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List of Non-Profits and Organizations in Hollywood Specializing in Homelessness Services
Hollywood 4WRD
Hollywood 4WRD is a coalition driven to create systemic change to effectively address homelessness in Hollywood through advocacy, education, service coordination, and innovation.
Assistance League Los Angeles
From preschool to providing school clothes and supplies, to resources for newborns and foster children and their families, Assistance League of Los Angeles’ members dedicate themselves to working to make sure that every child has a chance no matter their circumstances.
The Center in Hollywood
https://thecenterinhollywood.org/
The Center works directly with those experiencing homelessness to build a sense of community, end isolation, and provide a space to flourish for those who are homeless. It is a trauma-informed center that engenders trust, safety, consistent boundaries, and a place where individuals can make their own decisions about program participation and housing.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
https://www.chla.org/substance-use-prevention-and-treatment-program
CHLA’s Substance Use Treatment and Prevention Program aims to reduce alcohol and drug-related harm in an outpatient approach to children and families experiencing addiction. The program serves youth ages 10-17 and young adults ages 18-25. Priority is given to those experiencing homeless, are HIV-positive, pregnant teens, and those who are suicidal or in acute crisis.
The Corporation for Supportive Housing
https://www.csh.org/about-csh/in-the-field/la/
CSH works to bring supportive housing to those that need it most in the Los Angeles area. CSH works with various stakeholders, government organizations, and community partners to effectively bring more affordable housing opportunities to Los Angeles.
Covenant House
https://www.covenanthouse.org/homeless-shelters/hollywood-california
Covenant House Hollywood provides sanctuary and support for youth ages 18-24 facing homelessness and human trafficking. Their programs and services are designed to advance youths’ physical, emotional, educational, vocational, and spiritual well-being to provide them with the best chance for success in independence.
Food on Foot
Food on Foot is a nonprofit dedicated to assisting our homeless and low-income neighbors in Los Angeles with nutritious meals, clothing, and a fresh start through a life-skills education, full-time employment, and permanent housing.
Hang Out Do Good
https://www.hangoutdogood.com/
HODG’s mission is to create an inclusive, vibrant community of volunteers who recognize that everyone practices kindness in a variety of ways. This organization comes together to provide bag lunches, donate clothing, and communicate with those experiencing homelessness throughout Los Angeles and Hollywood.
Heart Forward LA
https://www.heartforwardla.org/
Heart Forward LA seeks to transform the American mental health system through radical hospitality. They promote bold system change and advance radical hospitality along with the guiding principles that characterize the global best practice based in Trieste, Italy including social recovery, the right to a purposeful life, system accountability, and whole person care.
Hollywood Community Housing Corporation
Hollywood Community Housing develops affordable homes and safe communities for low-income families, formerly homeless individuals and households, seniors, and those with special needs.
Hollywood Food Coalition
The Hollywood Food Coalition provides a warm, nutritious meal along with access to basic daily needs, such as clothing, backpacks, sleeping bags, and hygiene items, as well as assistance with housing placement and referrals for the homelessness community in Hollywood.
Hollywood WorkSource Center
https://www.lapl.org/stable-living/resource-centers/hollywood-worksource-center
The Hollywood WorkSource Center provides free employment services to adults, dislocated workers, Veterans, the homeless and the re-entry population. Services include free job training, telephone and computer access, literacy skills workshops, employment referrals, customized job matching, resume and interview skills building, and career guidance.
Housing Works
Housing Works provides permanent supportive housing and support services to the most traumatized, vulnerable, and needy members of our community—homeless individuals, victims of domestic violence, at-risk youth, veterans, and people dealing with severe physical or mental illness or substance abuse.
Imagine LA
Imagine LA works to end the cycle of family poverty and homelessness in Los Angeles. Imagine LA works to provide relationships and resources to help the entire families thrive for the long-term. The organization provides financial wellness education and pathways to living wage job opportunities while mentors give personal attention to everyone’s needs.
The John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation
https://www.storiesfrontline.org/
Stories from the Frontline, funded by The John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation, works as a story telling platform for those who have experienced homelessness and elevates opportunities for more affordable and supportive housing in all neighborhoods across Los Angeles County.
JWCH/Wesley Health Care Center
Wesley Health Centers provides a variety of health care programs and activities to the poor and underserved segments of Los Angeles area through the direct provision or coordination of health care, health education, services, and research. The have a health clinic located in East Hollywood that serves families and anyone experiencing homelessness.
My Friend’s Place
https://www.myfriendsplace.org/
My Friend’s Place aims to assist and inspire homeless youth to build self-sufficient lives. My Friend’s Place offers comprehensive services to youth experiencing homelessness between the ages of 12 and 25, and their children, helping homeless young people move toward wellness, stability, and self-sufficiency.
PATH
https://epath.org/regions/greater-los-angeles/
PATH seeks to end homelessness by building affordable housing and providing supportive services throughout Los Angeles and California. In Los Angeles they provide a variety of services for neighbors experiencing homelessness that include employment, outreach, homelessness prevention, housing navigation, interim housing, rapid rehousing, and permanent supportive housing.
The People Concern
https://www.thepeopleconcern.org/
The People Concern provides a fully integrated system of care – including outreach, interim housing, mental and medical health care, substance abuse services, domestic violence services, life skills and wellness programs, and permanent supportive housing – tailored to the unique needs of homeless individuals, survivors of domestic violence, challenged youth, and others who have nowhere else to turn.
Saban Community Clinic
https://www.sabancommunityclinic.org/
Saban Community Clinic provides whole person care for vulnerable individuals and families in Hollywood. For those experiencing homelessness, Saban offers a shower program that not only assists with hygiene but also gives them the opportunity to talk with a case manager, who is his or her “concierge” to their medical, behavioral health, dental and vision care services – as well as to outside partners for housing and job training.
