About Us
Roadmap to Peace was born out of an urgent community call to action and change after six Latinx youth were killed over a five-week period in 2012 in the Mission District. In response to the shootings, the Mission Peace Collaborative, a longstanding community coalition, organized a community town hall. Attended by over 300 community members, the town hall concluded that existing systems, strategies, and policies were ineffective in addressing the needs of San Francisco’s most disconnected Latinx youth. They determined that a new, comprehensive, community-driven strategy was needed. Latinx organizations embarked on a two-year community planning process that included multiple town halls, working groups, and community report-backs, resulting in a collective vision. In November 2013, that vision was identified as Roadmap to Peace (RTP).
RTP’s vision articulates a plan for community-informed solutions that are restorative, focused on trauma and healing, and offer timely, culturally responsive, and coordinated holistic services for those most impacted by violence.
The vision of Roadmap to Peace (RTP) is for all families to live in peaceful, safe, and flourishing neighborhoods where youth can thrive and actively connect with and contribute to their community. Its purpose is to develop a holistic and community-based approach to address the unmet needs of Latinx youth and their families in San Francisco.
Our Purpose
Roadmap to Peace (RTP) aspires to break the cycle of violence by engaging youth and their families in healthy and healing relationships that advance their economic, health, and safety outcomes. RTP serves Latinx youth ages 13–24 with ties to San Francisco who are violence-involved and underinsured.
RTP is a five-year initiative comprised of several community organizations: BACR/CHALK, CARECEN SF, Five Keys Charter School, Horizons Unlimited, Mission Neighborhood Centers, Mission Neighborhood Health Center, Mission Language & Vocational Schools and Instituto Familiar de la Raza (IFR). To achieve its outcomes, RTP implements a Community Driven Collective Impact (CDCI) framework with a shared community-driven agenda and language, collaborative leadership, equitable distribution of resources, collective reflection and learning, and a focus on addressing root causes.
What We Offer
As a community-initiated and driven effort, RTP incorporates three strategies: connecting youth to wraparound services, establishing effective community-building, and promoting relevant policy advocacy. These three overlapping strategies embrace community wisdom to pave a road to wholeness and self-determination.
Service Network: RTP offers a comprehensive, holistic support network for CLI youth comprised of a diverse Service Network that supports youth in the four areas of RTP’s Healing Wheel—healthy living, self-sufficiency, community connections, and lifelong learning. Service Network partners provide care management and/or support services, and each offers specific expertise within the Healing Wheel.
Policy Reform: RTP engages in progressive policy reform aimed at addressing the inequities experienced by Latinx youth through system reform. We work to change institutional policies and practices to achieve equity and ensure Latinx youth are honored and respected by the institutions that impact them. RTP brings together diverse stakeholders to innovate community solutions that address unjust policies and practices, supporting CLI youth toward lives of purpose and healthy choices.
Community-Building: RTP believes identity, community, and purpose are vital to the development of Latinx children and youth. The cornerstone of achieving success with youth is our intentionality in building spaces where RTP participants can be themselves, feel a sense of belonging as they deepen their cultural identity, learn about the interdependency of our lives, and discover their purpose and passions. As such, we prepare and create spaces that include opportunities for intergenerational and peer connections, allow participants to recognize their strengths and cultural roots, and support them in making healthy choices.
School Crisis Support Initiative: This work represents an expansion of RTP’s program design and is part of the San Francisco School Crisis Support Initiative.
San Francisco collaboratives are working closely to engage organizations in creating opportunities for young people to come together before the summer, building shared learning spaces while addressing limited capacity by leveraging existing programs. With a focus on restorative justice, these efforts provide alternatives to incarceration by addressing harm and its root causes. Young people and adults from Chinese American, African American, Latinx, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander communities are brought together to foster cross-racial solidarity, peacebuilding, and collective action against anti-Blackness and anti-Asian hate, while holding systems accountable for regressive policies.
Referral Process
For inquiries regarding referrals, please email the Service Coordinator, Antonio Murcia, at [email protected]
Contact Us
2929 10th St. San Francisco, CA 94110
Hours
Monday—Friday, 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
Phone: (415) 867-4950
Email: [email protected]
