Young Women's Freedom Center

This year ywfc continued to expand its work in our core vision to support Young women and trans youth of all genders to transform their lives and communities. The new division dba Freedom Center, has expanded its capacity to provide fiscal sponsorship and operational support to projects with aligned values. Through ywfc's core programs, we provided support to over 3,500 youth in 5 counties and provided over 60 youth staff with supportive employment and training to youth between the ages of 14-25. Ywfc continued projects to support youth leadership, including expanding the launch of entrepreneurship training Young entrepreneurs and systems navigation programs for Young mothers in two counties, and hosted a youth healing retreat for over

...change the conditions that keep Young women, girls, and gender expansive youth of color stuck in cycles of poverty, incarceration, and violence. The fiscally sponsored project, sister warriors Freedom coalition piloted programs and trainings to focus on building viable economic opportunities for formerly incarcerated women. They hosted a 40 hour leadership development training focused on transformative justice and harm reduction for over 30 members across California. Beloved community housing launched is building out a continuum of care, ubi and housing strategy as alternatives to youth incarceration. (statement continues on schedule o)

...30 youth. Moreover, ywfc trained over 10 youth in youth participatory action research to lead research on youth that have been placed on electronic monitoring. They collected over 200 surveys, conducted 40 interviews and hosted 3 focus groups with 30 youth. They will support analyze the data and develop a report to be published in 2024. Additional program services included expanded outreach to Young mothers and their families, houseless youth, disconnected youth, and women being released from prison and jail and or escaping intimate partner violence. Services included providing food, stipends, transportation and basic immediate supplies. Additionally, ywfc continued its leadership development work and its advocacy work to

Continued psa statement). The project is set to formally enroll families in 2024 in multiple counties across California. Lastly, youth staff, and all staff will continue work with ywfc's Freedom research institute to release a research project develop various research projects that focuses on the criminalization of youth and women, housing insecurity, poverty, and the impact of systems on youth women and transgender people of color in California. Data will be used to advance the work of all of our projects in santa clara, los angeles, alameda, san francisco, contra costa counties, and statewide across California.