Launched in 2020 in the midst of a pandemic our Women+Girls Initiative identifies and serves the unique needs of unhoused women and girls, who represent a particularly vulnerable segment of the unhoused population.
Women and girls often struggle to find support and resources catered toward them, and constantly face the risk of violence, sexual assault, trafficking, and more. Many hide from view – both from those that want to serve them and – even more tragically – from the number of lurking predators who hunt them and their children.
Our Health+Personal Care Kits (HL) address the unique hygiene, personal care, sanitary and beauty needs of those that identify as women and girls on the street. We babe
Each Spring around Mother’s Day we depend on sponsor partners to fund our New Baby Program to provide vital aid and supplies to newborns and their unhoused mothers. We have served hundreds of new babies throughout Greater Los Angeles with the help of our tireless agency partners (HL). Each kit contains XXX for the urgent health, safety and hygiene needs of vulnerable baby and Mom. Each of the Initiative’s Learning Experiences deep dives into the complex challenges and misinformation that uniquely plagues our unhoused women, girls and mothers and their babies – often spiraling them into circumstances very hard to overcome without true understanding and dedicated resources.