Individual Youth Referals
Fuego Rites of Passage
This intensive multi-year-long program serves the hardest to serve youth in the state of Oregon. The primary focus of this program is skill building and education in the areas of violence prevention and conflict resolution. This program is a Rites of Passage process, enabling young people to openly address their trauma through healing experiences such as open dialogue, meditation, Kung Fu, creative expression, and cultural-specific ceremony. Group sessions involve mindfulness training and Program duration required is 6 months with flexibility to extend process based on youth needs. Fuego serves up to 40 young people in this program each year.
This program includes:
- One-on-one meetings with youth
- Training of key staff or personnel of partner organizations
- Interactive group sessions
- Family integration work if/when appropriate
- Participation in staffing meetings for target youth
- General consultation with staff and key stakeholders
Fuego interventions and methodologies include individual and group sessions for youth. The work begins with a focused, individualized orientation and moves to a more global integrated perspective as each youth proceeds through the work. Each step has both an internal and external focus. Staff members of involved partner organizations move through an abbreviated version of the Rites of Passage Program that trains them in the skill areas we present to youth and family.
FUEGO Group Passage
In this program, Fuego provides an intensive arts and culture process for youth. Youth attend group one to two times per week, and up to three Saturdays each month. In addition to group meetings, youth will meet individually with staff one to two times a month.
Youth receive extensive exposure to arts and culture with experienced artists in the fields of painting, writing, and music performance. Youth also progress through a rigorous conflict resolution, violence prevention agenda in this group process that provides them with skill building in the areas of: conflict, communication, and critical thinking.
Youth receive 2 one-on-one meetings with staff twice a month. Periodically, every 4-6 months, youth present their art at a Fuego sponsored community event.
Fuego Crime Prevention Program
Each year, we provide a first hand experience of the prison system to approximately 500 young people. This prison-based program educates youth about the reality of crime, violence, and making healthy choices, using a curriculum developed by inmates.
Fuego Individual Youth Support Sessions
In these sessions, youth meet individually with Fuego staff to look at and shape core issues, goals, and expectations for the future.
Fuego Violence Prevention Program
Our family-intensive violence prevention program is designed to serve youth and their families that have been targeted as having committed person-to-person assaults or are at risk of such behavior. This program includes 2 weekday, 3-hour sessions as well as two weekend 8-hour sessions. Youth and their families move through a curriculum designed to educate them about violence, communication, diversity, power, conflict and choices. Through this program, we have successfully served over 2000 people in an eight-year period.
Youth and family specific programs/groups sponsered by agency or school for their youth
Violence Prevention/Conflict Resolution Curriculum:
Four stages: One section/day
- Physical, Emotional, Spiritual and Historical Images of Violence - The Reality of Violence.
- Examination of Choice - Dialogue, Communication, Critical Thinking Skills
- Mindfulness of Body and Mind - Decision Making, Responsibility, and Ideology as Individuals and Communities.
- Ceremony - The Beginning of Wholeness
Fuego Youth Arts Leadership Program
Our arts-based youth leadership program serves medium-risk youth in sites throughout Portland. It takes groups of 15 youth through a year-long process to train them in a variety of artistic modalities like painting, poetry, music, theater and film. Using artistic expression as the foundation, the program trains the youth in cutting edge conflict resolution, communication, and diversity tools. It gives them extensive leadership skills, enriches their academic experience, and puts their voice into the community in the form of monthly poetry readings, art openings, theater performances, and film showings that showcase their work and achievements. The curriculum of this program mirrors the Rites of Passage program with the exception of one-on-one work and extensive trauma recovery programming.
