About

Sin Fronteras is a non-profit organization incorporated in the State of California since September 13, 2000. Our target population consists of children and youth in the Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice System. We have also worked with children and youth at risk in El Salvador, and are looking to expand to other areas as well. Our services consist of organizing for social justice by providing workshops to incarcerated youth as well as youth who live in disenfranchised and underrepresented areas of Los Angeles County.

Sin Fronteras works to break cycles of violence by helping youth develop specific skills needed to transition from incarceration to successful community living. The ten-week series of psycho-educational workshops, implemented inside the Probation facilities, consist of life and psychosocial skills training (i.e., conflict resolution, effective communication, boundaries, etc.), health education, parenting, anger management, education, and job skills/job preparation training.

The youth who participate in “My Choice” are directly involved in their learning process by providing feedback and suggestions in the pre-and post-tests. In the tenth workshop, youth are administered a post-test, to assess knowledge gained and changes in attitudes about violence, what they liked most and least about the training, what they would do differently if they were running the workshops. This curriculum was developed by youth, and has guaranteed its success and efficacy. The outline of the ten-week psycho-educational workshop curriculum is attached.

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