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LARRP Website & Committees
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for information about our bi-monthly membership meetings and our community and work group meetings. Get involved! Our housing, employment, and policy committees meet regularly to tackle topics important to all reentry providers, advocates, and other stakeholders.
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Upcoming Events
UHHP Workshop - Preparing Disabilities Claims
UHHP is excited to offer our signature Preparing Disability Claims workshops at the California Endowment on March 11, 12, 21st, 2013.
Through the series of three trainings, your staff will learn the tips and techniques that are necessary for preparing successful disability applications. During these workshops, experts will guide participants in understanding the requirements. The overarching goal is to provide the support for participants to begin filing applications with confidence, while understanding the how to develop the needed information.
LAARP Workshop 2/14/13 - Responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs)
Thursday February 14, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM PST
Focusing on RFPs issued by Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, this half-day workshop is designed to help non-profits successfully compete for public funding. It is geared especially for small agencies that may not have submitted prior proposals or that may not have the services of an experienced grant writer.
Community Partners
LARRP Workshop - Building and Sustaining Partnerships & Collaborations
Wednesday February 20, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM PST
The goal of this workshop is to assist potential partners in thinking through the collaborative structure and mechanisms necessary to support multi-agency, multi-service projects. Learn the 5 keys to successfully build, leverage, define and maintain these relationships. Led by Peggy Edwards, Executive Director of LARRP & UHHP.
The Flintridge Retreat Center
What's the difference between a "facilitator" and an "instructor?"
Often professionals are asked to facilitate a project planning session or a meeting or teach a course. When do you pull out your "facilitator hat" and when do you put on the "instructor hat," and aren't those hats interchangeable? This hands-on, two-day workshop is designed to define the differences in these roles and give participants the opportunity to practice skills and techniques essential to each. The training is limited to 20 people and is available for people that are required by their roles to both facilitate work sessions and conduct training.
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CCFO FAILS TO PASS CITY COUNCIL
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The Stop the CCFO coalition of more than 160 organizations can claim victory, as the Los Angeles City Council did not pass the proposed Community Care Facilities Ordinance on January 30th. The supporters could not muster the eight city council votes needed to pass the ordinance. Instead the Council appointed a "Working Group" to study the issue further and
report back to the Council in 90 days.
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Vera Releases Report on Jail Reentry in Los Angeles County
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The Vera Institute of Justice released "Making the Transition: Rethinking Jail Reentry in Los AngelesCounty" on February 4th. This report comes at an important time for Los Angeles County, as county agencies and service providers working in the community consider ways to meet the challenges posed by a burgeoning jail population-and the opportunities-provided by realignment.
The report provides recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of reentry services, offering a multi-faceted assessment of the challenges facing people leaving jail in Los Angeles and the barriers they experience accessing services. To generate this information, Vera researchers conducted interviews with people held in the jail; talked with corrections staff, community service providers, policy makers and advocates; and analyzed jail administrative records.
Click here for the Fact Sheet and click here for the report. The full set of data is available on Vera's website http://www.vera.org
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LARRP is rolling out a capacity building project in 2013 designed for reentry service providers
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The program will have three areas of focus: (1) Organizational Capacity, (2) Community Impact and (3) Systems Impact. The design is a combination of instructional modules in a classroom setting, as well as opportunities for providers to apply learning in day-to-day business. In addition, providers will be matched with coaches who will be available to support the providers with hands-on advice. We are recruiting participants in an advisory work group that will be asked to assist in program design and will be eligible to participate in the pilot program.
The pilot cohort of participants will be selected through a competitive application process. Participating organizations will be chosen based upon: (1) history of providing reentry services to the community; and (2) agreement to meet the criteria and commitments of this effort, as outlined below. The initial capacity building efforts will include a cohort of up to 12 organizations. To be eligible, these organizations will be required to:
- Be reentry providers. This means that at least 40% of their program time is spent working with individuals who are returning or have recently returned from jail, prison or juvenile detention facilities.
- Have a demonstrated need for capacity building. This means the organization does not have sufficient flexible dollars to invest in their own capacity building exercises.
- Have an operating budget of at least $100,000. There are no maximum budget criteria.
- Commit in writing to attend all of the capacity building meetings, barring an unforeseen, excused absence, and making their best efforts to contribute their expertise to making the process successful.
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FUNDRAISING ACADEMY FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
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Fundraising Academy for Communities of Color is now accepting applications for its Los Angeles 2013 Cohort. Hosted for the second year in partnership with Community Partners, the Academy is a 6-month program to help organizations in communities of color learn how to raise money from community sources, especially individual donors. You get group training, one-one-one coaching, useful resources, and a supportive learning community. Fees run from $500-$2,000, depending on annual budget size. Deadline for applications is March 1st.
More than 50 Los Angeles-based nonprofits have benefited from the Academy's training over the past three years, gaining the critical awareness, skills and systems needed for developing greater donor support.
To determine eligibility and learn more, please click here.
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South LA Homeless TAY & Foster Care Providers Collaborative Meeting
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The South Los Angeles Transition Age Youth and Foster Care Providers Collaborative will meet on February 8th from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at The Right Way Foundation, 1910 S. Magnolia Ave. at Washington Blvd.
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Housing Rights Center Announces 14th Annual Housing Rights Summit
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The Housing Rights Center will hold their annual summit titled "The Future of Fair Housing" on Thursday, April 18, 2013 at the California Endowment. The all-day conference will feature expert speakers from across the nation who will discuss key issues impacting low income communities.
This year's topics will include:
- Veterans' Issues - Homelessness, Mental Health & Employment
- Transgender Issues - Establishing Legal, Societal and Culturally Competent Frameworks
- Complex Housing Laws - The Rights of Convicted Sex Offenders, Persons with Felony Convictions
- The Cultivation and Use of Medical Marijuana in Housing.
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Small Grant Program Awards Stipends for Graduate-Level Research on Improving Disability Determination Processes
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The Disability Determination Process (DDP) Small Grant Program is a one-year stipend program that allows graduate-level students to conduct supervised independent research on improving disability determination processes. This grant program awards stipends to to conduct research on ways to improve the disability determination process for SSA's two disability programs - Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). Students will receive a stipend of $10,000 for the one-year program. Applications are due March 1.
For more information, click here.
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