EAST LOS ANGELES : Donations Will Fund Anti-Drug Programs
Two Eastside organizations received $6,000 each from the Beer Institute Community Assistance Fund for their programs on substance abuse prevention.
Soledad Enrichment Action Program and El Centro Human Services received the grants April 10. The fund is a program of The Beer Institute, which represents U.S. brewers and associated industries such as wholesalers and suppliers, said spokeswoman Pat Dailey.
The fund, created in 1989 to award local youth substance-abuse prevention programs throughout the country, provides several grants every year to nonprofit organizations, Dailey said.
The grants will help El Centro, which offers education, job development and conducts the Milagros AIDS Project, continue its leadership.
SEA developed a new program, called High Risk Youth Prevention, for children ages 10 to 12 who are in danger of becoming gang members.
The grant will enable El Centro to take about 20 teen-agers from local high schools and the East Los Angeles Skills Center on a five-day wilderness retreat. They will work on leadership development and alcohol- and drug-abuse prevention, said Jerry Smith, senior program development specialist for El Centro.
The agency’s Substance AbuseTreatment Program will conductthe training and wilderness retreat,Smith said.
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