4 Elements Earth Education offers programs that introduce Earth Skills, which are a blend of the ancient arts of tracking, wilderness survival, and nature awareness.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.4eee.org/

Youth Hub Summer Day Camp
This camp started in the summer of 2021 to provide much-needed child care for working parents during the summer and after the hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic. The day camp is for children in grades TK-8, and operates five days a week from 8am-6pm for five weeks. The camp provides a safe space for kids during the summer with a full schedule of enrichment and educational activities daily. The camp also provides first-time jobs for youth 16 ages and over from the community, including youth involved in BFFY programs. In 2023, 30 youth were employed and 250 kids attended this camp.

Web pages

• Home - https://bffyouth.org/

Big Brothers Big Sisters makes matches in communities across the country between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”), ages 6 through 18, primarily from single-parent, low-income families . These relationships can have a direct and lasting effect on the lives of young people.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.bbbsns.org/
• Contact info - https://www.bbbsns.org/about-us/contact-us/

The Friendship Club provides a year-round program in Western Nevada County serving girls at risk in grades 6-12. Girls meet after school during the school year, attend field trips and other activities during school breaks, and participate in summer camps and enrichment activities throughout the summer.

The Friendship Club has helped almost 1,000 girls since starting in 1995. The comprehensive, long-term program is open to youth who are female, identifying as female, and gender non-conforming between the ages of 10 and 18, and provides assistance into their 20s as they transition to adulthood. The Friendship Club serves more than 100 youth every year, providing year-round academic, social, and emotional support in individual and group settings – and ensuring basic needs, such as access to health care and healthy meals, are available.

Girls are grouped into cohorts by grade level and stay with their group until they graduate high school. Participation is free, as are all the activities, f… [read more]

NEO offers a fun, safe, and supervised place for youth and young adults, ages 11-25, to spend their time after school, build friendships, learn new skills, and discover their passions.  Several hundred youth participate in NEO every year. NEO provides leadership opportunities, summer programs, music events, and in-school activities. Some events will have age limits, check the website for details.

Web pages

• Home - https://bffyouth.org/
• NEO - https://bffyouth.org/neo/

The SAFE (Stability, Access, Foundation, Empowerment) program is committed to finding and helping youth ages 12 -26 who are experiencing homelessness.

Many youth experiencing homelessness do not have access to local or state funding or simply don’t know what services are available. And few nonprofit organizations in the region can help. SAFE fills the gap by connecting youth who have alternative, unpredictable, or inconsistent housing access with community resources and well-trained professionals.

SAFE helps mitigate homelessness in Nevada County by providing:

• Basic needs, such as food, clothing, housing, hygiene supplies, showers
• Education and training, including transitioning to college and/or trade school
• Physical health and mental wellness counseling
• Training to develop the necessary skills to live independently

Web pages

• Home - https://bffyouth.org/safe/

The Cinderella Project helps several hundred students get free dresses, gowns, tuxedos and other attire for proms and other special events in Nevada County. The Cinderella Project ensures that cost is not an issue for students to attend their proms.

Web pages

• Home - https://bffyouth.org/

The goals of 4-H are to help young people develop initiative and assume responsibility, develop leadership and be of service to others, develop the ability to live and work cooperatively with others, acquire knowledge and skills and explore careers, achieve satisfaction from work and accomplishments, choose from alternatives and plan satisfying lives, and develop positive self images. MISSION The 4-H mission is to help youth develop into responsible productive citizens of the world, and to improve the well-being of society through the use of research-based learn by doing experiences. https://4h.ucanr.edu/ Websites: Nevada 4H - https://ucanr.edu/sites/nevadacounty4h/

The goals of 4-H are to help young people develop initiative and assume responsibility, develop leadership and be of service to others, develop the ability to live and work cooperatively with others, acquire knowledge and skills and explore careers, achieve satisfaction from work and accomplishments, choose from alternatives and plan satisfying lives, and develop positive self images.

MISSION
The 4-H mission is to help youth develop into responsible productive citizens of the world, and to improve the well-being of society through the use of research-based learn by doing experiences.

https://4h.ucanr.edu/

Websites:

• Placer 4H - https://ucanr.edu/sites/placercounty4h/

Boys & Girls Club provides a safe, structured, and positive environment for young people after school, during holidays, and during summer vacation.
Afterschool programs serve students from ages 6 to 18 and offer homework help, tutoring, sports, recreation, career & leadership development, health & life skills, arts and crafts. Boys & Girls Club is located at E.V. Cain Middle School and the Rock Creek Elementary School. Membership at the Club costs $10.00 and program fees are $10.00 a month. Hours of operation are from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. five days a week. Their hours of operation are extended during the summer and school breaks.

Web pages

• Home - https://bgcplacercounty.org/