Safe Parking LA
https://www.safeparkingla.org/
Safe Parking LA provides a night-time program for people who are experiencing homelessness and sleeping in their vehicles at night, providing a safe and stable place to park their vehicle, remain compliant with local laws, and have access to restroom facilities. All safe parking programs are accessible by filling out an application and connecting to services that help identify pathways into housing.
The Salvation Army Access Center
https://hollywood.salvationarmy.org/hollywood_corps/
The Salvation Army Hollywood Access Center works with those experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk, gain initial access to housing resources, emergency service referrals, and other supportive services. The Access Center will provide services in a housing first, low barrier, and harm reduction approach.
San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission
https://sfvrescuemission.org/renewed-hope/
The Renewed Hope Men’s Life Recovery Program is a free, ten-month, residential, Christian, recovery program in Hollywod that provides Biblically based structure and applied discipline for living an overcoming life. The program provides individual counseling, case management, and classes on Christianity, anger management, and relapse prevention. We offer our program residents the benefits of Homeless outreach and being of service to our community, computer skill development, and other vocational training opportunities.
Salvation Army
https://thewayin.salvationarmy.org/
The Way In Youth Shelter through the Salvation Army was founded to help children escape Hollywood street life and provide a home-like environment in which abused and/or neglected teenagers could live safely as they matured into productive and independent young adults. The Way In helps by providing food, shelter and counseling in a multi-faceted program that includes residential housing, an independent living program.
Step Up
https://www.stepuponsecond.org/
Step Up delivers compassionate support to people experiencing mental health conditions and homelessness to help them recover, stabilize, and integrate into the community. Step Up provides connections to permanent supportive housing, workforce development, supportive services, and specific programs for transition-age youth and housing for veterans.
Youth Emerging Stronger
https://www.youthemergingstronger.org/
YES provides runaway, homeless, and foster youth with safety, stability and housing, along with the relationships and resources to thrive now and in the future. Their programs focus on intervention, prevention, and permanency. Programs are tailored for youth ages 12-24.
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Pledge to Action for Businesses
Short- and Long-Term Actions the Business Community Can Take to Help Alleviate the Homelessness Crisis
Actions You Can Take Now
- Fill out an LA-HOP request when you see an individual who may need supportive services from a trained outreach worker. Be sure to include your contact information so the City may contact you if more information is needed: https://www.lahsa.org/portal/apps/la-hop/request
- Report encampments to the City through MyLA311 online or through the app. Submit a report daily with updated pictures if necessary, to ensure the City has the most up-to-date location and information of the encampment: https://myla311.lacity.org/portal/faces/home
- Use 211LA as a resource for food service locations to those experiencing food insecurity or who are in need of other services: https://www.211la.org/
- To report an encampment or clean up request on or near a state highway or underneath a freeway overpass, fill out a service request through the Caltrans website here: https://csr.dot.ca.gov/index.php/Msrsubmit
- Advocate for more housing in the Hollywood community.
- Support zoning reform at the local level.
- Donate to Room for Success to provide a safe home for college students experiencing homelessness: https://www.hollywoodfoundation.org/room-for-success/
- Join Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council’s mailing list and attend the Homelessness Committee meetings. CHNC brings experts and residents together to share facts and perspectives the 1st Monday of each month at 7:00pm via Zoom meeting: chnc.org
- Join SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition/Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council biweekly homeless outreach events every other Sunday at 12pm, meeting from the lot behind 6501 Fountain Ave to bring food and supplies to unhoused neighbors and build bonds of community. Email Louis at chnc@gmail.com for more information. The next outreach event will take place on Sunday 1/31/2021.
- Contact service providers in your area to volunteer, donate, and learn more about their cause. For a comprehensive list of service providers specializing in homelessness services in the Hollywood and Los Angeles area, visit the Homelessness Resources page on the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce website.
- Support the Hollywood 4WRD coalition to end homelessness in Hollywood. Visit their website for more information: https://hollywood4wrd.live/
- Contact local elected officials on pending motions that affect homelessness in our community.
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- Los Angeles City Council:
- Amendment to Municipal Code 41.18 and 56.11 relative to sleeping near freeway and Bridge Housing infrastructure: CF 20-1376
- Reinstatement of CARE+ cleanups at a citywide level
- Discussion on the creation of more mental health services programs for Los Angeles residents needing supportive services: CF 20-1222
- Using the Hollywood Recreation Shelter as a Temporary Homelessness Shelter during COVID-19: CF 20-1179
- Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors:
- Advocate for Trieste proposal funds to be accepted by the LA County Board of Supervisors
- Los Angeles City Council:
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Long Term Actions and Goals
- Support the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Homelessness Resource page. Businesses can reference service-providers, access action items, and utilize other valuable resources.
- Attend the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Learning Day with local providers for businesses to engage and learn more about their services.
- Join the Board of a local non-profit that could use business expertise.
- Advocate for Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to establish funding for businesses who train their employees on how to help someone experiencing homelessness and/or a mental health concern through a possible allocation from Measure H or Measure HHH dollars.
- Support the establishment of the Fountain House platform in Hollywood. Fountain House successfully supports community building and work experience programs for individuals struggling with mental illness across the country. Learn more here: https://www.fountainhouse.org/
- Establish an internship and mentorship program at your business to give at-risk youth or individuals who have been homeless the opportunity to gain vital work experience and mentorship.
Link to the Legislative Analyst’s Office report “California’s Homelessness Challenges in Context” released on January 21, 2021, detailing homelessness statistics throughout the state.
4663 – 2020 Homeless Count – Council District 4 (lahsa.org)
4672 – 2020 Homeless Count – Council District 13 (lahsa.org)
