LARRP Committee Meetings
General Meeting
March Meeting Cancelled!
Next Meeting: April 20th,
10:00am - 11:30am
The 3rd Thursday of every month from 10:00am - 11:30am
Employment:
April 19, 2023
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Every even month, on the 3rd Wednesday from 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Housing:
May 4, 2023
2:00pm - 3:30pm
2023 meetings will be held every ODD month on the 3rd Thursday from 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Education Committee:
April 6, 2023,
3:30PM - 4:30 PM
Every first Thursday from 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Integrated Health:
April 3, 2023
2:00 PM
LA County Probation Department Job Opportunities
Job Opening at CURB (Californians United for a Responsible Budget)
Full-Time Statewide Coordinator: Policy/Advocacy, 2023
Friends Outside In Los Angeles County Job Specialist (“Sector” Grant Program)
The Job Specialist will provide employment services to members of the reentry population, using a cohort model. This full-time position (40 hours/week) will work from an office in Inglewood.
TO APPLY: Submit your cover letter and resume with “Sector Job Specialist” in subject line to:sbell@friendsoutsidela.org
Resource Fairand Prom Dress Giveaway
Positive Results Center
Saturday March 18, 2023, 10:00 - 3:00 PM
The Beehive, 1000 E 60th Street, LA, 90001
Sign Up:
SB 94 (Cortese) Community Launch Event
March 20th, 2023 at 7 PM-8:15 PM on zoom.
Join the anti-death penalty group to celebrate the launch of their new bill - which would provide a ‘second look’ to some Californians sentenced to death or serving life in prison without the possibility of parole. The bill would allow individuals to petition for judicial review on special circumstance offenses specified in Penal Code 190.2 committed before June 5, 1990, after they have served at least 20 years of their sentence. Come learn more and join the fight!
Los Angeles Coordinated Entry System (CES) Policy Council Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 9:30 a.m.
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
637 Wilshire Boulevard, 1st Floor Commission Room Los Angeles, CA 90017
To join the meeting virtually please REGISTER in advance
JOB SEEKER REGISTRATION:
Thursday, 3/23 at 10am
A Fair Chance Hiring Information Session and Job Fair in Palmdale!
March 2023 edition of the Housing Rights Center's Project Place.
Project Place is a free monthly listing of rental properties for low-income, senior, and veteran residents throughout Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. Information on COVID-19 renter protections, rental assistance, and transitional housing is also included.
CFCI/Amity Solicitation
The County invites you to apply for the County of Los Angeles Non-CFCI funding in Program Area 8: Grants to Justice-Focused Community Based Organizations (CBO).
As part of the County’s commitment to its Care First, Jails Last vision, the County has allocated $7.65 million in American Rescue Plan funds to assist justice-focused community-based organizations recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This program will be administered by the Care First Community Investment (CFCI) third-party administrator, Amity Foundation (Amity). Full instructions and links to applications are available on Amity’s website Questions may be emailed to tpagrants@amityfdn.org. Please note the key dates and timeline below:
- Optional Funding Opportunity Webinar: March 15, 2023 at 5:30 PM Register
- Written Questions Deadline: April 17, 2023 at 5:00
- Submission Deadline: April 21, 2023 at 5:00 PM
New Medi-Cal Outreach & Education Toolkit for Kids & Teens
As part of Medi-Cal’s Strategy to Support Health and Opportunity for Children and Families, DHCS developed new Medi-Cal for Kids & Teens Outreach & Education materials to improve member understanding of how Medi-Cal works for children and youth and to increase coordination with a range of child-serving stakeholders. The new toolkit educates and informs families and providers about the federal Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) requirement. Available on the Medi-Cal for Kids & Teens webpage, the toolkit includes three major components:
LARRP has the most extensive listing of reentry and criminal justice related news articles and reports in California.
California to overhaul San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab
Associated Press/Report for America, By Janie HAR and Sophie Austin March 16, 2023
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The infamous state prison on San Francisco Bay that has been home to the largest death row population in the United States will be transformed into a lockup where less-dangerous prisoners will receive education, training and rehabilitation, California officials announced Thursday.
The inmates serving death sentences at San Quentin State Prison will be moved elsewhere in the California penitentiary system, Gov. Gavin Newsom's office announced, and it will be renamed the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.
Gascón loses retaliation case, a grim omen for the L.A. County D.A.
LA Times, By James Queally Staff Writer, March 6, 2023
An L.A. County prosecutor on Monday was awarded $1.5 million in a retaliation lawsuit against Dist. Atty. George Gascón, who faces more than a dozen similar civil claims that could prove equally costly.
LA Is Locking Up More Mentally Ill People, Despite Diversion Efforts
The Appeal, By Meg O'Connor, March 02, 2023
In 2015, Los Angeles County created a program to reduce the number of mentally ill people trapped in jail. But since then, the number of people with mental illness incarcerated in LA has instead increased significantly.
It’s hard to find a job if you’ve been in jail. A new program is trying to fix that
LA Times, By Jon Healey, Utility Journalism Senior Editor , March 2, 2023
...That’s why Los Angeles County launched its second Fair Chance Hiring Program this year to promote the hiring of “system impacted” individuals — that is, Californians with criminal records and their close relatives. The program builds on the Fair Chance Act, a 2017 state law that bars most employers with five or more workers from rejecting applicants just because they have a criminal record.
