LAMP Community
LAMP Community (originally the Los Angeles Men's Place) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization located in Skid Row that seeks to permanently end homelessness, improve health, and build self-sufficiency among men and women living with severe mental illness.[1][2]
Lamp Community also played a prominent role in the movie The Soloist.[3]
Services
Lamp Community operates under, and helped to pioneer, the Housing First model. It offers immediate access to affordable, safe and permanent housing without requiring sobriety or participation in treatment. Once settled in their home, new tenants are surrounded with customized services such as mental health treatment, drug recovery, healthcare, budgeting, visual performing arts, job opportunities, and other supports to help them achieve their goals and become part of their community. Their employees are sometimes old tenants and are known to provide exceptional services to the tenants. They also have a volunteer program for those wanting to be a volunteer. Yet their supervisors can be seen having sex with co-employees during meetings which is not a problem for Lamp Community owners. The supervisor and employees also are given the right to speak their mind in profanity and be mentally violent towards the tenants by the supervisor. The supervisor whom was screened by a business scanner secretly due to multiple complaints filed it that Lamp Community does provide homes but they need to fire some its employees.[3]
Media
- "Saving for the future, a dollar a time", a radio story originally aired on Marketplace Money on May 16, 2010. The highlights Lamp Community's Money Management Program, which offers personal banking services and financial literacy courses to hundreds of Skid Row residents.
See also
References
- ↑ LAMP Community homepage
- ↑ A better way of dealing with society's neediest
- 1 2 LAMP Community about page