POPS the Club
Nonprofit
POPS provides support to teens so that they can effectively move through the challenges they experience as a result of having a justice-involved loved one. Through trauma-informed, arts-based programs, POPS creates a safe space where teens can transform stigma and shame and thrive academically, socially, and emotionally, now and as adults.
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Submitted Ideas
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Idea about how to make LA a better place to learn, submitted by this organization in the 2021 challenge.
Make LA the best place to LEARN
One of five LA2050 Goals
Our region offers opportunities for lifelong learning, allowing all residents to contribute their skills, talents, and abilities to society.
By 2050, all Los Angeles students will have access to early education programs, every high school student will graduate and be college and career ready, and all parents will be engaged and empowered to direct their children’s learning. LA will capitalize on its concentration of higher education facilities to foster new businesses, advance research, and spur innovation.
POPS the Club POPScast
POPScast is a podcast made by and for teens to explore and discuss the realities of ways the criminal justice system impacts their lives. Teen hosts explore this impact through discussion, expert interviews, call-ins, calls to action and poetry, spoken word, visual arts, and music. Focused on a slice of life approach, POPScast will explore a different theme each week and like POPS the Club, celebrates and honors teens’ voices, visions and ideas and creates a community of learning and support. Learn more
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Idea about how to make LA a better place to play, submitted by this organization in the 2020 challenge.
Make LA the best place to PLAY
One of five LA2050 Goals
Our region is a place where people of all ages have easy access to clean, safe, and sustainable venues to enjoy the natural environment, arts and cultural resources, and local beaches, waterways, and open space.
In 2050, people of all ages will enjoy safe homes, safe neighborhoods, and safe places to play. Every neighborhood will provide its residents with vibrant park space, every child will have access to afterschool enrichment programs, and residents will love their neighborhoods.
POPS the Club
POPS the Club provide arts-based healing for underserved Los Angeles youth with justice-involved loved ones. Students will have the opportunity during lunchtime meetings to gain the skills and tools to heal the stigma and pain of the prison system while building the foundation for a productive and positive future. Students will create artwork and writing for publication and performance as well as a video documenting the project and performances to spread awareness about the effects of incarce... Learn more
