The Program Coordinator is grounded in YWFC’s approach to personal and structural transformation and is guided by the organization’s core principles of Sisterhood, Self-Determination, Spirituality, and Social Justice. The role of the Self Determination Peer Advocate is to ensure that folks at YWFC are provided with a peer-based, restorative justice framework, culturally grounded, and gender-specific framework. This role supports the implementation of re-entry programming for system-impacted young people and plays a critical role in supervising Community Organizers and advancing YWFC’s leadership development pipeline.
General Duties:
Leadership Development:
Outreach and Community Engagement
Organizational Engagement
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Since 1993, Young Women’s Freedom Center has provided support, mentorship, training, employment, and advocacy to young women and trans youth of all genders in California who have grown up in poverty, experienced the juvenile legal and foster care systems, have had to survive living and working on the streets, and who have experienced significant violence in their lives.
Our Mission is to build the power and leadership of directly impacted young people and inspire them to create positive change in their lives and communities.
We meet young people where they’re at: on the streets, in jails and detention centers, and in the neighborhoods and communities where we live.
Together, we build our personal and collective power, heal from trauma, advocate on behalf of ourselves and each other, and gain access to education and work to transform the conditions, systems, and policies that lead to intergenerational cycles of violence, incarceration, and poverty.
Our Vision is a world in which all young women and trans youth of all genders have the support they need to recognize and end all forms of oppression, to heal, and to live self-determined lives.
