Girl Scouts earn badges, hike and camp, participate in the cookie program, and much more. They improve neighborhoods, protect the planet, design robots, and establish sports clinics. Girl Scout program is fun with purpose! It is based on the Girl Scout Promise and Law that generations of girls have followed. Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.

Tahoe's Connection for Families (TCF) provides education for parents of infants, toddlers and young threes before they enter preschool. TCF is open to families with children from infancy to 42 months-old and to expectant parents.

Our program offerings include

• parent education
• parent/child classes
• open gym
• prenatal classes
• enrichment classes

The first visit to TCF is free. For information on our membership fees and scholarships, please visit the website.

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 goal of Girl Scouts of the Sierra Nevada is to make Girl Scouting available to every girl (ages 5 to 17) in Northern Nevada and Eastern California. MISSION Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.

Girls on the Run - Sierras is a life-changing, youth development program for girls in the 3rd through 8th grade. Their mission is to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively 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.

Girls on the Run - Sierras is an Independent Council of Girls on the Run International, which has a network of over 191 locations across the United States and Canada.

Girls on the Run - Sierras is a 501c3 nonprofit organization incorporated in California and Nevada.

Genders & Sexualities Alliances, or GSAs for short, are student-run organizations that unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and communities. GSAs have evolved beyond their traditional role to serve as safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth in middle schools and high schools, and have emerged as vehicles for deep social change related to racial, gender, and educational justice.

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 — Student…

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The Nevada County Superintendent of Schools houses a McKinney-Vento Community School liaison. The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act is a U.S. federal law providing federal money to homeless shelter programs.

Homeless Youth Services provides school-aged youth experiencing homelessness with additional support and services to ensure that all students have equal access to educational opportunities. 

Services include:

• Dispute resolution
• Community outreach and referrals
• Funding for school activities and educational needs
• Staff development materials
• Attendance services

Families and students experiencing homelessness can reach out to their school's Homeless Liaison to ask about services and programs that their child may qualify for. Services that your school may be able to provide include:

• Assistance with enrollment in school
• Assistance with gathering educational records
  • Available from the last school attended
• Enrollment in Free and Reduced Lunch …

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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 opportunities are the foundation for healthy childhood development. 

Four Building Blocks of HOPE (Positive Childhood Experiences) - https://positiveexperience.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/4BBs-Poster.pdf

• Relationships within the family and with other children and adults through interpersonal activities.
• Safe, equitable, stable environments for living, playing, learning at home and in sc…

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June 2021 Youth Rise has completed. For future dates, see web page or contact Color Me Human. https://www.colormehuman.org/youth-rise
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Youth Rise is a Social Justice Summer Certificate Program designed to give young people ages 13-19 the tools to build a better Nevada County. Color Me Human creates brave spaces grounded in social justice for young people to build community & solidarity, learn, educate, find creative solutions and transform lives & communities.

Guided by experienced adults and community leaders skilled in youth engagement, our team will combine basic civics (how the government works), a history of struggle in America, and safely examine and critique systems built on historic trauma. This interactive workshop will leave youth with a better understanding of how to engage issues they feel most passionate about.