SJC in the NEWS
St. Joseph Center Celebrates Milestone with the Opening of La Ramona Family Interim Housing Community
November 4, 2024
Los Angeles, CA
In partnership with Los Angeles County, the State of California, and the Coalition for Responsible Community Development, St. Joseph Center opens its first owned housing site in South Los Angeles through Project Homekey.
Los Angeles, CA – St. Joseph Center proudly announces the official opening of La Ramona Family Interim Housing Community, a newly transformed facility in the heart of South Los Angeles’s historic Jefferson Park neighborhood. Developed as part of California’s Project Homekey initiative, this site represents St. Joseph Center’s first-ever fully owned housing facility. It offers a safe and supportive transitional environment designed for families experiencing homelessness. La Ramona will provide a vital resource for permanent housing and stability, with nearly 20 units designed specifically for children and families.
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L.A. County's Homelessness Initiative is Also About Seeing Black People
October 29, 2024
Los Angeles, CA
By Erin Aubry Kaplan
One-third of the region’s unhoused are Black. Funding services could be a start to investing in the equality we all need, instead of seeing it as a luxury we can’t afford — or some don’t deserve.
Read More:
https://capitalandmain.com/l-a-countys-homelessness-initiative-is-also-about-seeing-black-people
Housing for All: Philanthropies, Nonprofits Look to Get People Off the Streets
October 21, 2024
Los Angeles, CA
By Sherry Karabin
The year was 2021, and the Covid-19 pandemic was raging across the world.
In Los Angeles County, homelessness was continuing to increase, as officials and outreach workers looked to find solutions to the encampments that were lining various parts of the city of L.A. One of the largest, on Venice Beach, contained more than 200 people.
Its size and location made it hard to ignore, setting the stage the successful six-week effort known as the Ocean Front Walk (OFW) Encampment to Home Project. This resulted in the majority of those individuals living in permanent housing.
Modeled after the 2018 Encampment to Home pilot, which focused on two South L.A. communities, the effort was led by the Venice-based nonprofit
St. Joseph Center, which serves as the Coordinated Entry System lead agency for Service Planning Area 5 (SPA 5) on the west side of the county.
St. Joseph Center Awarded Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Award
October 21, 2024
Los Angeles, CA
We are thrilled to announce that St. Joseph Center has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Award—a national honor recognizing nonprofits making extraordinary contributions to their communities. Out of hundreds of applicants, we are one of only two organizations chosen to represent Los Angeles on this national stage.
This award is a tremendous acknowledgment of our work to address homelessness and poverty in our city. St. Joseph Center has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Award—a national honor recognizing nonprofits making extraordinary contributions to their communities.
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The Homeland Podcast
October 17, 2024
Los Angeles, CA
As the homelessness crisis grows, so does the need for understanding. The Homeland Podcast shines a light on the issue by revealing the humanity behind the statistics.
St. Joseph Center is proud to have our team be a part of this deeply meaningful work. The Homeland Podcast, distributed by PRX, launched and is available now wherever you listen to podcasts.
Learn more about the mission and subscribe for updates: https://ourhomeland.us
Bread and Roses Café Celebrates 35 Years Changing Lives - KCAL/KCBS News
September 26, 2024
Venice, CA
(KCBS)
The Café serves more than 600 free meals per week to the homeless in a restaurant-style setting and leads people to other services like job training. “They’re doing the work that needs to be done,” guest diner Wayne shared when asked how he felt about Bread and Roses Café while experiencing homeless.
Watch Here: https://vimeo.com/1021105061
Celebrating 35 Years at Bread and Roses Café with St. Joseph Center CEO Dr. Ryan Smith (FOX 11 GOOD DAY LA )
September 26, 2024
Venice, CA
(FOX LA)
FOX 11 Good Day LA highlights 35 Years at St. Joseph Center’s Bread and Roses Café in Venice, CA, feeding people in need, with an interview with St. Joseph Center President and CEO Dr. Ryan J. Smith.
Bread and Roses Cafe - 35th Anniversary - Fox LA with Chef James Cunningham
September 26, 2024
Venice, CA
(FOX LA)
Head Chef of Bread and Roses Café, James Cunningham, shares with FOX LA what’s on the menu and why he loves his job feeding the community as the Café celebrates 35 years of service.
Bread and Roses Cafe - 35th Anniversary - Fox LA - Brian Beasley
September 26, 2024
Venice, CA
(FOX LA)
Brian Beasley, a St. Joseph Center Bread and Roses Training Kitchen student, shares his transformation from incarceration to aspiring culinary business owner and why he is celebrating Bread and Roses Café’s 35 years of helping the community.
Don't Criminalize Homeless Students
August 28, 2024
Los Angeles, CA
By Dr. Ryan Smith
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent encampment executive order mandating the clearing of homeless encampments on state property, coupled with the start of the school year and a new Supreme Court decision, shines light on an often-overlooked crisis — the devastating impact that both homelessness and the criminal justice system can have on our youth.
I know firsthand how housing insecurities, combined with a broken criminal justice system, can destabilize the lives of young people, pushing them further into systems that fail to support their complex journeys.
As a high school student growing up in Los Angeles, I remember coming home after a full day of classes to find something unexpected on our door — an eviction notice. My mom, an educated single mother who worked tirelessly to afford our Culver City condominium, looked at me with sorrow in her eyes.
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