On the Margins and Hanna Institute are partnering to offer SV4H. This program addresses the impact of generational trauma and violence on Sonoma Valley’s youth’s bodies, hearts and minds. It aims to disseminate healing strategies and meet the mental health challenges exacerbated by generations of marginalization, recent fires, and the ongoing pandemic. The Healing Justice framework is a culturally responsive, asset-based program focused on healing, advocacy and self-care. This program focuses on understanding and practicing being in “right relationship to self”, to “others”, and “to the land.”

SER is a six session series that aims to support identity development through understanding the impacts of trauma, help youth plan for healthy transitions, and cultivate love, joy, hope and understanding across and among generations.

This curriculum is informed by anti-racist practices, trauma-responsive approaches, with an emphasis on social emotional learning. This program is to support high school aged youth in their junior and senior year of high school as well as their parent(s), guardian(s), or families of choice. The emphasis of this program is intergenerational healing.

¡DALE! was launched in 2021 to create conditions of empowerment for high school students who seek to address educational justice in their school. The program seeks to strengthen student skills, bring together leaders and community organizers who are committed to educational justice in our high schools, and co-create a pipeline of youth organizers and leaders in Sonoma County. ¡DALE! brings together leaders and community organizers who are committed to educational justice in Sonoma County’s high schools. The long-term vision of ¡DALE! is to co-create a pipeline of youth organizers and leaders in Sonoma County.

On the Margins and La Familia Sana are partnering to support 20 high school students in Cloverdale. This program offers educational, vocational, and career counseling from experienced career counselors for lower income and BIPOC identified high school students. RISE is unique in that it utilizes a social justice approach to career counseling and offers all coaching bilingually and in Spanish. Services include individual coaching, group coaching, didactic coursework, simulations, and conversations with family members to support their children’s goals. Career counselors are distinguished bilingual/bicultural mental health practitioners.