Through a partnership between community and law enforcement, PAL’s mission is to nurture young people to become responsible, productive, and law abiding citizens by offering character-building, educational, sports, and the life-enhancing programs.

HISTORY AND PROGRAMMING

Hollenbeck PAL was founded in 1992 through the efforts of Hollenbeck Division of the Los Angeles Police Department and community residents to implement sports activities to high-risk youths in response to the juvenile crime increase in the area. In 2003 PAL acquired its own 501(c)(3) non-profit status and is now governed by a board of directors compromising of community leaders, law enforcement personnel, and business professionals.

Vision: Our ultimate goal is a community without crime, where children have equal access to opportunity, and where peace officers help drive the community’s vitality

Hollenbeck PAL provides safe places throughout the community where children recreate and learn safety during non-school hours while providing meaningful, structured activities that are economically accessible (most services are free) to every child in the service area. All program participants are from low-income to poverty level households, and are continuously exposed to gang and other unlawful activities. For over 18 years, PAL has been helping youth, regardless of their ethnic background or economic status, make positive changes in their lives by teaching them healthy life-style principles, providing them with positive role-models, instilling in them the concept of teamwork, building in them the qualities of sportsmanship, and providing them with opportunities to gain and exercise leadership skills. 

For more information on how you can participate or help a child create a future filled with opportunities 

Please Contact:

HOLLENBECK PAL
Officer Glenda Brooks
Executive Director
323.224.0153
126 N. St. Louis
Los Angeles, CA 90033