Develop character in youth from the underserved communities of Los Angeles by bringing Haven Academy’s after-school performing arts program directly to their neighborhood.

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​Our programs at all 3 sites are explicitly designed to make use of the performing arts’ powerful ability to develop the inner assets that help children succeed academically, personally, and ultimately professionally and become productive members of society.​
Bring performing arts education programing to arts desert communities that don’t have the funding, training, or support to build a program on their own. 
Build academic skills through participation in the arts, improving success in school.
Create an extra-curricular alternative to gang participation or other negative behaviors.
Encourage youth affected by challenging living environments to discover how their talents and gifts can take them beyond their current circumstances. 
Join other community programs in addressing the barriers to academic and career success faced by youth who have experienced poverty in Los Angeles County. 
Increase the number of youth that Haven reaches each year who are affected by poverty and at risk for negative impact behaviors. ​
Track student growth at camp sites over multiple years using the DAP (Developmental Assets Profile) in order to study the effect of arts education on disenfranchised youth and compare how different communities benefit from the program.

LA City Programs
Haven Pico Union
Each year, our HPU students rehearse for and perform 3 musical theatre shows: A Fall/Winter Musical Review, a Spring Musical, and a Summer Theatre Camp. All programs culminate in a fully costumed, choreographed, and lit live performance for the local community. Our programs are explicitly designed to make use of the performing arts’ powerful ability to develop the inner assets that help children succeed academically and personally.

Modeled after our Pico Union programming, this brand new year-round site brings quality arts education to the West Adams community in downtown Los Angeles.
Each year, our HWA students will rehearse for and perform 3 musical theatre shows: A Fall/Winter Musical Review, a Spring Musical, and a Summer Theatre Camp. All programs culminate in a fully costumed, choreographed, and lit live performance for the local community.

hART of the City Summer Theatre Camps
Our hART of the City program offers tuition-free Summer Theatre Camps with instruction in acting, music, and dance, designed to develop character and life skills in our students. Camps are explicitly designed to make use of the performing arts’ powerful ability to develop the inner assets that help children succeed academically, personally, and ultimately professionally, in order to become productive members of society.  All camp sites partner with a church, school, or community group already invested in a low-income area of Los Angeles County, targeting youth grades K-8 who are vulnerable to the negative impacts of their environments. 

The Violence Prevention Center is a bright light in Los Angeles and we feel privileged to be able to support their mission. These bags were filled with necessities (and new books donated by us and our partners at the Book Foundation) and given to victims of domestic violence that had just fled homes other difficult living situations.

Click here to learn more about Access Books. 

PROGRAMS
Our focused programs aim to empower those affected by homelessness, abuse, addiction, and other life-altering situations. We offer various services to help rebuild and inspire our clients toward a brighter future. Our programs include shelter, community renewal, and mothers’ addiction recovery. The Eli Home believes in second chances and is committed to making a positive difference in the lives of those in need.

SHELTER
Our shelter program offers a beautiful and peaceful environment for abused children under 12 with their mothers with 24/7 staff to facilitate programs including parenting training, parent-child interaction, anger management, individual and group counseling, and job training to ensure families move forward to violence-free permanent housing.

24 hour shelter

Managing social skills

Building respect

Healthy child-parent interaction skills

Managing emotions

Vocational training and assistance

Individual and group counseling

Extended services year round

Referral of services and resources

Assistance with obtaining permanent housing

CHILDREN OF ADDICTS
RECOVERY PROGRAM
A new program that began in September 2019. The Eli Home residential recovery program provides housing and extensive case-managed program services to homeless children and their mothers with substance use disorders (SUDs). There is a desperate need for programs that shelter homeless recovering mothers and their children together.

Support System

Housing Options

Sobriety Assistance

Legal Assistance

Vocational Training And Assistance

Individual And Group Counseling

Referral Of Services And Resources

EAST STREET COMMUNITY
RENEWAL INITIATIVE
ESCRI serves a three-square-mile area surrounding Eli home that is a predominantly low-income, densely populated, and high-crime area, which can create stressors that may result in family violence.

Financial Education

Job Training

Family Counseling

Social Services

Parenting Education

After School Tutoring

Teen Club

Food Distribution

Health Education Service

Citizenship Classes

Click here to learn more about The Eli Home. 

