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Youth
Program Contacts
Eric Politzer
Director of Youth Programs
The Ark of Refuge
1025 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
phone: 415.861.6566
fax: 415.861.6103
email:
arkofrefuge@hotmail.com
Allan Silva, Program
Director
415.861.6555
email: allan_youthmap@sbcglobal.net
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The
youth programs at the Ark will benefit from a major capital renovation
project which has been undertaken in the two properties, which it owns
in the South of Market area - 1025 Howard Street and 30 Harriett Street.
When completed, this campaign will generate nearly 15,000 square feet
of dedicated space for youth service activities. This $1.5 million capital
campaign already has received significant support from a variety of
San Francisco City departments and private foundations
including: the San Francisco
Board of Supervisors, the Department of Recreation and Parks, Mayor's
Office of Community Development, Department of Public Health, the Richard
and Rhoda Goldman Fund, the Koret Foundation, the Herbst Foundation,
Bank of America, the Silver Giving Fund, the Bothin Foundation, the
Fleishhacker Foundation and Sheffield's Food Service. Construction financing
is provided generously by Wells Fargo Bank, and the facilities have
been designed by Cee Architects.
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Youth
Multi-media Arts program for Social Change - an after school and
summer technology and expresssive arts program for low-income
San Francisco youth.
YouthMap
Embraces Uganda
Click
on Photo for more information
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Citywide
collaboration of youth services providers under the sponsorship
of the Department of Children Youth and Families and Coleman Advoactes
of Youth, which is the exclusive tenant of one of the Ark's facilities
as well as collaborator with YouthMAP.
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Youth
Guidance Center
Collaboration
with the Spiritual Life Program of San Francisco Juvenile Hall
which provides mentoring and Counseling services for incarcerated
youth.
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A
project which is the outcome of a series of emergency homeless
shelters for young adults which the Ark administered between 1998
and 2000. The 1998 and 1999 shelters led the City of San Francisco
to set aside funds to establich permanetn shelters for young adults.
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