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Our mission is to mentor and educate under-served youth and provide them with life skills and pathways to success.

ONH envisions a community in which all youth, without regard of their living situation, have an equal opportunity to pursue their goals and dreams, and an equal likelihood of achieving them.

ONH provides disadvantaged youth with mentors and educators who equip youth with essential life skills and vocational resources to build a road map to succeed in life. 

ONH San Bernardino Youth Opportunity Center is in the heart of the city adjacent to the local Police Department, where the majority of at-risk and disconnected youth paths will lead them with limited to no opportunities. 

ONH aims to alter this path and engage disconnected youth in programs that will cultivate cognitive skills, life skills, work ethics, and career pathways skills. For disconnected youth who are neither in school nor working for long periods are more likely to fall into a lifestyle of criminogenic needs (Criminogenic needs are defined as needs seen as causing criminal behavior), experience incarceration as adults, poor health, lower incomes, and unemployment. 

Because engagement in school or the workforce is critical to the transition from adolescence to adulthood.  2010 ONH, created Youth Opportunity Centers (YOC) to provide a community resource center to help “catch” or identify at-risk and opportunity youth before they become disengaged, increasingly disconnected, and enter the juvenile and or adult justice system. 

Presently, ONH serves more than five hundred 500 youth each year through educational, life skills, career development, and counseling services: youth ages 16 to 24 years old. The past 3-years ONH was able to intensively engage 1356 “at-risk” youth into comprehensive services through our Youth Opportunity Centers (YOC) in the cities of San Bernardino, Rancho Cucamonga, Adelanto, Hesperia, and Apple Valley. 

The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and Youth.gov list ONH as an evidence-based youth development program, specifically serving high-risk disconnected youth