FY22 Community Project Funding

Project Name: Community Wellness Initiative

Intended Recipient: Champions In Service

Address: 12605 Osborne St. Pacoima, CA 91343

Requested Funds: $200,000

Summary: Champions in Services would use the funds to add a mental health department and provide clinical counseling, individual therapy, group counseling, couples counseling, substance abuse and community education.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter: CIS_CWI

Project Name: On-Work-site-Experience Program

Intended Recipient: Proyecto Del Barrio

Address: 8932 Woodman Ave. Arleta, CA 91331

Requested Funds: $291,435

Summary: The program is an intensive training program that will serve under-skilled job seekers; long term unemployed, and/or laid off workers due to the pandemic. The program provides 18 and older candidates with an Earn and Learn On-Work-site-Experience (OWEX) . The work experience is an upskilling opportunity that provides 18 and older adults with hands-on work exposure and skills through community clean-up, debris removal, safety and related projects that are tied to community involvement service.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter: Proyecto_FDL

Project Name: Community Empowerment Learning Pods

Intended Recipient: YMCA Mid Valley

Address: 6901 Lennox Ave. Van Nuys, CA 91405

Requested Funds: $1,000,000

Summary: The project focuses on increasing equitable access to education for lower-income youth, including through online schooling and online/in-person tutoring supports. The Community Empowerment Hub model includes services that meet the social, emotional, mental well-being and academic needs of the young learners and families of the district.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter: YMCA_CPF

Project Name: Bridging the gap and addressing disparities for underserved youth through STEM and SEL

Intended Recipient: Boys & Girls Club of San Fernando Valley

Address: 11251 Glenoaks Blvd. Pacoima, CA 91331

Requested Funds: $440,000

Summary: The project delivers a two-pronged approach to address the needs of underserved youth in the district. The first is through STEM opportunities for underrepresented students such as minorities, girls, and youth from families living at or below the poverty line. Second, the project delivers Social and Emotional Learning through evidence-based programs which are needed to ensure students move forward in their academic or technical career pathways.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter: BGC_FDL

Project Name: Increasing Short Term Vocational Trainings and Hands-On Biotech Training to Non-Traditional Students at Los Angeles Valley College and Los Angeles Mission College

Intended Recipient: Los Angeles Community College District

Address: 770 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA90017

Requested Funds: $400,000

Summary: The project seeks to expand on the current workforce development programs at Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) and Los Angeles Mission College (LAMC). The Workforce Training Program at LAVC offers short-term, vocational training to the non-traditional student, who is unemployed, underemployed, hard-to-employ, or displaced due to their work leaving the country. The Biotech, Manufacturing, and Transportation Academies at LAMC train people in a matter of weeks to be prepared to enter the workforce at an entry-level.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter: LACCD_FDL

Project Name: Project Home Key Development

Intended Recipient: LA Family Housing

Address: 7843 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91605

Requested Funds: $8,172,003

Summary: The project will convert the Panorama Inn, a new housing property acquired through the State of California’s Project Home Key initiative, into permanent supportive housing (PSH) for individuals experiencing homelessness in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valley region of Los Angeles County. PSH provides service-enriched permanent housing for people with high barriers to housing stability who, without support, would likely fall back into homelessness.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter: LAFH_FDL

Project Name: Pacoima Wash Greenway

Intended Recipient: Pacoima Beautiful

Address: 13520 Van Nuys Blvd. #200, Pacoima, CA 91331

Requested Funding: $800,000

Summary: This project seeks to implement the final phase of the Pacoima Wash Vision Plan which was created by community stakeholders that live in close proximity. Pacoima Beautiful along with its partner Kounkuey Design Initiative has led a community planning and design process for a new greenway and open space in the southern portion of the Pacoima Wash.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter: PB_FDL

Project Name: Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Program

Intended Recipient: Penny Lane Centers

Address: 15305 Rayen St. North Hills, CA 91343

Requested Funds: $400,000

Summary: This project seeks to provide 60 working-age homeless individuals with severe mental health impairment (or co-occurring substance abuse disorders) with job training, training, placements, as well as mental health, substance abuse, and supportive services through the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) program.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter: PLC_FDL

Project Name: 15260 Rayen Housing Rehabilitation Project

Intended Recipient: Abbey Road

Address: 15305 Rayen St. North Hills, CA 91343

Requested Funds: $1,000,000

Summary: This project seeks to fully rehabilitate one of six permanent supportive housing buildings – 15260 Rayen Apartments (a 6-unit two-story 5,048 square foot building) – that houses homeless Transition Aged Youth (TAY).

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter: Abbey_FDL

Project Name: Telfair Avenue Multi-Modal Bridge Over Pacoima Wash Project

Intended Recipient: Office of Los Angeles City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez (City of Los Angeles, Council District 7) in Partnership with the Bureau of Engineering

Address: 200 N. Spring St, Rm 455, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Requested Funds: $5,047,200

Summary: This project includes the construction of a new pedestrian and bicycle bridge along Telfair Avenue over the Pacoima Wash and will provide direct access to the future El Dorado Park. Currently, local students and neighborhood residents use this dangerous cut-through route as there is no safer option. This project is greatly needed for the community and will both provide increased safer, active transportation while investing in the aesthetics of the Wash.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter: CD7_FDL