About Us

Metro Kidz is a recognized non-profit organization that was founded in 1992 to aid the children and families in the most volatile communities of Los Angeles.

Our mission is to meet the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of inner-city children and families.

Our vision is to keep reaching more families every year; to help create healthy children and communities where a new hope for life, freedom from violence, abuse and neglect are experienced. "Changing a generation, one child at a time."

Meet Pastor Julian TorizRev. Julian Toriz, president and founder of Metro Kidz, grew up around the streets of East Los Angeles. By age 12, the local gang had become his family and fighting was his way of life. God in His Mercy, touched Julian and he turned from a life of crime to a life of purpose.

By age 15, he was helping other kids and by 19 was on staff with Teen Challenge. Once declared incorrigible by the courts, he's now a man of
integrity and purpose, a man making a difference in the lives of others.