Organization that has been around since 1914 providing human services to anybody that comes into the midnight mission.

Those services are from emergency services, like three meals a day, place to shower, clean clothes.

We also have a recovery program both for men and women based off of the 12-step approach.

Over at Homeboys, we have training, you know, so that a lot of people are looking for jobs that they don't really know, if they have the skills, any skills, but we're there to give the skills.

So it's a plus win-win situation, and um I'm so happy and grateful to be a part of it.

Many of our service providers uh do speak many community languages, so that includes uh Spanish, Chinese, Thai, uh ASL, even formerly incarcerated, so one that I'm actually established now, I have a job, I have residency, I have a steady income, I have my medical coverage and everything.

And that was all made possible through resources.

I was connected with and or two through the library.

The library is the right platform for all the service provider.

Um the library has already a name.

He has eloquation known by everybody, but also has the resources that we need.

You can cruise through, maybe get a free pen, and in the process, you can learn about services that maybe you didn't even know you needed.

The Central Library is just a great place to be.

You know, we got air conditioning, restrooms, charge your phone.

Just look at the fact that you have people out here who love you who are generally concerned about you, who've been down the same path that you're navigating right now, and we're here to help.

So no matter how bleak it looks, no matter how bad, there's people here to help you like me, and uh we're gonna get it, we're gonna get it done.

You know, and with the resources being available, we're gonna get you connected.

That's what my job is, that's what my passion is, and I think I speak for the vast majority of these people here at the shore today too.

That's why they come every last Tuesday of the month.

Today we're here in Lincoln Heights in Council District One, hosting our third annual backpack giveaway where we're giving out 1,700 backpacks to families across the district.

We know that coming into the new school year gets expensive, right?

You gotta buy new shoes, new pants, new uniforms, backpacks, pencils, paper.

Kids matter, and Lincoln Heights has been putting kids first and the community at the center.

Do whatever we go through, ups, downs, we stick together, and that's why these events are important and need to continue for years on.

How about you, buddy?

It's great for the kids just to uh get them ready for school.

They can come and get a backpack with school supplies for their kids.

There's a lot of different service providers that are providing different resources and services.

These events are incredibly important to the community because right now families are struggling.

Uniforms are expensive, school supplies are expensive, the rent is too damn high.

We're here to try to lighten the load on our families so that they can focus on staying housed, on feeding their families, and the events like these kind of close the loop for some of the struggles that they have or some of the gaps that they might have.

It's just it brings the community together, it supports one another.

It's a lot of fun and uh we love the turnout.

I think it's great, and uh, you know, definitely gonna be here next year again.

We are here in front of Santee High School, a location where an individual from our community was shot by ICE agents last year, and we know that what often happens when law enforcement has shot someone, they aren't allowing medical aid to be rendered to our community members.

And what we wanted to do along with voters of tomorrow, young people who are truly our next generation of leaders who said we need to do something about this, and so we brought together folks to pass AB2318, focus on providing timely medical aid, and if you don't allow that, once a scene has been secured, then you have to provide documentation showcasing why not.

As an EMT, I think that giving care to a patient, preserving life is one of the utmost responsibilities that I have, and I think that ensuring that that is placed in the legislature and placed in laws is super important, and I love the fact that a lot of young people like myself were able to come out and speak on it today.

There are people being killed, they're people that are not getting their right to do process, which is so important in this country.

It's one of the promises that any people in the United States are given.

And so for us, we thought, you know what, we have this amazing platform of voters of tomorrow.

We can use voters of tomorrow to kind of build partnerships with other organizations who believe in the same vision that we do.

Democracy hinges on civic engagement, political participation.

If we bar ourselves completely from the entire process, we render ourselves silent.

We have to stand up and we have a voice, and now I'm in the legislative space.

I was able to write this bill with my colleague Ashi.

And now we're kind of expanding more toward immigration policy.

I'm uh proud to stand uh here in the heart of South Los Angeles where we saw so many unfortunate ice raids last year and ongoing, and I am happy to be in full support of this bill for something that should be common sense.

We shouldn't have to write a law that says if a person's injured, no matter what the situation, that aid is rendered right away.

I love this place.

It's nice to see another DCA site that's like offering such accessible workshops to the community.

I think it's really awesome.

One of our missions is to create space for people to come in and connect, not just with art but with their community.

So I came across what McGordy Theatre is doing with their weekly summer free arts workshops.

And I saw this.

I think everyone's kind of exploring cyanography on Instagram, so I wanted to come and check out.

So today we're doing uh cycotography.

So it's probably the oldest version of photography that we have.

So it was invented in the early 1800s, and it uses two different chemicals to that you combine in equal parts to create a photograph.

You start by combining the two chemicals into a little bit of a science project first, and then you also get set up the pieces that you would like to make on your um art.

So they turn it essentially creates a negative.