Our Communities

2011-12 Grantees

Signature Programs

Art in the Village: $24,618
Community Partners: 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center, Alexander Science Center School, Foshay Learning Center, Weemes Elementary, Mack Elementary, Norwood Elementary, St. Agnes School, St. Vincent School, Vermont Elementary
University Partners: USC Fisher Museum of Art, University Village Shopping Center
Description: Art in the Village gives 2,000 USC Family of Schools students the opportunity to create art and writing connected to California teaching standards. At a time when the arts are significantly underfunded, Art in the Village offers quality professional development to more than 100 teachers, together with art supplies, free of charge. Student art exhibitions are publicly displayed at University Village and the USC Fisher Museum of Art.

HSC Community Health and Wellness Fair 2011: $15,675
Community Partners: Bravo Medical Magnet High School, El Sereno Middle School, Griffin Elementary, Murchison Elementary, Sheridan Elementary
University Partner: USC Community Partnerships
Description: The HSC Community Health and Wellness Fair is the annual signature event to provide preventive health services and screenings for blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, mammograms, dental, vision, exercise, Healthy Families and clinic referrals. Information booths run by 150 student volunteers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, USC School of Pharmacy and Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC provide access to these services for more than 1,200 local parents, schoolchildren and other community residents.

USC Health & Science Expo 2012: $14,850
Community Partners: Griffin Elementary, Murchison Elementary, Sheridan Elementary, Bravo Medical Magnet High School
University Partner: USC Community Partnerships
Description: The USC Health & Science Expo introduces children at our Health Sciences campus Family of Schools to basic science and health principles, curricula and potential careers. Each, year approximately 400 fifth-graders participate in an essay contest and work with 20 HSC students to develop a wide range of science projects. The science expo culminates in a one-day science fair competition on the Health Sciences campus.

USC STAR: $26,600
Community Partner: Bravo Medical Magnet High School
University Partner: USC School of Pharmacy
Description: USC STARS provides high school students with a mentored, hands-on science experience in a USC laboratory. The goal of the program is to develop the future generation of research scientists with a commitment to mentoring and science education in the community.

USC Street Law: $7,000
Community Partner: New Designs Charter School
University Partner: USC Gould School of Law
Description: Through Street Law, 70 USC law students serve as mentors for inner-city middle and high school students to provide practical participatory education about law, democracy and human rights, teaching respect for law and its institutions through topics and situations relevant to their daily lives. On “Mentor Day,” students visit campus for a mock lecture by a law professor, and engage with USC students to learn the value of staying in school and getting into college.

USC Thornton JazzReach: $38,225
Community Partners: 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center, Alexander Science Center School, Foshay Learning Center, Manual Arts High School
University Partner: USC Thornton School of Music
Description: USC Thornton JazzReach is an after-school music enrichment program taught by 60 USC Thornton students that fosters the development of skills and appreciation of jazz music for approximately 1,200 underserved students from USC neighborhood schools. Parent involvement is encouraged through an orientation and attendance at USC Thornton events. Students receive quality training and the unique opportunity to participate in ensembles, workshops and private lessons, and to perform in a culmination concert at USC.

USC Thornton Outreach Program: $36,736
Community Partners: 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center, Weemes Elementary, Sheridan Elementary, Vermont Elementary, St. Agnes School, Alexander Science Center School, Foshay Learning Center, Norwood Elementary, Mack Elementary, Murchison Elementary, St. Vincent School, Manual Arts High School
University Partner: USC Thornton School of Music
Description: The USC Thornton Outreach Program provides comprehensive, weekly in- and after-school music education programs to more than 3,600 students and community members in the USC neighborhood. Taught by 85 USC Thornton students, local schoolchildren develop a greater appreciation for the performing arts and receive ongoing music education through in-school performances, field trips, weekly classes and workshops, many of which include parents and other members of the community.

Educated Children: Programs in the Arts

After 'Cool Theatre Program: $26,600
Community Partner: 24th Street Theatre
USC partner: USC School of Theatre
Description: The 24th Street Theatre is the only professional theatre in the North University Park community that provides professional caliber, off-campus, after-school arts instruction to our community’s youth. Students are taught by award-winning theatre professionals using a California standards-based curriculum and work toward creating a culminating performance for their peers, family members and members of the USC community.

