Works in New Directions

Los Angeles Sisters Aging Well (LASAW) Network is a new project of Works in New Directions, Inc. in which it looks to serve the eldest members and to develop a strategic plan to address the diverse needs of elderly sisters in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Organization provides food and clothing, legal advocacy services, crisis intervention services, mental health services, and spiritual support to the poor, needy and powerless.

The Organization's existing program named the Trauma Transformation Project (TTP) has been renamed and diversified into the InVision Institute and the East Oakland Alliance. The focus of these Project Movements, which was pioneered with an international team of collaborators, is still to develop and implement: 1) comprehensive trauma-centered curricula for youth-centered urban community development programs; and b) a relational, trauma-centered youth development program model that brings to life the psychology, philosophy and interventions of the training curricula.This trauma training and program model, which will eventually be implemented nationally, are being developed as supporting strategies that will offer a broad range of options to: 1) disrupt and prevent the devastating interaction between youth, violence, and sustained trauma, particularly as it influences the large health and educational disparities for youth of color; 2) intervene and work to heal the intergenerational impacts of violence and chronic trauma on youth, families and urban communities; 3) strengthen the resilience and hope that empowers young people to reach for their full and unique potential; 4) educate and influence the priorities of public policy and philanthropy on the most effective youth-centered urban community development interventions.