KLBRI

Dance Warriors x Xinachtli is a spirit-centered, Afro-Latinx and Indigenous-rooted leadership and healing program for system-impacted youth.

LAIPA proposes to provide an extremely valuable gathering of organizing priorities from LA's indigenous youth and families, through a series of facilitated circulos/talking circles throughout the City that culminates in a county-wide encuentro/gathering where community organizing training will be the foundation of communal strategy development among participants. This is a unique opportunity to bring Indigenous youth from the U.S. and from south of border living in Los Angeles County.

KLBRI’s SanArte program Is an innovative approach to decolonize mental health and community safety in systematically disinvested communities. KLBRI weaves ancestral cultural wisdom, circle keeping, and leadership development with a teen peer mental health first aid certification training into a culturally responsive 12-week youth empowerment experience. KLBRI equips youth and their communities to develop their own ecosystem of care, allowing the community to cocreate spaces and places where Latinx and Indigenous communities can heal and thrive.

KLBRI seeks to disrupt the abuse to prison pipeline and develop a pipeline of emerging healing justice youth leaders committed to individual and collective healing, systems change and liberation. With funding from LA2050, KLBRI hopes to launch Xinachtli Youth Leadership Rites of Passage Circulos and teen Mental Health First Aid to ensure that systems-impacted girls and gender expansive youth of color can heal and thrive.

KLBRI’s Project THRIVE expands the Los Angeles social justice ecosystem by uplifting the well-being of social justice leaders, advocates, and organizations. Through culturally responsive and healing-centered leadership development offerings, Project THRIVE will provide essential mental health and holistic wellness services to communities in need. Those supported by Project THRIVE will include immigrant street vendors, systems impacted Latina and indigenous youth, as well as social justice leaders and advocates residing in Los Angeles County.