Campaign to build the Father Greg Boyle Center for Radical Kinship and Cope Village.

And what that means is there's gonna be a place where people can get mental health services, a place to live, job training, get the wraparound services and critically the love and support they need to change their lives.

So we're in the shade of Men's Central Jail, which we hope they'll eventually tear down to make way for this project.

So we're celebrating uh Frank Records, giving us 10 million dollars to launch this 100 million dollar campaign.

We're hopeful that if we imagine uh something like this, we can all roll up our sleeves and make it happen.

Frank McCourt is coming together, homeboy industries are coming together to tell people that they do have a second chance, that this is not their only chance.

Today is mental health day, and so we're reminding folks about what this expansion is about.

That people are out there to heal, people out there to care, and that's what this is about.

And so that investment is an investment into the future of Homeboy Industries.

This isn't just about kind of expanding us.

It's about inviting us to imagine and that we will leave nobody behind.

You just can't.

There's no example of that.

This new Father Gregory Boyle Center for Radical Kinship and Hope Village become a model for the whole country and the world because every community deserves this kind of space that believes in people enough to invest in them.

Time and time again.

Thank you.

It's a hot topic.

Council member Katie Yaroslavski joined LA Civil Rights and Community members to learn more about policymaking on menopause.

They heard what other cities have put in place and how LA can catch up.

The city has done some incredible work on behalf of women.

These benefits really reflect the city's acknowledgement of what our bodies and our minds go through.

We're here uh at Lacey this morning to talk about perimenopause, uh, which is incredibly important to half the population of people, right?

Perimenopause is something that doesn't announce itself in the same way.

Uh, other parts of one's life do, and the changes that women go through when they hit often their 40s through to their 60s are significant and uh have been underemphasized for a really long time.

So it's really important that we bring together experts to help figure out how the city of Los Angeles can do a better job of supporting women who are going through perimenopause.

I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to present the work that City of Melbourne is doing.

It's just so important for all women who are going through menopause and perimenopause.

But we need awareness and we need to talk to each other about what we're experiencing and what we can do to push toward legislation uh to try to make everyone aware and give more protection.

It's a subject that is not talked about yet half of the world's population experiences it, and we don't really talk about it.

We don't study it.

Uh, we don't, we certainly don't view it as an issue that should be addressed publicly or collectively.

The LA Civil Rights Department in partnership with our Commission on the Status of Women wants to be intentional to meet the needs of all community members.

When we say LA is for everyone, we mean women who are dealing with menopause.

Well, one thing I think that will come out of the round table today is there is an economic cost that you all experience from this.

It has economic value to provide this type of care.

It's not just like a nice thing to do, but there's an economic rationale here on top of that.

We want to find out the best practices of how to support women going through menopause.

We want to let people know that learning about menopause and your 40s and 50s could actually extend your quality of life and uh reduce medical costs and of course extend your actual life cycles.

School principals based in the city gather to learn more about how they can connect with city services.

These supports will serve the principals and operating their schools and of course helping their students.

We're here at LA Trade Tech, meeting with principals locally to the area from elementary to high school.

We're gonna talk about all the city services that we offer.

So there's a lot of key organizations that are gonna be offering resources today, all people's community center, Department of Sanitation, Department of Water and Power, LAPD.

A lot of principals have been asking us, hey Jose, how do we get in contact with the local officer?

Hey, how do we get in contact with the local sanitation crew?

So today we got to have them all together to make sure that those questions are answered.

It's really important that we connect with our local schools because a lot of insecurities are going on with the administration right now with funding and public safety.

We wanted to make sure that the local schools got to know who the city council member is, the local departments are, because we uh eventually we'll have to work together.

This gathering today is so sanitation can give out more information on illegal dumping and homeless encampments.

So we want to make sure that they have the all the information and know those steps on how to report.

They can go on to MyLA or even the LA Sanitation website.

Getting all the resources today is pivotal to maintaining quality programming within our city, especially our district nine.

That's where our school is located.

And so I'm just excited to be here to get all this valuable information and take you back to my community.

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