Catholic Charities of Los Angeles

Community centers: ccla has community centers at 20 strategically located sites. They are the first point of help for people in need. The centers offer supportive services aimed at breaking cycles of poverty and homelessness in communities. In addition to emergency disaster services and basic needs services such as providing food, clothing, rent, and utilities payments, the centers deliver life-changing services, including: job training, english as a second language, financial literacy, and ged preparation.

The shelter programs of Catholic Charities are aimed at ending homelessness and stabilizing clients' lives through housing, employment and supportive services. They are designed to move clients from "in crisis" situations to safe and stable housing. Individuls are offered a safe haven and the tools needed to lead self-sufficient lives.four emergency and transitional housing programs/education-based shelters are operated through the good shepherd center and solely serve women and women with children who are healing from domestic violence. * languille emergency shelter * farley house * hawkes transitional residence * angel guardian home (for more details please see schedule o. )two shelters to support the needs of transitional youth: * angel's flight, at-risk youth shelter * jobe, transitional living for former foster care youththe other two shelters include: * elizabeth ann seton residence - located in long beach, this is an emergency shelter that provides temporary housing up to 45 days, for families, pregnant women, disabled singles and the elderly. * mcgill street house, a transitional facility owned by the city of covina, which is designed to serve 2 family units (a total of 7 beds) at a time.

Immigration and refugees - ccla began providing immigration assistance after world war ii with the restatement of hungarian refugees in Los Angeles. Today, refugees come from a multitude of other countries including: iraq, iran, haiti, somalia, burma and both central and south america. We provide four main services: 1) employment support services and life-skills workshops; 2) refuee resettlement program (rrp) which offers an array of services such as job readiness workshops and esl classes to refugees; 3) immigration services and 4) esperanza, which provides legal services such as special visas for the abused and abandoned.