Youth Justice Coalition

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7625 S Central Ave Los Angeles, CA, 90001-2952

EIN Number: 83-0466818

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Phone: (323) 235-4243

Hours: Closed

Mon  8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (PDT)

Tue  8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (PDT)

Wed  8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (PDT)

Thu  8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (PDT)

Fri  8:45 AM - 1:30 PM (PDT)

Sat Closed

Sun Closed

Website: https://youthjusticela.org

NTEE Code: O50: Youth Development Programs

MISSION - WHAT WE DO

The Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) is working to build a youth, family, and formerly and currently incarcerated people’s movement to challenge America’s addiction to incarceration and race, gender and class discrimination in Los Angeles County’s, California’s and the nation’s juvenile and criminal injustice systems. The YJC’s goal is to dismantle policies and institutions that have ensured the massive lock-up of people of color, widespread law enforcement violence and corruption, consistent violation of youth and communities’ Constitutional and human rights, the construction of a vicious school-to-jail track, and the build-up of the world’s largest network of jails and prisons. We use transformative justice and community intervention/peacebuilding, FREE LA High School, know your rights, legal defense, and police and court monitoring to “starve the beast” – promoting safety in our schools, homes and neighborhoods without relying on law enforcement and lock-ups, preventing system contact, and pulling people out of the system. We use direct action organizing, advocacy, political education, and activist arts to agitate, expose, and pressure the people in charge in order to upset power and bring about change.

SERVICES - HOW WE DO IT

\In 2003, at a series of three meetings attended by 62 people – who were or had been arrested, detained, incarcerated and/or deported, and/or who were leaders of groups working inside juvenile halls, Probation camps, jails or prisons – came together to discuss the impacts of the system on Los Angeles and prioritized four organizing campaigns: Exposing and Dismantling the War on Gangs as a War on Youth of Color including challenging the lack of due process and community input in the implementation by police, sheriffs and the courts of gang suppression tactics including gang injunctions and gang databases that serve to sweep thousands of youth into the system without notification, appeal, removal or resources;Sac Town Youth Behind Bars at SB399 Rally Improving conditions of confinement for youth at LA County juvenile halls, County Jails, State Prisons and the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ – formerly California Youth Authority), including organizing for the shut down of DJJ and its replacement by community based youth development and rehabilitation centers, and ending the use of extreme sentences for youth (including Life Without the possibility of Parole – JLWOP); Reducing the County’s use of detention and incarceration by 75% within 10 years, including closing dilapidated and inhumane county and state lock-ups; and Pushing the County to develop community-based owned and operated alternatives to school suspension/expulsion, arrest, court, detention and incarceration.

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