Youth Programs 

Mutual Housing supports young people in realizing their leadership potential and in creating strong team building skills by enrolling them in programs like Peak Adventures.

Programs for youth are directed by the people closest to the issues–parents and young people. After school delinquency is a key concern of parents, so adults in mutual housing communities have established after school programs. Parents, sometimes assisted by Mutual Housing's VISTA volunteers, work with children on crafts, computer education, and homework. Residents skilled in youth issues present gang-diversion workshops and bring youth together for healthy activities. Young people develop their own activities, including dances and outings with adult resident supervision. Fundraisers such as car-washes and sales help support these activities, and young people learn how to work together, manage money, and take responsibility for community events. At several mutual housing communities, basic nutrition needs have been identified by residents as a key concern. In these communities, adult resident volunteers receive training by city staff in how to run a free lunch program in collaboration with the USDA. Hundreds of lunches are served daily by these volunteers during summers and when year round schools are not in session to resident youth and children in the surrounding neighborhoods from the community rooms in mutual housing.

Youth in the South Sacramento Coalition for Future Leaders created this video as a creative endeavor and a way of sharing their own neighborhood experiences.