An East Bay Youth Bicycle Program
Cycles of Change works to improve the health and sustainability of our neighborhoods by increasing the use of bicycles as transportation, connecting youth with the extraordinary living systems of our local area, and building a diverse community of visionary young leaders. The organization began in 1998 at Roosevelt Middle School in East Oakland and has grown steadily to sites in Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley. Cycles’ programs are as follows:
- Beginners Urban Riding: Teaches the basics of safe urban riding to small groups of new students and community members, while connecting them with their local environment.
- Community Bike Shops: Makes healthy and reliable transportation accessible to all through their earn-a-bike programs, tools and advice for people fixing their bikes, repair classes, and safe riding instruction.
- Safe Routes to School: Educates elementary school students in safe riding techniques, so that they can build the skills and confidence to bike safely to school.
- Advanced field trips program: Connects youth and community members to places of ecological, historical, and cultural significance, expanding the dimensions of their world.
- Urban Sustainability Program: We developed a six-week course for science classes called “Watershed Guides”
By taking part in Cycles’ programs, youth and adults gain strong and lasting connections to the living world and the larger community. These connections become a foundation for reshaping the relationships between people and land to make our urban neighborhoods healthy and sustainable.
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For the past 10 years, Cycles of Change has been working to build a network of neighborhood-based bicycle education and distribution programs that can serve the basic transportation needs of thousands of Oakland and Alameda’s most vulnerable residents. In the past year, Cycles of Change has recovered, restored and distributed 1000 bicycles, many to low-income people who participated in Cycles of Change’s earn-a-bike program. Over 1200 community members learned basic bike mechanic skills, received bicycle repair services, or restored bicycles for their own use.
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Please make check payable to Cycles of Change and mail it to:
Cycles of Change
P.O. Box 70292
Oakland CA 94612