ADELANTE YOUTH ALLIANCE
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Adelante Youth Alliance (AYA) was established in 2001 to address the increase in youth violence, high rate of high school drop-outs, and teen pregnancies among students of color, resulting in their inability to advance to higher education and professional careers - which keeps them in the ranks of the working poor. Often, they do not have the role models or resources to help them develop the vision and motivation to move forward.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Adelante Madison Program
After-school homework assistance, tutoring, mentoring, hands-on STEM projects, & mindfulness training
Adelante College & Career Academy
Adelante College & Career Academy (ACCA) is modeled after Adelante Youth Alliance’s (AYA) successful annual college & career conferences - incorporating ongoing, in-school, on-campus workshops led by professional volunteers who interact with students to convey valuable knowledge on college and career readiness to inspire and support student achievement and performance.
The purpose of ACCA is to provide boys and girls with the tools for personal growth; challenge them to raise their expectations; promote leadership and encourage them to pursue a post-high school education, so that they may achieve their goals and have a positive impact on their lives and on the lives of others.
Adelante College & Career Academy provides students with the support they need to plan and prepare for higher education, promising and fulfilling careers, by exposing them to successful professionals who are first generation college graduates. Students learn about different careers and are inspired to excel in school and become leaders in their communities.
Adelante Mujer Latina & Adelante Young Men College & Career Conferences
The AML & AYM College & Career Conferences - hosted at Pasadena City College - provide 4,400 5th through 12th grade girls and boys separately - with a full day of 130 college & career workshops presented by successful Latina/o professionals in their respective fields, providing students with role models they can learn from and emulate. Parent workshops are also provided in English & Spanish, providing instructions on how to support their child's education, as well as their college preparation, college applications and financial aid.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Adelante Youth Alliance aims to provide under-served, under-resourced youth with the role models, assistance, guidance, resources and opportunities they need to advance academically, grow and develop personally and professionally, to achieve their full potential and compete and succeed in the global economy.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Adelante Youth Alliance strategies are to provide youth with the following:
(a) Adelante Scholars: After-school tutoring & homework assistance
(b) Adelante Career Academy (ACA) opportunities for students to meet and interact with successful professionals who share their own personal experiences about overcoming social and economic barriers, first-hand experiences and practical industry specific information, as well as the inspiration and motivation needed to raise their own expectations, encouraging students to pursue post-high school education, to achieve their goals and have a positive impact on their lives and on the lives of others.
(c) Career Path Mentorship Program - connect students with professionals in fields of interest to them, in order to build mentoring relationships that provide them with the guidance, information and inspiration for personal, academic and professional growth.
(d) Wellness - AYA's holistic approach to youth development and success appreciates each person as unique. As such, wellness support is integrated into our programming. Resources are provided to strengthen the roots of well-being and workshops are held for students throughout the year to educate, support and inspire emotional, social, physical and financial wellness.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
As a long-term, nonprofit service provider since 2001, Adelante Youth Alliance continues to successfully create long-term partnerships, enabling AYA to provide impactful community-supporting programs and services free of charge. Collaborations include:
Armory Center for the Arts: provides AYA students with art classes to help express feelings, hopes and dreams.
Pasadena Unified School District provides AYA with facilities - at no cost - for the administration of programs and services. Through this collaboration, AYA operates in the heart of the historically under-served Latino community and directly across the street from Madison Elementary School, whose students and parents we serve. With such proximity, we connect with students, parents, and teachers to create programs and services that are needed and relevant to them and the community. (Annual in-kind value: $36,000)
Pasadena City College (PCC): provides AYA with college student interns who serve as tutors for our Adelante Scholars' Program. PCC also supports AYA's two, annual, college & career conferences, donating use of their classrooms, auditorium and outdoor space so that AYA can host approximately 4,000 middle and high school students, parents and teachers. Facilitated by professionals of color, the conferences provide college & career workshops to majority students of color. The goals of these conferences are to encourage students to advance to higher education, graduate, and attain a professional career. (Annual in-kind value: $10,500).
Over three hundred volunteer professionals from various industries, i.e., medicine, engineering, academia, technology, etc. present workshops to students and parents, supporting AYA's two annual conferences and after-school Career Academy throughout the year. Each presenter shares their personal college and career journeys; the requisite education and experience to achieve their career; the obstacles they encountered; and how they overcame them. (Annual in-kind value: $33,098)
With nearly $47,000 of in-kind annual support, AYA provides programs, services, and opportunities that help guide students toward scholastic achievement, future economic self-sufficiency, and inspires parents to become advocates for their children.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Adelante Youth Alliance (AYA) has successfully provided academic support after-school to over 22,000 economically disadvantaged, under-served youth since 2001. AYA has also successfully produced 21 college & career conferences, bringing over 40,000 middle and high school students together with successful professionals of color from throughout Southern California.
AYA has launched a mentorship program in partnership with employee resource groups to provide career paths and support students with career planning. AYA will continue to forge strategic partnerships with institutions of higher learning and employers to provide youth with the opportunities to develop their full potential and to build their professional networks.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time
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Operations
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ADELANTE YOUTH ALLIANCE
Board of directorsas of 09/06/2023
Mrs Mayra Serrano
Anthem Blue Cross
Term: 2023 - 2025
Jose Avalos, MD
Kaiser Permanente
Sergio Baez
The Disney Company
Mayra Serrano, MPH
City of Hope
Janie Marquez
1st Century Bank
Alan Romero, JD
Romero Law
Stella Murga
Retired, Founder
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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