Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund

The YouthSource Center serves to improve educational and employment opportunities for 14 to 24-year-old South Los Angeles youth who are unemployed and out of school or at-risk of dropping out of school. The program increases educational and career-based mentoring opportunities by aligning youth with committed mentors, re-engaging youth in school, developing their vocational life and social skills, improving their academic skills, engaging youth in work experience, volunteerism and internships and eventually helping youth secure employment. The YouthSource Center services approximately 500 youth.

The Boys and Young Men of Color Program is a youth development program to help the youth succeed in school and in life by identifying and increasing educational, economic, social and leadership opportunities. The Brotherhood Crusade team mentors and engages youth in weekly programming and activities that improve their academic proficiency, socio-behavioral skills, economic growth and development, build their self-esteem and promote healthy lifestyles. The BYMOC program provides program services to approximately 150 youth.

The Brotherhood Crusade Prevention Program is a comprehensive whole family prevention strategy. Its purpose is to address and minimize the effects of risk factors that contribute most to youth joining gangs, engaging in violence, dropping out of school or engaging in delinquency. The objective of the program is to change attitudes, behaviors and beliefs favoring gang culture and promoting these risk factors to those more aligned with social norms. The Prevention program services approximately 500 youth in the Southwest Los Angeles.

Various other program servcies