Positive Youth Development Programs

Fighting Back Partnership developed the Positive Youth Development Programs to operate in all three Vallejo City Unified School District (VCUSD) high schools to provide youth Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs (ATOD) use prevention education curricula and Child Abuse Prevention Education. The programs aim to equip students with information and tools to help them navigate the challenges they face in their everyday interactions and to give them the confidence and wherewithal to make informed and healthy decisions.

Youth Development Programs 

Botvin Lifeskills

The Botvin Lifeskills curriculum is taught in high schools and is designed to promote healthy youth development through a 10-12 week workshop that focuses on personal decision-making skills, general social skills and eschewing drug use.

Nurturing Parenting Program for Teen Parents and Their Children

The Nurturing Parenting Program for Teen Parents and Their Children is designed to support the parenting success of teen parents and to minimize teen pregnancy among at-risk youth through a curriculum that addresses the realities associated with being a teen parent, dating, family dynamics, nurturing skills, age-appropriate child discipline strategies, and child development. 

The Positive Youth Development Program is sponsored by the Solano County Department of Health and Social Services and the Vallejo City Unified School District.

Supporting Family and School Success

To optimize effectiveness, we understand that creating well adjusted youth must also include support for their families and the schools that they attend.  

Fighting Back Partnership’s Family Engagement Strategy offers academic, physical, and social support for children 0 – 18 and their parents, with the goal of increasing parent participation in their children’s educational and social development.

Fighting Back Partnership Supports VCUSD's  Full Service Community School Strategy to provide comprehensive academic, social, mental, and physical education services in Vallejo’s public schools so that youth and their families identify a clearer pathway from preschool to college and career.