Reach a child, raise a leader, restore community.

We are seeking to address youth unemployment and access to higher education for Black and Brown students. Our StreetLeader Program employs local high school students as counselors, tutors, and mentors for the children who attend our programs. Our programs are led by trained, high school students seeking to make an impact in their own communities. The heart of the StreetLeader Program is challenging teens to use their influence to make positive changes in the lives of our students, in their own lives, and throughout their communities. Our StreetLeaders live in the same neighborhoods (Canoga Park) as the campers they serve. UrbanPromise Los Angeles provides StreetLeaders with extensive job training, tutoring (academic standing is directly tied to the number of days a StreetLeader may participate in the program), college preparation, and mentoring to help them succeed in and outside of the program.

The StreetLeader Program employs Canoga Park High School students as counselors, tutors, and mentors for the children who attend our AfterSchool Program and Summer Camp. Through our Friday trainings, UPLA provides StreetLeaders with job training, tutoring, help in the college application process, and mentoring to help them succeed beyond the program. The heart of the StreetLeader program is challenging teens to use their influence to make positive changes in the lives of these children, in their own lives, and throughout their communities. Our ultimate goal is to equip our StreetLeaders to be ready for leadership on their college campuses, with a passion to eventually return to their community to live a life of prolonged servant-leadership in their respective fields.

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The holistic approach of UrbanPromise - social-emotional, spiritual, and academic development - is how we reach a child, raise a leader, and ultimately restore community. Although a variety of services exist for LA’s youth, these services lack UrbanPromise’s commitment to involving teens in the process of transforming their neighborhoods through the tutoring and mentoring of the younger children in their communities. We believe through the UrbanPromise model, a new generation of young leaders will develop and affect positive change in their neighborhoods and the city. We believe that the “city of angels” can be radically transformed through this type of intentional discipleship and development.

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