Youth Peace Builders

Peace Over Violence is dedicated to fostering healthy relationships and communities through education and support services focusing on youth development. Our free educational workshops and intervention services are for both youth and their families residing in the Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles area. These essential services and activities empower youth and their loved ones to live safe and healthy lives.

Join us in creating a positive impact and nurturing a community where everyone can thrive. Submit our form below to request free programming today!

Youth Peace Builders is a project funded by the Los Angeles Department of Youth Development.

Schools Over Violence (SOV) is Peace Over Violence’s comprehensive model for providing prevention and intervention services in our educational institutions.

SOV aligns with our current efforts to ignite and sustain a community-wide movement to eliminate interpersonal violence that is inclusive of at-risk young people, their families, their direct service providers and the institutions that serve them. To create a cultural shift to one in which relationship violence is not tolerated, SOV tailors POV’s tested and successful strategies––individual and group support, public education, workforce training, community organizing, advocacy, youth leadership development, and expertise in branding and design––to our school communities. The overarching vision of SOV is an improved school climate (in public secondary school settings) as a result of realigning and integrating school-based responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking so that they reflect a coordinated, holistic and replicable approach to responding to unhealthy behaviors.

 

The four main components of SOV include

  • Prevention, leadership, and intervention services for youth

  • Educational workshops and leadership training for parents and caregivers

  • Awareness and response training for school-site faculty and staff

  • Prevention and response protocol and policy development

 

Schools that POV is currently working with include

  • Rise Kohyang Middle School

  • The Bresee Foundation 

  • Burbank Middle School 

  • Le Conte Middle School 

  • John Liechty Middle School