College Corner Program.

The College Corner Program helps young people apply for college.

They help them apply for financial aid.

They organize campus visits, and they do so much more to encourage not just the students but their families to pursue a post-secondary education.

I am the first in my family and the first out of three siblings to go to university, and the university that I will be attending is Yale University.

The College Corner Program is a program that is available to any student that resides in the city of Los Angeles.

So that is really the only criteria.

It's open to every student, and we want more students to take advantage of these resources.

But they helped me a lot.

Today we gathered with over 200 students, and they are attending some of the top universities, not just in the state of California, but we have students that will be enrolled at Yale University at all of our top universities in California, such as UCLA, our Cal State system, our community colleges.

So we're just so excited and thrilled to continue to support them as they move into this next chapter.

I'm really looking forward to be able to go and explore a new environment, new people, new culture, everything, and just be able to grow alongside so many people who aspire to learn and do something and change the world for the better.

Today we also announced the creation of a new scholarship program, the Olivia Mitchell Scholarship Program, and we awarded them with $500 each to help support them in their college journey.

We are sending a strong message to all of the families that were here.

We're here to support them, and we want them to break through all of the glass ceilings and be able to accomplish all of their goals and aspirations.

To learn more about the family source system, we encourage people to visit our website.

Mayor Bass, Councilwoman, Katie Yaroslovski, and volunteers all got busy at the recent AAPI Day of Service.

With LA hosting major events in the coming years, volunteering to do good has the extra benefit of showing the city in a positive light.

So we're here at one of 10 locations across the city for Shine LA, which is a community beautification effort.

So we're here in Koreatown with a bunch of volunteers from across the community to help clean it up and make it beautiful.

I want you to know this gathering here, this is not the only one.

Throughout the city of Los Angeles today, over a thousand and delinos are participating in the Shine LA Day of Service.

We need to get Angelinos in every neighborhood involved in beautifying our neighborhood and preparing for major global events that are just around the corner.

Shine LA is the mayor's program to emphasize cleaning Los Angeles and getting ready for all these international visitors that we are expecting in 26, 27, 28, culminating in the Olympic and Paralympic games.

So we're here to basically get our house ready because when you expect company, you clean.

And one thing that is especially inspiring to me is to see so many young people here.

And I hope this is the beginning of a lifetime of service.

Reach out to us if you have ideas on projects you want to work on.

We're literally the thing that connects this neighborhood to City Hall.

We've all been living in this community for almost like our entire lives.

So we want to beautify our community and where we reside.

People definitely turned out.

They turned out and they turned out with their attitude and their energy, and I'm definitely excited to be here.

So across the city there are going to be events like this on a regular basis going forward for the next few years.

We hope people come out and get involved.

You can check out the website for Shine LA and figure out how to get involved in your own community.

Every one of our neighborhoods deserve to shine.

Everyone in the U.S.

is protected by certain rights under the Constitution.

And according to the LA Public Library, knowing those rights can make a difference.

Know your rights resources include emergency family preparedness, immigration options, rapid response phone numbers for LA, and the Know Your Rights card.

The library's Know Your Rights card is available to everyone online in 23 different languages.

For more information, click on the know your rights banner at lapl.org.

Mayor Karen Bass announced that resources would be immediately available to support downtown businesses impacted by protests in the city.

The mayor's office for economic development, Councilmember Isabel Jurado, and the city's economic and workforce development department are providing help online.

According to Jorato, local businesses are the backbone of downtown LA, and the council members' office will support them through every challenge.

For more, visit mayor.lacity.gov slash press.

Following the devastating wildfires in January, LA City's housing authority, HACLA wants to let Angelinos know of a new source of relief for disaster survivors.

Calassist Mortgage Fund is a new relief program from the state of California, which will support homeowners impacted by disasters between January 2023 and January 2025.

The Cal Assist Mortgage Fund will cover eligible homeowners for three months of mortgage payments up to $20,000.

Before applying, review the list of qualified disasters for this program, confirm the income limits, and check that your mortgage servicer is participating.

For more information, visit Calassist Mortgage Fund.org.

LA Sanitation hosted its ever-popular open house events this year.

These are more than a simple open house as the trash trucks are open to kids taking on the controls.

It's hands-on learning at its best.

This is an opportunity for our LA SAN employees to volunteer their time and engage with the uh community.

And educate them on a lot of our programs like our organics program, our recycling program.

We really want to engage with the residents so that they understand the value in recycling.

We have one earth.

We have limited resources, and your actions as a resident of sorting your trash and making sure it's properly put in the bins allows us to convert those commodities into useful products and save the earth.