Rededicating the first and only LGBTQ crosswalk in the entire city of Los Angeles.

This is an effort that my team and I have been working on for the last couple of years.

We've had the community out here today celebrating.

And it's just a really important reminder that Venice is a place of inclusion and diversity and love, and I couldn't be more proud that I am of the city today.

It's such a beautiful design.

I'm a designer.

So I look at this and I'm like, oh my God, somebody put a lot of thought into this, and it's really beautiful.

There's two main um important aspects of this project.

The first is the safety improvements.

Abikini is a very heavily walked upon corridor.

So improving the pedestrian safety and accessibility to all is kind of one of our main purposes of the project.

And the other one is to promote visibility, uh representation, and honoring the LGBTQ community here in Venice.

I think it marks this as a place where people are free to be who they are, that they can access our shops and our restaurants and visit this part of our city and not worry about intimidation or harassment.

Venice is built on a foundation of inclusion.

Especially in these times right now, I think that people putting themselves out there to do something like this is really remarkable.

This is a real important project, and this will bring momentum to the future for more projects like this.

A new plan to expand the campus at Homeboy Industries will include more healing, more housing, and more hope.

Well, we're here kicking off a launch of a hundred million dollar 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 Kitty 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.

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 to try to make everyone aware and give more protection.

It's a subject that has 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.

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 gathered 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.