All right, Otter, I is in the space now. All right. Thanks everyone again for joining the Youth Advisory for the alcove. My name is Rubi Salazar, and I'm going to be sharing with you all a little bit more about alcove where every youth belongs, chooses the support they need and thrives. So thanks again for joining today, and welcome. Feel free to grab any snacks on the table. There's a bathroom downstairs on your left hand side, if you need to use the bathroom at any point. And let me just share the agenda with you all, but before that, we have a quick land acknowledgement. Sorry. One second. Let me move the little
thing so you can all see there. We have a quick
landing management. We want to acknowledge that we are on the traditional territory of many indigenous nations, and currently we're in the ancestral homeland of the Ohlone ramatush peoples. If you want to learn a little bit more about that, you can go to native land.ca. To learn more. All right, so for our agenda, you can also see it up here with the times, but we'll be doing welcome and introductions right now. We'll do an overview of the alcove center and what all COVID centers are and what they look like. We'll also do an activity where we're going to be envisioning our communities, and then we're going to talk about next steps in a closing So to start us off, I'd like to get a chance to get to know you all a bit better. If we can all share our name, pronouns and why we want to join the alcove Youth Advisory Group, I can start us off. My name is Rubi Salazar, pronouns, she her and hers. I work with Youth Leadership Institute, and I really want to be part of alcove, because it's a really unique center. I've lived in Half Moon Bay. I grew up in Half Moon Bay. I graduated from Half Moon Bay High School, and being in this community, I realized that there's not a lot of services that youth are really like, they're free, that youth can access. When I was growing up here, I know that the coast side clinic and behavioral health clinic is like, one of the only centers, and then we have dignity health urgent care that just recently opened up. But other than that, there's not other services that are easily, easily accessible to you. And one of the unique things about the alcove center is that you all the Yeah, gets to decide. The Youth Advisory Group gets to decide every single process of what the center looks like, what services are going to be there, and they're all going to be free to you, or very low cost as well. So we're really, I'm really excited to work with you all to develop what the alcove center in Half Moon Bay will look like.
I'll pass it this way. Hi. My name is Luna. I go by, she, they, pronouns. I the reason I joined, is to also like, is to provide, is to give back to my is to give back to my community, and hopefully make the top, make the just make a better place here for for LGBTQ people. So hopefully in the future, it all gets better.
Thank you so much. Luna,
um. My name is Ezra. My pronouns are he, him, and pretty much the exact same reason as enough I was also just kind of looking for volunteering opportunities. Hi. My name is Ryan Lopez. Pronoun to him is the reason why I joined alcove is not only to learn more about the program, but also have a say in like what services we provide. Especially me, being a lifelong half in Bay resident, I feel like there's a great need for mental health services on the coast side. Thanks
everyone. So today, we're going to be talking a little bit about envisioning what that looks like in our community. So we'll be doing that towards the end for our activity. And just to get us started off, I want to share a couple of group agreements for this space. So one of them is called One mic. One mic means one person speaks at a time, just so that we can all hear each other and understand, listen to poor understanding, be present, making sure that we're all in the space, participating in activities, listening, actively respect. We want to make sure that we respect everyone. We all have different opinions, different thoughts, and we want to make sure that we are respecting everyone in this space. Pop the bubble. Pop the bubble is all about asking questions. We're going to share a lot of new information about all COVID And we want to make sure that the Yag, the Youth Advisory Group, understands every aspect of the all COVID center. So if you have a question, pop the bubble, let us know, and then stigma free. We want to make sure that this is a stigma free environment. We are going to be talking about mental health. We're going to be talking about other issues throughout the Al COVID yag program, and we want to make sure that everyone feels as comfortable as possible in this space. Is there any others that we'd like to add? I
and as we all are thinking, I'm going to introduce Jenny on this side. Hi everybody.
Sorry, Jenny. Pronouns, she's her first. Nice to meet you all. Thank you for coming, being interested in this youth advisory group I've been so looking forward to today, so it's awesome to see you. Trader. So,
yeah, we were just going over group agreements, any other stuff we want to add?
We don't have any other stuff.
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Thank you. I would like to add one more round here, which is have fun. We want to make sure they all have fun in this space as well. So I'm going to go ahead and add have fun. So, yeah, so we'll have our group agreements listed at every single meeting. We can keep adding to them if we want, if we think of another, and we can keep referencing them throughout the meeting as well. The agenda is up here as well with time stamps, if you are interested in what that the day is going to look like. All right. So with that, I want to share a little bit about participant packets, media, release forms and W nines. So being part of the Yag, we also want to make sure that you all are compensated for the time, that for all the hard work that you will be doing. And with that we have, we're going to be providing stipends. It's a monthly stipend, and to help facilitate the process with our financial team, we have w9 for y'all to fill out. It's a quick form. I just need to fill you all to fill out number one, which is your name, full name, legal name. And then we want to put for three, eight individuals, since you all are all individuals. And then the next section, five through six, which is just your address. We want to know about your address. We also want information around social security, employment identification number. If you don't have access to this, you can return it to me the next time we meet. If you don't have these details, just cross it off. That lets me know that you don't have them, and I can work with you all to talk about the stipend. And then lastly, a signature and a date. So my go ahead and pass these out for you all.
