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Mission & Comprehensive Strategy

The City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Development (GRYD) was established in 2007 to reduce gang violence through a coordinated, citywide strategy.

Today, GRYD delivers prevention, intervention, and community engagement services across 23 GRYD Zones, aligning funding and programming to strengthen safety in neighborhoods most impacted by violence.

Mission & Comprehensive Strategy

GRYD’s Comprehensive Strategy is guided by two core missions:

Improve the health and well-being of youth, families, and communities by promoting positive, prosocial choices.
Strengthen provider staff capacity to deliver high-quality, effective services.

GRYD Comprehensive Strategy Goals

Increasing the community’s knowledge of and access to equitable resources.
Increasing youth and family protective factors and resiliency while reducing gang joining among youth.
Increasing youth and family protective factors and resiliency among gang-involved youth and young adults

GRYD Comprehensive Strategy Goals

Facilitating effective communication and coordinated responses to prevent gang violence.
Facilitating effective communication and coordinated responses to reduce the likelihood of retaliation when violent incidents occur.
Providing training opportunities on how to recognize and address vicarious trauma and prevent the reactivation of individual trauma.
Providing on-going training and support to connect GRYD provider staff to best practices in the delivery of services.