Attention La Puente and surrounding communities! Hopefully you are all aware of the awesome community activities, classes, and clubs being offered by the City of La Puente. For teens, the community center offers a group called V.O.I.C.E (Volunteers out Improving Community Experiences). Every 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month, teens ages 13-18 gather in the community center to volunteer in the community, meet new friends, and participate in fun activities(626-855-1560 or www.lapuente.org) . Arts classes for everyone are also offered at the community center. From knitting and crocheting to“ TLC” Dance classes or from Pre-school drawing class to Zumba Dance class, the La Puente Community center “gots” it. Most classes range from 20 dollars/ La Puente resident to 25 dollars/ Non-La Puente resident (626 855-1560 or recsvs@lapuente.org) . Heard of the downtown Artwalk? Well La Puente has their own version of the popular “artwalk” called the Old Town La Puente Artwalk. See great art, music, and go record shopping. This event happens quarterly (www.colapublib.org, www.nuvein.org)
Started as a jobs program offering alternatives to gang violence in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Homeboy assists at-risk, recently released, and formerly gang involved youth to become contributing members of their communities through a variety of services in response to their multiple needs. Free programs including counseling, education, tattoo removal, substance abuse and addiction assistance, training and job placement all help to enable young people to redirect their lives. Homeboy provides them with hope for their futures and is the nation’s largest gang-intervention and re-entry program – a model to all. Homeboy Industries serves at-risk and gang involved youth with a continuum of services and programs designed to meet their multiple needs, and runs four businesses that serve as job-training sites. From a charter high school to tattoo removal to poetry classes and solar panel installation training, comprehensive services are offered to all who walk through Homeboy’s doors. After completing job-readiness programs, clients can be placed in one of our four businesses, where former rivals work side by side baking bread, learning to silkscreen, developing retail skills, or running a restaurant and catering business. For more info go to homeboy-industries.org or call (323) 526 1254 * excerpt taken from homeboy-industries.org
Los Angeles County has the highest number of children in foster care with approximately 25,000. 60 percent of these children were removed from their homes and separated from loving parents whose only infraction was extreme poverty. Recently, The Dream Center established Project Prevention has reunited over 80 families and kept nearly 250 families in tact by providing the necessary items – ranging from appliances and furniture to cleaning supplies and food – to assure that homes with minor children meet the requirements of Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. Most recently, The Dream Center’s Project Prevention established a visitation center at Angelus Temple’s Kidz Dream Zone so parents that are in the process of having their children returned to them can have scheduled supervised visitation. Project Prevention staff also coordinates the training of volunteers who wish to give their time as visitation monitors.
The Dream Center’s Transitional Family Housing Program works to rescue homeless families and provide support, services and personal care to create a path for independent living, permanent housing and re-entry.
The Dream Center is proud to have Los Angeles’ largest nonprofit food bank. Our Food Bank crew processes over one million pounds (worth about $2,000,000) of donated food per month. We distribute it through our feeding ministries and food services at The Dream Center. We also help over 40 other agencies and churches by providing food for their hunger outreaches. Food giveaways held twice a week on The Dream Center campus help approximately 600 local community members meet their family’s food needs. For more information go to www.dreamcenter.org or call (213) 273-7000
* excerpt taken from www.dreamcenter.org
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