The California Conference for Equality and Justice, Inc.

CCEJ's programs are focused on raising awareness, facilitating dialogue, healing conflicts and bridging differences. CCEJ intentionally works where differences collide and conflict exists — in schools, businesses and neighborhoods. We know real change only comes from everyone working together. By embracing differences and striving for understanding, CCEJ seeks to build a unified, peaceful and inclusive Southern California, with justice for all.

EDUCATION: CCEJ provides human relations education to youth and adults – experiential programs that give participants an opportunity to examine their own stereotypes and biases and learn skills to make their schools, workplaces and neighborhoods safer and more inclusive. CCEJ's education programs include Building Bridges camp and leadership programs for youth, Conscious Classrooms, Iluminar: Training and Coaching for Justice, and an annual Interfaith/Intercultural Breakfast.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION: CCEJ's highly-trained facilitators work with youth and adults to address conflicts and harm. CCEJ's Healing Harms programs focus on repairing relationships, avoiding escalation, and strengthening communities.

ADVOCACY: CCEJ is a voice for inclusion, equality and justice for all. CCEJ's staff and volunteers actively work to eliminated systemic racism, bias and bigotry and to celebrate diversity in our community.

CCEJ has a dedicated staff and more than 250 volunteers who dedicate their time, talent and treasure to working toward CCEJ's vision of Justice for All. Our staff have backgrounds in social work, counseling, ethnic studies, organizational management, psychology, theology, mediation and restorative practices. Our volunteers are teachers, lawyers, youth, nurses and people with first-hand experience as victims of discrimination and oppression. Over the 57 years we have been in service, CCEJ has emerged as a leader in human relations and restorative practices work in Southern California. We have trained thousands of teachers who represent tens of thousands of students and we have directly trained more than 14,000 high school students. We are trusted by school districts, law enforcement agencies and businesses as the go-to source for education around diversity and inclusion as well as conflict resolution and restorative practices.

With more than 57 years of service to Long Beach, Los Angeles County and now Southern California, CCEJ has served hundreds of thousands of youth and adults with education and training to end injustice and discrimination and transform communities. In 2019, CCEJ served over 6,000 people, working in over 70 schools, training more than 500 youth on social justice issues and preventing 100 youth from entering the juvenile justice system. Through our Restorative Justice work, CCEJ also trained over 2,000 educators to provide alternative approaches to discipline and school climate. CCEJ has increased the services we provide to the Southern California region. We provide anti-bias, restorative justice and youth diversion programs throughout LA County and beyond. CCEJ's programs now reach communities outside of areas we have historically served, including Coachella, Pico Rivera, Fontana, Yucca Valley, Riverside, Los Alamitos, Santa Ana, and San Bernardino.