2022-23 Local Landscape
The two local city measures passed in the mid-term elections that are designed to increase low income and affordable housing and fund tenant assistance programs
What are Measure LH & Measure ULA?
This staff member is the central figure behind the creation and coordination of the Wellness Wednesday Hub, a weekly vaccination and resource clinic that has helped over 6,000 residents get vaccinated and tested for COVID-19.
Ms. Renee
This is CoCo's full name
Community Coalition For Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment
The 2022-23 budget for this government entity is $19.9 billion.
Los Angeles Unified School District
In 2021, CoCo served as the lead convener of this Coalition, 30+ regional organizations that ensured everyday people and historically disenfranchised groups across LA were engaged in the redistricting process.
The People’s Bloc
What was the name of the first campaign coco launched in 1992 and what was the end result of the campaign?
Rebuild South Central without liquor stores and its resulted in the permanent closure of over 150 liquor stores from being rebuilt in South Central
This was declared a state of emergency on homelessness Karen Bass’s first act as mayor
Declared a state of emergency on homelessness
The Make LA Whole Coalition identified Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a key recovery focus, which influenced the creation of these two UBI pilot programs at the City and County levels.
Breathe LA and BIG:LEAP
What was the name of the campaign that won relative caregivers more that 38 million in funding for kinship services? what year was it launched?
Family Care, Not Foster Care back; 2000
This CA state task force held one of its recent meetings in South LA at the CA Science Center
CA Reparations Task Force
In May 2022, CoCo hosted “Culture Cures: Community Re-Activation and Healing,” a three-week arts series that provided a platform for residents to reconnect through arts/healing practices. Name the 3 of the 5 different events/components that made up the series:
An arts exhibit that reflected on the 30th Anniversary of the Civil Unrest
Wellness workshops focused on dance, meditation/breathwork, printmaking, and gardening
A South LA Bike Tour
A Community Arts Festival
A Resource Fair
Where was the first freedom school summer program launched?
Foshay Learning Center
CoCo was mentioned this amount of times in the leaked audio that exposed 3 racist city councilmembers and the president af LA county’s labor union
6 times
This year, CoCo launched its very first National Organizing Fellowship to invest in the next generation of organizers committed to advancing equity and building grassroots power nationwide. The fellowship welcomed fellows from these 6 cities.
Chicago, Detroit, Jackson, Colorado Springs, Denver, and Los Angeles.
Community Coalition was founded in this year after a group of activist organized this event.
1990, two-day conference on crack cocaine and the drug crisis in the African American community