Health and Wellness programs provide holistic accessible care in a community setting. Primary health and mental health services are offered onsite in our 4,500 square-foot clinic.
Peer Group Sessions
YU offers a variety of group sessions that give youth the opportunity to build positive relationships, and grow alongside their peers. These sessions include:
We OUT Here! - session for LGBTQ youth and allies
Sister Circle - session for young women
Man Up - session for young men
Art Class - session for all youth
Counseling for Healing and Health
YU is on the forefront of mental health care for transitional age youth and is helping create new policies and best practices to serve traumatized and violence-exposed youth statewide. We offer youth:
Individual, group and family therapy
Clinical consultation
Outreach and advocacy
Medication referrals
Case Management
YU’s team of Case Managers (CMs) works with members to set and meet educational, career, and life goals. CMs serve as mentors, life coaches, and advocates and guide and track ongoing member involvement. They coordinate with other systems (foster care, juvenile justice, law enforcement) to interrupt cycles of recidivism. The goal is to not only engage and retain youth in YU programming, but to move them forward toward their specified goals and life plan.
Holistic Wellness
YU offers weekly alternative health clinics. YU provides non-Western healing arts, stress management, and preventative health service.
Physical Health
In partnership with Children’s Hospital Oakland, YU brings adolescent health care to a neighborhood where none previously existed. The Clinic provides preventative and urgent care services, including:
Physicals and immunizations
Treatment for acute and chronic illness
Testing for sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy
Counseling to support youth struggling with sex- and sexuality-related issues
Preventive health screening for asthma, diabetes, and hypertension
Sports & Physical Fitness
YU offers exercise activities that promote teamwork, physical fitness, and confidence. YU houses a regulation-size basketball court and has plans to build a lead-free Astroturf baseball and soccer field. YU also has a fully outfitted skate park—the first of its kind in Oakland. We also offer a variety of hip-hop dance classes.