CHOP's Teen Club

Katie Ruppe, CHOP's Community Engagement Manager will be presenting on all the wonderful programs CHOP's Teen Club offers the youth of Sonoma County.

In 1995 Charles “Chop” DeMeo left the bulk of his estate to the Sonoma County Community Foundation to create a safe and productive place for teens in our community.

Through a series of public meetings and teen surveys, the plans for a teen club took shape. Once a site was identified and approved, the question of what to call the teen club arose – and the answer was obvious: it would be named after the man who made it all possible, the man who was known to his friends and family as “Chop.”

Chop’s Teen Club, which opened in 2001, is the realization of the dream of Charles “Chop” DeMeo, who saw teens as assets to the community, and wished to build a bridge to the future by creating a place for teens to have a multitude of opportunities for personal growth.