Changing The Community

GRYD Program

The goal of the Developing Options GRYD program is to decrease gang activity in this GRYD Zone, and to empower the community to strive for a safer, thriving environment for our youth.

Developing Options’ believes in laying the ground work and providing the conditions that inspire and create viable options for people by enabling connections to be made between communities, fostering alliances with local advocates, and developing programs that harness the power and skills community members need to effect change in their own lives.
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Reduction in violence in the Los Angeles Crenshaw District

College Attendace Rate

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To make change

Empowerment comes from within

Our program is designed to empower the target population with support and alternatives to the cycle of gang involvement and violence. Our approach is to educate the disadvantaged youth, their families and the community on risk factors for gang involvement.

Changing The Community

CREATING POSITIVE EXPERIENCES

Developing Options creates positive experiences and builds family support through unique pro-social prevention services and activities that include opportunity for academic enrichment and artistic outlets.bIn addition, we provide mentoring, health services, comprehensive family case management for high-risk youth, community engagement, and engage in the development of pro-social community based support systems that assist youthful clients in moving in pro-social directions.

It is our intention that the programing implemented will be a catalyst for decreasing gang violence and igniting the community to action and awareness.
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Changing The Community

GRYD Program

Through the GRYD Program we help move our underserved youth past gang involvement and individual acts of violence and grow into healthy successful members in our community by reducing the number of affecting risk factors and increasing protective factors. Goal attainment is tied to the implementation of our unique programming that aim to reverse the risk factors fostering youthful gang and violence involvement.
 

It is our intention that the programing implemented will be a catalyst for decreasing gang violence and igniting the community to action and awareness.