Juvenile Justice

Arts and Culture partnered with the Department of Youth Development, Probation Department, and the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles to bring the arts to the Barry J. Nidorf Secure Youth Treatment Facility, where justice-involved youth learned to play in a drumline. The Drum Corps Program is the result of a 2023 motion by Supervisors Holly J. Mitchell and Lindsey P. Horvath which directed the music program be developed and implemented at Nidorf.

To learn more about the emerging field of Healing Centered Engagement, especially as it relates to arts based youth development, please download our zine Healing-Centered Engagement—Reflections and Insights from the Field.

The New Regional Blueprint for Arts Education contains strategies for increasing arts education in school, after school, and in communities, including juvenile justice, foster youth, and workforce development systems.

LA County Department of Arts and Culture plan advances Board commitment to create more rehabilitative, less punitive, justice system.

Campus Kilpatrick tests efficacy of new "LA Model"