And then the other information I have for you all is a participant packet. We have digital copies of these as well, but sometimes it's a lot easier to just hand it out to you all. So this is the participant packet that we have for you all, every single one of our youth in our programs, fill out this participant packet. It helps me get to know you a little bit better. There's a section on different interests, and we can explore those interests throughout the whole entire Act program. There's also a section there for you all to put down emergency contact information, which is really important. And then we have a liability media and medical release form as well for you all to sign, for your parents to sign. If you're over 18, you can sign it yourself, but we would like your parents and guardians to fill that form, and you can return that one next time we meet as well. There might be a couple other forms that we'll have you all fill out later on that are connected to allco. So we'll let you know when we have to fill those out as well. Okay, yeah, so we'll give you all 10 minutes to work on that right now. Thank you. Applause.
So your legal name? Yes,
please. Legal names on there in the participant packet, there is a section where you put down, like nicknames, if you have the nickname, or if you have a different name that you prefer, we can put that down there too. But for the w9 just for financial purposes, we need legal names. That's the when we receive a check for the stipend, it'll be under your legal name so that you can be able to access it. So that's why we need those. Okay,
is the business name, the one where it's like you can choose your own or is it something else completely? Go ahead and skip to number
three, a which is individual.
So these forms are used to pay anybody. So sometimes you're paying, the government says they want to know if you're paying individual or you're paying like business. If you had your own business,
yeah, Would you all like some music in the background?
Yeah, please. That's amazing.
This is the playlist that our youth created from a different summit workshop. So I'll go ahead and play this if you want to click Next on those songs, just let me know, you can also switch To love fight beats if it helps
you concentrate more.
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does everyone? Is everyone good to move on with the course?
Okay, thank you all right.
Thanks everyone for participating in that for us, I Yes, so now I get to share all about alcove with you all. So the alcove mission and vision and values. The mission of the alcove Youth Advisory Group is to empower young people to become the leading voice in redefining mental wellness, reducing stigma and increasing access to youth mental health support. Here you can see our vision, which is to revolutionize mental wellness for young people. And then our core values include youth voice accessibility and mental wellness. And throughout this presentation, you'll be able to see how those core values are reflected in the alcove model. So why is this model unique? It is unique because it's prevention and early intervention focus. In a little bit, you'll be able to see all the different core services that are important incorporated throughout altcove, and which ones are prevention and early intervention focus. It's also very much youth centered. Informed. Has it? Informed? Designed by you as well. For the alcove center. We also have a stigma free space that normalizes mental health throughout Allcove. It's also youth friendly and engaging, and I hope I'm a little bit upbeat and let me know how I can improve in the future. We want to make sure that there's also a strong outreach to youth and marketing, and you'll be able to work with the marketing team from alcove to ensure that other young people know about the Allcove Center Community consortium of serving youth serving agencies. There's a whole group of youth serving agencies that are connected to all COVID that want to support you all in creating this all COVID Center, and you all have the ability to talk to them, to share what you all are working on, and really provide feedback on who should be part of this community consortium meeting. And then there's also integrated care throughout the all COVID model. And in a second, you'll be able to take a look at the core services again, where you can reflect on the integrative care throughout all COVID and then trusted co design brand, the all COVID branding, was created by young people and all the different colors that you see on here, to the logo, to what the center feels like, was all designed by youth, and you all have the opportunity to take a look at that branding and really choose what you all want for your allco center within the allco brand core services. So these are the different core services that we have traditionally in an alcove center, we have mental health, physical health, substance use, peer support, family support, and supportive education and employment. And although these are the core services, Allcove goes beyond these. What you all need, it's every single alcove center is very unique to every community. And if you all feel like there, we need more art services here, more LGBTQ plus services that can all be incorporated within the Allcove model. And the Yag really gets to decide what those services look like, who provides those services. So every aspect is decided by the Yag or informed by the Yag as well. These are the list of community partners that we have, their community partners that are all youth serving agencies. We have abundant grace, adolescent consulting services. Outlet ayudando Latinas, a Sonia Alas, Boys and Girls Club of the CO side. Cabrio Education Foundation, Cabrio Unified School District, city of Half Moon Bay Half Moon Bay, chamber and Opportunity Center, coast side house, coast house life moves. Coast pride and multi faith partnership. CO side children's programs, coast side clinician network, co side hope. Co side Leadership Institute, College of San Mateo, Cora dignity, health, el centro de libertad, Mavericks, Community Foundation on the margins, safe space, San Mateo County, behavioral health, sea crest, senior co signers, square peg supervisor Mulan Wilkinson School and Lisa and last but not least most Youth Leadership Institute. So these are our partners. How many of you recognize one of these partners? Raise your hand. What about two partners? What about three partners? Four, five partners? I think
so. Six partners. It's a lot. I have to Yeah,
seven,
eight,
over 10.
