Mission

Our mission is to improve community health by empowering individuals to promote and pratice the healthy lifestyles and behaiviors necessary to build positive proactive healthy communities.

The Blazers is dedicated to providing a Safe Haven where families develope and cultivate skills to:

• To Listen Actively
• To Think Positively
• To Speak Truthfully
• To Act Responsibly and Compassionately
• To be valued members of the community.

History

Founded in 1969, "The Blazers" began as a youth basketball program providing basketball instructions, academic tutoring, and mentoring for ten young men from West and Central Los Angeles. From its modest beginnings in a local park, "The Blazers" evolved into a league of six teams with seventy members-boys and girls, age's 7-to-17 who competed across the country and won national titles. in 1994, the program expanded its vision to include an after school program and opened "The Blazers Safe Haven" for learning.

Located in the urban inner city of Los Angeles, with in the 8 th Los Angeles City Council District, The Blazer Safe Haven has the unique oppourtunity to reach out and empower the economically educationally, technologically disadvantaged youth and their families, of its community. This is accomplished, in part, by empowering the community's youth with the educational tools and support they will need to better themselves and the communities in which they live.