PLAYLA2050 GRANT
This project will support at risk youth from joining gangs and educate them about real life. As well as mentorship and youth mental health counseling. M
What is the primary issue area that your application will impact?
Community safety
In what stage of innovation is this project, program, or initiative?
Expand existing project, program, or initiative (expanding and continuing ongoing, successful work)
What is your understanding of the issue that you are seeking to address?
Our understanding of the issues is that with our program we can make a substantial impact on the youth lives. They want to know and believe that we are really there for them and we truely care about them. They mainly want to know that we understand them and their situations. We let them know that they can always come to us even when they finish our program.
Describe the project, program, or initiative this grant will support to address the issue.
We have mental health psychologist. Former gang members that made a conscious choice to change their live and dedicated their lives to give back and help the youth. We have a team that really cares about the youth.
Describe how Los Angeles County will be different if your work is successful.
Our Children are the future our program will not only effect the youth we enroll but it will also help others that the youth we enroll associate with. By us servicing the youth it will help us all because the youth are the future. This is the beginning for us we want to eventually open a youth drop in center open 24/7 so the youth will always know they have a safe place to come.
What evidence do you have that this project, program, or initiative is or will be successful, and how will you define and measure success?
We measure the impact by how many youth finish high school. How many youth go to collage, how many youth get jobs and how many of the youth that came to the program doesn't get incarcerated. We stay in contact with our enrollments after they complete the program.
Approximately how many people will be impacted by this project, program, or initiative?
Direct Impact: 1,502.0
Indirect Impact: 6,000.0