INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY & PREVENTION OF HATE CRIMES

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Mission

PREVENT HATE promotes community empowerment and intergroup relations through activities and alliances that advance coexistence and defend human rights. PREVENT HATE uses integrated strategies to cultivate social health and foster productive interaction between groups. We actively work to address the needs of diversified communities with strategies that elevate their ability to create equality among stakeholders and limit motives for conflict.

Programs

* Witness Humanity™

* Genocide Survivors and Former Child Soldiers Engaging At-Risk Youth

* Building sustainability through integrated strategies

* Internet Conferencing Between Youth, Focusing on Humanitarian Issues

History

PREVENT HATE was founded as a fully established 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation in the year, 2000 under the name, Institute for the Study and Prevention of Hate Crimes, in the City of Los Angeles. The organization was developed to enhance the field of human rights and community relations by guaranteeing the existence of a nondenominational nonprofit organization whose mission is to build custom-tailored human relations programs for communities. To do this, PREVENT HATE uses a combination of the latest research, extensive experience by our team, and our connections to skilled professionals, community leaders, and officials who routinely work with us.

The past several years, we have:
Created cooperative relations between foreign and local leaders, focusing on peacemaking, municipal sector enhancement, and economic development; Introduced leaders of different ethnic-based organizations to each other resulting in newly productive relationships; Created coalitions and curricula, including training and networking projects; Conducted policy analyses and advised government on institutional reform; Attended private governmental and school district meetings on meaningful approaches to solve sensitive human- and community relations issues; Developed meetings and roundtable discussions that brought together leaders in government with community organizations to improve public safety and lower incidents of bias-motivated violence; Built original community relations projects; Consulted with numerous agencies, institutions, organizations, and companies to limit group conflict and bias.

Advisory Committee

Leroy D. Baca
Los Angeles County Sheriff

Aaron T. Beck
Founder of Cognitive Therapy, author of Prisoners of Hate: the Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence

Khaled Abou El Fadl
Professor of Law, UCLA; previous presidential appointee, United States Committee on International Religious Freedom

Agrippa Ezozo
President, The African Diaspora Foundation

Renee Firestone
Auschwitz survivor and international lecturer on the Holocaust; Docent, Shoah Foundation and Museum of Tolerance

Charles Haines
Judge, San Francisco Superior Court of California; former chief hate crimes prosecutor, San Francisco District Attorney’s office

Philip Montez
Western Regional Director, United States Commission on Civil Rights (ret.)

Betty Wilson
Director of Community Affairs, Los Angeles City Department of Disability