Communities Empowering Youth

Communities Empowering Youth (CEY) partners with five community-based nonprofit agencies in Los Angeles. Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Youth Policy Institute works with these agencies to provide sub grants, training, and technical services. YPI acts as an intermediary for these funds and resources which assist agencies in meeting their missions of serving low income and predominantly Latino youth in the East San Fernando Valley and Pico Union/Westlake communities of Los Angeles.

The program works with each partner to develop an assessment of organizational needs, and links with professional trainers to provide capacity building workshops. These help the partners increase their organizational capacity and skills in areas such as leadership development, strategic planning, community engagement, organizational development, and program development. Cash awards sub granted by the program help partners in making purchases of computer technology and other resources (such as financial management or donor management software) required to implement capacity building goals.

The five agencies partnering with the Youth Policy Institute in the Communities Empowering Youth project are:

• SALEF (Pico Union/Westlake)
• Fuerza Matrimonial (East San Fernando Valley)
• Communities in Schools (East San Fernando Valley)
• Heroes of Life (East San Fernando Valley)
• Clinica Monsenor Oscar A. Romero (Pico Union/Westlake)