Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment

Community organizing: uniting Community residents in campaigns to transform south la neighborhoods by building grassroots leadership to: advance educational justice, advance food justice, creating safe and vibrant parks, advance justice reform. Our goal is to develop leaders in our Community who can advocate on their own behalf and future policies. To advance the work, different approaches are used such as policy advocacy, civic engagement, and activism.

Communication: the program provides support to Community organizing by developing content, and reaching out to media outlets to promote and market the impact Community organizing has had in the Community. Some of the strategies employed are using both earned and paid media using traditional media outlets such as television and print in addition to using social media outlets.

Scyea: the Community Coalition established south central youth empowered through action (scyea) as one of its first components to develop the next generation of leaders capable of improving public education and combating intergenerational poverty. Among major victories for low-income youth, scyea won a historic ruling from the los angeles unified school district (lausd) mandating every student's right to college access courses.

Other program services

Center for Community organizing (cco): the cco will be a people's center that harnesses the power of communities and supports activists nationwide in multi-racial organizing toward our collective freedom. The cco's primary focus is to train the next generation of Community organizers. Through our organizing school, we will equip people and organizations with the skills, confidence, and connections to other people required to create social change. It will generate strategy, create narratives to win hearts and minds, design art, produce campaigns, and bring to life imagination for a new world rooted in dignity, humanity, connection, and justice.