North Fair Oaks/Redwood City:

Teen Leadership Council (TLC), middle school and high school youth

Horse back riding, middle school and high school youth

Jr. Golf, elementary school youth

Tutoring, all ages of youth

Lunchtime Soccer, elementary school youth

After School sports, all ages of youth

Art Class, elementary school youth

Tae Kwon Do, elementary school youth

Folklorico Dance, elementary school youth

Digital Visual Story Telling, elementary school youth

Jr. Rangers, elementary school youth

Diversion, all ages of youth

Half Moon Bay/Coast:

Empowering Young Women, middle school and high school female youth

Empowering Youth, middle school and high school youth

Horse back riding, middle school and high school youth

Jr. Police, Hatch Elementary School

Jr. Police, Farralone Elementary School

Jr. Police, Pescadero Elementary School

Reading Stars, elementary school youth

Jr. Giants, elementary school youth

Tutoring, all ages of youth

Jr. Rangers, elementary school youth

Diversion, all ages of youth

SAL Focus Areas

The Sheriff's Activities League utilizes results from annual community health needs assessments to shape the SAL target focus areas.

Building the Bond between deputies, youth, and communities.

Academic Achievement

Health and Wellness

Leadership Development and Mentoring

Building the Bond between Deputies and Youth

All of the SAL programs have the overarching goal to build the bond between deputies, youth, and their communities to foster positive interactions between law enforcement officers, youth, and communities to build mutual trust, respect, and relationships.

93% of SAL youth improved attitudes towards law enforcement.
80% of SAL youth feel that the deputy involved in SAL programs care about them and their community.
75% of SAL youth stated they trust law enforcement and would call them in an emergency.

Academic Achievement

Our academic achievement programs include tutoring, literacy, STEM, and academic mentoring. These programs provide resources specific to the individual student’s needs in an effort to facilitate learning and to develop critical thinking skills.

98% of SAL youth improved their reading skills and comprehension.
85% of students overall grades improved as well as their speaking abilities, conduct, and attitudes.

Health and Wellness

Our health and wellness programs, which include our sports and recreation programs as well as SAL Healthy Kids, combine education and hands-on activities to provide participants with opportunities to gain practical knowledge, skills, and experiences that encourage healthy lifestyle habits with the goal of reducing juvenile diabetes and other related diseases.

88% of SAL youth have knowledge of eating healthy and making healthy choices.
79% of youth increased their physical fitness and were more physically active.

Leadership Development and Mentoring

Our leadership and character development programs include our Teen Leadership Council, Empowering Young Women, Mentoring, and Early Stage Intervention and Diversion programs. These programs are aimed at building fundamental life skills, increasing self-confidence, teaching teens leadership skills, and empowering youth to make a positive impact in their community and school.

95% of leadership program participants feel a sense of belonging.
Mentored children are 55% more likely to enroll in college.

SAL served over 3,500 youth each year through various programs and an additional 8,000 through events, school presentations and activities.

75% Hispanic 15% White 5% Asian 1% African American 2% Biracial 2% Other

5 years old - 18 years old

65% single parent home

85% youth living below poverty line

492 volunteers in 2015

Sheriff's Activities League Overview

The Sheriff’s Activities League uses programs and events as a vehicle for positive change and to build relationships between law enforcement, youth and communities while providing underserved youth with the tools that they will need to be successful in all aspects of their lives.

Programs

After School Sports
Art
Baile de Folklorico
Diversion
Empowering Young Women
Fitness
Literacy
Leadership
Mentoring
SMC FC
SAL Healthy Kids
School Workshops

Events

Play Streets
Movie Nights
School Presentations
Lunch Time School Activities
STAR Camp

Outcomes

Relationship Development
Academic Advancement
Active, Healthy Lifestyles
Social Responsibility
Cultural Competence
Social/ Emotional Development
Positive identity
Leadership Development
Environmental Awareness
Learning and Innovation Skills
Community Connectedness

Impact

Positive, healthy relationships
Increase graduation rates
Healthier youth and families
Civic minded youth and families
Respect of diversity
Individual Growth
Inclusion
Sustained relationships
Decrease in juvenile crime

Armando García

"SAL holds a special place in my heart because it’s a program that kept me on the right path throughout my childhood, through my teen years into adulthood. SAL taught me to be responsible and dependent on myself. It gave me a safe place to be afterschool. It gave me life values and kept my head on straight. SAL gave me so many opportunities and now I’m working for SAL as a Program Coordinator, working with kids just like me when I was a kid."

Odalys Sonoqui

"Odalys faced much adversity and was left feeling alone and unwanted. That all started to change 3 years ago when Odalys met Deputy Shawn Chase who encouraged her to do better. She did not trust him at first. Shawn continued to encourage her and talked her into joining the Sheriff’s Activities League Empowering Young Women’s Program."

María Aboytes

"I’ve been involved in the SAL programs since I was 6 years old. When I was in middle school, one of my school friends told me that I lived in a really “bad” neighborhood where there were dangerous gangsters.

One of my goals was to change that view of the community where I lived and grew up in. I was given that opportunity when I joined the SAL TLC program, where I was able to give back to the community by doing community service projects, events and be involved with the relationship building between law enforcement and the families where I lived."