Intervention

MACSA Ollin Gang Intervention
660 Sinclair Drive, San Jose, CA 95116

The OLLIN Project: provides gang intervention services to youth, between the ages of 10-21. The primary objectives of the Ollin Program are to first provide a highly mobile outreach and Crisis Response team with expertise in gang intervention and mediation. The OLLIN project recruits and involves youth congregating (hanging out) on street, parks, community centers, and schools, and enrolls them into our mentoring services; continues with assets development and resiliency skills: developing leadership skills and community organizing; employment readiness; family wellness/mediation and ends with the youth prepared to improve academic success and personal development.

MACSA Adelante Mentorship Program
660 Sinclair Drive, San Jose, CA 95116
277 IOOF Avenue, Gilroy, CA 95020

The Adelante Mentorship Program is a 12 week program focused on working with youth referred from the Restorative Justice Program (RJP). The RJP program focuses on first time offender youth from the ages of 10-18. It supports youth who have committed first time offenses and gives them an opportunity to be on a 90 day provisional probation without being part of formal probation. Adelante’s aim is to connect youth with supportive mentors in the communities that will take part in life skill development programming as well as participate in community activities.

MAAC Life skills development
(in Juvenile Hall) through a series of workshops and one and one sessions this program aims to empower gang involved/impacted and high risk youth with the tools and skills necessary to make wise and responsible decisions, it is our goal to achieve a higher level of reasonability and to develop and strengthen a sense of self-worth. Through an innovative and comprehensive personal development curriculum, the youth gain a greater understanding of the detrimental consequences of gang involvement, substance abuse, violence, and lack of personal and profession goals. The youth also learn the importance of changing their personal believe regarding their current lifestyle if they are to succeed in their personal development.

Padres Con Cara y Corazon
660 Sinclair Drive, San Jose, CA 95116

MACSA’s Men’s circle support group is designed to provide a safe and comfortable place for men to come together and deal with their baggage and fits that effect their lives on a daily basics. Based on the principles “Un Hombre Noble” (an Honorable man) from the National Compadres Network, the mission of the men’s circle is to assist in the strengthening, rebalance, and redevelopment of a tradition Talking circle for all men. It’s by this process that we encourage and support the positive involvement of all males as fathers, sons, grandfathers, brothers, Compadres, partners, and mentors in their families and community. By increasing the positive support and influence of substance abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, teen pregnancy, gang violence, and other family and community problems. With this ongoing effort, it is our hope that children and families will have a safe, healthier, happier world in which to live and grow

Pregnancy Prevention

MACSA Hombres / MACSA Mujeres
277 IOOF Avenue, Gilroy, CA 95020

The MACSA Mujeres and Hombres programs are pregnancy prevention education programs.  The goal of the programs is to teach our youth the importance of making healthy choices.  Session topics include self-esteem, decision-making, relationships with ourselves and others. Through MACSA Mujeres and Hombres, youth learn to respect themselves and others which in turn helps them become responsible, caring community members.

Quetzalli Young Women’s Rites of Passage Program
660 Sinclair Drive, San Jose, CA 95116

The Quetzalli Young Women’s Rites of Passage Program Is a young women’s empowerment program focused on providing participants (14-21) with the tools necessary to acknowledge their own voice and place in their communities. Quetzalli utilizes cultural rites of passage workshops that promote healthy decision making, assertiveness and accountability, personal responsibility, teenage pregnancy prevention, identity development and promoting a healthy self esteem. Quetzalli aims to empower young women with the necessary tools to make healthier decisions and have them develop their own sense of self.
The phases of the Quetzalli Young Women’s Rites of Passage Program include:

MACSA Male Involvement Program
660 Sinclair Drive, San Jose, CA 95116

The Male Involvement Program (MIP) is a teen pregnancy prevention program, focused on male responsibility, providing, traditional rites of passage workshops, youth leadership, and promoting fatherhood involvement. The MIP program provides presentation; support groups (Circulos), multi-session workshops, and staff training on how to work with at- risk Latino males and fathers. This program is intended to teach youth between the ages of 14-25 the necessary tools to make wise and responsible decisions. Prevention education is offered to the youth at the following settings: Juvenile Probation Department, Elmwood Correctional Facility, local middle and high schools, continuation schools, alternative high schools, youth centers, and community based organization, in-house MACSA program’s and anywhere deemed necessary. Three support groups are offered: Tuesdays (Círculo de Palabra) and Thursdays (Men’s Circle and Jovenes Círculo). In April 1999, the MIP received national recognition by Former Vice President, Al Gore, and Former First Lady, Hillary Clinton. The phases of the MIP include:

MACSA Dream Catchers
277 IOOF Avenue, Gilroy, CA 95020

The Dream Catcher program provides youth ages 9-14 with positive alternative activities. Youth are given the opportunity to explore interest areas in, but not limited to, music, dance, sports, theatre, & the arts.