Dream Quest Community Youth Center
The funding would be used for a new Community Youth Center designed to provide programs and services to promote public health and safety for families through upstream prevention of drug use, child abuse and domestic violence. The new youth center facility will also serve as a hub for community development, providing opportunity through programs including a Work Force Investment Act training center and entrepreneurial education. The project serves a very large, disadvantaged rural area which includes both the Yurok and Hoopa Reservations. The Dream Quest Community Youth Center will help to develop a more resilient rural region, strengthen community, and will promote economic growth through advancing opportunities for youth and their families. The investment of taxpayer funds coupled with substantial private funding creates a public-private partnership which assures that the community is vested in achieving future success. Dream Quest is integrally connected to the entire community, working closely with numerousorganizations and constantly striving to develop additional collaborative relationships, to avoid redundancy and maximize the limited resources available.
“The Willow Creek Youth Partnership, Inc. (Dream Quest) offers many thanks to Congressman Jared Huffman for his strong support of youth and families throughout the Trinity River Valley,” said Dream Quest Board President George Koortbojian. “The new Willow Creek Community Youth Center project greatly expands resources available to provide youth with healthy, educational, vocational and creative opportunities to imagine and build their dreams. Congressman Huffman’s leadership helps us build community strength, resilience and sustainability. Thank You!”
Awarded: $1,500,000
Location: Humboldt