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GRYD INTERVENTION

GRYD ZONE INTERVENTION

The Mayor’s Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Development was established in 2007 to provide a comprehensive, targeted approach to reducing gang crime and violence in Los Angeles. A signature feature of this approach has been to identify the areas of the City with the highest rates of gang violence and to provide intensive prevention and intervention services to the youth in these areas. The twenty-one core areas identified, known as Gang Reduction and Youth Development (GRYD) Zones had rates of gang-related crime that were at least 400 percent higher than elsewhere in the City. In addition to high levels of gang crime and activity, the GRYD Zones also have extremely high truancy and school dropout rates, poverty levels, and unemployment.

Program Requirements and/or Eligibility Criteria:

  1. Be between the ages of 14-25
  2. Have a regular association in the GRYD Zone
  3. Willing to explore an alternative to gang violence
  4. Explore positive solutions that will affect their future

*No eligibility requirement to participate in community events or workshops*

Services Provided:

  • Street Mediation
  • Rumor Control
  • Education & Employment Assistance
  • Parenting Classes
  • Social Support Services
  • Drug & Alcohol Counseling
  • Crisis Intervention
  • After School Activities
  • Psychotherapy
  • Mental Health Services
  • Intensive Case Management
  • Systems Linkages
  • Tattoo Removal Services
  • Victims of Crime Services

TPI

Trauma Prevention Initiative (TPI)

The Trauma Prevention Initiative program consists of Street Outreach and Community Violence Intervention (SOCVI) Services in the unincorporated communities in South Los Angeles. TPI focuses on unincorporated communities with disproportionately high levels of violence, in order to build capacity within Los Angeles County to sustain community violence intervention strategies.

The goals of TPI are:

  • Decrease the number of visits and repeat visits to trauma centers for violence-related injuries
  • Increase access to health and social services to those at-risk for violence
  • Increase community mobilization and civic engagement
  • Improve social cohesion through participation in community programs and events such as Parks After Dark, unity walks, and task forces

Requirements:
At-risk youth and young adults ages 10-24 living in the Westmont/West-Athens communities of South Los Angeles, including youth who are gang-affiliated or impacted by trauma

Service Area:
Westmont and West-Athens area of South Los Angeles

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