I'm not sure.
Nice. That's really great. I'm really happy to see that a lot of you all recognize these names. We want you all to know each one of these organizations, and in the future, we'll have an opportunity to talk to the community consortium. And really get to know them a little bit more. And you all will get to share what you all want the alcove half alcove center and halfway to look like, and what projects you'll want to work on to make the alcove center happen. So these are all the different opportunities for youth voice and feedback. We have brand identity name development with IDEO org and the inaugural Yag. So this is where you all come together talk about the identity for the altcove Center in Half Moon Bay, what the brand is going to look like, and really get to develop it with another organization, ide.org then we have locating, scouting space design and creating flow. This is all about taking a look at where the center is going to be located. You'll get to participate in every aspect of the alcove center, and that includes taking a look at the different locations that we might have in mind for the alcove center, looking at the space design, what the feel is going to be like inside the center and making sure that there is flow throughout the center. When you walk in, you know exactly where to go. And all the intake process is the same process that you all have advised. Then we have shared decision making, RFPs, all COVID services, virtual services, in the community Consortium. Like I said, Before, you all get to participate in every single aspect of ads. So there is a shared decision making between alcove and the Yag. And then we have alcove services and virtual services, which you all get to decide and have input onto what you all want to be part of the alcove center. And, of course, our community concern and which is also going to help support you all in making the alcove center happen. We have all COVID marketing, which includes videos, website and social media development, and we have a whole all COVID team that is going to support you all. I don't think I shared this yet, but all COVID is a more than statewide. It's actually started in Australia, so it's a really big organization or a big community of folks that are dedicated to supporting mental wellness for you. And we're really excited to have them here with us, and they're going to be supporting you all with the marketing as well. We also have evaluation and data system teams, so that means, once the alcove center is up and running, we want to make sure that it's working well for everyone, and you all get to take a look at that data and see how we can improve the center. We have all COVID policies and procedures for the SCC and guiding statewide development. So like I said, before alcove is a statewide network, it has a statewide network, which you will be working with to make the alcove center happen. There's also different opportunities to go to learn more about other centers that are statewide as well advocacy training, increasing dialog and community presentations. We want to make sure that people know about Allcove. We want to make sure that other youth understand that we're creating this center, that we want it for them and the services that youth are interested in. And because of that, we are going to be doing a little bit of training, increasing the dialog, like joining the half and Bay service stand so people know about the center. And then we also have the community custodian presentations, where you will get to share with our group of folks who are supporting us, what you all are working on and how we how they can support us as well in the alcove center. With that, I want to share a little bit about the half moon based service jam. So half moon based service jam usually happens in January. I'm not sure exactly what the date is currently, but it's usually on a Thursday, from what I've seen in the past, and it's during lunch time at Huffman Bay High School. If you're interested in supporting that, and if you don't go to Huffman Bay High School and have graduated, I can also get you a pass, a visitor's pass, for that. But if you're interested in supporting and letting other youth know about the youth advisory group, we also have a youth meet survey, which is all about what needs are missing in the community for youth. We want to make sure we get it out there to more. To more youth and collect around 100 responses. So we're really excited to do that during the health based service jam. So if you're interested in supporting that, we I'll pass this out so you can share your name, phone number, and if you need transportation, or you can put that if you need a visitor's passing and then yeah, so we did outreach and strategies, any questions on the opportunities for youth voice.
Does everybody know what the jam is? Or do we get to describe what it is? This jam thing I can see some like, yeah, yeah, maybe a little description of what that is and what, like, how creepy doing if you went.
So the Hopkins Bay service dam is an opportunity for other youth to attend an event. It's usually held at halfpen Bay High School in the quad area, and there's a bunch of different youth serving organizations that are there to help provide information and more services to youth, mainly community service opportunities. So it's a really great opportunity to get more youth involved in the youth advisory group, the Yag, and it's also a great opportunity for us to share out the youth meet survey. So if you were to participate, when you would be helping us do is telling more people, young people, about what the Youth Advisory Group is, what the Yag is, all about, what all COVID is, and also sharing at the Youth Survey. And you wouldn't be alone.
Yes, I would definitely be there. And a lot of the organizations you saw on that list would also be represented with groups. Yes,
thank you.
Any other questions.