The LARRP Policy and Advocacy Committee seeks to be a resource to inform and mobilize the reentry community around critical reentry policy issues and leverage the expertise of practitioners and impacted people into the policy making process.
The Committee will develop and advocate for the passage and implementation of legislative and administrative policies that improve opportunities for formerly incarcerated or convicted people, their families and communities, and the community-based agencies that serve them.
Committee work will be guided and prioritized by 3 questions:
- Will it have a direct impact on the lives of impacted people?
- Does it address reentry systems or services?
- Does it reduce racial discrimination in the criminal legal system?
Sign on to AB 947
LARRP and Root & Rebound are co-sponsoring AB 974 authored by Assemblymember McKinnor. AB 974 seeks to allow currently incarcerated individuals to qualify for a single-use fee waiver in order to get a copy of their birth certificate without needing to pay the current $29 fee. Receiving this document without the need to save up for it, and returning to the community with it already in hand will provide greater opportunities and preparedness for folks as they leave the carceral system.
LARRP Membership is open to any person or agency with an interest in reentry in Los Angeles County and whose interests are aligned with the LARRP mission. This would include, but not limited to, formerly incarcerated or convicted people and their families; reentry providers, advocates and researchers; government agencies; schools; faith-based agencies; youth oriented organizations; service clubs; neighborhood councils; and elected officials.
LARRP has 3 classes of paid membership:
- $50 – Individual
- $250 – Small Organization (Annual budget under $500,000)
- $500 – Large Organization (Annual budget $500,000 +)
LARRP has two classes of non-paid participants
- Currently incarcerated individuals
- Individuals, government agencies, and other entities that do not choose to join LARRP, but support LARRP’s mission and would like to be engaged and involved with LARRP and its members.
LARRP is a network of public, community and faith-based agencies and advocates working together to ensure that our reentry system meets the needs of our agencies, communities, and the people we serve, both in terms of capacity and public policy.
The Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership (LARRP) is the only countywide network of reentry focused non-profit organizations, public agencies, and advocates that works to ensure that our reentry system meets the needs of our agencies, communities, and the people we serve, both in terms of capacity and public policy.
Since 2011, LARRP has been building a locally rooted reentry movement to advance positive change for millions of formerly incarcerated and convicted (FIC) Angelinos and build public will for greater equity in the criminal justice system. Since inception, LARRP has worked tirelessly to increase funding for housing, health, and social services for the FIC people and those who serve them.
LARRP is a project of Community Partners.
LARRP COMMITTEES
The aim of of the Community Safety Committee is to:
- SEED change by identifying drivers of violence;
- NURTURE the work by inclusively engaging a broad and diverse group of stakeholders in a balanced and democratic conversation about approaches to addressing violence;
- HARVEST the fruit of the work by defining an approach to systems change that can be implemented, evaluated, and shared.
The mission of the Education Committee is to:
- BUILD BRIDGES from corrections to college in Southern California by providing a framework and opportunity for information and resource sharing for individuals and programs that support educational opportunities for the reentry population.
- Enhance the educational experience by linking academics, business, and the reentry community.
- Promote restorative justice, support partnerships, network, share resources, and encourage and celebrate educational excellence.
Convene periodically to discuss progress, evaluate goals, and develop plans.
The Mission of the Integrated Health Committee is to:
- CONVENE re-entry stakeholders dedicated to improving the comprehensive mental health, physical health, and the substance use needs of the reentry population by addressing inequity across systems of care and increasing access to care.
The LARRP Housing Committee focuses on:
- UNDERSTANDING the housing and homeless services landscape
- IDENTIFYING interim and permanent housing solutions for the reentry population.
- TRACKING policies and guidelines that impact formerly incarcerated individual’s ability to access housing subsidies and resources.
LIBERATION
My final perquisite is that of LIBERATION. One of the greatest liberators and liberation movements in history was that of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement during the 1960s. We should take stock of those times and learn from them, because the struggle for liberation is as real today as…
Loyalty
This week I wanted to continue our conversation about race relations in America. This is the second of three blogs in a series I’m calling “Love, Loyalty and Liberation: Prerequisites for Restoring Race Relations in America.” The problems of equality faced by America today are many, but none more prevalent than that of my second…
“Love, Loyalty and Liberation: Prerequisites for Restoring Race Relations in America”
I was thinking the other day about all the tension that’s in this country about race relations, and was wondering what can be done to improve it. I decided to write about it, and this is the first of three blogs in a series I’m calling “Love, Loyalty and Liberation: Prerequisites for Restoring Race Relations…
- « Previous
- 1
- …
- 6
- 7
- 8
LARRP L.E.A.D.E.R.S.
The L.E.A.D.E.R.S. Training Academy is a project funded by CCJBH; Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health. Its' purpose is to provide capacity to the formerly incarcerated, the people who have been closest to the problem but the furthest away from the solutions.
D.O.O.R.S Community Reentry Center
The Office of Diversion and Reentry partnered to open DOORS (Developing Opportunities and Offering Reentry Solutions) Community Reentry Center located at 3965 Vermont Ave. in Los Angeles. DOORS provides many supportive services to address and assist the reentry community and their families. These services are provided in a welcoming environment by county partners and community-based organizations that are considered leaders in the reentry work and experienced professionals with high risk communities. Services offered include housing, employment, educational services,legal aid, mental health assessments, healing through the arts, and substance use health and counseling.