Alfred Lomas is a celebrated, award winning international peacemaker, certified crisis intervention specialist, humanitarian and social entrepreneur. He is the founder and Executive director of Inner City Visions, founded in 2007.(ICV) is a 501(c)(3) community based non-profit organization located in the epicenter of south Los Angeles. ICV is committed to family advocacy-victim services, violence reduction and the prevention of human trafficking.
Raised in Los Angeles, Alfred Lomas has succeeded in ways few thought possible to now running a transformational non-profit for youth in the city, Lomas brings a unique set of skills and firsthand experiences to each challenge he encounters. His life is dedicated to breaking the cycles of poverty, addiction and violence reduction.
Not only has the Florence-Firestone community in Los Angeles County been positively impacted by Lomas’ work, the city of Los Angeles has benefited as well. The L.A. Mayor’s Office trusts Lomas as a crisis response specialist and mediator, he is frequently called on by the city and county to mediate conflicts in communities and schools. His expertise is in preventing and interrupting racialized violence.
Lomas is a pioneer and practitioner of several other initiatives in the County such as “L.A. County’s Parks After Dark” and the “ Safe Route to School” program, both of which have had significant success since their implementation. The “Parks After Dark” initiative increased physical activity, improved social cohesion and decreased violent crime by 43% according to formal evaluations. These initiatives are part of Inner City Visions’ logic model—a scalable framework that Lomas is using to create system-wide change through day programming, mental health services and community engagement. The model is designed for areas of conflict, and Inner City Visions is developing culturally sensitive curriculum that can be used to prevent violence and trafficking around the world. Lomas’ vision is to share this model globally to help conflict-ridden communities become places of safety and success.
Inner City Visions has been honored as a 2021 California Nonprofit of the Year by California State Assembly member Reginald Jones-Sawyer.
“Alfred and his team at Inner City Visions are leading the way in fighting the sexual exploitation of our children in California and also across the nation,” said Kevin Malone, Founder & Chairman of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking. “No organization in the state is as deserving of this award for their outstanding accomplishments in rescuing victims and ensuring survivors of human trafficking receive the care they need.”
Alfred co-created the South Los Angeles anti trafficking committee (SLAAC) a coalition of local and National non profits that led the NFL anti-trafficking initiative at the Super Bowl in Los Angeles.
Mr. Lomas and his team created a anti trafficking app “Angelito’, an app that aims to prevent the exploitation of families and sex trafficking of children and adults
The app serves as an easily accessible, virtual lifeline that provides 24-hour support for victims and trafficking survivors in order to reduce the high recidivism rates as a result of the existing gaps in other services. It consists of emergency response and critical care support, connectivity for high-risk trafficking survivors to essential services, algorithms supported to prevent harm ideation, data recovery for strategic interventions and prevention efforts and more.
Alfred is an instructor/practitioner and member of the leadership advisory board for the Los Angeles County Peer-to-Peer Learning Academy .
Peer 2peer Academy is a training program developed by the Los Angeles County Office of Violence Prevention (OVP), in the Department of Public Health and managed by The Community Based Public Safety Collective.
The goal of the Academy is to build a training infrastructure for community-based organizations to strengthen the skillsets of their peer workforce within the field of Community Violence Intervention (CVI).
In 2024 Alfred was selected to be one of the one hundred angelenos honored as a social impact leader in Alta/ A human atlas of Los Angeles, a project by Marcus Lyon and exhibited at the Getty museum and the Los Angeles public library.
He serves as an advisor and Executive board member on several educational boards for the betterment of the community and school safety. He is a frequent guest speaker at UCLA Luskin school of public affairs, USC Dworak-peck school of social work and Loyola law school.
Mr. Lomas continues to innovate , advocate and fight for the safety and wellbeing of Los Angeles most vulnerable woman and children.
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USC News Article