Dance Included: $5,474
Community Partners: 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center, Norwood Elementary, Weemes Elementary, Vermont Elementary, St. Agnes School, Mack Elementary, Manual Arts High School, EXPO Center
University Partner: Dance Included (student organization)
Description: A USC student-run program, Dance Included provides more than 360 schoolchildren with an education in dance, which is important to their physical and mental development. Forty USC students volunteer an hour each week to provide a fun and fulfilling form of exercise that helps schoolchildren stay healthy and active while also providing a positive outlet for emotion and stress through choreographed movement.

Enter Stage Right: $26,600
Community Partner: 24th Street Theatre
University Partner: USC School of Theatre
Description: Enter Stage Right (ESR) provides California standards-based arts education workshops for third-graders at 10 USC Family of Schools at both USC campuses as well as intensive one-on-one mentorships for three USC graduate students in the discipline of teaching artistry. The ESR program has been so effective that it has been underwritten by Farmer’s Insurance to produce a video version of the program and a comprehensive study guide that will be distributed nationally.

Connecting Literature to Life in South Los Angeles: $27,599
Community Partners: Manual Arts High School, Foshay Learning Center
University Partner: USC Educational Partnerships
Description: Connecting Literature to Life in South Los Angeles has two components: the Reader Textbook Project and Young Writers’ Workshop/Literary Arts Festival. The program is designed to support, develop and foster a fundamental understanding of our common literary culture through strategies designed to increase interest in reading and writing. Promising writers in our USC Family of Schools ages 12 to 18 will be offered an unusual opportunity to study with urban writers and poets.

Norwood In-School Music Program: $17,100
Community Partner: Norwood Elementary
University Partner: USC Thornton School of Music
Description: The Norwood In-School Music Program will reach all K-5 students through partnerships with USC Thornton School of Music and Education through Music-Los Angeles (ETM-LA). In the past three semesters, Norwood has been grateful to receive recorder classes from USC for two entire grade levels. Through a successful collaboration, we will be able to serve every child at Norwood with sequential, comprehensive music instruction.

Educated Children: Programs in Math, Science and Engineering

Adventures Ahead After School Program: $17,034
Community Partner: Redeemer Community Partnership
University Partner: USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
Description: The Adventures Ahead After School Program helps children develop a lifelong love of reading and reach their full academic potential in a safe, healthy and opportunity-rich environment under the instruction of USC undergraduate students. Homework assistance and English language arts tutoring is provided to 65 children 6 hours per week. Year-round math and science enrichment activities, including all-day math and science summer camps, also are offered.

ARC Smart Archaeology Program: $9,690
Community Partner: 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center
University Partner: Archaeology Research Center/School of Religion, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Description: The ARC Smart Archaeology Program is a California state standards-based archaeology-themed enrichment program for sixth-grade students in the USC neighborhood. ARC Smart provides sixth-graders in USC’s Family of Schools with the thrill and fun of five memorable hands-on archaeology experiences that foster STEM, social science, arts and language arts learning.

Engineering for Health Academy (HSC): $24,730
Community Partner: Bravo Medical Magnet High School
University Partner: Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Description: The Engineering for Health Academy (EHA) is designed as a small learning community within the context of the larger comprehensive high school The major goals of this program are to introduce high school students, including English language learners and underrepresented minorities, to the broad spectrum of biomedical engineering (BME) career opportunities.

Junior Robotics Education: $5,000
Community Partner: Alexander Science Center School
University Partner: USC Libraries
Description: Junior Robotics Education inspires third-grade students to explore and invent their own robotics solutions. The students learn to design, program and control fully functional models. USC students work with participating children to teach them about robotics, research protocols and increase their interest in science subjects through a series of real-life activities covering topics within science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Mission Science (UPC): $30,210
Community Partners: 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center, Foshay Learning Center, Mack Elementary, Norwood Elementary, Vermont Elementary, Weemes Elementary
University Partner: USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Pre-College Programs
Description: Mission Science (UPC) seeks to reinforce children’s natural curiosity and instill an excitement about science and technology. More than 500 elementary and middle school students learn science, engineering and technology by working on an informal, inquiry basis that engages them in true hands-on projects, exhibits, simple experiments, machinery to take apart and a workshop in which to work.

