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The Los Angeles YWCA has operated for more than one hundred years with programs in community advocacy, Child development services, Sexual Assault Crisis Counseling program", the Empowerment Project for Senior Citizens, Youth Education and recreation training as well as the L.A. Job Corps program. History
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 ...
Operation HOPE, Inc., is an American non-profit organization providing financial literacy empowerment and economic education to youth and adults. The mission of this organization is providing everybody with enterprise work and the programs carried out by Operation HOPE, Inc. Andrew Young is the global spokesman of the organization and John Hope Bryant is the chairman.
Thai CDC was founded by Chanchanit Martorell on April 13, 1994, with the idea that all peoples have a basic right to a decent standard of living and quality of life. [1] Since its establishment, Thai CDC has addressed the needs of Thai and other disadvantaged immigrants faced with substandard housing conditions [2] and lack of access to basic ...
Formerly called. Jobs for a Future. Homeboy Industries is a youth program founded in 1992 [1] by Father Greg Boyle following the work of the Christian base communities at Dolores Mission Church in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. [2] [3] The program is intended to assist high-risk youth, former gang members and the recently incarcerated with a ...
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.
t. e. LAMP Community (originally the Los Angeles Men's Place) is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization located in Skid Row that seeks to permanently end homelessness, improve health, and build self-sufficiency among men and women living with severe mental illness. [1] [2] Lamp Community also played a prominent role in the movie The Soloist.
Youth empowerment programs are aimed at creating healthier and higher qualities of life for underprivileged or at-risk youth. [1] The five competencies of a healthy youth are: (1) positive sense of self, (2) self- control, (3) decision-making skills, (4) a moral system of belief, and (5) pro-social connectedness.