So this is a lot in terms of, like, what it is and what's gonna happen. And sometimes when I look at this stuff, I always think, Oh, my God, it looks like the center already exists. So I just, I want to point out that it really is starting from scratch, like you're gonna, like, don't have a location yet, comprised in the process of recruiting and hiring some staff. But here we wanted to start with you, because you guys are the most important folks in terms of directing this. And so that's why all of this, all of these activities, is really whatever you want to bring to it. Yeah, I just want to say that, because there is no, like, sometimes I look at this and I think, so where's the center? How can I? How can I help make it better, but there is no somewhere you're really creating it from ground up. Thank you, Jenny,
and we'll get a chance to envision what that looks like in our activity. In a little bit it's upcoming mix. So with that, I shared out a one pager, which has all the information that you need to know about being part of the Youth Advisory Group and the Yag, it shares what the Youth Advisory Group is the member activities, which include monthly meetings that all have three to four different segments, which include the alcove business, which is talking about the alcove center, of the locations, the branding, all of that. We also have site visits to potential locations. We're also going to be taking a look at the alcove center as well in the new year. So you all alcove Center in San Mateo. So there is one open in San Mateo, and we'd love for you all to take a look at the space, see if you have any ideas of what you all want the Half Moon Bay center to look like. We have advocacy and leadership. We want to make sure that there's representation on school boards that can store your meetings and within funders, so that they know what you all are working on within the Yag. And then lastly, we have youth projects to co design and lead mental health projects, and you really get to decide what those look like. So you all have free liberty of what projects you all want to work on, and we can start thinking about some of those in the next activity, community outreach. We also want to collect the youth meet survey, over 100 surveys for that, and that's listed under community outreach. There's also potential focus groups that we'll be doing, which you can lead or participate in. We have the concern of meetings where there are bi monthly meetings, where all the service agencies that are helping support you all to create the alcove Center are going to meet. We'd love for you all to join those meetings. Sorry about that. We'd love for you all to join those meetings, so you all are able to share what you all are working on in the Yag. And then we have statewide conference. This is a really unique opportunity for y'all to see what other alcove centers are like and learn a little bit more about all COVID. The statewide conference is happening February 28 or March 1, and it's going to be really close to us in Burlingame. And then you get the chance to meet other youth leaders, learn about other statewide opportunities, share ideas and learn more about the alcove center. There is a deadline for January 17, so if anyone is interested in joining that, it's completely free for you all to attend. We can provide transportation if needed. There's another sign in sheet over here for you all to put down main phone number and if you need transportation or not for that. So yeah. And then, of course, you have my contact information. Ken Zeller, who is the intern director of the coast pride, is also listed on here. So if you need their details, you can reach out to them as well. And then my phone number is on there if you ever have any questions, or if you want to send those any forms, any like, hey Rubi, what's the next meeting? Just let me know through text, and I can definitely reach out to you all. I also have my email address on there if you prefer email any questions about the youth opportunities for the Ag Youth Advisory Group.
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you want a second to look over the form? Yeah, I'll play some more music while Y'all are looking Over the form.
You okay, does anyone need more time? I think I've kind
of read over it. My only question I've been kind of formulating in my head this whole time is, does this organization provide or refer people to places where they could get gender affirming care? That
is definitely something that you all could include as part of the the Yag. So the outcome center is really all, what you all want, what you all design. So if you see that that's a need in the community, we can definitely work towards making that happen. And if you have any organizations in mind that would potentially help out with that, we can definitely talk about connecting with them so we can make that happen. So yes, I could definitely assure you that,
since I started to help inform post pride, that that's part of our vision and why, as a lead agency, we wanted to create mental health services so that the primary care component that Rubi talked about would include reproductive health as well as transparency care and whatever couldn't be provided right there in the primary care area, we would be able to have warm handhelds too. So your thinking is right in line with what we're hoping to get some energy and motivation around. So that's
awesome, amazing. So thank you as
well. Yeah, reproductive health is absolutely part of the primary care umbrella. We
did the let me go back to the core services for you all, there's the core services, yeah?
