Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Weingart Center for the Homeless is a comprehensive human services center for homeless men and women living in Skid Row, Los Angeles.It provides on-site short and long-term services including transitional residential housing, medical and mental health, permanent supportive housing, substance abuse recovery, education, workforce development, long term case management.
The building was designed by Sumner P. Hunt and built in 1893. [3] It was originally an experimental kindergarten and has also been used over the years as a prestigious college preparatory school for girls, an inn and restaurant, a military barracks in World War II, the headquarters of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics Foundation, and a shelter for homeless women.
Skid Row is the unofficial name for a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles [1] officially known as Central City East. [2]Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s. [3]
The Weingart Center Assn. will soon begin placing homeless people in a 278-unit tower, part of a project it hopes will change the skyline and ambience of Skid Row.
The Downtown Women's Center encourages the community to Shop for a Cause at any of its three thrift store locations, now through the end of December to raise funds for renovations of the upcoming ...
The first women's shelter in the modern world was Haven House, which opened in 1964 in California. [53] An early women's shelter in the United States, Emergency Shelter Program Inc. (now Ruby's Place inc.), was established in Hayward, California, in 1972 by a local group of women who attended church together.
With final construction back on track, the mayor's office, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority and the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles collectively pushed through the ...
Founded in 1894, [4] the YWCA Greater Los Angeles serving the needs of women and their families in the Los Angeles community is modeled after the national Young Women's Christian Association which is a membership movement dedicated to the concept of empowering women by creating opportunities for growth, leadership and eliminating racism.