SURVIVOR RESOURCES
(Inclusion Is Not An Endorsement)
211LA
211 LA is the central source for providing information and referrals for all health and human services in LA County. The 2-1-1 phone line is open 24 hours, 7 days a week, with trained Community Resource Advisors prepared to offer help with any situation, any time.
Anthem Medi-Cal Blue Cross
Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program. Anthem serves Medi-Cal recipients in these counties: Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Inyo, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Mariposa, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Benito, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Sierra, Sutter, Tehama, Tulare, Tuolumne and Yuba.
https://mss.anthem.com/california-medicaid/benefits/medi-cal-plan-benefits.html
California Dept of Justice Victims Services Unit
The Victims’ Services Unit (VSU) offers crime victims and their families support and information at every stage of the criminal process.
Department of Public Social Services – Medi-Cal Outreach Team
DPSS is one of 36 County departments and serves over 10 million residents in a county larger in population than 42 states, encompassing 88 cities. They provide information on health care programs and services that are available to residents of Los Angeles County. There are health programs to cover the needs of everyone regardless of age, race, or immigration status. They have programs for children and youth, pregnant women, families, seniors, persons with disabilities, and single adults.
http://dpss.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/dpss/main/programs-and-services/health-care/
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services has provided free mental health, substance use disorder and suicide prevention services since 1942. Dedicated to serving communities where stigma or poverty limits access, Didi Hirsch helps more than 120,000 children and adults from 10 locations and 100 schools throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties each year.
Disability Rights Legal Center
Founded in 1975, Disability Rights Legal Center (DRLC) is a 501C-3 non-profit, public interest advocacy organization that champions the civil rights of people with disabilities through education, advocacy, and litigation.
GRYD
The City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Development (GRYD) was established in July of 2007 to address gang violence in a comprehensive and coordinated way throughout the City. GRYD currently provides gang intervention and prevention services in 23 GRYD Zones throughout the City of Los Angeles, along with regional juvenile reentry services, community engagement programming, and various other initiatives.
Healing Dialogue and Action
Healing Dialogue and Action brings together people wounded by violence and broken criminal justice systems. “We share our stories and listen deeply with open hearts. We respond with compassion and accompany each other in healing the harm caused by violence crime. We work together to change the criminal justice system so it is one that respects and offers an opportunity for transformation for victims, offenders, and families.”
http://healingdialogueandaction.org
LA County Department of Public Health Injury and Violence Prevention Program
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Injury & Violence Prevention Program (IVPP) collaborates with community and county partners to support the prevention of violence (suicide, homicide, intimate partner violence) and unintentional injuries (motor vehicle collisions, falls, unintentional overdoses). IVPP regularly monitors the occurrence of injuries and deaths among the residents of Los Angeles County, provides health education through presentations and provides technical assistance and evaluation support for partners. IVPP’s key programs include the Child Passenger Safety Program, the Los Angeles County Violent Death Reporting System, support for Parks After Dark, and the Trauma Prevention Initiative. The goal of IVPP is to reduce the leading causes of injury related death and disability for Los Angeles County and promote the well-being, health and safety of individuals and communities.
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/ivpp/
LA County District Attorney’s Bureau of Victim Services
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is committed to helping victims of crime and protecting their rights. The Bureau of Victim Services provides essential services to crime victims and witnesses in Los Angeles County.
http://da.lacounty.gov/victims
Los Angeles City Victim Assistance Program
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Victim Assistance Program has a team of specially trained advocates who work with victims, witnesses, and their families throughout and beyond the criminal justice process. “It is our mission to compassionately and effectively protect the rights of victims while providing services that meet the unique needs of those impacted by crime. Through crisis intervention, advocacy, information and referral, the goal is to help alleviate the psychological and emotional trauma incurred from victimization. Our aim is to also facilitate the victims’, survivors’, and witnesses’ recovery and ability to actively participate in the criminal justice system.”
https://www.helplacrimevictims.org
Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers
The Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers (LARCS) is a non- profit organization working with law enforcement agencies and the Media to help solve crimes.