So, so let's imagine you walk through the center. It's just the way you imagine it, that it's going to be like, welcoming enough that you feel like you're you can walk in and you can walk through that door, and you're able to basically say, Okay, well, let's say, you know, I just feel like doing some homework today, or I've got some work to do for my job. I'm just going to sit here quietly and do that. The Center has that kind of space. That's what the employment and education space is about. And you get to design. What does that look like? What what kinds of stuff needs to be there for you to be able to do your work on the job? You know? Is there some computer and printer? It's like a little business center, like brainstorming right now, whatever it is, if you can imagine you would want for that bucket of services. That's what you get to create for substance use prevention and treatment. The thought is, well, we have some of that because we've heard, we've heard a little mouse, we have some substance use prevention and treatment. So maybe we bring some of that there. Maybe we hear about some service on the hill or the city, we're like, hey, they do much better job. We want to contract with them and have them come here. Or we want to tell the lead agency postcard or something, away from them work there because we like them. So that would be what the substance use, prevention and treatment would be. Let's say you come in and you're like, I have a substance problem my
dad or
my mom does, and it's like having a terrible impact on my younger sibling or on me or whatever. Then that would be a place to be able to talk about it and get help the physical health already talked about kind of primary care, and so it'll have like, we're going to need to figure out in the space, like, Okay, well, all these basic little things you're going to want to be thinking about in order to figure out how to fill that out and then peer support. The idea is that, well, I know it's great if I have all these experts and professionals, but maybe I want something a little closer my age to be able to talk to and support me through something, something that they learned, but maybe not too close, because it's a small community, whatever it could look like. So that's what the peer supports about. And then family supports are the idea that, you know, hey, I'm out, I'm not out at home, but I am out at school, and I need some help here, like get my family on board. What this is all about, or any any concern that you might have in your family. So it's being able to bring them along so that you're not stuck feeling isolated with what those issues are that are attacking you, and then the mental health piece. And the reason why I left it for last is the idea is it's integrated into all of these things. It's not like you're not coming to the center necessarily for to speak to a therapist, but you might be and so that's the way this is envisioned, is that it's not stigmatized. So it's sort of like on the coastline, we don't have a place for young people to hang out, right? We don't have a why. We don't have a place that you could just go as a community center. So envision this really broadly, like this could be a youth center, a young adult center to hang out, to be as welcoming as possible, and to have whatever services you want, games, a game room, like, I don't know, there's could be snacks, there could be boba. Like, whatever you want is what you could think of, to imagine, to put in there. So while the core services are outlining, and they're very clear about like, the branding, all that the actual way what you want there can can be reflective of what you really want, what's what the cosite wants. And you're kind of leaders to do it, because we want everybody's young voices to be informed by this, which is why Rubi is like, like, help us get the need to survey out, like, and learn from other young people at this conference. Because there'll be folks from, probably from all around the country, because these places exist in Canada. They exist in Australia, as Rubi talked about, and it came out of the indigenous Maori population. So it's, it's got some really good core values about relation relationships. Anyway, okay, I talk too much, and I just wanted to bring us back to imagining and that even though there's a lot there, there isn't, it's really like, it's all within us to figure out within you. Thank you. You can see I'm very excited. I wrote the grant to get this. So I'm so happy that it comes probably people can read this and make it happen. So that's why I was so excited.
Any other questions about the opportunities or services?
Thank you. And Jenny set this up. Really lovely for our imagining section that's coming up next. So envisioning our community. So what we want to do next is take a look at envisioning our community. And the way that we're going to do this is that we're going to explore and connect with ourselves and others by envisioning our community 10 years from now. So in this 10 years, let's imagine the Allcove Center is already set up. What is the allco Center going to look like? How are we going to resolve mental health and all these other core service issues, or any other youth issue in in the Coast side, in Half Moon Bay? How are we going to get there? So right now, to get us started, I'm going to share a quick video to help you start thinking a little bit more of what a better world would look like. You
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All right. Thank you for taking a look at that video. I hope you all enjoyed it. So right now what we're going to do is we're going to do an activity called Blue Sky vision. So right now, what we're going to do is we're going to close our eyes, we're going to take a deep breath, and we're going to focus on our community and imagine a perfect world. We're going to recall the issues in the videos, such as the environment, children's rights, education, justice, equality and other issues, and remember that we're also focusing on mental health, but beyond mental health, we want to envision a better world for youth in half of Bay. So what we're going to do right now, I'm going to hand out the blue vision activity right now
and then for this activity, which you all are going to do, like I shared, try to envision a world where mental health, where Youth, anything, this half in Bay is just a better place overall for youth. You can think about what what Jenny was sharing earlier, and Jenny, go ahead and share if you had something to add.
Oh, no, I'm just gonna say that it's in Half Moon Bay, but it's for everybody on cosine. So if they can get there, think broadly for Thank
you. So in the little cloud that you all have on there, you're going to draw a picture or make a collage. You can, if you want a digital version, I have a digital version as well for you all. Or you can write statements that describes this better world. And after you're done drawing your vision, we're going to listen to everyone's ideas and visions, and then we're going to imagine it's 10 years in the future with these blue sky visions, and we're going to talk about how we can make them a reality. We're going to talk about what steps we might take to get to here. And yeah, we'll just have a little brainstorm conversation to get us started on what this alcove center for the cosine could look like. Any questions on the activity, yes,
does the statement here have to be like, does the statement or drawing here have to be completely related to alcove, or can it just be what you want to see in the future? It could just be
what you want to see in the future. I think that's
yeah. That's okay.
Does somebody have
the time? Yes, of course. So it is currently 507 we're hoping to end at 530
my mom was coming here at six because I was told was from four to six. So
I'm just wondering
your question. I'm
not sure if my mom knows, if it's from five or not. I don't have my phone with me, though, so if you'll just see what happens. Oh, it's fine. It'll probably go to spam, and we'll see what happens. Anyways,
I have a video for you all to listen to. It's all about imagining a different a better role for children, for youth. So as you all are working on your activity, you can hear this in the background. And then after this, we'll play a song just it's a beautiful day. We'll play that afterwards, as you all are working on the activity, I
don't know if it focused on the ages. It's for 1225
thank you so much. Yes, 12 to 25 so it's a big stand,
okay? Thank you. All
right, I'm gonna go ahead and play the video so y'all can work on it. There's pencils on the table.
