LifeWorks Mentoring
Client Mentoring Program

The Client Mentoring Program matches our clients with adult professionals from the community specially trained to be LifeWorks mentors. The program offer clients the advantage of having a caring adult with the age and experience to provide practical and real world guidance in the achievement of their life goals. Our Client Consultant works with clients to develop a Life Plan and offers referrals and resources to support our matches with goal achievement.
Green Room™ Client Services

Green Room™ is so named because of LifeWorks Mentoring’s™ commitment to providing a safe space for our clients to get together, have fun, make new friends and support each other. You can come and listen to music, play a game, access the Internet, read magazines, attend a workshop and learn from peers who have been where you’re at and understand.

Client Services include:

Social Groups and Peer Mentoring are offered weekly on Thursday evenings to provide opportunities for clients to get together, talk, listen, learn new skills, find new interests and develop and enhance their social networks. Thursday nights in Green Room are Free, Confidential and Chill!
Workshops are offered on the last Thursday of every month arranged by the Youth Board and LifeWorks Mentoring™ staff. The workshops address issues relevant to our clients and their goals. Clients learn about available resources and opportunities. Subject areas include financial literacy, career advancement, job search skills, the effects of substance use and abuse, education about sexually transmitted infections and activism. Workshop presenters are community leaders and experts in their subject area.
Special Activities - LifeWorks Mentoring™ plans monthly activities for everyone to get together and have some fun! Nothing more complicated than that! This is also an opportunity to invite youth not already involved to join us and see what we’re all about.
Internship - Some clients may be interested in taking advantage of an internship to get practical experience in their chosen profession or to explore a new area.

www.LifeWorksMentoring.org

Contact: LifeWorks Mentoring
9021 Melrose Ave., Suite 309
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Accessible via the 4 and 304 Metro Bus Lines - Metro's website

Phone: 310.724.6300
Fax: 310.724.8158

Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center
Mission & Values

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center provides a broad array of services for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, welcoming nearly a quarter-million client visits from ethnically diverse youth and adults each year. Through its Jeffrey Goodman Special Care Clinic and on-site pharmacy, the Center offers free and low-cost health, mental health, HIV/AIDS medical care and HIV/STD testing and prevention. The Center also offers legal, social, cultural, and educational services, with unique programs for seniors, families and youth, including a 24-bed transitional living program for homeless youth.

www.LAGLC.org

Contact: McDonald/Wright Building
1625 N. Schrader Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028-6213
Ph: 323-993-7400

Remote Area Medical RAM
The Remote Area Medical® (RAM) Volunteer Corps is a non-profit, volunteer, airborne relief corps dedicated to serving mankind by providing free health care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational assistance to people in remote areas of the United States and the world.
Founded in 1985, Remote Area Medical® is a publicly supported all-volunteer charitable organization. Volunteer doctors, nurses, pilots, veterinarians and support workers participate in expeditions (at their own expense) in some of the world's most exciting places. Medical supplies, medicines, facilities and vehicles are donated.

http://www.ramusa.org/index.html

Contact: Donations can be sent to RAM by mail to:

Remote Area Medical Foundation
1834 Beech Street
Knoxville, TN 37920
865-579-1530

The Bill Foundation - Dog Rescue
Did you know there is a big problem here in Los Angeles? There are too many homeless dogs. Here at Bill Foundation we want to tell you all about it because we need your help to solve this crisis. Right now only 30% of lost dogs are reclaimed by their owners, the other 70% only have a 20% chance of finding a new home. Most are euthanized because there is simply no room.

While the problem may seem overwhelming, Bill Foundation, like many grassroots organizations across the country, has chosen to face the problem head on. Working locally in Los Angeles, our goal is to place healthy, adoptable animals in new and loving homes while aiding in the fight against pet overpopulation. We also help care for those animals less fortunate - those who need a little more time to get their health back or may have behavioral problems requiring advanced training before going to a new home.

These dogs are real. The volunteers who go to the shelters to rescue our dogs are haunted by the faces of the dogs they must leave behind. Bill Foundation relies on donations to continue and expand its work. Every dollar contributed brings us closer to the day when no dogs are left behind to be euthanized.

All contributions go directly toward our modest operating expenses and the care of our animals: shelter fees, veterinary care, boarding and equipment.

Together we can make a difference. Bill Foundation usually has between 30 to 60 dogs available for adoption. If you are thinking of getting a new friend, please consider adopting a rescue. 8-10 million dogs enter the shelter system each year. There are dogs of all ages, sizes and types. In fact, 25% of the dogs found in shelters are purebred dogs.

