Want to give your dog a “cool” surprise, and provide your pooch with an experience they are sure to love and enjoy? Then bring your precious pooch and have them take a splash at any of six Los Angeles County pools during the happy “Pooches in the Pool” event taking place from 5-7 p.m. on [...]
The collaborative effort multi Neighborhood Council 7 week Spanish CERT 1 class has completed Fully attended, it has been held at United Methodist Church 15435 Rayen Street, North Hills, on 7 Tuesdays from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Participating Neighborhood Councils were: Panorama City NC Mission Hills NC North Hills East NC North Hills West NC At [...]
County and City of Los Angeles Release Age-Friendly Action Plan for the Los Angeles Region LOS ANGELES, CA – As part of the Purposeful Aging Los Angeles (PALA) Initiative, the County and City of Los Angeles released the Age-Friendly Action Plan for the Los Angeles Region 2018-2021, which will guide efforts over the next three [...]
16 to 24-year-olds in Los Angeles are invited to this year's Budget Challenge, presented by LA Controller Ron Galperin. As part of the Controller’s new initiative to promote financial education and literacy among LA’s students and young adults, the Budget Challenge will put your budgeting skills to the test in an interactive budgeting simulation activity! In collaboration [...]
Want to help your neighborhood maximize green space and be more climate resilient? Want to make the best and most equitable use of Measure A and Prop 68 funds for local parks? Join us for a hands-on workshop with Fernando Cazares of the Trust for Public Land on how to make the most of your neighborhood green space—and add [...]
(story by Jasmine Elbarbary, EmpowerLA's Civic Youth program leader) Our Civic Youth Leadership Academy continued this past Monday with a focus on Outreach, specifically in the context of the upcoming 2019 Neighborhood Council Elections. Special thanks to Department staff Tom Soong, Obiamaka Ude, Octaviano Rios and Ann-Marie Holman. Tom opened the workshop with a brief history [...]
Next Tuesday, July 24, the Board of the Los Angeles Animal Services Commissioners will hold its meeting in South Los Angeles. On behalf of Commissioners Olivia Garcia, Roger Wolfson, Alisa Finsten, Layne Dicker and myself, Larry Gross, we would like to extend an invitation to attend our meeting at 7:00 PM at the South L.A. Chesterfield Square Shelter, 1850 W. 60th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90047 (Just west of [...]
The Bureau of Street Services’ Urban Forestry Division (UFD) is now copying EmpowerLA when a permit has been filed with UFD and has been deemed complete to move to the notification phase. Once EmpowerLA receives a notification with the address of the tree to be removed, staff will identify which Neighborhood Council the tree(s) is [...]
A Court Appointed Special Advocate (or CASA) volunteer makes a difference for children in foster care. CASA volunteers are paired to work one-on-one with a child and ensure they have the services and support needed in the areas important to all children: stable placement, education, and healthcare. There are 30,000 kids in the child welfare [...]
