortunately, the programs and assistance offered by Huckelberry are needed all to much in our society.
This concept and organization were well presented (Slow Money). I wonder, however, if there are enough people of the 7 billion now on earth to pull the deal off under the pressure of the onslaught of the continuing press of the rest of world population improve their position in the world.
Interesting. My first visit to a eClub meeting
Looks like a very beneficial program. Would be tough to keep volunteers on board.
I enjoyed the opportunity to make up my first of 3 meetings on e meeting. Your Southwest Club was highly recommended by a fellow Rotarian in my Sunset Club of Hilton Head, SC.(Dist 7770). It was easy to follow the prompts. Thank You. Concetta A. Coyne
My secretary is Jim Deas & email is:
jimgolfdeas@hotmail.com
It was interesting to learn about the Huckleberry Youth Program.
http://www.recswusa.org/meeting/programs/298
This page, on a 22" monitor, leave the left side (outside the light colored center area) unreadable.
This program was very good.
Since I run a shelter in Orange County, CA it was very informative to read about the efforts of the Huckleberry Youth Programs. I do know how difficult it is to find good volunteer projects and Eagle Scouts are a great resource. Bookfairs, paper drives, canned food drive are ways to help.
Good program! Volunteerism is a very important component when running a non-profit. If you provide opportunities, people who believe in the mission of your organization will find great personal value in giving their time.
I enjoyed my e-visit. Thanks for your good job.
Very Comprehensive
I appreciate a growing understanding of the traditions of Rotary by attending this online. It is interesting to know what other groups are doing for fundraising.
On a smaller scale we have a similiar program here in Kansas City, Missouri. It is named Higher Impact. Founded by a former high school drop out, made a paraplegic by a street shooting, went on to finish high school, attend college, and finish law school. He now deals with youth who at very high risk of being beyond any help... It is the object of much of our fund raising.
great youth program! maybe a program like this can be considered in other citys.
Interesting topic.
Huckleberry youth programs appear to be a wonderful response to the changing needs of troubled youth. Thank you.
The Huckleberry Youth Program provides much needed intervention at critical times for the youth at high risk. I think it is a great program and hope it can be expanded across the nation.
Would be nice to know if there are similar programs in the Tucson area.
Very good intro on this very essential type of project.
Bill
I thought the "Truths that Adults have learned" was very good and SOOOOOOOO TRUE!
Huckleberry Youth Programs sure shows how much can be done in one community for youth if you put your mind to it.
As one that works with teenagers daily, it's great to see a program work to address the variety of issues that derail teens from leading fulfilling lives. Great job, Huckleberry!
As one of the members of the community who came to San Francisco in the Summer of Love (and certainly knowing that it is over there although one can still find communities where its members live in 'peace and love' together, like a section of Seattle), I find this effort important and interesting. With the motto: 'A place to sleep. A chance to dream.,' it is the latter that is the challenge. When abuse is a way of life, dreaming is what suffers.
As a Rotarian, I still believe in 'peace and love' as a way to live but I now know that moving out from the protective shell of 'self' is the only way that dreams are made 'real'. That is done when the individual finds that "when in foreign land, you are the foreigner" who must learn about what is around you, do something to record what you find and then share that knowledge with others.
In the 'Summer of Love' I took my wife with me to San Francisco so we had a base (being a little older than the others around us and being an artist who was not finding himself but could work with residents who were looking outside themselves for visions which needed form). It is this base that is missing and the quest for a dream (a way to find what is around you in the foreign land of a city where the beaten paths have beaten the young person down) is a critical element to filling in some substance so that dreams can be, at least, started.
Separately, I will write to this worthwhile effort with some ideas that have been tried and succeeded with my student in a community college (who are similar but not the same) to the young people that I see in Huckleberry Youth Program.
The services that this organization provides are impressive in range and sophistication. What are the sources of funding, and have they been impacted by the recession?
