It offers collections and trained librarians to help improve literacy, teach parenting skills, and encourage respectful interactions.

Programming at five Probation Juvenile Day Reporting Centers teaches life skills, builds self-confidence, and introduces potential career paths.

The My Brother's Keeper Peer Advocate program hires young adults of color with lived experience as advisors and liaisons.

These Peer Advocates build community relationships, develop programming, and raise awareness of Library services.

[11] The Library installed bookshelves at 10 barbershops across South Los Angeles to encourage reading for boys ages 4 – 8 to help minimize the literacy gap between young men of color and their peers.