New City Church Los Angeles Community Resource Guide

New City Church Los Angeles Community Resource Guide

Arts

  • Inner City Arts
    • Inner-City Arts, widely regarded as one of the nation’s most effective arts education providers, is an oasis of learning, achievement, and creativity in the heart of Skid Row, and a vital partner in the work of transforming the lives of young people in Los Angeles and beyond.
    • Contact: (213) 627-9621 or info@inner-cityarts.org 
    • Website: https://inner-cityarts.org/ 

Education

Elderly Care

  • Alzheimer’s LA
    • Alzheimer’s Los Angeles was founded by concerned community members in 1981 with a mission to improve the lives of families affected by Alzheimer’s and dementia by increasing awareness, delivering effective programs and services, providing compassionate support, and advocating for quality care and a cure.
    • Contact: help@alzla.org or at 844-435-7259
    • Website: https://www.alzheimersla.org/ 

Environment

  • Friends of the LA River
    • We envision a verdant Los Angeles River that supports vulnerable communities in climate adaptation. The river will be transformed into a dynamic, functioning ecosystem that reduces flood risk, cleans the air, cools temperatures, and supports the biodiversity essential to our collective wellbeing.
    • Contact: contact@folar.org or 323-223-0585
    • Website: www.folar.org  
  • Tree People
    • Tree People’s mission is to inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun, and sustainable and to share our process as a model for the world.
    • Contact: 818-753-4600
    • Website: www.treepeople.org 
  • Heal the Bay
    • Heal the Bay mobilizes thousands of volunteers each year to pick up trash at beaches and in our watersheds in Los Angeles County. Cleanups are the last defense against marine pollution. We actively use data collected by volunteers from local cleanups to educate businesses and communities, support environmental legislation, and advocate for the health of our waterways.
    • Contact: 310-451-1500
    • Website: www.healthebay.org 
  • Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust
    • The Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust was founded in 2002 to address Los Angeles’ park inequities. We focus our efforts exclusively in communities of color that have little to no access to green space.
    • Contact: communications@lanlt.org or 213-572-0188
    • Website: www.lanlt.org 

Housing, Shelter & Meals

  • Union Rescue Mission
    • Union Rescue Mission is a Christian organization that serves those experiencing homelessness through various supportive programs ranging from emergency services to residential rehabilitation.
    • Contact: thewayhome@urm.org  or 213-347-6300
    • Website: www.urm.org 
  • Los Angeles Christian Health Centers
    • Our volunteers generously give their time and energy to help us carry out our mission and bring compassion, healing, and hope to our communities. There are many ways to serve, and we look forward to meeting you and matching you to the volunteer position that fits your skills and passion.
    • Contact: 213-893-1960, info@lachc.com 
    • Website: https://www.lachc.com/ 
  • Downtown Women’s Center
    • The Downtown Women’s Center envisions a Los Angeles with every woman housed and on a path to personal stability. Its mission is to end homelessness for women in greater Los Angeles through housing, wellness, employment, and advocacy.
    • Contact: 213-680-0600
    • Website: https://downtownwomenscenter.org/ 
  • Serve LA
  • Housing Rights Center
    • The Housing Rights Center (HRC) is the nation’s largest non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to securing and promoting Fair Housing. HRC was founded in 1968, the same year that Congress passed the Fair Housing Act. Our mission is to actively support and promote freedom of residence through education, advocacy, and litigation, to the end that all persons have the opportunity to secure the housing they desire and can afford, without regard to their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, familial status, marital status, disability, ancestry, age, source of income or other characteristics protected by law.
    • Contact: (800)477-5977
    • Website: https://www.housingrightscenter.org/
  • LA Tenants Union
    • The LA Tenants Union is a diverse, tenant-led movement fighting for the human right to housing for all. We demand safe, affordable housing and universal rent control. We organize against landlord harassment, mass evictions, and displacement. We mobilize for the repeal of the Ellis Act and Costa-Hawkins Act. Our mission is to strengthen tenants’ political power through education, advocacy, and direct action.
    • Contact: (213) 986-8266 or info@latenantsunion.org
    • Website: https://latenantsunion.org/en/  
  • Stay Housed LA
    • Stay Housed L.A.is a partnership between Los Angeles County, the City of Los Angeles and local community and legal service providers. Together, we provide the residents of Los Angeles County, from Lancaster to Long Beach, with information and resources to keep people in their homes.
    • Contact: 888-694-0040
    • Website: https://www.stayhousedla.org/about 
  • Tenant Power Toolkit
    • The Tenant Power Toolkit is a collaborative effort between the Debt Collective, The LA Tenants Union, The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy, ACCE Action, anti-eviction lawyers and legal service providers including Gary Blasi, one of California’s best known housing justice lawyers. We designed this toolkit to keep people in their homes, fight evictions, fight rent debt, and build the collective power of tenants. Together, we have the power not only to fight back against the system, but to change it.
    • Website: https://tenantpowertoolkit.org/ 
  • The Center in Hollywood
    • The Center in Hollywood is a nonprofit ending isolation and breaking the cycle of homelessness through radical hospitality in Hollywood and throughout LA County. It is an inclusive space for anyone experiencing homelessness to feel welcome, feel safe, and receive services. 
    • Contact: hello@thecenterinhollywood.org or 323-378-3225
    • Website: https://thecenterinhollywood.org/ 
  • HEART
    • The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Homeless Engagement and Response Team (HEART) administers the LA County Homeless Court Program. The Homeless Court helps unhoused individuals or individuals at risk of experiencing homelessness clear traffic and pedestrian tickets by engaging in services instead of paying expensive fines and fees.
    • Contact 213-978-1937 or att.heart@lacity.org 
    • Website: https://homelesscourt.lacity.gov/ 

