Empowering Youth, Building Trust,
Strengthening Communities.
Project Blue strengthens relationships between youth, law enforcement, and communities through a national backbone model that supports connection, consistency, and long-term mentorship.
We take a public health approach to safety — building trust early, reinforcing it often, and sustaining it over time.
How Impact Happens
Three Tiers. One Continuum of Change.
Trust is built through repeated positive engagement. Project Blue supports that process across three levels — from first connection to long-term mentorship.
Community Touch
Examples: Healthy Room Project, 10K With A Cop
First connection. Trust begins.
Short-term experiences that bring youth, mentors, and law enforcement together through learning, access, and shared opportunity.
440+
Youth directly reached (2025)
Programmatic Engagement
Examples: North East Lincoln Rams Football, Watts Rams, and Marching Beauties
Consistency builds belonging.
Structured programs that foster identity, resilience, leadership, and personal growth through consistent relationship-based engagement.
620+
Youth participants (2025)
Deep Support
Examples: iPlay iLead Academy, Youth Leadership Council
Long-term mentorship deepens trust.
Sustained mentorship connecting youth, law enforcement, families, and communities through shared experiences and civic participation.
180+
Youth deeply served (2025)
Programs in the Project Blue Network
Project Blue supports a growing network of youth programs that bring young people and law enforcement together through mentorship, athletics, leadership development, and community engagement.
Programs include:
• iPlayiLead Academy
• Marching Beauties
• North East Lincoln Rams Youth Football
• Watts Rams
• Youth Leadership Council
• Healthy Room Project
Each program operates independently while benefiting from the coordination, partnerships, and resources provided through the Project Blue network.
Overall Reach & Backbone Scale
Powering consistency, coordination, and long-term impact.
Project Blue operates as a national backbone organization, enabling scale
across programs and communities:
1,000+
Youth engaged year-round across Los Angeles and greater California in 2025.
3,000+
Youth impacted through member organization programming in 2025.
38+
Law enforcement departments engaged in 2025.
10,000+
Officer hours invested in relationship-based engagement in 2025.
500+
Parents and community members engaged year-round in 2025.
Trust and Safety Built
Project Blue creates safe, positive environments where young people can build trust with law enforcement through consistent, non-adversarial engagement.
For youth, trust and safety are powerful protective factors linked to emotional stability, social support, and long-term success.
LAPD Community Workshops
Trust in officer recruits has improved from 16% to
68% (2025)
96% of officers and community members surveyed reported LAPD Community Workshops helped improve the social contract (2025)
Stories of Transformation
"To me, being a Lincoln Ram means a lot. The programs keep me in shape, it keeps me out of trouble, I have made more friends, and it is a lot of fun."
— Damian H (Age 10)"The endless support and numerous hands that are there for you to help elevate you are tremendous, and YLC has even allowed me to be a helping hand to help others as well. This isn't just a program. But it's a family."
— Evan W (Age 17)"I have three reasons why the Watts Rams are important to me. 1) They help me to be a better person in football and in school. 2) They keep in contact with me to see how I am doing. 3) They don't get paid to coach us, they just do it for love."
— Matthew C (Age 11)"There are few things you can do in a single day to change a child’s life — and this is one of them."
— Mark Kirunchyk, (Healthy Room Project, Co-Founder)"iPlay means putting actions into play in sports and life; iLead means being a leader for siblings and cousins as the oldest."
— Sean T. Jr. (Age 16)
