Before School Program

Safe Passages integrates education and social services at school sites to support school communities as catalysts for student success and social change within the larger neighborhood context. Through multiple funding streams, Safe Passages has led the effective development and sustainability of full-service community schools across the Oakland flatlands. Initially, this work began as the Safe Passages Middle School Strategy, a multi-pronged approach to creating positive school climates and providing students and their families the support needed to be successful in school and life. Over time the strategy expanded to schools K-12. Extended learning programming was a major prong of the strategy from the beginning. The initial seven highest-need middle schools were selected as partners in 2000 to implement the strategy: Havenscourt (CCPA) and Calvin Simmons (UFSA) were part of the first cohort of implementation schools and 20 years later continue in sustained partnership to work towards improved outcomes for students and families.