COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION & TREATMENT
Cause Area
- Community
- Education & Literacy
- Justice & Legal
- Politics
- Race & Ethnicity
Location
8101 S VERMONT AVELOS ANGELES, CA 90044 United StatesOrganization Information
Mission Statement
To help transform the social and economic conditions in South LA that foster addiction, crime, violence and poverty by building a community institution that involves thousands in creating, influencing and changing public policy.
Description
Community leaders, including U.S. Congresswoman Karen Bass, founded Community Coalition as a non-profit organization in 1990 in response to the 1980's crack cocaine epidemic that devastated South LA. The goal was to provide preventative community-centered solutions to the drug problem. Community Coalition works with African American and Latino residents to build a prosperous and healthy South LA with safe neighborhoods, quality schools, a strong social safety net and positive economic development in order to reduce crime, poverty and substance abuse in our community.