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Los Angeles County’s mobile clinics and street medicine teams are responding to the emergency that is homelessness. The Department of Health Services-Housing for Health division deploys them countywide, including regular stops at the Metro station near MacArthur Park. Stabilizing a…
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The Mark Twain is the first interim housing site for “Hollywood 2.0,” the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health’s pilot project to provide comprehensive, community-based care and services to people experiencing mental illness and homelessness in the Hollywood community.…
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The first episode of Los Angeles County’s new show One on One delves into the issue of homelessness and talks with Cheri Todoroff, director of the Homeless Initiative. From encampment resolutions to new housing, she breaks down what’s driving the…
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Charlie Lebeau is one of thousands of vulnerable youth who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. He’s found refuge in Dunamis House in Boyle Heights, one of Los Angeles County’s Homekey motel conversions. Dunamis is a partnership between…
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California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom toured the newly opened Restorative Care Village on the campus of LAC+USC Medical Center. The Restorative Care Village provides access to a full continuum of clinical care and supportive services on one campus—including recuperative…
Pathway Home participants connect with County serviceshttps://homeless.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/5.jpg600541Marlon BakerMarlon Bakerhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f38b1b676c68f0f8e34123261244226d?s=96&d=mm&r=g
Los Angeles County’s Pathway Home program helps people transition from encampments into interim housing and then provides them with supportive services on their way to permanent housing. After its first Pathway Home encampment resolution brought 50 people indoors from tents…
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Los Angeles County’s new Pathway Home program to resolve encampments, including recreational vehicles (RVs), successfully placed 58 people into interim housing – including families with children – and removed 30 dilapidated RVs being used as makeshift dwellings on the streets…
As Tropical Storm Hilary approached Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) worked in close collaboration with the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office and the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative to help people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in areas…
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Los Angeles County has launched Pathway Home, a major expansion of its efforts to resolve encampments, with a successful operation in unincorporated Lennox that helped 59 people move inside. The Pathway Home encampment resolution program, which includes recreational vehicles or RVs, is just one component of the ongoing, multi-pronged response to the homelessness crisis launched under the emergency declared by the Board of Supervisors in January.
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Homekey: Dunamis House Making the Gradehttps://homeless.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/3.jpg600541Marlon BakerMarlon Bakerhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f38b1b676c68f0f8e34123261244226d?s=96&d=mm&r=g
The stories of young people who once were at risk of homelessness and now benefitting from a recently opened Homekey housing complex continue to pour in. The Los Angeles Times recent feature on the Dunamis House in Boyle Heights captures…