Lost Angels Children's Project
LACP’s mission is to serve disadvantaged youth, families, and communities through innovative vocational training, social enterprise, and outreach programs. LACP empowers and employs youth within the Antelope Valley and greater Los Angeles area by offering a paid vocational training program that provides a direct path to sustainable job placement.
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CREATE ·2024 Grants Challenge
·🎉 2024 John N. Calley Foundation WinnerHard Work Pays Off: Capturing the Unattainable
LACP’s The Work Program provides vocational training to low-income, transitional-aged youth in the Antelope Valley with the goal of directly placing them in high-caliber aerospace jobs. We support our students to reduce barriers to employment and develop their skills during the 12-week program, ensuring success in their secured job placements upon graduation. LACP continues to support our students after graduation, working with them 1-on-1 to develop their initial placements into long-term career paths for economic advancement and security.
LIVE ·2022 Grants Challenge
·🎉 2022 Hilton Foundation WinnerLost Angels Work Program
LACP aims to support and expand the Lost Angels Work Program – a 12-week industrial arts vocational training and skills development program that serves at-risk and opportunity youth ages 18-24 in the Antelope Valley. As a social enterprise, LACP youth at-risk for homelessness and/or joblessness – will go through a paid apprenticeship in classic car restoration, gaining a multitude of skills and techniques including welding, fabrication, engine assembly, electrical, bodywork, and composites.
CREATE ·2020 Grants Challenge
·🎉 2020 Goldhirsh Foundation & Snap Foundation WinnerGood Life Manufacturing
LACP respectfully request support for Good Life Mfg., a 12-week industrial arts vocational training and skills development program that serves opportunity youth ages 18-24 in the Antelope Valley. As a social enterprise, LACP students —who are at-risk for homelessness or joblessness—will go through a paid apprenticeship to build furniture using welding, fabrication and woodworking skills. Support from LA2050 will ensure that LACP can implement the project at full capacity to teach a 10-student cohort every 12-weeks throughout the year.
LEARN ·2016 Grants Challenge
·🎉 2016 Goldhirsh Foundation WinnerSkills development, creative expression and team building through classic car restoration.
Lost Angels Children's Project engages at-risk youth through classic car restoration and customization to learn a trade, gain life skills and become empowered through team building activities.