Legacy LA Youth Development Corporation
Legacy LA's mission is to make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. Legacy LA builds the capacity of youth to reach their full potential and equips them with tools to transform their lives and community.
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PLAY ·2023 Grants ChallengeLegacy LA Youth Leaders for Environmental Justice
Legacy LA youth leaders from the Ramona Gardens public housing development in Boyle Heights will continue an Environmental Justice campaign to build the Ramona Gardens Natural Park Air Pollution Solution with a focus on advocacy, career readiness and exposure to natural resource education. The program will provide youth leaders with professional and technical skill training, so that they are well equipped to lead and effect systemic change, and to become stewards for increased access to natural resources, parks and open space in their community
LIVE ·2022 Grants Challenge·🎉 WinnerYouth Leaders for Environmental Justice
Youth leaders from the Ramona Gardens public housing development in Boyle Heights will continue a campaign to build the Ramona Gardens Natural Park with an anti-pollution green buffer to protect 2,000 low-income primarily Latino residents from transit-related air pollution from the adjacent fifteen-lane Interstate-10 Highway. Air quality in Ramona Gardens is among the worst statewide, according to a CalEnviroScreen map, leaving residents at a disproportionately high risk for chronic health conditions from air pollution.