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Best Start Region 2 Grantees
Healthy Food Access
Policy / Systems Change: Address food apartheid in these areas
Broadway-Manchester Compton/East Compton Watts and Willowbrook, West Athens
Lily of the Nile will address food apartheid in the First 5 LA, Best Start Region 2 Communities, by creating a regional farm fresh food distribution channel for Best Start Region 2 communities: Broadway Manchester, Compton – East Compton, Watts, Willowbrook and West Athens.
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Mental Health
Policy / Systems Change: Linking monolingual Spanish-speaking and recent immigrant families with cultural resources that support family wellness
Watts and Willowbrook
Strengthening relationships between parents and their children by exposing them to local resources and activities they can do
as a family. 50 local children and their families will go on field trips to local cultural and recreational resources and institutions.
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Early Childhood Eduation
Policy / Systems Change: Working with LAUSD to create policies around engagement of fathers at local schools.
West Athens
Project will collaborate with LAUSD, and early education programs to recruit fathers/male role models to participate in a strength based parenting program, and demonstrate that 100% of participating fathers successfully increase their engagement with their child’s academic development.
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Digital Access
Policy / Systems Change: Creating a reduced-fee internet access program model, and pathway for scaling the program to other, similar areas
Broadway- Manchester
Project will improve access to internet services for 1000 households and offer quarterly internet literacy classes for 150
parents and children teaching internet safety, and how to conduct essential activities.
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Green Spaces
Policy / Systems Change: Uniting community around peace
through greening and beautification.
Broadway- Manchester
To advance community safety for children 0-5 and their families by the beautification of the community as well as reducing gang violence by 10% within a 1⁄2 mile radius of ECM.
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Early Childhood Education
Policy / Systems Change: Uniting community around peace
through greening and beautification.
Watts and Willowbrook
Strengthening relationships between parents and their children by exposing them to local resources and activities they can do as a family. 50 local children and their families will go on field trips to local cultural and recreational resources and institutions.
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Clean and Safe Communities and Unhoused Families
Policy / Systems Change: Creating a network/system of local
organizations that can work together to refer and enroll residents in their services.
Compton/East Compton
Connecting 2,000 Compton residents with community organizations, resources and education through community events, roundtable discussions with residents, and support and leadership workshops. This project also creates a virtual community resource hub.
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Food Insecurity and Early Childhood Education
Policy / Systems Change: Passage of policies that reduce red tape and improves the system governing expungement of criminal
records, including for parents and caregivers of young children.
West Athens/ Westmont Watts/ Willowbrook Broadway-Manchester
Supporting 20 indivudals with criminal record expungement services, and distribution of food and other resources 2x per month. This project will also educate and mobilize constiuents to support legislation advancing systems changes that reduce barriers for criminal justice system‐impacted individuals.
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Employment and Fair Wages
Policy / Systems Change: Creating a system to prepare and place
Region 2 residents in quality jobs/careers and fair wages
Broadway-Manchester Compton/East Compton West Athens/Westmont Watts/Willowbrook
Providing a menu of Employment and Fair Wage services to help Region 2 residents gain long-term employment at fair wages, and
operate an entrepreneurship/small business training series for 10 undocumented residents.
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