The Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California, IDEPSCA) is a non-profit community-based educational organization incorporated in 1991.  

Our mission is to create a more humane and democratic society
by responding to the needs and problems of disenfranchised
people through leadership development and educational programs
based in Popular Education methodology.  

Specifically, our goal is to organize and educate members of
low-income Latina and Latino immigrants concerned with solving
problems in their own communities.