There's also, please come you imagine a better life for children. Imagine better food and water for children. Imagine more freedom of expression for children. Imagine there's no children for a child. Imagine no more child's labor. Imagine better healthcare for children. Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try
no help below us,
above us, only sky.
Imagine better sanitary conveniences for children. Imagine better maternal care for children. Imagine more leisure for children. Imagine a world with better sports for children. Imagine
there's no country. It is hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for and no religion, too. Imagine all the people
living all.
You may say, I'm a dreamer, but
I'm not. Someday, imagine,
imagine better parenting for children. Imagine better education for children. Imagine more inclusion for children with disabilities. Imagine no child being abused in any way, possession. I
wonder if you care or longer, made Imagine
all the people
sharing all The world. The world.
But I'm not the only one,
daughter, reimagine a better future for children.
Wrestling can Okay. We have one more song. Go ahead.
There it is. She,
I don't wanna act
too high and mighty cause tomorrow. Thank you for sunshine, thank you for rain, thank you for Joy, thank you for painful Day.
Have A mindful day.
It's a beautiful day. Thank you for some time, thank you for rain, thank you for Time. Thank you for rain. Thank you for joy. It's
okay. Thank you
for rain, thank you for Joy, thank you for Paine, food. Day,
and I'm gonna go ahead and play some more music.
565678, we'll give you to the end of the song to press, and if You need more time, Just let me know you
Sleep and touch your
toes. Oh, take me out. All right, thanks everyone for participating in that activity. We have about 10 more minutes left for the meeting. So in this time, I'd like for us to share a little bit about our allco vision, our community vision for half Blue Bay New and then we can talk about, in a future meeting, we can talk about how we can get these visions to become a reality. Who would like to start us off?
These are more like for everywhere not. These are like more my personal visions, but I imagine that people are able to get the care they need without political opposition. This is mostly in reference to HRT and other necessary things like HRT, abortion, puberty blockers, stuff like that. And also, I imagine that everyone is can be equal in all aspects of life. So you know, one person doesn't get paid more than another because of something that he couldn't control at birth.
Thank you so much for sharing. Do you have any ideas that we can make these a reality? Finding tips,
activism, maybe going out and giving speeches, kind of getting more involved, getting involved with community around this area. Because, I mean, this is a pretty good area, but also I want to it would be easy to start locally.
Thank you. Thank you so much for sharing and then
family support and people who are different friends. I think it's always people who are different kind of friends now, but I think just ignorance sort of divides a lot of people. And like, there are people I would like to be friends with, just like, at school and stuff, but because of, like, the way they act with people like me, I just care and then family support. Because I think something that's really threatening to mental health, and like, the queer community is just not having support from your family. Thank
you so much. You family,
thank you so
much. I love your drawing. Yeah,
same. Oh, I have a few. I guess one thing I haven't really seen implemented anywhere else is a violence hotline, because everyone always mentioned suicide prevention, and they even made a hotline. But what about giving the community something to call when they're attempting to create to perform an act of violence, like just preventing it ahead of time? Another thing we could possibly do is also give a greater emphasis on making the kids feel like they have respect they're a part of something great, or giving them purpose, as well as having things like homework, Center for the after school, lunches, alleys and just services for the disabled need and document.
Thank you. I like all this breadth of our local activism. Make sure you include the families otherwise, and then all these great ideas address violence. I just say all that. So mine just to piggyback. Mine was like, well, 10 years from now, I'd like to see Safe Schools, safe family, safe communities. No school shootings, no domestic violence, no sexual violence. Complain, no hate to keep going. But I thought the notes are not so good if you want to find out what kind of make the positives. So thinking about the offco Center, that it'd be a safe fund drop in place to dream to get help with school, job, art, music came talk to someone or be alone. Get help with depression, anxiety, get reproductive care and walk on a healthy journey. Walk with somebody on a healthy journey.