Mission Science 2 (HSC): $17,119
Community Partners: Griffin Elementary, Murchison Elementary, Variety Boys & Girls Club
University Partner: USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Pre-College Programs
Description: Mission Science 2 is an after-school enrichment program that allows more than 200 elementary and middle school students to learn science, engineering and technology by working on an informal, inquiry basis by engaging students in true hands-on projects, exhibits, simple experiments, machinery to take apart and a workshop in which to work.

Opening the Pipeline: Creating Health Career Opportunities through Exposure, Mentoring and Counseling for Bravo High School Med-COR Students: $30,780
Community Partner: Bravo Medical Magnet High School
University Partner: Department of Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Description: The purpose of this project is to improve and nurture the motivation, dedication and academic skills of 40 Latino, black and other underrepresented students at Bravo High School who are interested in health-related careers, including medicine, nursing and allied health. The motivation and dedication will be fostered through an eight-week intense summer career exposure at USC University Hospital and Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center. The academic and study skills enhancement will be achieved through an academic enrichment process, developed by the regular MedCOR program, that will begin during the summer session and continue on throughout the school year.

Science for Life Outreach Program: $11,061
Community Partner: El Sereno Middle School, Murchison Elementary
University Partner: Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Description: The Science for Life Outreach Program is composed of a series of lessons that use the research projects of the USC Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems Engineering Research Center as focal points to make science relevant to young children. Lessons are aligned with LAUSD and California Science Standards, offering students hands-on, inquiry-based activities that demonstrate the scientific method of discovery and emphasizing analytical skills.

USC Family of Schools Concurrent Enrollment Initiative: $34,287
Community Partners: Manual Art High School and Los Angeles City College schools
University Partner: Keck Hospital of USC
Description: The USC Family of Schools Concurrent Enrollment Initiative provides career path opportunities in allied health occupations for a target population of low-income, disadvantaged, first-generation high school students from the USC Family of Schools, specifically those from Manual Arts who are interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Students in grades 11 and 12 will study curricula for a skill certificate in Career Technical Education (CTE) for Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) simultaneous with general education requirements. Upon graduation, students will receive a high school diploma and a skill certificate. Accomplishing two career goals will enable program graduates to be job-ready in areas of human services and will encourage them to continue their educational careers.

USC TRiO Lego Robotics: $15,000
Community Partners: Manual Arts High School, MLA Partner Schools
University Partner: USC Governmental Partnerships
Description: Through a joint partnership between USC TRiO and MLA Partner Schools, a Lego Robotics course will be designed and implemented for 30 students from Manual Arts High School. The intent of this course is to use the motivational effects of robotics to excite and motivate students about science and technology. The goal is for the students to become more technologically literate, scientifically and mathematically competent, and confident about their futures.

Educated Children: Tutoring and Mentoring

I HABLO U: $17,955
Community Partner: Empowerment Congress North Area Neighborhood Development Council (NANDC)
University Partner: USC Community Partnerships
Description: I HABLO U is an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) class and a Spanish-as-a-Second-Language (SSL) class taught in tandem, with each student receiving a community member mentor who speaks the other language. The program’s mission is to create bonds across cultural borders by encouraging collaboration and to position community members for economic development opportunities through second-language instruction.

USC Jumpstart: $15,000
Community Partner: Hoover Intergenerational Care Center
University Partner: USC Volunteer Center, Leadership, Service and Scholars
Description: Corps members partnering with 50 USC Readers Plus student volunteers will serve 500 children attending preschools in the communities surrounding USC. Jumpstart’s innovative program model takes a holistic approach to fostering future success in young children’s literacy, social and initiation skills by capitalizing on positive interactions among preschool children, their Corps members and USC student mentors, their families and the communities where they live and learn.

USC ReadersPlus: $52,393
Community Partners: 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center, Foshay Learning Center, Norwood Elementary, Vermont Elementary, Weemes Elementary
University Partner: USC Readers Plus (JEP)
Description: USC ReadersPlus provides one-on-one, after-school tutoring in reading and math to thousands of children in classrooms at our five neighborhood schools over the past 11 years. This also represents meaningful work opportunities for USC work-study students.

