Wassup? So what is the Teen 411?  The Teen 411 project is a website created to help you learn about local resources available in Alameda County and help you find answers to questions that affect your everyday life.

Youth were front and center in the design of this website. Hijos del Sol, a local teen leadership group in Hayward, helped get input from teens all over Alameda County. They also coordinated an art contest for the logo and other artwork which you now see on this website. This project is for and about teens and it can only fly with your input.  If you have any suggestions about making this website better, please click on the feedback link. The website is in its earliest stages so if you find any mistakes, please let us know so that we can fix them and make this an even better resource for you.

Sponsors:

• Alameda County Workforce Investment Board for their generous funding of this project
• Contra Costa County Office of Education for their funding that got this project off the ground

Credits:

• David Korth, Youth Policy Council Board Member, for his never-ending belief and support of the project and for sharing his extensive wealth of resources
• V. Toni Adams, Youth Policy Council Board Member, for her key support and guidance
• Evan Goldberg, Alameda County Office of Education, for his collaboration in the development of the proposal
• Hijos del Sol, a teen leadership group of La Familia Counseling Service for their coordination of the artwork contest and youth focus groups
• Vallecitos Center for Employment Training for their assistance with various aspects of the project
• Youth Voice, a youth group of the Hayward Coalition for Youth, for their help in getting the word out about the website to local high schools
• David Echeandia for his keen edits of the web copy
• Rachel Echeandia for her assistance with the resource database and voiceover for the website
• Scott Kramer of The Berkeley Alliance (http://berkeleyalliance.org/) for sharing the Berkeley Youth Services database. Scott's generosity and support in the early days of community mapping for the Teen 411 Project was immensely appreciated.
• Vegard Aure, Webmaster for GameDiscovery.com, for allowing us to use the door graphic that appears on the homepage
• Jason Toro , Youth Director, Hijos Del Sol, La Familia Counseling Service, for his promotion of the Teen 411 Project on NBC 11's Bay Area Vista television program

And the following staff from the Alameda County Office of Education:

• Barbara Avila for her expert graphics design
• Moira Chapman for co-managing the project early in its inception by offering her expertise in all phases, but especially in the area of youth development. Without Moira's recommendations, youth involvement would not have played such a key role.
• Terri Hardesty for her promotion of the project
• Jo Levi for her expert web design and development
• Lynn McGann for her expert web design

The information offered on this Website has been researched and compiled from a number of sources by our staff, working with dedication to provide our youth and the general community with the most complete and extensive collection of available resources possible. Some of the resources listed here have come from existing guides developed by other helping organizations, whose contributions we recognize and to whom we extend our gratitude. Other resources are appearing as part of a comprehensive list for the first time. In all cases, we have made every effort to be sure that the information contained in each entry is accurate and up to date. However, since this is our initial offering, we also consider this to be a work in progress and we realize that inaccuracies may exist. For that, we apologize and we encourage any agency or resource to contact us with additional information that we can use to make corrections. We also welcome communication from new or unlisted resources that may wish to be added to our Website in the future.

Inclusion of an agency in the resources section does not imply endorsement, nor is exclusion a reflection on the value or quality of an agency's services.

The opinions and views expressed in items on this website or by any other agencies referenced herein, are those of the individual contributors and/or agencies and are not necessarily those of the Webmaster, the Alameda County Office of Education (ACOE), or www.teen411.info. In no event shall the Alameda County Office of Education (ACOE) or any party involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this website, including but not limited to Alameda County Superintendent of Schools, and any ACOE directors, project coordinators or employees, be liable for any damages of any kind, including without limitation, any direct, special, incidental, indirect, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages, whether or not the user has been advised of the possibility of such damages, and on any theory of liability whatsoever, arising out of or in connection with the performance of and your access to and/or use of the Teen411 website. Further the ACOE assumes no responsibility or liability for any actions or communications by you with any unrelated third party within or outside of this Site.

Thank you for your interest. As you explore our website, we hope that you will find it to be a useful and valuable contribution in supporting the youth of our County.