Social Services

Children and Families

New campaign takes aim at hunger

Hunger in Los Angeles County is visible to anyone who chooses to look closely. For Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, that fact hit home again last week as he made one of his frequent drives past the SOVA food pantry near his house. “I’ve never seen a line there that long,” he said. For Los Angeles Unified School District board member Steve Zimmer, it came last... [Read more]

• Stepping up oversight for troubled children

Homelessness

Project 50: watch us grow

Call it “Project 250.” Spurred by the success of Project 50, the paradigm-busting homeless program targeting Skid Row’s most vulnerable residents, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky earlier this year proposed a countywide expansion he dubbed Project 500. But when the full Board of Supervisors asked the Auditor Controller to further study the program’s benefits... [Read more]

Housing

In WeHo, a new home and new hope

After living with a succession of friends and relatives for more than three years, no wonder Michael Wojtkielewicz gets passionate when he talks about landing an apartment of his own. “It’s going to mean everything to me,” he says. “There is a huge security knowing you have a home. It’s yours today and it will be yours tomorrow.” At age 47, the retired... [Read more]

• A new roof for homeless kids and their parents