Spirit Awakening Foundation
Spirit Awakening is an arts-based nonprofit dedicated to helping underserved youth and children in the juvenile justice system realize their authentic identity, value and self-worth. Since 1995 we have been teaching the unheard the power of positive and productive expression through creative writing, visual arts, improvisation, and meditation.
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LEARN ·2023 Grants ChallengeMENTORING LEADERS / BREAKING CHAINS
Through Mentoring Leaders, Spirit Awakening Foundation offers a free after-school intergenerational program providing healing, mentorship, and arts-focused support for formerly-incarcerated, systems-impacted and at-promise LA youth. Our real-time, personalized assistance is an antidote to the internalized racism that produces self-hatred, low self-esteem and violent behavior resulting from systemic structures that oppress and harm youth and communities of color. Through this program, our intention is to disrupt the school to prison pipeline.
- LEARN ·2022 Grants Challenge
Healing Trauma, Building Character for Youth
Spirit Awakening Foundation’s (SAF) trauma-informed, restorative arts prevention and intervention programs for youth mitigate LA County’s youth incarceration problems. Offering meditation, creative arts, mentoring and leadership training, SAF addresses the internalized self-hatred and low self-esteem stemming from racist structures that oppress and harm many youth and communities of color. Funds will be used to support SAF staff and contractors who are key to sustaining SAF's work to build character and raise self-esteem, one child at a time.