| Our mission | LA Family Housing helps people transition out of homelessness and poverty through a continuum of housing enriched with supportive services. |
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| Ways to help | LAFH Community Clean Up How you will help: Beautify the neighborhood around the LA Family Housing Irmas Family Campus. Volunteers will be given gloves and equipment to pick up trash around the area. What to expect: After checking in with on site staff, getting a temperature read, and sanitizing your hands, we will instruct you on the days activities. … See full description Learn More and Sign Up HereMake a Garden for Families experiencing homelessness! Spend some time at any one of our many Family Interim Housing sites helping maintain and care for their communal garden of vegetables, herbs, and flowers. This small garden(s) requires guidance with someone with knowledge about gardening monthly. Weekly maintenance is done by onsite participants! Sign up for this opportunity by site/location here: https://lafh.galaxydigital.com/need/detail/?need_id=568159 https://lafh.galaxydigital.com/need/detail/?need_id=437776… See full description Learn More and Sign-up HereSpend Quality Time with Kids experiencing homelessness! Spend some quality time engaging the school aged kids at any one of our Family Interim Housing sites! You can sing songs, read a book, or lead a movement activity! We will be enforcing social distancing, and have plenty of kids ready to interact with engaging and energetic volunteers. NOTE: You must sign up to… See full description Learn More and Sign-up Here |
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| Items we need now | Items of Greatest NeedHere are our areas of greatest need:WELCOME HOME BASKETSWelcome Home Baskets set our participants up for success when they move into permanent housing. They have all the essentials like cleaning supplies, bedding, and light decor to help their new house a home. As we move 400 people from our Project Roomkey sites into permanent housing over the next 90 days, you can help us meet this need. GIFT CARDSGift cards to grocery stores and gas stations to empower program participants to perform their own basic shopping. Email [email protected] to get started. If you are unable to visit us, please consider purchasing an item from our Amazon wishlist. If you make a purchase via our Amazon Wish List, please fill out this form so we can thank you and provide a tax deductible acknowledgement letter. Your item donation helps give people transitioning out of homelessness a sense of dignity and empowerment. In order to maintain social distancing, we ask that all item drop-offs be scheduled in advance. Please call 818-220-6936 or schedule a time through the form below. Curbside drop off: Monday-Friday 9:00 am - 11:00 am Irmas Family Campus 7843 Lankershim Blvd North Hollywood, CA 91605 |
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| About us | We employ evidence-based best practices to achieve our goals, and operate 26 properties of temporary, permanently affordable, and permanent supportive housing across Los Angeles, with headquarters and most services based in the San Fernando Valley. |
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Check out the latest aerial pictures from Summit View! This four-building, multi-leveled housing structure consisting of 48 units of permanent supportive housing for veterans experiencing homelessness. Thankful to partner Many Mansions!
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Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. May 17th was specifically chose to commemorate the @WHO's decision in 1990 to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder.
Huge thanks and an enormous shoutout to the wonderful staff at LAFH! In the last year, we've nearly doubled in size to move more than 2,000 people into housing, and serve more than 10,500 people transitioning out of homelessness.
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Supervisor @HollyJMitchell and City Councilmember Nithya Raman @cd4losangeles joined host Kelli Poole, Social Venture Partners Los Angeles to talk about how the city/county are collaborating with community-based organizations to combat the growing homelessness epidemic.
Shoutout to the 15 Youth Action Council (YAC) members who completed the 2020/2021 term! The YAC met monthly over Zoom to discuss homelessness and related issues and to give their time through service.
