Community Healing Collaborative (CHC)

In partnership with four community-based organizations, CYS’s Community Healing Collaborative is designed to reduce youth violence in South Los Angeles’ Eastside. Through funding from the California Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Program (CalVIP) administered by the Board of State and Community Corrections, this project will provide critical supports to equip and empower community-led peacebuilding efforts. 
 
Decades of experience among the member organizations show that community-led and community-based solutions can reduce violence with strategically targeted prevention and de-escalation and intervention efforts that resolve disputes and urgent needs for support before violent incidents occur. The goals of CHC are to identify teens at highest risk for imminent engagement in violence (as either perpetrators or victims) and provide them and their family with extensive supports to address the underlying triggers and needs along with immediate safety planning. The program includes training trusted “credible messengers” to support de-escalation, conflict resolution, and peacemaking techniques.  
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CYS’s contributions to the Collaborative will include case management, restorative justice mediation, and family mediation, all proven to heal individuals and families, create community cohesion, and break the cycles of violence, incarceration, and re-victimization.