Buscaglia

The Healing WELL

The Healing WELL received a grant for their leadership program including participant stipends, food for meetings and training for materials for wellness programming and for transportation, admission and food expenses for off-site programming and activities. “The Healing WELL offers calm in the storms of poverty and prejudice, mental illness, substance abuse and addiction. Inspired by ideals of compassion and justice, we love and guide one another so we can step further into brighter futures, healing ourselves and our greater community.” They promote healing and wellness by offering free daily sessions like meditation, yoga and 12-step support groups to an average of 160 low-income people each month. The Healing WELL is a fiscally sponsored (but financially independent) project of Community Initiatives.
 
Through the strength and inspiration Carmen received at The Healing WELL she started volunteering at Koret House (with cancer patients). They are proud that participants in their program are inspired to go on and help others like Carmen did.

MAPS Charities

Mission to Assist and Provide for Seniors (MAPS Charities) received a grant to support their core Senior Safety Net program over the next year. Funds will assist low income seniors by safeguarding shelter and purchasing life-changing medical devices, durable medical equipment and other items to help them remain healthy, safe and independent in their homes. MAPS Charities assists disadvantaged elderly people in Los Angeles County with funds for short-term solutions for critical concerns, by providing direct funds that allow them to stay in their homes, take care of their health and enhance their quality of life. MAPS Charities also received a grant from the Leo Buscaglia Foundation in March 2016.
 
It is common for seniors to experience loneliness and depression, especially when faced with overwhelming health and financial challenges. As MAPS charities serves some of the neediest seniors in Los Angeles, many of their clients have withdrawn from their families and social circles. By responding to an urgent need it helps restoring self-sufficiency, and giving clients a sense that they are not forgotten. MAPS charities helps seniors overcome mental and emotional health challenges. As a result they bring joy back to their families; return to providing companionship to peers; and become more capable of assisting family and friends with things like childcare.
 

South Bay Village

Here is a great video that was created a couple years ago that shows what South Bay Village is all about!

Program for Torture Victums

“June 26 is recognized internationally as United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On this day in 1987, the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment went into effect. “[T]he term ‘torture’ means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.”

As staff, we emphatically stand against torture at PTV and envision a world without torture in the future. To us, a world filled with beauty, justice, safety, joy, love, freedom, hope, peace, kindness, accountability, acceptance, respect, and harmony.

2020 also marks PTV’s 40th anniversary of helping asylum seekers who have been tortured or persecuted abroad to rebuild their lives in Southern California. PTV was founded in 1980 by asylum seekers Dr. José Quiroga and Ana Deutsch as the first torture rehabilitation center of its kind, before torture was legally defined. Over the years, we have helped countless asylum seekers on the journey to safety and freedom to express themselves politically, religiously, and openly by the gender and sexual orientation that they identify as. Our survivors show incredible resilience and strength; we continue to be inspired by them everyday. We also want to take this time to recognize the systemic racism, the lynchings, and police brutality that our Black brothers and sisters have faced and continue to face which are akin to torture.

This moment in time is historic. Many people are learning and educating themselves about oppression even in the United States, a country long seen as a safe haven. We hope that people continue to educate themselves about the issues from torture to police brutality and take action to address the issues by signing petitions, protesting, voting, and calling or writing to elected officials. Let’s be on the right side of history .“

Click here to learn more about Program for Torture Victims. 

MAPS Charities

“Over and over again we see it… the need for reading glasses, plumbing repairs, a stove, utility bills, rent, food, dental work, new windows and yes, even rat extermination…these are just a few of the things that your support helps provide to seniors in need. The list goes on and on of things that make a difference in the quality of life for someone and allow them to remain in their current living situation.  So many needs and until now, nowhere to turn for help.

MAPS Charities is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization started by a group of volunteers who have spent many years providing a variety of services to seniors in the Los Angeles County area and have seen too many older adults in need of assistance.  They have fallen through the cracks of other social services. Through fundraising, we attempt to provide a one-time safety net for those seniors who cannot afford the things that may allow them to remain safe and independent wherever they may call home.

It is strictly a labor of love for the board of directors and other volunteers who assist in our outreach and fundraising efforts. Since we have been established, social workers and other health care professionals who are close to these seniors in need have come to rely on us to help with these unique problems. The funds raised go directly to helping seniors and their families in need.

Help improve the life of a senior today! “

Jubilee Consortium

“Our fellows make a difference.

JYLA corps members are helping to feed our community, responding to the needs of our immigrant friends and neighbors, educating students, and walking the path of spiritual growth, creative expression, and compassionate community building – even (and especially) during this difficult time!”

 

Click here to learn more about Jubilee Consortium.

IAMLA

Even though IAMLA is still closed they are still teaching other about the history of Italian Americans.

“Did you know that the Bozzani brothers opened a bicycle and motorcycle shop next door to the Italian Hall (now the IAMLA) in downtown LA’s Little Italy in the early 1900s? They then became one of the largest automobile dealerships in Southern California and one brother, Amerigo, helped oversee the construction of the west’s first freeway! The dealership Bozzani Volkswagen, still exists today and is family owned.”

Click here to learn more about IAMLA.

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