KIS: Keeping It Safe

Keeping It Safe Program Facilitator served 3.5 years of a 6-year sentence in a state prison, and is an adult child of incarcerated parents.  His father served 31 years on a life “without the possibility of parole” sentence and died in prison.  

Harold comes to EORO with over 10 years of working with at-risk youth in a variety of programs. Harold has served as a youth program manager for the AIDS Resources Information and Services (ARIS), as a Homeless case manager for the Emergency Housing Consortium, and served as the health education coordinator at the AIDS Community Research Consortium (ACRC) in Santa Clara County.  He also served as the Director of the Community Health Outreach Program at Free At Last, a substance abuse treatment program in East Palo Alto. 

Harold has a strong history of working collaborative with a variety of organizations including; The City of San Jose’s Gang intervention Program (STAND), Clean Slate Tattoo removal program, De Anza College Human Sexuality Department, L.I.F.E. Youth Mentoring Program, as well as the Bill Wilson Drop-in Center in San Jose CA. 


Harold has developed the curriculum from his own experience and in response for the need for gender specific programming to address important topics covered by the KIS program including HIV/AIDS and STDS, Gang Intervention, Breaking the Street Mentality, Relationships and treatment of the opposite sex, and making healthy choices to keep young men safe. KIS has operated at the San Mateo Court and Community Schools, the San Francisco Success Center, and short-term facilities in San Francisco, Santa Clara, and San Mateo Counties. Here is some feedback on the last workshop:

"I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for coming to the school and speaking with the students. You were very informative and the kids seemed to really enjoy the presentation. They were very attentive and asked excellent questions. Through the various presentations that I have observed the students sit through, this was the first one where all of the group seemed interested in and enthusiastic about. The group participation was wonderful! I even learned something new (as I always do with your presentations).

I would really like you come back and discuss gang prevention and any other relevant topics that you have knowledge on that my students can benefit from.  My students can really benefit from anything that you are willing to teach them."