Thank you, Jenny, thank you. I have really similar ideas to what you all have come up with. I definitely have our community partners listed over here, Coast Guard, y line, our community. I would really like it if we have, like, laptop and hot spot rentals. I think that would be really cool. I'm always like trying to figure out how to get internet in different places. I know that high school doesn't have really great internet sometimes, and you're doing homework after school, you can't really connect to any Wi Fi there? LGBTQ plus resources definitely highlighted what Luna had shared, what you all had shared in the past, and then community service. A lot of our youth want to engage in the community. How can they do that? I wish we had like a list of all the different community partners and where they can all get resources similar to like the service jam, but more localized, where anyone go at any day, not just the service jam, citizenship, Citizenship and Immigration. I'd love for there to be more resources for immigration and citizenship and how youth can go through different pathways, leadership opportunities. You want to make sure youth have leadership opportunities throughout their time at the at the Yag, and just have a one place where they can go art. I want to make sure. I would love it if there was more art incorporated art therapy, screen printing as well. Would be really cool, healthy alternatives. I know you'll Ryan, I think you mentioned outings. One thing that we do at yli with our Friday Night Live Coast Guard Youth Council program and ESL program is making sure that there's healthy alternatives and activities for youth. And some of the fun things that we've done to connect with our campaign is go to the tide pools at the Marine Reserve, even though it's really close to since it's even hard to just take a bus there. So it's really nice if you have an organization that can get a group of youths together, teach them about the tide pools in their community and how they can support we've also done ice beating during this time of year, which is really fun. And, yeah, there's many other activities that we could do. Disability representation and services. I really think that it'd be really great to have more support for folks who have disability and representation as well across the community. Music. I know we have a last with the flor cortico. I participated in the for political class when I was in I was in high school when I did that. But I wish there was more like across the broad across ages, there was more for political opportunities, more dancing opportunities, drumming. I attended a drumming circle, and it was really great, like, you really released a lot of energy in the drumming. And it's a really great way to help with whatever emotions you're going through. I really enjoyed the drumming and just creating your own music. How can music help you out throughout your life? ESL support. I feel like there's definitely more need for ESL students across the coast. Side music also pwd music therapy on their connection. We want to make sure that there's more connection between youth across the county, across Half Moon Bay, across the coast side, advocacy and activism. We want to make sure that there's opportunities for youth to talk about the issues that they're passionate about. Can get involved group therapy. We want to make sure that youth can also participate in therapy, not just individual therapy, but also in a group setting, if they want to engage and hear about other youth as well. I want to say that was all of them, but I was taking notes as you all were sharing around that circle, and I'm really happy. I love that the visions that we're having for our community, and I'm really excited to help you all make this happen. So we have a little bit of time left. I know it's almost 530 in a couple of minutes. So with that, I want to go ahead and share the last couple of next steps. So for everyone, I'm going to give you all homework. Since we're running out of time, if you're if you can stay a little bit longer, I'd love for you all to fill this out. It's a when to meet link where you can go to Bitly forward, slash, all Cove, hack, move a HMB, or you can scan the QR code on here. This is going to be able to give us an idea of what your schedule looks like. We want to make sure that you all are able to participate in different alcove activities, including the statewide conference. So if you can please fill out your availability as much as possible, just so that we have it on hand so when we do different activities, for example, the next one coming up is going to be the Allcove yag interview. So we want to do interviews with each and every single one of you to formalize the process of being part of the Yag it's going to be happening on the week of the 13th. So if you can share, if you have specific availability during that week, I'd share that in the sheet, and then contact information as well, right there on the table for you all.
Review is not to exclude interviews, just to embrace your welcome to interview. Oh, my God, you're getting tested anyway.
No test. Yeah, we just want to get to know you all a little bit better in the process and formalized. But yeah, we are also going to be doing interviews with other folks who are going to participate in the altcove program. We have a couple different positions. Jenny, would you like to share a little bit more? There's two positions of program manager,
and we're recruiting for that right now, and that's and then one is a community outreach person. Both people will work really closely with Rubi and with all of you in launching the alcove
center, we want to make sure
we really would love and need really so please is for one or two of you to be part of the interview process, and we would support you through that process so That Canary, you would learn to do resumes. You would learn stuff. We don't want to hire folks, but you're what people say, yeah, these people can implement our vision.
Yeah. Thank you, Jenny. And that's going to be happening. So the week of the 13th is going to be the Yag formalizing interviews. The week of the January 20 is going to be when we're hoping to have the prep meeting for y'all so we all prepared when we have the interviews. And you know what a resume is, what to look for. And then on the 27th the last week in January, is when we're hoping to host those interviews. Yeah? And the when to meet is the best place to put on your availability for all those, including the next Yag meeting, all right. And then lastly, I just wanted to, does anyone I know that we all don't have devices, but that's okay. We can just share verbally one word on how we're feeling today, after today's all COVID yag, kick off. I'm excited. I'd love
to say, determine. Determine.
I want it. Excited, but I'm hoping to feel determined.
Awesome. Thanks everyone. So that concludes our all COVID kickoff. Here's my contact information. If you all would like to grab a picture of that. It's also on the one pager for you all. And then, yeah, thank you so much for being part of the all COVID. Yag, we also have, if you're interested in an alcove, sorry, in a coast pride tour. We can also do that now. And I'm gonna leave the one to meet, just in case you All didn't capture I'm getting it started to rain Session.
I'll be fine. Yeah, thank you. Just curious. How did you all care about it?
My mom let me know. Yeah,
I was just looking for volunteers. I was talking with Rolando mother. Part of
this. Thank you so much for the text.
Max, yes, please go for it. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you again. You want this
house. Let me see if I can sure.
