Portfolio Category: historical

Amistades manages the Amistades Substance Abuse Coalition, a community-driven group that provides substance abuse prevention in the Flowing Wells area.  The Coalition, in collaboration with a cross-sector of community partners, addresses the problem of underage drinking and marijuana, tobacco, and prescription drug use among Latino youth.  A vision to create healthy, productive, safe, and drug-free...

Entre Mujeres is a program that empowers Latina high school students to recognize their own personal worth, strengthen their leadership abilities, improve self-confidence, and help facilitate them to make change in their communities. Entre Mujeres, funded by Unidos US, provides monthly meetings, with high school age Latina students for 1.5 hours sessions, throughout the duration...

Fortaleza’s project design reinforces mentoring expectations such as curbing recidivism rate, workforce development, involvement in cultural enrichment activities, and augmenting bonding with peers, family, and community. The Fortaleza Project provides assistance to Latino young adults between the ages of 18-24 transitioning from the Pima County jail to the community. Amistades infuses the project with culture,...

Leaders in Action is focused on actively engaging youth in the community through youth leadership, prevention, and education on substance abuse, STI/HIV/AIDS, suicide, and bullying prevention and providing cultural enrichment. The project serves Latino youth, males and females, ages 15-20 in the Flowing Wells community. Goals for this project include covering topics such as substance...

Los Jovenes is a culturally responsive, bilingual, prevention education project that helps to combat the ravaging epidemic of opioid misuse, funded by the AmeriSource Bergen Foundation. The project focuses on building resiliency skills and increasing knowledge through the exploration and development of protective factors to reduce risk factors associated with substance misuse. The project serves...

Farm To School program seeks to address the longstanding inequity in fresh food access and disappearing knowledge and appreciation of cultural, indigenous farming practices in the Douglas Arizona area. Mayahuel Edible Garden Project has begun addressing food inequity in Douglas by planning, implementing, and evaluating a food production operation that integrates locally grown products into...

The SAMHSA-funded Mayahuel Underage Drinking Task Force project is a community based program designed to prevent underage alcohol consumption, focused on youth between the ages of 12 – 20 in the Latino and multicultural communities in Tucson and South Tucson. The youth-driven activities include focus groups, town halls, environment scans, alcohol public events monitoring,...

Amistades has amplified its existing Latino Capacity Building Workshop Series by adapting its workshop topics to include a more specific focus on Latino men, boys, and their families and integrating new workshops. The Niños Sanos, Hombres Fuertes training series, funded by Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP), has undoubtedly continued to cultivate community support. The series is...

The Noche Oscura Overdose Task Force, through a combination of culturally adapted best practice prevention and intervention strategies, is increasing awareness and prevention of opioid and psychostimulant use in the border community of Douglas Arizona. The focus of this project is to promote collaboration between public safety and public health agencies to ensure that overdose...

In partnership with the Pima County Juvenile Justice Court Evening Reporting Center, Amistades implements a weekly substance abuse prevention workshop for justice involved youth wanting to increase their resiliency skills. Facilitators utilize the Too Good For Drugs Curriculum, a comprehensive substance use prevention curriculum designed to mitigate the risk factors associated with substance use and...