Sunset Junction's Youth Program was created as a result of the community being pulled apart. People want their communities to be livable again, free of gangs, drugs and violence. The Youth Program has been a success in getting neighborhood youth involved in taking action in the community.

The Youth Program has networked with El Centro Del Pueblo, Hollywood-Sunset Free Clinic, LACER, King & Virgil Middle Schools, Le Conte Middle School, John Marshall and Hollywood High Schools for over 13 years to provide a support system for youth as an alternative choice as oppose to negative behavior, which has helped more than 5,000 youth.

Some of the activities include: Christmas Parties, Field Trips, Sports, Counseling, Tutoring, Job Training and Community Service (John Marshall High School). At present we are working with about 60 youth a week, at Le Conte Elementary and Hollywood High, with no more city funding. Two Soccer teams, competing in Saturday and Sunday Leagues.

To date our completed projects include: twenty-five murals, acting classes, participation in soccer teams, job training, newly planted trees, care of the Fountain and help on building the Triangle Park and the Manzanita community garden, painting local business signs, graffiti paint-out, and neighborhood clean up. Involvement in these projects gives the youth great pride and purpose in community, and builds self-esteem.

The Alliance strives to building up the community by creating opportunities for all people to come together in harmony and work in partnership, especially our youth, and to empower them in the community in which they live.

Our latest mural, at the Surplus Value Center (Hyperion Ave), was finally done at the beginning of November 2007. Thanks to all for all the support in this wonderful community mural.