Positive Results Center addresses trauma from a cultural and age perspective, creating awareness to prevent and end teen dating, domestic and interpersonal violence, sexual assault, bullying, sex trafficking, and their impact and source through workshops on healthy relationships and leadership development.

Our goal is to help people Create Healthy Relationships for themselves, their families, and the community at large. We believe that when you positively impact one life, you create space for everyone to live life abundantly!

Our Vision is to reduce violence in our homes and communities by supporting people to make positive decisions about their current lives and future directions, reduce dropout rates, and educate them about the reasons and consequences of unhealthy behaviors. We support families, schools, and community organizations to collaboratively develop employable young adults who, in turn, create “Positive Results” communities and encourage a peer culture & legacy of anti-violence. We serve under-served and under-represented youth and adults of all genders.

We are considered a premier authority on healthy relationships, teen dating violence, and sexual assault awareness and prevention. We are committed to continuously researching and learning from diverse communities, especially those that are most impacted, to ensure our pedagogies and practices remain culturally relevant, contemporary, accessible, and engaging to all audiences.

PRC’s team is unique and authentic to our mission. While we strongly assert that every community is impacted by dating violence, bullying, and sexual assault in a multitude of ways; we live, work, love and worship in the communities we seek to make the greatest impact. These communities such as South Central Los Angeles, Watts, Compton, Carson, and Inglewood to name a few experience some of the highest incidents of violence, incarceration, and recidivism. You can read more about these facts at:

http://www.lapdonline.org/home/content_basic_view/23514
http://www.vpcgla.org/statistics/

Because we are members of the communities we serve, we have seen and experienced the same traumas, acts of violence, incidents of abuse, concerns, and hopes as the people with whom we support and serve. Because of this unique, empathetic, and critical insight to stated and unstated community needs, we are a trusted and rich asset to the project of community healing.

We are passionate about our work, and our passion comes from a place of deep love, hope, community care. People of color, especially our children, our queer and trans children, and our economically disenfranchised children experience the highest rates of violence, assault and abuse in this country. They suffer from undiagnosed mental illness and, in our current political landscape, have increasingly limited access to the resources needed to survive, thrive, heal, and dream.

Although these are well-known statistics, there is still no wide-scale call for legislative or systemic justice among the people who have the most power to create change. And while there are some phenomenally strong grassroots and non-profit advocates focused on awareness, prevention and healing around the country, we need more invested people and our organizations need more funding and systemic support. Unfortunately, our children’s needs are pushed under the rug and it is made to appear as if people in our communities: (1) Like the violence we experience; ( 2) Caused the violence we are speaking up about; ( 3) Deserve the devastating impacts we’re attempting to circumvent, and most insidiously (4) are simply acting our normal behavior.

PRC believes people who know they are loved, are taught to believe in themselves, and are given the opportunity to excel can live amazing lives. Love, confidence, resource, and opportunity changes the narrative of a person, their family, and their community. We want to create opportunities and possibilities for the youth and adults in our community, support them to develop their leadership and critical thinking, and ultimately develop generations of positive results communities – communities that encourage legacies of anti-violence and prevention, that collaboratively reduce violence in our homes, schools & communities, and that support each other to live joyful and emotionally healthy lives.

Some of our most critical pieces of work have been to provide professional development on trauma and abuse for parents, educators, and providers. We also provide leadership training; intergenerational, family-centered healthy relationship and peer advocacy training; and programing that centers on homeless youth and adults. This work provides a space for our most impacted community members to slow down, take a much-needed breath, disengage from the daily struggles of surviving the streets, and learn about how trauma is manifested.

We help people realize how trauma occupies our bodies and lead to PTSD symptoms such as depression, anxiety, headaches, digestive problems, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, and more. We support them to explore and recognize what their push points and sensitive areas are, what triggers them, how to care for themselves when they feel activated, and how to make decisions that are generative and healing-driven rather than reactive. Our training helps people to strengthen their empathy muscles, assess their needs, determine how to engage people and effectively communicate (verbal, non-verbal, written, etc.) through a plethora of emotions. Not only does our work develop more community leaders and thinkers, but we also facilitate space and opportunity that brings together people who have committed themselves to experience more joy, more happiness, and more healthy relationships that span professional, personal, intimate, and platonic situations.