Our Mentoring program is a proactive approach to help at-risk youth in the Inland Empire and the Pomona Valley.

With the support of our Mentors and Mentoring staff, we work towards building up each child to achieve success at the highest level possible.

Through these interactions with our students, our mentors provide positive support and encouragement to deal with, and overcome, the challenges our youth face in their lives.

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Our Environmental Prevention program seeks to change social norms, attitudes, and beliefs around substance use through community building, media, policies and ordinances, and physical designs.

We are currently partnered with cities including Ontario, Fontana, Chino, Chino Hills, Rancho Cucamonga, Montclair and Upland.

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Reach Out offers a court-mandated program that provides an alternative to incarceration for first-time drug offenders. On completion of this 16-week program, charges are dismissed after an 18 to 24 month probationary period.

Enrollment is by appointment ONLY
Please contact Sharon to set up an appointment | 909.982.8641

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Youth for Change is an after school and summer comprenhensive youth development program which provides teens the opportunity to develop resiliency and life skills necessary to promote positive life choices. Currently this program is offered at several middle schools, the Family Resource Center in Rancho Cucamonga and at the Renacimiento Center in Pomona. Each program day, Youth For Change focuses on one of three modules:

Friday Night Live (High School) and Club Live (Jr. High) builds partnerships for positive and healthy youth development which engage youth as active leaders and resources in their communities. This program is an after school program at Rancho Cucamonga Middle School in Rancho and at four middle schools in the Ontario Montclair School District.

Exploring Health Careers is a hands-on learning program designed to expose students in our community to the various health care professions they can pursue in the future. The Academy aims to address the shortage of minorities in the medical field serving as primary care physicians, public health practitioners, nurses and other health professionals.

Healthy Lifestyles integrates many important topics for teens including substance abuse prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, college preparation, career training, arts, sports and nutrition.

SAP is a comprehensive group counseling program, utilizing research-based curriculum, focused on the prevention of alcohol and drug use among youth. Students are referred by their school counselors and/or teachers dependent on characteristics and behaviors which may be preventing them from reaching their full potential in school. The focus of each group is to build resiliency by providing students with the necessary skills to be successful in school. Group topics target specific needs such as: anger management, grief and loss, self-esteem, motivation, substance abuse, coping skills and divorce. Students are provided outside referrals if more support is needed.

SAP is offered at select schools in the Ontario-Montclair School District, Chaffey Joint Unified High School District and the Rialto Unified School District serving over 350 youth each year.

TAP is an eight session program designed to help high school students quit smoking. This program is led by student peers who facilitate the sessions with a prevention specialist from Reach Out present in an advisory role.

TAP is presently offered at all high schools in the Chaffey Joint Union High School District, as well as Upland High School. Through TAP, Reach Out is able to offer smoking cessation services to over 600 high schoolers each year.

Project ALERT is a drug prevention and awareness program for middle and junior high grades. It has been designated an exemplary model program by both the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Proven results show the reduction in marijuana initiation, decreased current and heavy smoking, reduced pro-drug attitudes and beliefs, success in helping smokers quit; proven effectiveness for both high and low risk adolescents. The goal of Project ALERT is to reduce the use of those dangerous substances by keeping nonusers from trying them and by preventing nonusers and experimenters from becoming regular users through a variety of teaching techniques.

Taught during the 7th grade, Project ALERT is a 10 week program which is a fully validated and scientific-based substance abuse prevention and awareness program based on the social influence model. Project ALERT targets those drugs first used most often by middle school youth: alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and inhalants. Students are taught through role-playing and other methods how to resist peer pressure, internal pressure and are given up-to-date information on these substances and why they are harmful. This program also includes 3 booster lessons for 8th graders. Reach Out currently provides this program to all 7th and 8th grade students at Pioneer and Upland Jr. High schools; servicing over 2,000 students annually.

Reach Out offers numerous programs which are unique to the youth, volunteers and policy makers in our community!

When adults smoke around children, it is the kids who suffer. Children exposed to smoke are more likely to experience breathing problems, ear infections, and behavioral problems such as hyperactivity that can cause them to fall behind in school.

Tobacco Awareness The Reach Out to Parents program educates the community about the effects of tobacco and second-hand smoke on children. We offer both informational public presentations for adults and fun, age-appropriate educational programs for children as young as preschool age.

Smoking Cessation Program To help parents and other adults through the difficult process of quitting, Reach Out offers a FREE 8-week smoking cessation program that provides the guidance and support they need to kick the habit — for the kids’ sake and their own. This program is generously funded by First 5 San Bernardino.

Enroll in our FREE Smoking Cessation Program or schedule a date for a presentation on the effects of tobacco on children. Please contact Reme | 909.982.8641