Grantee Database
ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK
Grant Year
2019-20
Grant Program
Organizational Development
Award Amount
$5,000.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, ARTS FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH NETWORK will partner with consultant Kruti Parekh on creating a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policy. Kruti will lead facilitated conversations surrounding power and privilege with AIYN staff, which will also include engagement from member organizations. It will end with a fully developed DEI policy that can be adopted by our board, implemented in our practice, and used as a model and requirement for members.
Organization Summary
Under AHJN, 23 member agencies provide high-quality arts education that includes creative writing, spoken word, visual arts, theater, dance, digital media, and music programming to system-involved and at-promise youth in Los Angeles County— and the adults who serve them. We serve youth at Probation-run facilities, schools, and community sites in neighborhoods throughout the county. In 2015, we piloted the first-ever coordinated, multidisciplinary arts program for youth experiencing incarceration in Los Angeles County. After receiving positive feedback from the youth and staff involved, that pilot has now grown to ongoing, year-round arts programming.
Today, AHJN coordinates arts education for justice system-involved young people, youth leadership development, youth- and member-led advocacy, and community-based arts services that support wellbeing as a means of prevention for at-promise youth. We provide healing-informed arts education programming to 2,000 young people a year.
Organization
Arts for Healing and Justice Network
Address
2727 E Anaheim St #4722
Long Beach
90804
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(323) 304-4772
Congressional District
California Assembly district 28
State Assembly District
District 49
State Senate District
District 25