​Purpose
Fallbrook Food Pantry believes a nutritious diet is essential to the well-being of the individuals in our community.  We believe every individual should have access to a healthy and nutritious diet. We practice being good stewards of the funds and items donated to us and never violate the trust of our community.  We respond to people in-need by advocating dignity, respect, and fairness for all people by providing hope through nurturing love and emotional support.  Most importantly, we encourage our clients to become self-sufficient, independent, and productive members of the community.
 
Nutrition Guidelines
Fallbrook Food Pantry is committed to providing a variety of nourishing foods from every food group to all clients.  We commit to providing the following at every distribution: 
 
Fresh Fruits & Vegetables

• Each person receives 8-10 pounds of fresh produce weekly
  • 6 or more different fresh fruits
  • 6 or more different fresh vegetables

Whole Grains

• 1 or more whole grains

• Examples include:
  • 100% whole grains
    • Ex. rolled oats, barley, Bulgar, faro, millet, quinoa, brown rice, wild rice
  • Whole grain rich bread, pasta, and tortillas
    • Contains whole grain as the first ingredient (ex. 100% whole wheat, whole corn, etc.)

Proteins

• 1 or more lean proteins
• Examples include:
  • Poultry, lean beef, lean pork (fresh or frozen)
  • Fresh whole eggs
  • Canned white meats
    • Low sodium, canned in water when possible (ex. low sodium canned chicken)
  • Fish
    • Fresh, frozen, or canned in water
  • Canned/dry beans or lentils
    • No sugar or salt added
  • Nuts/nut butters
    • Unsalted, no sugar added (when possible)

 
Purchased Products:

• FFP is committed to having our purchasing reflect a balanced diet as described by Feeding America, San Diego Food Bank, and USDA’s MyPlate.
• FFP will continue to approach nutrition holistically and consider physical, spiritual and cultural needs.

 
Donated Products:

• We will communicate healthy food drive and donation guidelines to all donors:
  • Meat and proteins: beef stew, chicken stew, chili, tuna, lentil soup, peanut butter, nutritional drinks for seniors (i.e. Ensure)
  • Dried goods and canned goods: all canned fruits and vegetables, pastas and pasta sauce, canned and bottled juices, macaroni and cheese, dried beans and peas, rice, breakfast cereals and oatmeal, bread, tortillas, crackers, soups, flour, sugar, cooking oils
  • Dairy: powdered and canned milk (unsweetened)
  • Baby items: baby foods (no formulas)
• For safe handling purposes, FFP does not accept donations in glass containers.

 
Distributed Products

• FFP does not distribute:
  • Alcohol
  • Soda
  • Candy
  • Damaged and unsafe foods
• Soda and candy is offered to volunteers but not distributed to clients

 
Donations to our Partners

• Foods provided by FFP to our partners organizations will reflect our nutrition values with the goal to provide foods from all 4 food groups
• FFP does not provide food to partner organizations that we do not ourselves distribute (i.e. sodas, candy, damaged goods, etc.)

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​Continuing Considerations

• The nutrition policy will be reviewed on an annual basis.

Click here to learn more about Fallbrook Food Pantry. 

What Makes a Therapy Horse?

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Elevate Your G.A.M.E. (EYG) was founded in 2002 by Gipson Lyles (chairman of the board) and Michael Freeman (the executive director).

Michael Freeman met Gipson Lyles (principal of Compton High School in 2001) at his high school class reunion dinner in the fall of 2001. Gipson was there to make an appeal for help. Michael responded to Gipson’s appeal and went back to Compton High to meet with Principal Lyles to discuss how he might help. At that meeting, Gipson and Michael agreed to work together to launch a mentoring program at Compton High School. A few months later on April 13, 2002, Elevate Your G.A.M.E. was born with a kick-off event that matched the first set of mentors with the first set of students.

Now, over 2,500 students have been mentored since 2002 and EYG participants have a 95% graduation rate. EYG students have received scholarships and have been accepted to universities across the United States including: UCLA, USC, Tuskegee, Xavier, Pepperdine, UC Berkley, Biola and many other colleges and universities.

Elevate Your G.A.M.E.’s ultimate goal is to spark a movement of mentoring that spreads into every urban community in America.

Click here to learn more about Elevate Your GAME.