USC ReadersPlus II Community Tutors: $24,558
Community Partners: Alexander Science Center School, Mack Elementary
University Partner: USC Readers Plus (JEP)
Description: USC ReadersPlus and Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI) intend to partner, placing NAI students as reading and math tutors at schools from which they have matriculated, bolstering our total number of tutors trained by JEP staff and allowing expansion into new partner schools (Mack and Alexander Science Center), focusing primarily on K-3 students with the intent to nurture all students to be effective readers by the third grade. Math tutors will focus on upper elementary.

Educated Children: Programs with Local Schools

Community-Based USC Social Work Interns (UPC): $47,093
Community Partners: 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center, Vermont Elementary, Alexander Science Center School, Manual Arts High School, Foshay Learning Center, Mack Elementary, Norwood Elementary
University Partner: USC Educational Partnerships
Description: USC School of Social Work interns will become integral members of the teams that serve students and families in the USC neighborhoods through the USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI), USC School for Early Childhood Education (SECE) and the USC TRiO Program as well as the Family of Schools. Interns will have specialized knowledge and training to provide social, emotional, psychological counseling and crisis intervention.

Intersections: MAHS Journalism: $20,369
Community Partner: Manual Arts High School
University Partner: USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Description: The goal of Intersections: MAHS Journalism is to create a two-way conversation between local residents and the journalists covering their communities. USC journalism students will provide multimedia, journalism and news literacy mentoring to students at Manual Arts High School. The program is designed to reinvigorate and preserve the school’s journalism program.

St. Vincent School: Restructuring the Computer Lab: $8,641
Community Partner: St Vincent School
University Partner: USC Viterbi School of Engineering HOPE (Helping Overcome Project Expenses)
Description: USC Viterbi HOPE (Helping Overcome Project Expenses) has chosen to partner with St. Vincent School to assist in converting a miscellaneous storage room into a computer lab for the use of all students in the school. HOPE is taking the responsibility of overseeing the design and structure of this computer lab. Funding will pay for converting this storage room to fit the environment of a computer lab building to allow for the incorporation of computers to the curriculum of the K-8 students. This includes installing furniture, power outlets and computers as well as hiring contractors to build cabinets and IT professionals to wire the computers and the Internet.

Supporting Foster Youth in Transition to Adulthood: $28,315
Community Partners: Living Advantage, Inc., and Foshay Learning Center
University Partner: USC Joint Educational Project (JEP), and Department of Psychology/USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Description: Living Advantage, the USC Joint Educational Project, the USC Department of Psychology and Foshay will provide targeted support to foster youths at Foshay that will prepare them for independent living, higher education and employment, using a collaborative, research-based approach to assess the needs and develop strategies that work in the best interest of the students and the school and lead to improved academic and behavioral outcomes for foster youth.

USC Family of Schools In-school Facilitators: $48,380
Community Partners: Foshay Learning Center, Manual Arts High School, Norwood Elementary, Vermont Elementary, Weemes Elementary
University Partner: USC Educational Partnerships
Description: This grant provides part-time, on-site coordinators of our USC programs at each of the neighborhood schools. The facilitators build student participation, coordinate communication, assist with program scheduling and serve as liaisons between the school staff and USC program administrators to ensure that programs run efficiently.

USC NAI Saturday Academy: $43,510
Community Partners: Foshay Learning Center and Manual Arts High School
University Partner: USC Educational Partnerships
Description: The USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI) is a pre-collegiate outreach program that provides participating high school students with intense and interactive academic experiences. This includes SAT vocabulary development, writing and mathematics skill-building, study skills, and test-taking skills. Students have shown significant gains on LAUSD English and math assessments, with most scoring at proficient or advanced. This year, 28 of 56 NAI graduates were accepted to USC, of whom 26 will be attending this fall with a full financial aid package.

USC Neighborhood Debate League: $16,449
Community Partners: 32nd Street/MAST, Bravo Medical Magnet High School, Foshay Learning Center and Manual Arts High School
University Partner: USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Description: The USC Neighborhood Urban Debate League will create debate method opportunities that encourage critical thinking, analytic and logical reasoning, and applied research skills that can benefit participants pedagogically and augment concurrent educational practices. The program will introduce students to methods of dispute resolution, community building activities, public advocacy and specialized skills that lead to increased literacy scores.

