Get Real LA: Coalition Partners

Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

10495 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Contact: Tessa Hicks
E-mail: thicks@adl.org
Phone : (310) 446-8000
FAX: (310) 470-8712

For 90 years, the ADL has been combating anti-Semitism and bigotry of all kinds. The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. Its ultimate purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens. Their "A World of Difference Institute" addresses diversity in the classroom by helping teachers and students to examine their own biases and expand their own cultural awareness and the cultural awareness of other students. Further, participants gain skills to address conflict, discrimination and stereotyping through the use of A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute Anti-Bias Study Guides, which are aligned with standards and core curriculum in Social Studies, English and History. Students also explore the new "Hate Comes Home" CD-ROM/Interactive Movie and participate in the "Know Your Rights" Hate and Harassment in the Public Schools presentation with an ADL staff attorney.

Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center (APADRC)

1145 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite #100
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: (213) 250-8190
Fax: (213) 250-8195
E-mail: apadrc@sbcglobal.net
Contact: Bobbie McDaniel

The APADRC provides mediation and conflict resolution services to the diverse communities in the Los Angeles area, with a focus on the Asian Pacific Islander Population. Through their "Hate Prevention Project" they work to improve human relations and race relations in Los Angeles schools by addressing complex, cross cultural conflicts and their root causes through peer mediation, education, training, and development of new models and techniques

DreamYard/L.A.

2100 South Figueroa Street #400
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Phone: (213) 749-8545
Fax: (213) 749-8541
Contact: Rob Thelusma

In 1995, DreamYard/L.A. director Chris Henrikson began teaching a poetry workshop in the L.A. County Juvenile Detention system's Camp Fred Miller as a volunteer through the Writers Guild of America. In 2000, DreamYard/L.A. opened an office in downtown Los Angeles. Team-taught by professional artists and alumni, DreamYard workshops inspire young people to develop their own artistic voices through poetry, acting improvisation, playwriting, visual art, dance, movement and performance. The organization is fueled by a deep belief in the transformational power of the arts. Their job placement program helps connect workshop alumni with real world work after they return to the community. Composed entirely of our workshop alumni - formerly incarcerated minors in the L.A. County juvenile detention system, their Street Poets United poetry performance conducts educational outreach in schools, community centers and juvenile detention facilities. Their mentor program pairs students with artists and professionals in an effort to help them build positive lives beyond the classroom. These partnerships form the foundation of a DreamYard/L.A. community to which kids can remain connected regardless of their situation. In addition to regular one-on-one meetings, mentors and mentees get together as a group along with the rest of our community at our monthly open-mic poetry events. We are currently seeking committed female mentors for girls 13-18 in our program at New Directions/Penny Lane. With their monthly open-mic poetry events, they bring together different racial, ethnic and socio-economic segments of the city around the transformational power of the creative process.

Khmer Girls in Action

1355 Redondo Ave, Suite 9
Long Beach, CA 90804
Contact: Que Dang, Director
Phone: 562 856-2612
Fax: 562 856-2712
Email: quedang@earthlink.net

Khmer Girls in Action works with young Khmer (Cambodian) women in Long Beach to organize for positive social change and a healthy and powerful Khmer community in Long Beach. KGA empowers young Khmer women to enact systemic change through political education, feminist consciousness raising, leadership development, community-based research, grass-roots organizing, and cultural programming. Their Khmer Training Program (KT) works with high school age Khmer young women between the ages of 14-18 to build their capacity to analyze how their physical, emotional, and mental well-being is influenced by political, social, cultural, and economic factors. Currently, KGA members are participating in the Southeast Asian Summer Film Institute in partnership with Third World Majority to develop a series of short films/documentaries on issues impacting Southeast Asian young women in Long Beach.

L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center

McDonald/Wright Building
1625 N. Schrader Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Phone: 323-993-7671
Email safehavenproject@laglc.org.

