Community Clean Skate Parks and Green Spaces Initiative

Green space, park access, and trees

Central LA East LA South LA San Gabriel Valley West LA San Fernando Valley Gateway Cities Long Beach South Bay City of Los Angeles (select only if your project has a citywide benefit) County of Los Angeles (select only if your project has a countywide benefit) Antelope Valley Other (below)

Expand existing project, program, or initiative (expanding and continuing ongoing, successful work)

As a skateboarder of 25 years, I have visited most Southern California skate parks and aside from being exciting and a skater's playground, the one constant that I have noticed is that there is usually trash and litter left both inside of the skate park and the surrounding green space or park where the skate facilities is located.
I started my skateboarding company, Security Skates Productions, with the goal of strengthening and enriching the skateboarding community. I have hosted contests, skate meet ups, coached young skaters in lessons, and helped relaunch a skateboarding program for youths at Gilbert Lindsay Recreation Center in South Los Angeles.
Most recently, Security Skates Productions has partnered with the City of Los Angeles Board of Public Works Office of Community Beautification to execute 24 skate park clean ups throughout 2025 and through this have realized that communities and youths are looking for opportunities to take more pride in their parks/green spaces.

Through networking with community and recreation centers all throughout Los Angeles County, this initiative will provide training to empower neighborhoods and communities to take local pride in clean parks and facilities. By engaging with residents who are committed to keeping their neighborhood parks and green spaces clean, we can establish a team of community ambassadors who are trained and dedicated to organizing and executing volunteer park clean ups. This initiative will also be geared towards youths at skate parks in an effort to pass the clean parks ideal on to the next generation of park goers. By dispersing clean up tools and gear to community cleanup ambassadors, we will be creating avenues for community leaders and neighborhood advocacy groups to improve their areas with instant results.
Success for this initiative can be achieved in 8 basic steps:
1. Contact and communicate with community and recreation centers in Los Angeles County, starting with ones that include skate park facilities.
2. Communicate goals and determine dates for initial clean ups.
3. Connect with community leaders and residents near clean up area.
4. Promote clean up and provide training to new participants.
5. Establish community ambassadors.
6. Execute park/skate park/neighborhood cleanup.
7. Disperse skate and clean up tools and gear to ambassadors, partners, leaders or centers.
8. Advocate for future community cleanups.

When this initiative is successful, communities and neighborhoods will organize park clean ups on a regular basis. Utilizing the gear and tools to be dispersed to clean up ambassadors, L.A. County residents will be empowered to clean the areas of the parks and streets that may be overlooked by city services. This will give residents a sense of pride in their parks and green spaces and allow communities to expand on clean up areas and opportunities that most affect them, making for cleaner and safer Los Angeles neighborhoods.