Pico Youth & Family Center
To equip underserved youth and their families with the leadership and advocacy skills needed to strengthen and sustain the community in which they live. We promote Peace, Unity and Social Justice by advancing educational and economic opportunity. We work to instill hope in our youth by engaging them in creating solutions to our community’s problems
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CREATE ·2023 Grants ChallengeRe-Imagine LA Public Education for Formerly Incarcerated and BIPOC Youth
The Imagine Futures (IF) Mobile Classroom is a project of the Pico Youth & Family Center (PYFC) a non-profit organization that started in 1998 as a grassroots movement to address gang violence, specifically 64 gang-related youth homicides in Santa Monica's Pico Neighborhood. The IF initiative proposes the question: What happens IF we reimagine educational access and opportunities to meet the needs of the most marginalized groups of people? We use the latest technology and educational tools to disrupt the school to prison pipeline.
- CREATE ·2022 Grants Challenge
Digital Dream Pathways
We empower youth (ages 8 to 24) through professional training in Music, Film, Digital Media, Creative Arts, Technology and more. The Digital Dream Pathways gives marginalized youth and young artists a real opportunity to develop their creativity and compete in the 21st Century global economy through one-of-a-kind apprenticeship training at Silicon Beach companies and local businesses. Our goal is to be the home of the Next Big Thing, and help our students develop the next Snapchat or TikTok.