And remember, if you have a pet or know someone who does, get it spayed or neutered to help end the vicious cycle

www.BillFoundation.org

Contact: Phone: (310) 860-0171
Fax: (310) 860-9362
PO Box 5202
Beverly Hills, CA 90209

The Harmony Project
The Harmony Project is a non-profit organization established in April of 2001 with a vision of serving the cultural and artistic needs of underprivileged children in the Los Angeles area. Our mission is:

To promote the healthy growth and development of children through the study, practice and performance of music.

To build healthier communities by investing in the positive development of children through music.

To develop children as musical ambassadors of peace, hope and understanding amongst people of diverse cultures, backgrounds and beliefs.

We currently provide private and group orchestral instrument instruction, music theory, choral singing, recital performances and regular field trips to live events.

Instruction offered by qualified teachers and musicians, as well as all musical instruments, are provided to each child at no cost to the child or their family, based upon family income.

We accomplish this by:

Bringing quality music instruction to children who otherwise would not have access to it
Complementing music education with supporting resources and opportunities
Fostering a community of families that actively support their children growth and development.
Finally, besides receiving a quality musical education, each child is able to participate in a program that offers the consistency that is often lacking in their daily life. Our children develop the skills of personal discipline, dedication, responsibility, and cooperation that help them function as healthy individuals within a community.

The Harmony Project does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion or national and ethnic origin.

http://www.harmony-project.org

Contact: The Harmony Project
817 Vine Street, Suite 204
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Office: (323) 462-4311
Fax: (323) 462-4367

United Nations World Food Program
FREEING THE WORLD OF HUNGER

Whether refugees are fleeing war or drought is destroying farmland, hunger is often the first emergency. The hungry look to WFP for the first response. In 2006, the agency's food assistance reached 63.4 million people caught in the world's ever-widening net of humanitarian disasters.

The number of food emergencies has been rising over the past two decades, from an average of 15 per year during the 1980s to more than 30 per year since the turn of the millennium.

Whatever the cause - natural or man-made - hunger is one of the first threats to survival.

At the request of the local government, WFP sets the well-oiled wheels of its emergency response procedure into motion. Over its 40 year history, the agency has turned the complex business of getting the right food to the right people in the right place into a fine science.
First, Emergency Assessment teams are sent in to ask the key question: how much food assistance is needed for how many beneficiaries and for how long? And, how can the food be delivered to the hungry?

Equipped with the answers, WFP draws up an Emergency Operation (EMOP), including a plan of action and a budget. This lists who will receive food assistance, what rations are required, the type of transport WFP will use and which humanitarian corridors lead to the crisis zone.

Next, WFP launches an Appeal to the international community for funds and food aid. The agency relies entirely on voluntary contributions to finance its operations, with donations made in cash, food or services. Governments are the biggest single source of funding. More than 60 support WFP's worldwide operations.

As funds and food start to flow, WFP's logistics team works to bridge the gap between the donors and the hungry. In 2006, the agency distributed 4 million tonnes of food aid by air, land and sea.


WFP food convoy heads into southern Lebanon.

Ships carry the largest WFP cargo, their holds filled to the brim with 50,000 tonnes or more of grain, cans of cooking oil and tinned food; every day, the agency has 30 ships on the high seas, frequently rerouting vessels to get food fast to crisis zones.

In extreme environments, WFP also uses the skies to reach the hungry, airlifting or airdropping food directly into disaster zones.

Before the aid can reach its country of destination, logistics experts often need to upgrade ports and secure warehouses.

Trucks usually make the final link in WFP's food chain - transporting food aid along the rough roads that lead to the hungry. Where roads are impassable or simply nonexistent, WFP relies on less conventional forms of transport: donkeys in the Andes, speedboats in the Mozambique floods, camels in Sudan and elephants in Nepal.

When the food reaches designated distribution sites - refugee camps, therapeutic feeding centres and other emergency shelters - WFP teams-up with governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to deliver food into the hands and mouths of the hungry. WFP works with over 3,300 international and local NGOs to distribute food aid.

At this stage, local community leaders work closely with WFP to ensure rations reach the people who need it most: women, pregnant mothers, children and the elderly.

http://www.wfp.org/english/?n=31

Contact: Director:
Deborah Saidy
Head Office:
New York
Address:
WFP North America Office, Two United Nations Plaza, Room DC 2-2500, New York, NY 10017, United States of America
Tel: +1 212 9638364
Fax: +1 212 9638019
Mail: WFP.NewYork@wfp.org