{"id":449975,"date":"2026-09-01T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449975\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:56:08","slug":"project-blue-supports-at-risk-youth-in-high-violence-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449975\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Blue supports at-risk youth in high-violence areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Using a trauma-informed approach, Project Blue supports youth starting as early as age 4 and continues to support them as they grow into adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProject Blue isn\u2019t just an organization. We\u2019re a movement,\u201d said Project Blue CEO Marc Maye.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis from trauma-informed coaching, mental and physical well-being. Project Blue said students in South LA public schools are, on average, two to three grade levels behind in reading and math. And in the neighborhood of Watts, just 53% of high school students graduate.<\/p>\n<p>Project Blue\u2019s goal is not just giving kids a place to go after school, but also to help students see a future beyond the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Click the arrow above to watch the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Using a trauma-informed approach, Project Blue supports youth starting as early as age 4 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[31532,7,31533,173005,48,52,51,47,50,49,5999,136,5996],"class_list":["post-449975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-app-human-interest","tag-california","tag-human-interest","tag-juliet-lemar","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-socal-what-you-need-to-know","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}