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The Salesian Boys and
Girls Club was founded in 1966 as an outreach of Salesian High School
in an abandoned Jewish Menorah Community Center in East Los Angeles.
The Salesian Family Youth Center was founded in 1995 in Boyle Heights. Due
to seismic and other code deficiencies, the Center is being rebuilt
and will be complete in summer, 2000. The two locations are justified
by the 40,000 youth and incompatible gang territories in the area.
Depressed economic conditions and high crime qualify virtually all
of the area children as being at very high risk for alcohol and drug
use, and for gang involvement. The Club and Center boast gymnasiums,
an indoor swimming pool, and state-of-the-art learning and technology
centers. Their goal is to bring positive change to East Los Angeles
by offering hope and opportunity to its youth. The California Office
of the Attorney General in Sacramento selected the Club as a four-year
crime, gang, and violence prevention site.
Programs include leadership
training, service programs, literacy, tutoring, fine arts, sports
programs, employment preparation and character building. New programs
are designed to meet the specific needs of very high risk teenage
youth, as well as to intervene with high risk 4th and 5th graders
before they are entangled in drugs, gangs and school failure. The
Club also operates a summer camp. In 1999, the Club offered a week
at camp to five different groups of 60 boys and girls, ages seven
to thirteen.
The Foundation began funding the Salesian Boys & Girls
Club in 1983 by contributing to the campership fund for at-risk inner
city youth. In 1998 the Foundation assisted with the purchase of
expansion land for the Family Youth Center. |
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Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation |
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