Provide and expand mentoring relationships and mentoring programs for youth in our County

• Create opportunity in existing volunteer service programs that utilize adult members, to include youth member - have adults who are contributing to the community mentor youth volunteer
• Coordination and expansion of mentoring programs

 Strengthen education opportunities for youth at risk

• Enhancing social success through truancy prevention, alternatives to out of school suspension/expulsion, assisted peer conflict resolution
• More public education programs (possibly through libraries) for at-risk teens on career development, life skills, alternatives to destructive behavior
• Life skill development opportunities for kids with mild to moderate developmental delays
• Assistance for youth with disabilities and families to build academic and work skills, along with self esteem

Provide parental development/skill building

• Parental development activities - parenting skills, especially for young parents
• Education for parents to understand safe appropriate teen behavior

Build awareness of needs and services

• People need knowledge of services/events
• Awareness of programs to teens (access to youth to promote programs)
• Create a centralized /pooled resource for training, so that adults in our community (and especially service providers) understand youth development ["problem-free does not mean fully prepared"]
• Information synthesis and distribution of youth opportunities via 211 and on the web hosted by the county's public libraries

Coordinate existing services better

• More channels for communication between agencies/organizations/offices (e.g., FIA and schools and recreation centers)
• Better coordination of existing programs
• More cooperation with other recreational providers, especially schools
• Better understanding of what the various agencies/programs do