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Neighborhood Profiles - 2004 Highlights
Ashland, adjacent to San Lorenzo
Boys and Girls Club of San Leandro
An unincorporated area near San Lorenzo, the Ashland community has few after-school programs. With a grant from Team-Up, the Boys and Girls Club of San Leandro and their partners will launch after-school dance, basketball, swimming and girls’ softball programs in its first year. To accommodate girls’ softball, Ashland Little League will modify a baseball field for softball play.
Excelsior District, San Francisco
Mission YMCA
The Excelsior District is primarily a working class neighborhood of Asian and Latino immigrant families. Led by the Mission YMCA, a group of youth sports organizations will offer a running program for girls and coed soccer programs at three school sites. A partnership with San Francisco State University will also bring trained graduate students to the neighborhood to coach elementary school students.
Fruitvale, Oakland
Unity Council
The Fruitvale neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of children living in Oakland and one of the fewest numbers of parks, after-school programs, and teen centers. With a first year implementation grant from Team-Up, the Unity Council will develop partnerships among organizations to share existing facilities, distribute information about available programs to neighborhood youth and parents, and offer a variety of sports in partnership with Sports4kids, Urban Services YMCA, and the Jack London Aquatic Center.
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San Antonio, Oakland
East Bay Asian Youth Center
The San Antonio Sports Initiative (SASI), led by the East Bay Asian Youth Center (EBAYC) engages over 300 youth in sports including kayaking and dragon boating on the Oakland estuary, bicycling with Cycles of Change, basketball, and soccer. SASI and neighborhood advocates partnered with Oakland Parks and Recreation to build a new all-weather turf soccer field in San Antonio Park. In Fall 2004, hundreds of SASI kids played the first organized soccer games to celebrate its opening.
Through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Active Living by Design, EBAYC has conducted a series of community hearings to gather information on ways physical activity spaces could be improved.
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Tenderloin, San Francisco
Bay Area Women's and Children's Center
With Team-Up's support, the Tenderloin Youth Sports Initiative (TYSI) launched 24 sports programs through unique partnerships, which include Yerba Buena Ice Skating and Bowling Center, SF Ballet and the SF Hilton Hotel. Led by a committee of local partners--Indochinese Housing Development Corporation, the Salvation Army and Tenderloin Children’s Playground--TYSI has created ice-skating, bowling, ballet and basketball among its many programs. TYSI is also working with CanFit, a statewide organization that promotes healthy eating and physical activity habits, to take a closer look a how youth sports programs can provide healthy snacks to their kids.
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