SKIing and Snowboarding for Disabled and Underprivileged Children and older Kids.

SkiDUCK is a grassroots non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of disabled and underprivileged children by teaching and sharing the joys of skiing and snowboarding.

We're ENTIRELY volunteer-based (NO paid salaries!) so ALL donations received go directly to support kids' ski and snowboard programs! We're committed to partnering with local organizations with similar goals of serving underprivileged youth.

And in areas where these needs aren't yet being served, we seek to establish a sustainable model of service with local resources and volunteers.

If your community or organization is interested in partnering with SkiDUCK to establish or enhance a program to help disadvantaged youth onto the slopes, give us a QUACK!

The mission of Tahoe Youth and Family Services is to promote the healthy development of children, youth, and families in the community by providing counseling, education and support services.

Their primary goal is to provide a safety net of services. They serve families through professional and confidential individual and family counseling, community outreach, mentoring, Project Safe Place, Wraparound services, emergency youth shelter and a 24-hour crisis line.

Current Services include:

• Individual & Family Counseling
• Adult Substance Abuse Counseling
• Adolescent Recovery Groups
• Individual Teen Drug & Alcohol Counseling
• Life Skills Group
• Juvenile Treatment Center Counseling (South Lake Tahoe, CA)
• Counseling services for very young children
• 24 Hr. Crisis Line
• Mentoring Program
• Street Outreach Program
• Teen Drop In/Resource Centers
• Project Safe Place

AT A GLANCE: SAFE SPACE FOR LGBTQ+ YOUTH AND ALLIES TO MEET AND FIND SUPPORT.

The Landing Spot Youth Group

A non-religious support group and safe space for LGBTQ youth ages 13-20 in Placer County.

The focus is on support, education, and safe social events such as dances, holiday celebrations, and field trips.

Meetings are generally held on the third Monday of the month, from 6-7:30pm and are currently held at The Loomis Basin Congregational Church, 6440 King Rd. in Loomis.

Facilitators are: Pastor Casey Tinnen, educator, parent, and ally Daniella Zimmerman, and community member Kristian Maul.
The Landing Spot Parent Group

A tandem support group for parents of LGBTQ youth in Placer County, meets on the same day at the same time in a different room. Grandparents, guardians, and foster parents of LGBTQ youth in Placer County also welcome.

Facilitators include local parents/guardians of LGBTQ children/adults, and monthly topics are discussed/presented.

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Let's Eat Healthy!(a local name for CalFresh Healthy Living, UC Placer/Nevada Counties) provides comprehensive, hands-on nutrition education as well as produce tastings, gardening, physical activity, and cooking activities to qualifying schools, youth organizations, and adult groups. The vision of Let’s Eat Healthy! is to help CalFresh-eligible children and families in Placer and Nevada Counties to maintain healthy lifestyles through wise food choices and physical activity. 

Each school year theLet's Eat Healthy! program staff serves over 2,800 children by teaching nutrition lessons and providing evidence-based nutrition curricula, trainings, and materials to teachers in qualifying schools and area educators at no cost. We reach hundreds of CalFresh-eligible adults through workshops and newsletters as well as family events. Please view our  program fact sheet for more information.

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In Placer County, Lilliput provides a variety of services to children and families touched by foster care, adoption and kinship care.

We welcome community referrals and look for opportunities to partner with other service providers to better meet the needs of the community.

Kinship Support Services Program (KSSP): A kinship family is formed when an extended family member, such as a grandparent, aunt/uncle or sibling, steps in to raise a child when the birth parent(s) are unable or unavailable.

Families served do not have to be formally connected to the foster care system.

Services provided:

• Family Finding and Engagement
• In-home Support
• Counseling
• Support Groups
• Information & Referrals
• Advocacy
• Assistance with Basic Needs
• Legal Referrals
• Children’s activities and supports Foster-Adoption Program

Lilliput’s child-focused foster family and adoption program has the goal of placing foster children into homes that are well trained and supported to facilitate a child’s return home to birth fa… [read more]

Facilitates a drug education program for youth in an effort to eliminate the use and abuse of illegal drugs by all members of society. 

Offers youth activities including: the Hoop Shoot, Soccer Shoot, and essay contests.

Provides scholarship emergency education grants (for children of deceased or disabled Elks family members).

Offers programs for veterans with specific emphasis on outpatients and homeless veterans.
 

Facilitates a drug education program for youth in an effort to eliminate the use and abuse of illegal drugs by all members of society. 

Offers youth activities including: the Hoop Shoot, Soccer Shoot, and essay contests.

Provides scholarship emergency education grants (for children of deceased or disabled Elks family members).

Offers programs for veterans with specific emphasis on outpatients and homeless veterans.



 

The Youth Mentor program assigns volunteer mentors to children who are at-risk of educational failure, and former foster youth who are transitioning into adulthood without family support. These at-risk youth are not currently involved in any court system, but are identified as being at-risk of educational failure (truancy) or of entering the juvenile justice or child welfare systems.

As with CASA volunteers, Mentors meet weekly with the youth, helping to:

• Define and accomplish goals
• Introduce youth to opportunties and potential life paths that they never dreamed possible
• As important role models, Mentors strive to navigate at-risk youth and former foster youth toward positive outcomes that will help these young people transition successfully into adulthood.

For more information, contact the Child Advocates of Placer County's office: (530) 887-1006.

Websites:

• Youth Mentor program - https://casaplacer.org/youth/