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A Window Between Worlds (AWBW) supports direct service organizations across the country in incorporating creative expression into their work with trauma survivors. AWBW seeks to empower individuals and communities impacted by violence and trauma through transformative healing arts programs, using art as a catalyst to release trauma, build resilience, and ignite social change.
United Cambodian Community (UCC) elevates the Cambodian community through local engagement and leadership that embodies Cambodian cultural values. UCC carries out this mission through four strategic focus areas: health equity, community integration, youth enrichment, and economic inclusion.
South Asian Network is a community-based organization that advances the health, emotional and mental well-being, and civil rights of South Asians in Southern California. They offer free, trauma-informed resources in the areas of community health, gender-based violence, mental health, citizenship, and civic engagement.
Operation Jump Start offers academic support and mentorship to low-resourced, high-potential first-generation students so that they can get in, stay in, and graduate from a four-year college. By bolstering access to a college education, Operation Jump Start offers a path out of poverty for first-generation students of Long Beach, California, so that they may not [...]
Open Paths Counseling Center meets the evolving mental health needs of the community by providing quality counseling for individuals and families at affordable fees, free therapy programs for at-risk children and youth in local schools, and a highly respected therapist training program. Their overarching goals are to eliminate financial, geographical, and cultural barriers to counseling [...]
Positive Results Center is committed to preventing and ending trauma resulting from domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault by helping people develop healthy relationships. Their programs include art-based prevention education and healing strategies that address interpersonal and partner violence, as well as youth and adult leadership development, the cultivation of healthy relationships, and [...]
Mujeres de la Tierra inspires the healing of La Madre Tierra by working to build grassroots community leadership and capacity among historically unrecognized communities, especially those that are low-income, immigrant, and/or communities of color. They provide culturally relevant tools and platforms for community action and connect with their community through local residents’ input, pláticas, listening [...]
Las Fotos Project aims to elevate the voices of teenage girls and gender-expansive youth from communities of color through photography and mentorship, empowering them to channel their creativity to benefit themselves, their communities, and their future careers. Their program model reinforces photography’s inherent ability to spark introspection, evoke deeper meaning, and serve as a catalyst [...]
LA Commons engages communities in artistic and cultural expression that tells their unique stories and encourages dialogue, interaction, and a shared understanding of Los Angeles. Through community-based arts programs centered on youth leadership, they work with economically disadvantaged neighborhoods to create dynamic works of public art that build community connection and empowerment, focusing on six [...]
Immigration Resource Center of San Gabriel Valley provides immigration legal counsel, connections to community resources, and warm care and welcome to immigrant neighbors in the San Gabriel Valley and beyond. These services offer an affordable way for local foreign-born, non-US citizens to comply with immigration law and strengthen their ability to provide for themselves and [...]
