Youth Together OLOP Youth Center

Overview

Welcome to the One Land One People (OLOP) Youth Center at Skyline High School.

The OLOP Youth Center exists to create a caring community in which all students have equal opportunities to develop their personal visions. All students at Skyline High School will have a success story and a personal vision for themselves and the world. The success of one student will mean the success of all students. Through community collaboration and in partnership between youth and adult allies, the OLOP Youth Center provides services and engages in advocacy efforts so that students may improve their physical and mental health, as well as strengthen their academic, social and leadership skills. The Skyline High School OLOP Youth Center is committed to and promotes an environment that fosters peace, unity, and justice and strengthens student voices. Students will empower each other to improve Skyline High School.   PLEASE NOTE: Students can not visit the Youth Center during class time without a pass.  

After School Programming:

Open Library (M-F, 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM)

• The library is open an hour before school for any students who need a space to study, finish assignments, or access technology resources. Supervising staff provides additional academic support, series portal access, and referrals to tutoring after-school.

Work Experience Drop In 

• The Youth Center is open for students with work experience periods during 1st, 2nd, 6th, and 7th period, who need a space to study, finish assignments, or access technology resources.

After School Drop In (M, T, Th, F 3:30 PM - 6 PM, W 1:53 PM - 5:00 PM)

• The Youth Center is open after-school for students who need a space to be or are looking for programs to join after-school.

Driver’s Education

• Students who are 15 1/2 years of age can apply to receive instructional hours through an online course to earn their provisional permit needed to obtain a California Driver's license.

Dual Enrollment: Business, Psychology, and Dance (Wednesdays)

• In partnership with Peralta Colleges and OUSD, students can inquire, enroll, and take college courses after school on campus for the 2024-2025 academic school year. After-school will host an introductory course for the following courses that earn college credits and expand on academic learning.

Newcomer Homework Support (Tuesdays & Thursdays)

• Newcomer students will have access to after-school space and can work with a dedicated teacher to seek additional assistance and academic support for homework, class assignments, and literacy.

Parent Workshops (3rd Thursday of each month from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM)

• The Youth Center Monthly workshops is offered to all Skyline High School parents that are interested in learning how to navigate their students’ educational journeys.

Youth Together (Thursdays, lunchtime)

• The Core Team members are involved in teach-ins pertaining to relevant social justice issues, leadership development, campaign organizing, and more!

OLOP Internship 

• This program is offered to all Skyline students. Students intern for the OLOP Youth Center and engage in community building within the after-school program, while being mentors to their peers with how to navigate their academics and high school journey. 

Teens on Target (Wednesday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Friday, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM)

• TNT participants learn a youth-authored violence prevention curriculum and present interactive violence prevention workshops to middle school students across the city. They learn to speak to the media and to city leaders about their stories and their own ideas for change and engage in advocacy efforts in their communities. TNT provides work experience; paying students for their developing violence prevention expertise and presentation skills reinforces the importance of their violence prevention efforts.

REAL HARD (Mondays 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Wednesday, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM)

•  REAL HARD’s goal is to center young people’s voice, agency and decision-making power through organizing around their own educational experiences. Youth participate in stipended activities focused on community-building and healing, skill development, political education, power mapping, campaign planning and civic engagement in order to improve the culture and climate at their school.

Mock Trial (Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM)

• In Mock Trial, students play the role of trial attorneys, pretrial attorneys, witnesses, defendants, bailiffs, courtroom clerks, artists, and more. The team puts on complete trials in competition against other high schools. The team’s goal is to perform well in the very competitive Alameda County Mock Trial Competition that occurs in January and February of each year.Students benefit from this program in many ways. Past students report Mock Trial made them more confident speakers, increased their self-esteem, and expanded their career goals.

Workshop Wednesdays 

Bi-weekly workshops focused on academic enrichment, Do It Yourself (DIY) projects, cultural and self-awareness seminars, and skill-building. 

SREI (Mondays, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM)

• SREI is one of Banteay Srei’s empowerment programs where young women of color are provided with a safe space to learn, teach, and ask questions about cultures (i.e. Cambodian, Vietnamese, Iu-Mien, Lao, Khmu, African America, Tribal, Latinx and more), share their future goals, overcome violence, learn about women’s reproductive health, identify and address the issues of sexism, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, bullying, but also moving forward through building healthy relationships and determining how we empower ourselves as young women of color, especially in the streets of Oakland.