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MIS24188-1_NEWSLETTER - OUTSIDE - ALL KITS & VERSIONS
Help transform more
lives—all year long
CROSSROADS
EVENTS
Herb Smith, President
Follow us on Twitter:
@TheLAMission
Subscribe to our video channel:
youtube.com/ILoveLAMission
Many thanks to the BET Networks, John W. Carson Foundation,
Northbound Treatment Services and City National Bank for graciously
sponsoring our 77th gala.
Check out our photos on Instagram:
@TheLAMission
1
MIS24188-1_NEWSLETTER_FA.indd 1
▸ It’s so easy to do! Just fill out the form below, go online to our monthly
giving website page at LosAngelesMission.org/give or call Leisha SmithTownsend at (213) 629-1227, ext. 421. Thank you!
A
MONTH
PAGE 1
REWARDS OF BEING
A VOLUNTEER
Three volunteers share why
they give their time to the Mission
PAGE 3
To give a gift by credit card, visit us online at donate.losangelesmission.org or call (213) 629-1227, ext. 400.
303 E. 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
NAME
ADDRESSAPT
@
STATEZIP
EMAIL
A receipt for your tax-deductible gift
will be sent to you shortly.
4CP
Find out what’s
coming up at the Mission
m I would like to become a Meals a Month partner and give a monthly gift of $________.
My first gift is enclosed.
CITY
70# White Opaque Smooth Book
ALS
STOCK
EVENTS
Yes! I want to help provide meals and opportunities for change to my Skid Row friends
and neighbors. Here’s my gift of: m $25 m $50 m $150 m $________
THANK YOU!
News from the Los Angeles Mission
–MARIALICE FREEMAN
ADC ALUM
Please make your check payable to: Los Angeles Mission
and mail to: P.O. Box 60127, Los Angeles, CA 90060-0127
5
N144
Living outside
the box
After 12 years on Skid Row, Marialice found
new life at the Anne Douglas Center PAGE 2
EQUIPPING STUDENTS
FOR THE JOURNEY
OF A LIFETIME
Learn how the Chicago School of Professional
Psychology is helping our students
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Become a fan on Facebook:
facebook.com/losangelesmission
“I didn’t think I could do it,
but God said different.”
▸ To learn how you can leave a transformative legacy
that keeps on giving, visit LosAngelesMission.org/
give/wills-and-trusts/ today. You may also contact
Herb Smith at (213) 629-3227, ext. 305 or
hsmith@lamission.net
ME
News from the
Los Angeles Mission
INKS
Donate online:
donate.losangelesmission.org
LosAngelesMission.org
NEWSLETTER
Blessings,
CROSSROADS
APRIL 2014
ELEMENT
Keep track of the latest Mission news,
make safe online donations and more.
At the ADC eBay store!
8.5” x 11”
STAY CONNECTED
By Dr. Charles P. Morgan
25.375” x 11”
Your support sends the message to our students that
you not only care about them, but you also believe in
their ability to change their lives for good. Thank you!
When you make a bequest to the Mission
in your Will, you bring the promise of hope
and transformation to life. Not only does
your generosity continue to provide hot
meals, warm beds and safe shelter to our
hurting, homeless friends and neighbors
today, but you also support our
comprehensive recovery services that
give people a “Fresh Start” for the future.
From Herb Smith
FOLDS TO
Through a wide range of services you help provide—
including spiritual and psychological counseling,
vocational training, life-skills classes and much more—
we offer the opportunity for a real “Fresh Start” to our
students and guests.
Leave a life-changing
legacy
CHANGE IS ALWAYS
IN FASHION
SIZE
Graduation: JUNE 13, 7 P.M.
(dinner reception at 5:30 P.M.)
You’re invited to join us at the Mission
to celebrate our students graduating
from the Fresh Start program. Or watch the
ceremony live online at www.ec1247.com
In this season of transformation, why not make the
commitment to help change lives all year long? Becoming
a monthly donor is a great way to deepen your impact in the
community while ministering each and every month to “the
least of these.”
SIGNS
OF HOPE
LAM APRIL 2014 NEWSLETTER
As I serve my
Skid Row friends
“People can and will
and neighbors, I’ve
change, given the right
learned how to
support, encouragement
become more
and tools.”
generous in spirit.
I’ve learned to
appreciate how
blessed I am to have a heritage of health and opportunity
that many here have never experienced. And I’ve learned
that people not only can but will change, given the right
support, encouragement and tools.
