Ramon Calubaquib

Ramon Calubaquib
Program Director
Asian Youth Prevention Services (AYPS)

Ramon Calubaquib has been involved in youth services for the past 27 years and with JCYC since 1990. After migrating from the Philippines, he moved to Guam and then to Hawaii before settling in San Francisco. He began working with young people as a student Intern with the Asian American Mental Health Training Center. In the late 1970’s, he became a Youth Advocate for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. He then moved on to become Program Coordinator for a youth employment and training program serving San Francisco’s South of Market area and was also one of the first Educational Counselors for the JCYC’s AACE Talent Search program. Ramon helped design the Asian Youth Substance Abuse Prevention program, one of the first substance abuse prevention programs targeting Asian youth in San Francisco. He then became the Program Director of the Pilipino Early Intervention Program, a nationally funded substance abuse and gang prevention program. Ramon has been a lecturer on Contemporary Asian American Communities at the San Francisco State University, School of Ethnic Studies and has been a consultant for the Asian Perinatal Advocates, Macro International, Inc and the Comprehensive Outreach Project for Asian Substance Abusers as well as the Asian Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Program. He has reviewed gang prevention proposals for the Federal Office of Children Youth and Families, Family Youth Service Bureau, was a member of the Advisory Committee to the SF Department of Human Services, Starting Point Early Childhood Interagency Council and the United Way Leadership Board, and Co-chair of the San Francisco Mayor’s Partnership for Neighborhood Empowerment’s Public Policy Committee. He currently is a member of the Asian American Recovery Services Board of Directors. Ramon is married and has five children and one grandchild.