BLUE MOUNTAIN COALITION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES

The Blue Mountain Coalition for Youth and Families serves all members of our community through access to resources and positive activities.

For more than fifteen years BMCYFs core work has been the operation of a drop-in youth center in downtown West Point. In 2008, BMCYF documented 191 youth participants (37%) of the local under-eighteen population. Our Main Street Center is open to youth four days per week, serves family-style meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and offers a variety of art workshops, supported play, teen outreach sessions and life skills activities. On Wednesdays the center is dedicated to adult activities, hosting ECHO and a monthly Ladies Tea. The BMCYF center on Main Street is also available to community organizations for meetings and special events. The center provides space for Mountain Mi-Wuk tribal meetings and parties, social service outreach, toddler play groups, art workshops, community yoga classes, senior exercise classes, neighborhood watch meetings, local art shows, and farmers markets.