I'll send a message to Ryan about the car. Okay,
maybe we can just take a picture. Sign in and you got one? There's
a couple. Other youth, organic programs like it, yeah, so I have, I know I'm
so sorry I saw this really.
No, no worries. We're Yeah. We were just waiting for more folks to join in the first half, and then we did a check in about why you wanted to be part of again.
I think you already knew that. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Yeah, I'm glad we were able to I found there I was looking for, like, a better way to do the activity for engineering community, and I found the holy sky resource, and I thought I was really excited to share it, and I felt like the video is really connected, yeah, yeah, but yeah, would you like to do a program evaluation, or we could do this in a different meeting too. You need
to do one. To do it right now.
You can put me on the spot,
just in the back. Plus, there's anything I want well change and anything moving forward.
So this would be a normal review with everybody, yes,
at future meetings, that's what I usually do. Yeah, this is just a lot. So we'll do we'll do that in future meetings, and eventually, when you start reading, I would eventually like them to be different portions, so they'll get a copy of the facilitators agenda after each meeting. They'll fill it up.
Do feet. Thank you so much for your input in the course Services section. Yeah, it sets up really well for the next activity. Well, since we had talked about it, I kind of knew where you're heading. I
i can see that one particular video. I'm sure you're
disability. You're different voices and stuff I'm thinking about, like, clearly,
so quite like you're getting, obviously mines models. So difficult to know the age difference in middle schoolers that this is going to be tricky. Yeah, and I'm sure you've thought about in a dream of lots of experience with a build diverse club age and grace. Ethnicity.
Like, it's hard like to make sure there's enough space for places. Yeah, definitely, we definitely
have to juggle that a lot. I have worked with transitional aging from the past. I hope a hand program is one of our programs that is available for transitional age youth, and we had middle school students and college students. Yeah. So there's
ways, there techniques, yes, you can use exactly, and
then we, I know the group agreements a lot, and like, whenever there is something rules, yes, remembering them, what the group Yes,
that's the part yes. We were
talking about group agreements. We have one night, one person speaks at a time, being present, listening, actively engaging in the activities. Respect. This is a big one. We want to make sure we have all different opinions, different ways of living, and we want to make sure that we respect everyone. Pop the bubble where there's a lot of new information that we're sharing. Want to make sure everyone understands this. If you have a question, pop the bubble. Let us know. FEMA free. We're going to be talking about mental health, LGBTQ communities, other communities, and we want to make sure that it's a space where everyone feels comfortable. So how you're going to rely on these very helpful Yeah, and then we have across my li a proof of standards of practice, and in Friday Night Live standards of practice as well, I work a lot with Friday Night Live, and part of those standards of practice include making sure that there's opportunities for leadership with the youth, making sure that everyone like respects group agreements. There's respect across the whole group, engaging like adult, healthy adult and youth partnerships as well. So yes, I can send you a list of all of those, our foundation blocks from Youth Leadership Institute that we have. So yeah, that's a little bit about what, yeah, how,
yeah. I mean, this is easy, but I can imagine, if we start getting bigger, it's going to lead to it's gonna be much harder to manage. Yes,
in my Friday Nightline program, one of the lots a lot of people, yeah, it's a lot more youth. So it's like harder, like making it like to calming everyone down. It gets really loud. And then my ESL group, and then my cyc group there. They've been together for three years now, so they know each other well. And because we have a couple of new challenges, like relationships that are important, so we have those to navigate, yeah, and then we have going back to respect. Sometimes our youth will joke around with each other, but because they know each other so well. So we want to make sure that we respect everyone, and even though we're in a space but we're all friends, we want to make sure that our participant first and then in a relationship. That's some things that I've tried to work with navigating, and then we always have a helpful team at wildlife. Erica, who's my manager, he's She's the director of San Mateo County programs. Ali, who's the Bay Area Director. We have Andrea, who is a senior program coordinator and works a lot in Redwood City and Daly City, and also statewide. She has a hope campaign, which is statewide, healthy online platforms for everyone. Yeah. And then we have your well supported, yeah,
yeah. I was gonna say, if there's anything I can do, like, I just want to be as supportive as possible, until ever there's anything we need from you know, I I told everybody when I left the board that I got this grant, and it's a big, huge amount of work. And so I promised I would just jump in whenever anything was needed. So, so just if there's ever anything like, literally, like, any copies, like, anything like, there's nothing that I won't jump in and do. So I just want you to know that so, and again, I'm truly I looked at that and said, 430 I'm
on time. And then I wasn't, you know you were on time? Did we start a little earlier? Unless it started earlier. Did I say 454 40?
Yeah, I'm so sorry. It's okay. I found this earliest. And then, oh, if you have any ideas
for any trainings that we could do with the UFO to get my ideas, and also ask the youth what kind of trainings it would like in the future. But yeah, I'll be working on on that as well to see how we can give them more capacity building opportunities.
