Our Partners

Debra Warner is the Conference Director of the Summit on Community Resilience, Intervention, Prevention and Training (SCRIPT,) which focuses on male survivor trauma and violence. Dr. Warner is also a leading forensic psychologist, popular speaker, trauma expert, training professional and author as well as a male trauma expert challenging masculinity stereotypes and dismantling stigmas related to male trauma.

Connected via and led by K-Rahn Vallatine, Live Above the Hype is a nonprofit organization that supports the personal development of youth and young adults and the professional development of educators, service providers, leaders and other corporate staff. The trainings and curriculum delivered both have a profound ability to facilitate conversations on complex and uncomfortable topics by delivering content that is organized intentionally to create dialogue, with interactive and self-reflective activities that create more understanding, empathy, self-awareness, group-awareness and emotional intelligence. They use hip hop culture, pop culture and street culture as the backdrop to cultivate self-development and offer practical, life applicable education.

Connected via and led by Steve Kim, the mission of Project Kinship is to provide support and training to lives impacted by incarceration, gangs, and violence through hope, healing, and transformation.”

Connected by Kent Mendoza, the Anti Recidivism Coalition is a member-driven community-based organization that believes that those that are closest to the problem are the ones closest to the solution. ARC serves as an advocacy and support network for youth, young adults, and men and women who've suffered from the chains of confinement. They do this work not only because they are passionate, but also because they want to give back to our communities.

Roberta Shintani Executive Director for the Coalition for Engaged Education where she advocates for probation and foster youth in LA County. In addition to sustaining the organization and maintaining board relations, inspiring staff to perform at their highest potential is a welcome opportunity everyday.

Connected via Alicia Cass, TheMetamorphosisExperience.org “ME” provides support and training to individuals and families impacted by domestic, sexual abuse, violence, loss, and trauma through healing, empowerment, and transformation. In 2018 Release Grief was created after the founder of "ME" lost her son. Release is a community of people that come together to encourage one another through grief and loss, through an online support group and weekly movement class.

Connected via Alfred Lomez, Inner City Visions (ICV) was founded in 2007 in response to the growing threat of gang violence and human trafficking in South Central Los Angeles. A year later, ICV was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) community-based organization, the only one of its kind in the area. What began as targeted intervention services soon matured into a trauma-informed, client-centered approach. ICV is devoted to building the resilience of vulnerable communities to reduce violence and human trafficking as well as sustainably serve community members as they recover.

Connected via Aquil Basheer, the Professional Community Intervention Training Institute, focuses on violence reduction through Proactive Instruction, locally, nationally, and transcontinentally. P.C.I.T.I congruently provides the most effective practitioner-focused-community-based public safety protocol, benchmarks, and validated templates to multiple organizations and municipalities.

The YJC is building an abolitionist youth, family & incarcerated people's movement to end mass incarceration, deportation & police terror. We helped shut down L.A. Kenyon Juvenile Court in 2013, and reclaimed the space in 2019 as the new home for Chuco's Justice Center on 76th Street and Central Ave.

InsideOUT Writers is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing recidivism by providing services to young people navigating juvenile detention and life after incarceration. Using creative writing as a catalyst for personal expression and transformation, we strive to empower our writers with the confidence and skill set to successfully re-integrate into our communities and become powerful advocates for themselves.

Our work with incarcerated juveniles past and present encompasses arts-based healing, community reintegration services, and diversion programming for at-risk youth. Since our inception in 1996, InsideOUT Writers has offered writing classes and re-entry services to over 25,000 incarcerated juveniles in Los Angeles. The national recidivism rate is 75%, but we see less than 10% recidivism among writers who participate in our Alumni Program.