Grantee Database
INSIDEOUT WRITERS INC
Grant Year
2017-18
Grant Program
JUMP StArts - County and Community Facilities
Award Amount
$25,500.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, INSIDEOUT WRITERS INC will introduce and implement two one-hour creative writing workshops per week for six months to minors detained at Dorothy Kirby Center in the City of Commerce. The proposed workshops will occur on a weekly basis every Sunday. Grant funds awarded will directly support two teaching artists’ salaries, trainings and orientations, a literary booklet, supplies and snacks for students, and a culmination event.
Organization Summary
The Writing Program provides dynamic arts education to between 1500 and 2000 young people annually, and an average of 150 unduplicated students monthly. These youth are incarcerated in one of three Los Angeles County juvenile hall and one Orange County juvenile hall. The Writing Program is comprised of weekly 90 minute creative writing classes, annual Writers’ Retreats and In Depth, a quarterly literary journal. The Alumni Program was launched in 2009 to support Writing Program students in their on-going development of pro-social attitudes, behaviors, and skills that will serve them well as they embark on their re-integration and transition from incarceration. The program is comprised of six interconnected components working in concert to transition former Writing Program students into productive and viable lives after incarceration.
Organization
InsideOUT Writers
Address
3339 W. Temple St.
2nd Floor
Los Angeles
90026
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(323) 660-1866
Congressional District
California Assembly district 43
State Assembly District
District 43
State Senate District
District 24
