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NEW! View a video compilation on the Team in Faith website of the 2008 Yolo Youth Triathlon, co-sponsored by the Woodland Youth Council!
Please click here for various reports that provide information on the state of Woodland youth.
Woodland Adult Ed grads earn diplomas, scholarships
The Woodland Adult Education graduated its Class of 2009 last Friday. Both scholarship winners and those receiving diplomas were recognized -- including two graduating members of the Woodland Youth Council.
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Young filmmakers premiere their work on the big screen
After eight months of planning meetings, filming in their communities and long hours in the editing lab, members of the REACH Youth Media Project celebrated the premiere of their four youth-led documentaries at the Guild Theater on May 22.
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Justice board members sought
The Yolo County Probation Department and the Woodland Coalition for Youth are seeking high school students to apply for one of two vacancies on the County's Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commission.
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New YFRC Executive Director returns to Woodland with wealth of youth services experience
Robert Ekstrom, former executive director of WIND Youth Services, a Sacramento program serving homeless teens, has accepted the position of executive director of the Yolo Family Resource Center.
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$1.4m after-school grant awarded to youth coalition
The Woodland Coalition for Youth, a partnership of youth and adults committed to creating community change that benefits young people, has garnered a five-year, $1.475 million grant from the California Department of Education's 21st Century After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens Program.
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Teen Pregnancy Prevention Campaign Spreads Message on Campus
May marks the 2009 National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, a country-wide campaign to curb the ever growing number of teen pregnancies.
Local youths receive scholarships, awards
Yolo Youth Service Award winnersYoung people throughout Yolo County contribute a
great deal to their local communities by
volunteering.
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Woodland project engages and empowers parents
By Lamar HeystekThe Woodland Coalition for Youth implemented a $15,000 REACH parent engagement grant last year by training parents to influence the local public school system from within.
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Woodland Youth Council makes a difference at Wayfarer Center
By Izabelle PonceFollowing up on a successful strategy meeting held on Feb. 4, the Woodland Youth Council, a group of young people working with adults in the Woodland Coalition for Youth, is asking local residents to support a community service project at the Yolo Wayfarer Center, a social service agency in Woodland.
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Woodland-based Anti-Tobacco Youth Coalition expands to Esparto
YUFA STAR in EspartoIn a continued effort to increase youth awareness about the dangers of tobacco use and the tobacco industry’s youth marketing tactics, the Yolo County Anti-Tobacco Youth Coalition has expanded their Woodland-based coalition to Esparto.
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