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Central Juvenile Hall (also known as Eastlake Juvenile Hall or Central) is a youth detention center in Los Angeles County. Central houses both boys and girls. [1] The Central Juvenile Hall complex was originally established in 1912 as the first juvenile detention facility in Los Angeles County. [2] The hall sits on twenty-two and one-half acres ...
Los Angeles LGBT Center. / 34.100528; -118.332728. The Los Angeles LGBT Center (previously known as the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center) is a provider of programs and services for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The organization's work spans four categories, including health, social services, housing, and leadership and advocacy.
The California Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), previously known as the California Youth Authority (CYA), was a division of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that provided education, training, and treatment services for California 's most serious youth offenders, until its closure in 2023.
The facility, which is the most modern of the county’s three juvenile halls, shuttered in 2019 amid abuse allegations and a shrinking population of incarcerated youth in Los Angeles County.
Children's Institute Inc. ( CII) is a nonprofit organization that provides services to children and families healing from the effects of family and community violence within Los Angeles. [1] Founded in 1906 by Minnie Barton, [2] Los Angeles's first female probation officer, [3] the organization (then named the Big Sister League) was first ...
Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) is the Los Angeles Philharmonic's initiative to establish youth orchestra programs in underprivileged communities throughout Los Angeles. Modeled on Venezuela's El Sistema , [1] a program which brings classical music education to children from low-income communities, YOLA provides free instruments, music ...
The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or Nuestro Pueblo [5] ("our town" in Spanish) are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the artist's original residential property in Watts, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Youth Justice Coalition. Youth Justice Coalition ( YJC) is a Los Angeles -based non-profit organization focused on juvenile justice, prison and police abolition, [1] and criminal legal reforms. YJC is a non-profit organization devoted to challenging race, gender and class inequality in California’s juvenile and criminal justice systems.