Interim Housing Site for Justice-Impacted Women and Families Opens in LB

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LONG BEACH – The Justice, Care and Opportunities Department or JCOD, in partnership with the nonprofit Holliday’s Helping Hands or HHH, will celebrate the ribbon cutting and grand opening of a 55-bed interim housing site in Long Beach to provide housing for justice-impacted women and families Sept. 4.

The brand-new facility, located on 834 Pacific Avenue in Long Beach, is part of JCOD’s Providing Opportunities for Women in Reentry or POWR program. POWR provides women in reentry with safe housing, case management, mental health, employment and supportive services designed to restore and empower.

The opening of this facility provides housing for single women, trans women and women with children, a safe place to live and three meals a day. The site also offers some beds for men with children. Through POWR, residents can better focus on finding and maintaining employment, getting connected to physical and mental health services, participating in substance use treatment, reuniting with family, and securing a permanent housing solution

“When we say that our most important duty as a county is to be a safety net for our most vulnerable, we mean it and this site is putting that promise into action. Everyone who moves in here will be able to finally take a breath, focus less on where they and their children will sleep tonight, and more on what they need to rebuild their lives. And we’re going to give them every tool and resource they’ll need to accomplish that, all in one place,” said Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn.

POWR housing residents stay in the facility for approximately nine months while receiving assistance to secure long-term housing. To ensure the success of the POWR housing in Long Beach, HHH formed an oversight committee focused on policy development, data gathering/analysis with future plans for community outreach and developing partnerships with community-based organizations in the Long Beach area.

Time: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sept. 4

Details: jcod.lacounty.gov and hollidayshh.org.

Venue: Interim Housing Site, 834 Pacific Ave., Long Beach

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