Violence, Hope & Healing: The Storytelling Project Celebration

Thu Jan 16 2025 at 09:30 am to 12:00 pm UTC-08:00

The California Endowment | Los Angeles

LAC Office of Violence Prevention
Publisher/HostLAC Office of Violence Prevention
Violence, Hope & Healing: The Storytelling Project Celebration
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Please join as we celebrate the courage, resilience, and generosity of the Angeleno spirit.
About this Event

Join us on January 16, 2025 from 9:30am – 12:00pm at the California Endowment for a morning of reflection and celebration.


The Violence, Hope and Healing: The Storytelling Project is a collaboration of the LA County Department of Public Health Office of Violence Prevention (OVP) and the Department of Arts and Culture, in partnership with the Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative (ARDI). The project used art-based, trauma-informed techniques to record the narratives of residents from across Los Angeles County, with diverse backgrounds and geographic locations. Participants shared their powerful direct experiences with individual and systemic violence. In 2022, a selection of stories, many with striking photographic portraits, were made available through a book and website. In 2023, ARDI, through its Equity Fund Spending Plan, provided funding to support the collection of 43 additional stories, with portraits, which will be available in 2025 online and in a second book.


The goal of the project is to uplift the voices and stories of survivors and those otherwise affected by violence in its many forms, to inspire others who may be enduring the same traumas, and to inform and guide violence prevention and intervention policies, practices, and systems change that can have a lasting effect on individuals and communities.


The Storytelling Project emerged from artist Olga Koumoundouros’ Creative Strategist-Artist in Residence placement with the Office of Violence Prevention (OVP) in 2019-2022. Part of the Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative, the Creative Strategist program places artists in County departments to address complex civic issues.


Event Schedule:

9:00 am Check-in Begins

9:30 am Continental Breakfast

10:00 am Welcome Remarks

10:10 am Violence, Hope and Healing: The Storytelling Project Panel Discussion

11:30 am Closing Remarks with: D’Artagnan Scorza, PhD, Executive Director, Anti-Racism, Diversity, and Inclusion (ARDI); Kristin Sakoda, JD, Director, Department of Arts and Culture; Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director, Department of Public Health

Continental Breakfast will be served.

Please email [email protected] if translation services are needed.


Kindly RSVP no later than Friday, January 10, 2025.

  • Invitation is non-transferrable.


PARKING INFORMATION: On-site parking, free of charge.

Address: 1000 N. Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Phone: (866) 833-3533

For driving directions and a map of the California Endowment please go here.


The California Endowment: www.calendow.org

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The California Endowment, 1000 Alameda Street, Los Angeles, United States

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