Your World. Yourself (YWY): $23,750
Community Partner: Manual Arts High School
University Partner: USC Rossier School of Education
Description: The purpose of this grant is to create and pilot a challenged-based-learning project that increases student efficacy and agency through student-led multimedia projects about self, family and community. These funds are sought to 1) create the curriculum, 2) pilot it in a number of USC neighborhood high schools, 3) evaluate the results, and 4) iterate development until a mature and effective project is attained.

Healthy Families: Counseling/Support Programs

USC Community Computing Program: $33,768
Community Partners: 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center, Foshay Learning Center, Alexander Science Center School, Mack Elementary, Norwood Elementary, Vermont Elementary, Weemes Elementary, St. Agnes School, St. Vincent School
University Partner: USC Educational Partnerships
Description: The USC Community Computing Program provides bilingual, low-to-no-cost training in the fundamentals of computer use. Graduates of its programs will receive a personal computer to take home. By providing both the training and the computers, USC can better enhance the economic opportunities of the participants, supporting their children’s academic needs, and their community involvement endeavors.

Early Learning Health Initiative for Families of Young Deaf Children: $23,750
Community Partner: John Tracy Clinic
University Partner: USC School of Social Work
Description: The Early Learning Health Initiative for Families of Young Deaf Children grant program helps prevent physical and mental health disparities with the infusion of healthy living education and experiential activities into the programs and curricula for deaf and hard-of-hearing children and their parents enrolled in John Tracy Clinic programs. Emphasis will be on immersing children and their parents in three-tiered developmentally progressive educational modules emphasizing nutrition, physical activity, social development, emotional support and stress relief. The program will extend across the full school year and summer sessions.

From the Ground Up: $20,495
Community Partner: Community Services Unlimited
University Partner: Department of English and Comparative Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Description: From the Ground Up gardening and healthy cooking workshops at the EXPO Center/CSU Mini-Farm will train residents in home gardening and healthy cooking. The project will provide health education and training that increases consumption of fruits and vegetables in order to reduce instances of obesity and diabetes.

FUENTE Initiative: $7,421
Community Partners: Bravo Medical Magnet High School, Griffin Elementary, Murchison Elementary and Sheridan Elementary; East Los Angeles Skills Center; East Los Angeles Occupational Center
University Partner: USC School of Pharmacy
Description: The FUENTE Initiative uses the educational resources of the USC School of Pharmacy to coordinate local pharmacists and student pharmacists to provide specific poison prevention, appropriate drug-use and self-management education. Children and parents in the local East Los Angeles community will be provided with health awareness programs, fairs and health screenings to improve knowledge of diabetes, hypertension, obesity, HIV/AIDS, healthy pregnancy, STDs, etc.

Proyecto Pastoral Women's Conference: $10,000
Community Partner: Proyecto Pastoral (Centro de Alegria)
University Partner: USC Community Partnerships
Description: An annual Women’s Conference will be hosted for women from Boyle Heights and the surrounding USC Health Science campus. The conference focuses on women’s health ranging from physical, emotional, leadership, personal development, financial and complete well-being to design and address vital issues that affect young girls and women. More than 400 women and girls convene in this day-long conference.

SEEDS: Legacy LA Organic Garden and Mentoring Program: $11,000
Community Partner: Legacy LA
University Partner: USC Community Partnerships
Description: SEEDS will encompass organic gardening, after-school mentoring, nutrition workshops, and the development of a youth-led community cookbook. Phase One will involve USC students, managed by a graduate student coordinator, working alongside community youth to construct, plant and cultivate the garden. Phase Two will focus on harvesting and nutrition, culminating in a giant cook-out for participants and families to present and share the information they have received on healthy nutrition as part of a larger effort to produce and sustain healthy lifestyles.

Sports and Recreation

Kick and Cheer Fitness Program: $19,000
Community Partner: Vermont Elementary
University Partner: USC School for Early Childhood Education
Description: The Kick and Cheer Fitness program will focus on developing soccer and cheerleading programs for preschool and kindergarten age children. Along with the fitness program provided for children, we will provide the “Champions for Change” program, a six-week workshop that helps families prevent serious health problems including obesity prevention for adults and children, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and certain types of cancer.