 

Law

  • Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law
    • We protect victims of domestic violence and improve the well-being of children living in poverty. With the help of volunteers, the Center provides free family law assistance and legal education to the poor. We strive to empower people in need and assure them meaningful access to the courts.
    • Contact: 213-388-7515
    • Website: Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law (hbcfl.org)
  • Inner City Law
    • With generous support from donors, foundations, and dedicated volunteers, ICLC’s diverse and talented staff fights for justice for individuals experiencing homelessness, low-income tenants, working-poor families, immigrants, people living with HIV/AIDS or other disabilities, and homeless veterans.
    • Contact: (213) 891-2880
    • Website: https://innercitylaw.org/contact-us/  

Mental Health

  • National Alliance on Mental Illness, California
    • NAMI California is a passionate team made of families, members, affiliates, and partners throughout the state who are leading the change on mental illness.
    • Contact: info@namica.org or (916)567-0163
    • Website: https://namica.org/ 

Youth & Children

  • Friends of the Children LA
    • Friends LA has been working to keep families together and end multigenerational poverty in Southern California since our founding in 2017. We connect children ages 4-6 who have been impacted by the child welfare system to a long-term, salaried, professional mentor called a Friend. Each day, our Friends advocate and help amplify the voices of our youth and caregivers who often become voiceless during multiple systemic failures.
    • Contact: info@friendsla.org or 213-378-0704
    • Website: https://friendsla.org/ 
  • Girls Inc. of Los Angeles
    • Girls Inc. has championed girls for 158 years, building self-esteem, developing life skills, and enabling academic achievement. Through our programs and advocacy, hundreds of thousands of girls have successfully broken barriers and positively changed the trajectory of their lives.
    • Website: https://www.girlsincla.org/ 
    • Contact: info@girlsincla.org or 213-533-9894
  • Olive Crest
    • Olive Crest is dedicated to preventing child abuse by strengthening, equipping, and restoring children and families in crisis one life at a time. Olive Crest addresses these areas of need:
      • Children and Families in Crisis: Abuse, neglect, isolation
      • Safe Home: Safety, belonging, stability.
      • Equipping for Life: Counseling, education, life skills
      • Strong Family: Community, confidence, permanency
    • Website: https://www.olivecrest.org/ 
  • YoungLife East LA