Community Resources

Salinas City Elementary School District (pre-school through sixth grade) has a Family Resource Center that serves homeless and foster youth. Last school year, 2016-2017, our staff identified 3,235 homeless students. This is one-third of our district! The data for some previous years is as follows: 15/16 = 3,118, 13/14 = 2,849, 12/13 = 2,042, 11/12 = 1,461, 10/11 = 1,039, 09/10 = 537, 08/09 = 308…

FIELD works with education, employers, colleges, and community-based organizations to provide services that improve the basic skills and confidence of community members.  These are the foundations that lead to opportunities in career pathways for the workforce and their families. As such, the workforce is better prepared to meet the changing demands of various American economic sectors

In the first 5 years of a child's life, critical brain connections are made that shape lifelong learning. Incredibly, by age 3, a child's brain has grown to 80 percent of that of an adult. How we nurture and support our children today will impact their success in school and in life. This research helped propel the passage of Proposition 10 in 1998. Proposition 10 is a statewide initiative that…

Our mission is to offer young people of Monterey County opportunities for a better future.  We do this through active involvement in life skills and golf skills that are learned at our campus, in the classroom and in service and mentorship to each other and the community. The Future Citizens Foundation operates three distinct programs in support of this mission; The First Tee of Monterey County,…

The Mission statement for Harmony At Home is: “To end the cycles of violence and abuse by empowering children and young adults with knowledge, skills and confidence to lead healthy and productive lives.” Executive Director, Julianne Leavy, worked for a number of years developing and managing domestic violence and children’s programs. During this time she found two key problems that chronically…