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The award from Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center will expand PRC’s program in Compton, Lynwood, North Long Beach and Watts.
Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center has awarded a $50,000 grantThe Positive Results Corporation to conduct four 12-week Youth Leadership Academies in 2019. The program called, Healing Stronger will be conducted in Compton, Lynwood, North Long Beach and Watts.
Healing Stronger focuses on youth and young adults age 16-24, incorporating Art, Music, Movement and Writing in a series of Leadership workshops to facilitate healing trauma, resolve conflict, learn financial empowerment and build leadership skills to keep participants positively engaged in school and community.
Participants will be provided with the tools and resources necessary to achieve higher levels of success, a meaningful and relevant voice in the world around them, and position them to be positive contributing leaders and thinkers.
“We are excited to provide a safe place for participants to feel supported, a place for youth to connect with each other in a nonjudgmental and positive environment and a place where young leaders can cultivate their personal leadership skills and explore how to make a positive impact in their community,” said Kandee Lewis, PRC Executive Director.
Their target audience is youth and young adults, 16-24, low to no income, at-risk, parenting, prone to violence or has a family history of trauma-related violence (gang, gun, domestic or family violence), homeless, in or former foster youth, or recently reconnected to the community.
Their goal is to build a positive and engaging rapport between youth and family, schools, faith and community-based partners, law enforcement, social services, and local Chamber of Commerce to create healthy personal and professional relationships, understand resources each organization provides and understand no matter the position, each man or woman is a real person, worthy of respect.
With this grant, the PRC welcomes community partners to conduct workshops and provide expanded mentoring and networking opportunities with professional men and women such as Captain Brent Burton – member of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, Los Angeles CARES Mentoring and chairman of the 100 Black Men of Los Angeles’ See Your Future Menoring Program.
To learn more about The PRC and Healing Stronger, to collaborate on this grant, become a speaker or mentor, or share your resources with the youth, contact us at http://www.PRC123.org, email info@prc123.org or call (323) 787-9252.
