LAMP Community
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. LAMP Community (originally the Los Angeles Men's Place) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization located in Skid Row that seeks to permanently end homelessness, improve health, and build self-sufficiency among men and women living with severe mental illness.[1][2]
Lamp Community also played a prominent role in the movie The Soloist.[1]
Services
Lamp Community operates under, and helped to pioneer, the Housing First model. It offers immediate access to affordable, safe and permanent housing without requiring sobriety or participation in treatment. Once settled in their home, new tenants are surrounded with customized services such as mental health treatment, drug recovery, healthcare, budgeting, visual performing arts, job opportunities, and other supports to help them achieve their goals and become part of their community.[3]
Media
- "Saving for the future, a dollar a time", a radio story originally aired on Marketplace Money on May 16, 2010. The highlights Lamp Community's Money Management Program, which offers personal banking services and financial literacy courses to hundreds of Skid Row residents.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 LAMP Community homepage Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ LAMP Community about page
