Tahoe's Connection for Families provides parenting education and early childhood programs for families with children (aged birth to 42 months) in the North Lake Tahoe area.

Services include:

• Parent/child classes and enrichment activities
• Prenatal education and parenting support
• Open gym sessions for play and exploration

The first visit is free. Membership fees and scholarships are available—see website for details.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.tcfkids.org/

SkiDUCK provides free skiing and snowboarding experiences for underserved youth. 

Services include:

• Offering free lift tickets, rentals, and lessons to youth ages 7–18
• Partnering with local agencies that serve low-income or at-risk youth
• Coordinating seasonal trips at Palisades Tahoe and surrounding Lake Tahoe areas

Programs are offered during the winter season. Community groups can request partnership to arrange group participation.

Web pages

• Home - https://skiduck.org/

Girl Scouts prepares girls for a lifetime of leadership, success, and adventure in a safe, no-limits place designed for and by girls.

The Girl Scout Leadership Experience is a collection of engaging, challenging, and fun activities that help Girl Scouts prepare for a lifetime of leadership, success, and adventure. Each level of Girl Scouts is unique with a wide variety of activities to try. As a Girl Scout progresses, every level builds upon the last and allows them to explore their interests.

Activities include (but are not limited to):

• Earning badges
• Going on trips
• Selling cookies
• Exploring the outdoors
• Doing community service projects.

Girls on the Run - Sierras inspires girls to be healthy and confident by using an experience-based curriculum which integrates running.

Girls on the Run combines training for a 5K (3.1 miles) fun run with healthy living education. Their programs instill self-esteem and strong values through health education, life skills development, mentoring relationships, and physical training - all of which are accomplished through an active collaboration with girls and their parents, schools, volunteers, staff, and the community.

Web pages

• Home - www.girlsontherunsierras.org/

Genders & Sexualities Alliances unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and communities. 

There are 3 different types of GSAs—all of which can directly impact LGBTQ+ youth: Social, Support, and Activist. Every GSA can create its own mission and goals to meet the needs of its members and the unique climate of their school.

• Social GSAs — Students meet and connect with other trans and queer students on campus
• Support GSAs — Students work to create safe spaces and talk about the various issues they face in school or their broader communities, such as discrimination from teachers or school administrators
• Activist GSAs — Students take a leadership role to improve school climate through campaigns and events that raise awareness and change policies or practices in their schools.
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://gsanetwork.org/

The HOPE National Resource Center is based out of Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. We are creating a paradigm shift in systems of care, communities, and policies to value and actively bolster positive childhood experiences (PCEs). HOPE offers research, resources, trainings and technical assistance to help bring the power of the positive into the lives of children and their families.

Positive experiences can ease toxic stress and help children and youth grow into more resilient, healthier adults. Positive experiences can help counteract the affects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) identifies ways that our communities and systems of care can better ensure that all children have more positive experiences and that all families have support to nurture and celebrate their strengths.

The Four Building Blocks of HOPE are composed of key positive childhood experiences (PCEs). The sources of those experiences and opportunitie…