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Safe Haven Project was launched in March 1998 in order to make Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) high schools safer and more supportive environments for all students by addressing anti-lgbt harassment and violence. This was done in partnership with the Corporation for National Services and the U.S Department of Health and Human Services. Safe Haven trains and coordinates teams of student leaders and staff volunteers to bring peer-based advocacy, bias prevention education, peer support, and tracking of bias incidents, to high school students in the LAUSD. Student leaders help facilitate enforcement of LAUSD rules on hate crimes and hate incidents by providing support and services to student victims. Student leaders design and implement school-wide prevention education measures, based on their own first-hand knowledge and experience, and engage in a wide-range of activities and interpersonal interactions to build their self-esteem and respect for others. They learn the social skills necessary to both resist, as well as challenge, the everyday pressures at school that promote anti-lgbt harassment and violence. This program is in jeopardy due to lack of funding; hence, it is unknown how much longer it will be in existence.

Leadership Development in Interethnic Relations (LDIR),

1145 Wilshire Boulevard, 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: 213-977-7500
Fax: 213-977-7595

The LDIR program is a leadership development training program that provides background, skills, and working opportunities that enable people to proactively address race relations issues in their communities. LDIR also trains high schools that wish to establish an on-going LDIR class for youth as school personnel work to develop long-term human relations plans on campus. Identified as one of the most effective human relations training models in the nation by the President's Advisory Council on Race and Reconciliation and the National Conference on Community and Justice, LDIR will be replicated in other areas of the country. LDIR is jointly sponsored by APALC, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference/Martin Luther King Dispute Resolution Center, and the Central American Resource Center.

National Conference for Community & Justice, Los Angeles (NCCJ)

1055 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1615, Los Angeles, CA 90017-2499
Phone Number: 213.250.8787 x209
Fax Number: 213.250.8799
Contact: Lori Neslon
Email Address: lnelson@nccj.org

The NCCJ seeks to transform communities by providing fuller, more inclusive opportunity for all by empowering leaders to create institutional change. Among NCCJ's programming is a youth leadership development component. NCCJ-LA's Youth Leadership Program (YLP) is one of over 100 NCCJ youth leadership programs nationwide increasing awareness about diversity with elementary and middle school students; educating high school students about the systemic nature of oppression and providing them with the skills for improving intergroup relations and conflict resolution; and promoting advocacy and leadership development in colleges and universities.

National Conference for Community & Justice, Long Beach

444 West Ocean Blvd, Suite 940, Long Beach, CA 90802
Phone Number: 562.435.8184
Fax Number: 562.435.8318
Contact: Wendy Nichols-Julien
Email Address: longbeach@nccj.org
http://www.nccjlongbeach.org

"Talking in Class" is the program of the NCCJ -Long Beach with which the Commission collaborates. Through experiential activities, simulation exercises, discussion groups and more, young people are offered the opportunity to explore and address the complexities of critical issues of discrimination such as race, sex, sexual orientation, class, age, physical ability, and religious oppression. In learning from each other, participants gain valuable leadership skills involving problem solving, group dynamics, conflict management, coalition building, intergroup relations, communication, and advocacy.

Stamps Youth Foundation

1141 S SPAULDING AVE APT 11
LOS ANGELES, CA 90019-2464
Contact: Shelly Wood
310 702-9674
Email: sdwoo@aol.com

The Stamps Youth Foundations' "Project Lights Out" project provides assistance and guidance to
parolees from the California Youth Authority.

Youth Justice Coalition (YJC)

253 W. Martin Luther King Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90037
Contact: Kim Magillicutty and Noe Orgaz
323 240-1449
Freelanow@yahoo.com

The Youth Justice Coalition organizes and educates against injustice to youth. The YJC was established in March 2002 by young people and youth organizations dealing first-hand with what they describe as California's "undeclared war on youth" embodied in state legislation that increases the criminalization of vulnerable youth in a state that already sets records for youth incarceration. The Coalition is led by youth ages 8 to 24 who have been arrested, detained, incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. YJC is a key organizer in a local effort to organize and challenge Gang Injunctions through such efforts as penning legislation that challenges legislation that calls for the injunctions. They recently did a training with L.A. County D.A's to educate these D.A.'s about the real-life, damaging impact and repercussions gang injunctions, the statewide gang database and Proposition 21 have had and will continue to have on the youth of L.A. The YJC hosts monthly Gang Profiling Work Group meetings to address issues affecting LA youth and take action against the prison system. They are conducting a campaign in Los Angles County to End the Detention and Incarceration of Youth with Adults - "NO YOUTH IN ADULT JAILS!" - which aims to close the 42 Juvenile beds at men's central jail.