This team collaborates on creative means through which young people can stay healthy, achieve their potential, and improve their community. Any young person interested in participating should call or have a parent call the program contact for information on availability.
Programs are free.
After School Program Sports, art, drama, drill team, computers, cooking, reading lab, weightlifting, and landscape design are a few of the after hours activities at Luther Burbank Middle School, thanks to a collaboration between Occidental College students, LA Team Mentoring, Hathaway staff, and school faculty. Teen Empowerment Teen Smart Trains and supports seven peer educators who offer fellow youth access to information on issues of safe sex, sexuality, and teen pregnancy, in collaboration with Planned Parenthood and Chinatown Services Center. A mobile unit is also available on a monthly basis and provides services for birth control, pap smears pelvic exams, male exams, and pregnancy testing. This council c omprised of high school students identified as having leadership potential, meets weekly to discuss ways to improve the community. Partners include Occidental College, Chinatown Services Center, the R.O.C.K., and Eagle Rock and Franklin High Schools.