2000-2001 Annual Report

Our Lady of the Angels Region

Our Lady of the Angels Region – Metro Area:

Complete list of Programs/Services Members of Angel’s Flight’s music therapy group take instruction from, (left to right), Brion Tarija and Paulina Filby. The group performs regularly at convalescent homes in East Hollywood. Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women’s Hawkes Transitional Residence provides for 30 homeless women, for up to six months, as they transition to self sufficiency. Residents shown, gather strength from each other. • On average, each week 20 individuals attend the “Fe, Esperanza y Caridad” (Faith, Hope and Charity) program offered three Saturdays each month at St. Mary’s Center in Central Los Angeles. Participants attend classes and workshops dealing with parenting issues, domestic violence and abuse, tenant-landlord relations, drug and alcohol addiction and other issues affecting family life. The Center provided case management, emergency food assistance and job training to 5,400 clients in the ’00-’01 fiscal year. • Angel’s Flight Shelter for Runaway Youth offered 219 runaway and homeless youth, ages 10-17, a safe place to live while providing access to counseling for youth and families, recreation, case management, and aftercare. Over 250 youth participated in art and music therapy at Angel’s Flight last year. Art and music therapy present creative and therapeutic opportunities to help youth express their emotions in a positive and productive manner. Both are designed to build self-confidence and self-esteem. • Good Shepherd Center offers a comprehensive range of services for homeless women and their children. The Center served 147 homeless clients, with less than $10,000 annual income, through the Good Shepherd Center Mother-Child Residence. Other services include a drop-in center, a mobile outreach unit, residences for homeless women and mothers who are disabled and their children.

Our Lady of the Angels Region – Western Area:

Complete list of Programs/Services Adolphus Clarke, Food Coordinator at St. Peter Claver Center, helps with clients to receive emergency food assistance The ADESTE program offers low cost before and after school care at 4 locations in Our Lady of the Angels Region-Western Area. • Catholic Charities’ St. Robert’s Center in Venice works with seven parishes in the area to provide case management, groceries and lunches to low-income or homeless people on Saturdays and Sundays. Three hundred people receive groceries or lunches on a typical weekend. • Over 5,000 people annually obtain services at St. Peter Claver’s Center in the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles. In addition to emergency food, shelter and clothing assistance, and case management, the Center initiated a substance abuse program for youth and adults in the neighborhood. • St. Margaret’s Center in Lennox, in collaboration with area parishes, offers case management, food, shelter, adult education classes and immigration services to more than 40,000 people each year. “Being at the shelter was a God send. It made us feel that no matter how low you may go, there is always someone there willing to help you.” “I thank God each day and still do to this day for giving us the people at the shelter who helped us when we were at our lowest.” – Recipients of shelter services

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