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Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership
a Project of Community Partners
DECEMBER 2012
Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership Special Announcements
  
Three Special Announcements!

 

Important Workshop Notice

 

IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED to Stop the City of Los Angeles Proposed Community Care Facilities Ordinance

 

CNN Interviews Sir Richard Branson TODAY Calling the War on Drugs a

"Trillion-Dollar Failure"

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TIME & SPACE ARE LIMITED!

Register now for next week's capacity building workshop

 

Strategic Fund Development

Learn to address your fund development needs from a strategic perspective.   This workshop is a highly interactive and participant-engaged experience that will further the understanding of fund development and ways to improve opportunities for more resources. For more information or to register, click below http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4567531610#

 

 

December 12th from 12 - 4 p.m.

Citrus Valley Health Center

Oakwood Meeting Room B

West Covina, Ca., 91790 

 

 

 

STOP THE COMMUNITY CARE FACILITIES ORDINANCE!!

 

The Northridge Tragedy Being Used to Sway Opinion Towards Illegal Public Policy

 

The unfortunate recent tragedy in Northridge has sadly become a political football to garner support for the Community Care Facilities Ordinance (CCFO). The fact that the property was a shared housing environment is not an automatic link to why the crime occurred.  As such, if the CCFO were implemented as Council Member Englander is suggesting, there is doubt that this unfortunate event would have been prevented or that the elimination of shared housing would prevent future tragedies.

 

However, Council Member Englander's perspective has received great traction in the press over the past few days so it is time to use our collective power to create an opposing voice among our elected officials.

 

Specifically we would like to ask for the following three action items:

 

  1. Create call circles among your constituent groups and ask them to make calls to their councilpersons urging them to vot "NO" on the CCFO. We need constituents from all council districts to make calls, including from Englander's District. Calls should be made between today and Dec. 13th.
  2. Ask individuals to write letters to their councilpersons expressing their opposition to the Ordinance and copying the Council file. Attached is a template. Please send in by Dec. 13th and maybe another around the week of Jan. 21st. Please be sure to send a copy to the Council File
  3. Share personal stories of graduatesor persons residing in shared housing that we can post on the United Way Stop CCFO website (http://www.stopccfo.org
 
"War on Drugs a Trillion-Dollar Failure"

 

Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group, and a member of the Global Drug Commission, appears in Erin Burnett's "Out Front" program on CNN this afternoon at 4 p.m. (PST).  He will also appear tomorrow on CNN International's "Connect the World" at 1 p.m. (PST)

 

Read Branson's compelling article online at CNN Opinion:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/06/opinion/branson-end-war-on-drugs/index.html