COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Listed below are resources currently available in the community, corresponding to the needs and strategies developed by participants on February 26, 2005, in the first Community Workshop on Gang Violence.  The resource list is provided as one tool to help working groups in the three areas—Bring It Home, Make It Work and Keep It Safe—identify resource gaps and potential action areas.

BRING IT HOME

Parent, home and family support

• Infant and Family Support (SMMUSD, Saint John’s, Venice Family Clinic)

• Parenting Workshops (Family Services of Santa Monica, Saint John’s, SMMUSD, YWCA, the Single Parent Network, Westside Family Resource & Empowerment Center, El Nido)

• Childcare Services (Connections for Children, Delta and SMMUSD Head Start, SMC Pico Partnership/On the Move for older teen parents, private child care providers—faith-based and others)

• SAPID Program for teen parents (SMMUSD)

• Family counseling (Saint John’s, Family Services of SM, OPCC-Campion, Jewish Family Services) 

Youth support, counseling and mentoring

• Middle school-, Santa Monica and Olympic high school- and agency-based counseling  (Saint John’s, Jewish Family Services, Family Services of SM, SMMUSD Alliance Program)

• African American mentors for Visions program at Virginia Avenue Park

• PAL Mentoring Program (city)

• Helpline with resources for teens (Teen-Line)

• Mental health, substance abuse treatment and suicide crisis line (Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center, CLARE Foundation)

• Conflict resolution/peer mediation/character building (SMMUSD-Cool Tools, Dispute Resolution Services)

Youth activities

• Youth Sports (SMMUSD Leagues, AYSO, Pony League, Little League, Pop Warner, City Youth Sports)

• Youth Center Programs (PAL, YMCA, Boys & Girls Club, YWCA, Pico Youth and Family Center)

• Enrichment and Community Classes – (CREST, Community Programs, Rosie’s Girls)

• Cultural Arts – (Virginia Avenue Project, Downbeat 720, SMMOA Virginia Park Collaborative)

Re-entry into community and schools 

 Education support

• SMMUSD counseling, tutoring and other programs

• After-school homework assistance (CREST, Boys and Girls Club, PAL, PYFC, online city Library resources including tutor.com—a live, interactive tutoring service)

• Young adult collections at Main and branch libraries, middle through high school; Teen Web site developed by and for teens www.smplteens.org (city)

• Youth Technology Center at the Fairview Branch (city)

Neighborhood connections/cohesion  

• Neighborhood Organizations/Nonprofits – PNA, Friends of Sunset Park, PYFC, PTAs

• Faith Community – St. Anne’s FAME, Calvary Baptist

• Neighborhood Watch

• GEMS, LULAC

• Community Violence Prevention Coalition

• Human Relations Council – Santa Monica Bay Area

• Commissions/boards—Recreation & Parks Commission, Social Services Commission, Virginia Avenue Park Advisory Board

• Parent groups—District English Learners Advisory Council, Mothers for Justice, African American Parent, Student and Faculty Group, Enlace, PTAs, SMMUSD Parent, Infant and Family Support

MAKE IT WORK

Job development

• LA WorkSource in Santa Monica and Marina del Rey

Employment preparation

• Assistance with resumes, applications, job search, coaching, interview techniques and other job readiness services (Chrysalis, LA WorkSource, PYFC, SAMOHI/ROP, SMC, Virginia Avenue Park)

Skills training and mentoring

• Career and technology classes, including certification for youth and adults (SMC, SAMOHI/ROP, PYFC)

• Business skills classes and mentors at SAMOHI and Olympic High (SMMUSD)

• Internships and shadowing, youth and young adults ages 14-21 through Project Echo at SAMOHI and Olympic High (SMMUSD)

• The SAMOHI Alliance for student interns, ages 15-18 (SMMUSD)

• Pico Partnership student interns (SMC, city)

• Youth Apprenticeship/Trades Intern Program (city)

• LA WorkSource youth job internships 14-21 years of age

Retraining/rehabilitation

• California Youth Authority, L.A. County Probation Department

Education and remedial classes

• SMMUSD

• LA WorkSource (14-21 years of age)

Opportunities for ex-offenders/former gang members

• Volunteer attorneys to expunge records (have one, need more)

• Tattoo removal services

• Making it Through Program, assistance for juvenile ex-offenders

• Ex-Offender Action Network

• Gangsters Anonymous

• Friends Outside in L.A. County

KEEP IT SAFE

Community-police relations

• Neighborhood Centered Policing--Lieutenants assigned to Pico and participation in Virginia Avenue Park Advisory Board and other neighborhood meetings & events

• Citizen Police Academy in English & Spanish

• Pico police substation and bike patrol

• Police Activities League (PAL athletic events, Halloween Party)

• Neighborhood watch activities (meetings, block parties)

• Youth Services Division and school resource officer

• Police Explorer and Cadet Programs

• Civil Rights classroom studies at Olympic School

• Self-Defense Class

• Commitment to maintaining a culturally diverse police force (command staff through the ranks) and ongoing cultural diversity training

 Neighborhood improvements (graffiti, alleys/streets, lights, etc.)

• Anti-graffiti team (city)

• Planning for Pico neighborhood clean-up day (city, merchants, neighbors)

• Alley Revitalization Project completed (city)

• Street and lighting needs (city)

• 20th & Cloverfield streetscape project (city)

• Maintenance of Pico streetscape improvements (city)

• Traffic calming/enforcement programs in and around schools, parks (city)

• Enhanced bulky item collection program (city)

• Land Use & Circulation Element Update community process (city)

Private property clean-up

• Weed abatement (city)

• Code enforcement (city)

Parks and community centers

• Expansion and renovation of Virginia Avenue Park to be completed in late 2005, with new PAL fitness gym, activity center for older youth, Thelma Terry Community Center, basketball courts, restrooms, playgrounds, water jet play area, new acreage, and a redesigned home for the Saturday Farmers Market (city)

• Skatepark (“The Cove”) opening this summer at Memorial Park (city)

• Euclid Neighborhood Park in concept design (city)

• Stewart Street Park with baseball, soccer fields; basketball court (city)

School buildings and grounds

• School safety audit at Edison (SMMUSD)

• Walk-to-school path for Edison (Venice Family Clinic, city)

• Edison playground improvement (Lantana Project)                      

    
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