GENERATIONS Program (Formerly GENESISTER)

Program Goals

Each year, nearly two out of every 100 youth who can become pregnant will have a child.

Rates are higher among young people living in poverty, living in foster care, or facing persistent racism and discrimination.

Specifically, GENERATIONS helps youth:

• Think about and decide their own goals related to sexual health
• Learn how to access and use birth control to develop their health autonomy
• Learn about healthy relationships
• Participate in events and activities that are relevant to their culture & identities
• Set goals and plan for graduation, higher education, and/or a career

Youth

The GENERATIONS program is just for youth. It’s a place for sharing experiences with other young people. The program provides:

• A weekly teen group
• Comprehensive sexuality education guided by the Xinachtli curriculum from the National Compares Network
• Opportunities to learn about and support community organizations and movements through community service learning projects
• One-on-one mentoring with a youth specialist
• Programming relevant to Latinx culture and identities
• Fun monthly outings
• And so much more!

GENERATIONS knows young people have big dreams and plans for their lives, and we want to help them get there. GENERATIONS provides help with school work from tutors, volunteers, and mentors – people who care and understand what young people are going through.

Parents

Parents are one of the most important influences in a child’s life. Parents who participate in GENERATIONS will learn more about what their child is learning, gain new skills, and get resources for your family if or when you need them. Parents who participate can help their child understand the importance of concentrating on school, participating in the community, and understanding the facts about safe sex and relationships.

The program provides a parent specialist to provide support and advocacy including:

• Groups and events with other parents
• Supporting academic success for your child’s school success
• Tips for parent-child communication
• Individualized support for each parent that is culturally and linguistically appropriate and empowering

Funders & Donors

Thank you to our amazing supporters and funders

• Boulder County
• Boulder County Public Health
• City of Boulder
• Temple Hoyne Buell

To learn more about how you can support our programming, please contact the GENERATIONS program coordinator.

To Donors in Our Community

As everyone has endured hardships during the time of COVID-19, our families have increasingly fallen into the burden caused by structural and institutional racism and xenophobia. The GENERATIONS program currently serves a caseload of 99% Latinx and over 90% mixed immigration status families, whom are at an increasingly higher risk, yet aren’t able to practice staying at home due to their status as essential workers.

With the reality of this community burden, our families are in need of additional resources in order for the program to continue delivering programming in the extent that we can.

Items to Donate

GENERATIONS welcomes the following donations:

• Menstrual Products
• Emergency Contraception
• Pregnancy Tests
• Craft Supplies for Xinachtli Rites of Passage Curriculum
• Self-Care Incentive Kits for Families*

Craft Supplies for Xinachtli Rites of Passage Curriculum

Xinachtli Germinating Seed Curriculum is a comprehensive and culturally-competent bi-cultural youth character development process designed to provide teenagers the guidance for a healthy development into adulthood.

Based on indigenous principles of the individual’s inter-connectedness to the family, the community, and nation, this curriculum provides a dialectic process of Refleccion (reflection), Concientizacion (critical consciousness), Creacion (creation), and Accion (action) while supporting and building on the strengths of the individual.

Your donation will allow for youth to participate in making:

• Mi Codice Storybook
• Rainstick
• Boundary Shield

* Self-Care Incentive Kits for Families

GENERATIONS values and promotes self-care as a necessity for personal growth, community engagement, and success. As a way to celebrate our clients for their participation in the program while also encouraging parent-child connection, we want to honor them with Family Self-Care Kits.

Future Programming will include a Youth Leadership Cohort and a Bullying Prevention Project.

Contact Maya Sol Dansie at 303-678-6139 to sponsor a youth

All donations are tax-deductible, and a receipt will be provided to you at the time of your donation.

Thank you for your thoughtfulness and generosity in helping to meet the needs of teenagers in our community.

Definitions of Terms

Latinx

Latinx is a term that the GENERATIONS program utilizes as an umbrella term to go beyond the heterosexual gender binary of distinct male and female identities and sexualities. The use of X allows for awareness that male/female energies are present in all humans regardless of sex and that there are more than two genders. Within the Latinx community folks may identify as Chicano/a/x, Mexicano/a/x, etc.

LGBTQ2

LGBTQ2 is an acronym that stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning and Two-Spirit. Two-Spirit is a term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a traditional third gender or gender-variant.