NYSP Trojan Kids Camp: $26,695
Community Partners: Kids in Sports; Manual Arts High School; Foshay Learning Center, Norwood Elementary, Weemes Elementary, 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center, Alexander Science Center School, Mack Elementary, Vermont Elementary
University Partner: USC Recreational Sports
Description: More than just a summer camp, NYSP Trojan Kids Camp is an instructional program for 225 boys and girls ages 9 to 15 from low-income households. Originally established in 1967, the program uses sports instruction and competition as a vehicle to enhance self-esteem, to promote respect, and to reinforce the importance of education and to promote healthy lifestyles.

After School Sports Connection: $55,000
Community Partners: 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center, Alexander Science Center School, Foshay Learning Center, Norwood Elementary, Vermont Elementary, Weemes Elementary, St. Agnes School, St. Vincent School
University Partner: USC Recreational Sports
Description: After School Sports Connection offers high-quality after-school sports instruction in basketball, soccer, volleyball and martial arts, and Saturday morning swim classes to more than 700 neighborhood children annually. ASSC is designed to provide fitness and team-building skills, as well as provide mentors and positive student role models. ASSC fills the gap between the time school ends and the time parents get home from work with safe, productive and healthy programming.

USC Physical Therapy Fit Families Program: $14,998
Community Partners: Bravo Medical Magnet High School, El Sereno Middle School, Griffin Elementary, Murchison Elementary, Sheridan Elementary
University Partner: USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
Description: Fit Families' mission is to provide pro-bono preventive, wellness, and rehabilitative physical therapy services to underserved elementary school-aged children in the local community who are diagnosed with or at higher risk for diabetes and conditions associated with physical inactivity. Interventions will focus on culturally relevant personalized and structured nutritional, exercise and physical activity-related education for children and their families.

USC Troy Camp: $47,557
Community Partners: Weemes Elementary, 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center, Alexander Science Center School, Foshay Learning Center, Mack Elementary, Norwood Elementary, Vermont Elementary, Weemes Elementary, St. Agnes School, St. Vincent School
University Partner: USC Student Affairs
Description: A student-run nonprofit organization, Troy Camp involves more than 150 USC students who serve as counselors. After providing more than 200 children drawn from 15 neighborhood schools with a funded, week-long camp experience, Troy Camp continues its program with a year of academic, leadership, teamwork and skill-building events. Troy Camp reinforces these skills through frequent mentor-child interactions during field trips and fun activities that expose children to new and meaningful opportunities.

Healthy Families: Dental Programs

USC Neighborhood Mobile Van Prevention Project: $27,944
Community Partners: 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center, Alexander Science Center School, Foshay Learning Center, Griffin Elementary, Mack Elementary, Murchison Elementary, Norwood Elementary, Sheridan Elementary, St. Agnes School, St. Vincent School, Vermont Elementary, Weemes Elementary
University Partner: Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC
Description: This grant allows the mobile dental clinic to purchase the necessary supplies to provide preventative oral health services and referrals to elementary schoolchildren using the USC mobile dental van onsite at the USC Family of Schools. This year, the program will incorporate USC faculty and dental hygiene students attending local health fairs to perform dental screenings, anti-tobacco education, and perform oral cancer screenings to adults.

Safe Streets

Kid Watch: $48,530
Community Partners: 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center, Alexander Science Center School, Foshay Learning Center, Mack Elementary, Norwood Elementary, Vermont Elementary, Weemes Elementary, St. Agnes School, St. Vincent School; Los Angeles School Police; Los Angeles Police Department/Southwest
University Partners: USC Department of Public Safety; Kid Watch
Description: Kid Watch is a network of residents who voluntarily watch over school children as they walk to and from school. More than 1,000 volunteer community members - trained and supported by Kid Watch staff - are committed to helping make our neighborhood safer for those who live, work, worship, shop and go to school in the community. The Kid Watch model has been adopted by the City of Los Angeles as “Kid Watch LA” and adopted by 40 schools.

USC DPS Cadet Program: $27,028
Community Partners: 32nd Street/MAST High School, Manual Arts High School
University Partners: USC Department of Public Safety; Kid Watch
Description: The USC DPS Cadet Program is designed to give youth ages 12 to 21 years training opportunities to explore careers in law enforcement and public service as well as the benefits of a higher education. Cadets participate in on-campus details such as all home football games, community walks with USC DPS Crime Prevention, Kid Watch events, and many more. The Cadet Academy provides students 96 hours of academic, physical conditioning, and experiential classes.