Loved Ones Victims Services
LOVS was founded in 1985 as a support group to help one another with the grief and trauma associated with homicide. LOVS provides counseling, support, and experience in helping people who have suffered loss to find the strength to cope and move through the trauma. In recent years, LOVS has focused on addressing the cycle of violence in the Los Angeles area through intervention and prevention programs aimed at supporting the co-victims of violent crime. “With the commitment of governmental agencies and private/corporate sponsorship, our outreach programs continue to provide and expand the specialty resources needed by our clients and the community.”
Our House
The OUR HOUSE mission is to provide the community with grief support services, education, resources, and hope.
https://www.ourhouse-grief.org/
Peace Over Violence
Established in 1971 by pioneering feminist activists, Peace Over Violence is a sexual and domestic violence, intimate partner stalking, child abuse and youth violence prevention center headquartered in Los Angeles. POV is committed to social service, social change and social justice. POV’s innovative programs are comprehensive and include Emergency, Intervention, Prevention, Education and Advocacy services.
https://www.peaceoverviolence.org/
Peak Psychological Services
Peak Psychological Services is a fully customized outpatient facility in West Los Angeles, CA, specializing in working with adolescents, young adults and their families.
https://www.peakpsychologyla.com/
QueensCare Health Centers
QueensCare is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides affordable healthcare to low-income and uninsured Los Angeles residents. Originally founded by the Franciscan Sister of Sacred Heart, the mission of compassion and accessible healthcare continues today. QueensCare provides preventive and direct care to Los Angeles area communities in need.
SoCal Crossroads
Southern California Crossroads is a non-profit 501c(3) organization that was created to assist under-served, low-income communities. “Our objective is to create Healthy, Peaceful and Productive lifestyles through Counseling, Education, Employment, and other Social Support Services. “
https://www.socalcrossroads.org
Soledad Enrichment Action, Inc. (SEA)
Since 1972, Soledad Enrichment Action, Inc. (SEA) has offered high-risk youth and their families alternatives to gangs, drugs, and violence by providing a wide array of social, mental health, and educational support services that address the often-complex needs of our youth and their families.
Speak for Safety
Speak for Safety is a campaign to raise awareness of the Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO), a historic new tool for temporarily removing guns and ammunition from individuals who are at risk of harming themselves or others.
Strength United
Operating through California State University Northridge’s (CSUN) Michael D. Eisner College of Education, Strength United provides a unique interdisciplinary approach to ending abuse and violence through the collaboration of mental health professionals, educators, researchers, students and volunteers. “This collaboration enhances the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities through our 24-hour response team, advocacy, intervention, education, prevention and work for social change.”
https://www.csun.edu/eisner-education/strength-united
Survivors Empowered
“Our mission at SURVIVORS EMPOWERED is to empower survivors of violence to use their stories to create a reduction in violence that we all desire.”
https://www.survivorsempowered.org
Women Against Gun Violence
For over 25 years, WAGV has mobilized communities to take decisive action against the dangers of firearms through advocacy for meaningful gun regulations, through program work, and through educating the public and policymakers about the human, financial and public health consequences of America’s gun violence epidemic.
Women of Watts
Women of Watts and Beyond is dedicated to strengthening and building the family structure, mentoring and supporting families through raising awareness as a community to end violence. Women of Watts and Beyond acts as an information center working with at-risk families – fathers, mothers, children, and youth, especially for those who have lost a loved one as a result of being murdered by gang violence.
https://womenofwattsandbeyond.com/
Yetunde Price Resource Center
The Yetunde Price Resource Center (YPRC) collaborates with partner organizations to offer trauma-informed programs that promote individual and community-wide healing and resiliency. YPRC works to ensure that victims of direct or indirect senseless violence have complete access to existing resources and that where there is a dearth in services, new resources are created.