Safe Passages, founded in 1998, was one of five sites across the country that was selected to participate in the national Urban Health Initiative (UHI) funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Each of the UHI campaigns focused on collaboration and systems change to improve the health and safety of young people in urban communities. The tremendous accomplishments achieved by the strategies in Oakland, led the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to expand its support to Safe Passages for an additional year past the sunset of the Urban Health Initiative in 2006.
To institutionalize the unprecedented partnership, the Board of Safe Passages also decided to create a sustainable organizational structure now embodied in the Youth Ventures Joint Powers Authority, an autonomous, public, multi-agency government entity authorized under California Government Code, focused on children and youth throughout Alameda County. This new entity will not only continue to serve residents of the City of Oakland but it would also expand the efforts to other high need communities within the County of Alameda.
Furthermore, the Board also voted to create a non-profit arm to further diversify programmatic and funding opportunities. Today, Safe Passages exists as two entities working cohesively to advocate for children, youth, and families. The two entities are:
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