Reducing Violence, Saving Lives Mission The Long Beach Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention Project (LB GRIP Project) will create a collaboration of educational, prevention and intervention based programs as well as related support systems to provide essential educational, career, social and life skills development training and services for at-risk youth and adults in the target area. Vision The LB GRIP Project Advisory Council envisions a community where youth are highly valued, well educated, skilled for the 21st century workplace, healthy, law abiding, and contributing members of society who respect the rights of others and themselves. Purpose The LB GRIP Project will address critical unmet community needs necessary to effectively address growing youth and gang violence through a youth-centered, community-wide approach enlisting the expertise and resources of numerous City departments, community, educational, and regional partners.  The Project can effectively contribute toward gang prevention, intervention, education, job training and skills development, as well as family and community services in the target area.  The Project is designed to provide youth who are identified as already involved in criminal or gang activity or are at-risk, with positive alternatives to gang participation in a safe environment, including job training and skills development.  The Project is also intended to promote community awareness and education via anti-gang messages.  Further, the Project will enhance the coordination of existing efforts and resources related to youth and gang violence prevention and intervention as well as family and community services to maximize the return on the investment of limited resources Overview The Human Dignity Program administers the LB GRIP Project, a project funded by the state CalGRIP grant.  The overseeing body to the LB GRIP is its Advisory Council.  The Advisory Council has evolved from the City’s Youth and Gang Violence Prevention Task Force, which was established in 2004 as a result of a report on youth and gang violence written by the City of Long Beach Human Relations Commission. Top

The LB GRIP Project will: Refer underserved youth and young adults in Police Beats 4 and 5 (North to Hill Street; South to Anaheim Street; West to the Los Angeles River; and East to Cherry Avenue) to positive alternatives to gang participation in a safe environment; Promote community awareness and education through anti-gang messages; and Enhance the coordination of existing efforts and resources related to youth and gang violence prevention as well as family and community services to maximize the return on the investment of limited resources in the target area.