Become a Meals a Month partner today
PARTNERS ON THE
ROAD TO CHANGE
MIS24188-1
President’s Luncheon: MAY 15, 12-1:30 P.M.
Have lunch at the Mission with President Herb Smith
and other staff for a time of fellowship and the
opportunity to learn more about issues related to
homelessness, addiction and the needs of those we
serve. For a schedule of lunches, call the President’s
Office at (213) 629-1227, ext. 305.
Meals a Month partners also help reduce administrative
costs for the Mission because they receive fewer mailings
(that also means less paperwork for you!).
On page three
TITLE
Every day, I experience how the Los Angeles Mission
changes lives—not least of all my own.
ALS
The Mission especially relies on our monthly donors to help
us budget more effectively. With a predictable income each
month, we can better prepare for upcoming needs while
keeping the lights on, the water running, meals on the table,
clean linens on the beds and much more.
Volunteer Orientation: MAY 3, 9-11 A.M.
All who wish to volunteer must first attend an
orientation session at the Mission. To register for
the upcoming volunteer orientation, please visit
us online at LosAngelesMission.org/act
Partners on the road to change
ME
As we say time and time again at the
Mission, “Hope begins with a meal.”
A
Sometimes a hot, nutritious meal at our table
MONTH
is a person’s first taste of a “Fresh Start” in life.
But we couldn’t provide those meals—or any of
our life-changing services—without the help of our donors.
Mission Possible Run: MAY 3, 2014
There’s still time to get involved! Join
us for our first annual Mission
Possible Run and Resource Fair.
Cost is $30 for adults, $20 for kids,
and parking is $6.
On page four
On page one
JOB NUMBER
CROSSROADS
RUSS REID JOB SPECS
MY VIEW
HR in place
MIS24188-1_NEWSLETTER - OUTSIDE - ALL KITS & VERSIONS
Help transform more
lives—all year long
CROSSROADS
EVENTS
Herb Smith, President
Follow us on Twitter:
@TheLAMission
Subscribe to our video channel:
youtube.com/ILoveLAMission
Many thanks to the BET Networks, John W. Carson Foundation,
Northbound Treatment Services and City National Bank for graciously
sponsoring our 77th gala.
Check out our photos on Instagram:
@TheLAMission
1
MIS24188-1_NEWSLETTER_FA.indd 1
▸ It’s so easy to do! Just fill out the form below, go online to our monthly
giving website page at LosAngelesMission.org/give or call Leisha SmithTownsend at (213) 629-1227, ext. 421. Thank you!
A
MONTH
PAGE 1
REWARDS OF BEING
A VOLUNTEER
Three volunteers share why
they give their time to the Mission
PAGE 3
To give a gift by credit card, visit us online at donate.losangelesmission.org or call (213) 629-1227, ext. 400.
303 E. 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
NAME
ADDRESSAPT
@
STATEZIP
EMAIL
A receipt for your tax-deductible gift
will be sent to you shortly.
4CP
Find out what’s
coming up at the Mission
m I would like to become a Meals a Month partner and give a monthly gift of $________.
My first gift is enclosed.
CITY
70# White Opaque Smooth Book
ALS
STOCK
EVENTS
Yes! I want to help provide meals and opportunities for change to my Skid Row friends
and neighbors. Here’s my gift of: m $25 m $50 m $150 m $________
THANK YOU!
News from the Los Angeles Mission
–MARIALICE FREEMAN
ADC ALUM
Please make your check payable to: Los Angeles Mission
and mail to: P.O. Box 60127, Los Angeles, CA 90060-0127
5
N144
Living outside
the box
After 12 years on Skid Row, Marialice found
new life at the Anne Douglas Center PAGE 2
EQUIPPING STUDENTS
FOR THE JOURNEY
OF A LIFETIME
Learn how the Chicago School of Professional
Psychology is helping our students
PAGE 4
4/8/14 1:48 PM
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Become a fan on Facebook:
facebook.com/losangelesmission
“I didn’t think I could do it,
but God said different.”
▸ To learn how you can leave a transformative legacy
that keeps on giving, visit LosAngelesMission.org/
give/wills-and-trusts/ today. You may also contact
Herb Smith at (213) 629-3227, ext. 305 or
hsmith@lamission.net
ME
News from the
Los Angeles Mission
INKS
Donate online:
donate.losangelesmission.org
LosAngelesMission.org
NEWSLETTER
Blessings,
CROSSROADS
APRIL 2014
ELEMENT
Keep track of the latest Mission news,
make safe online donations and more.
At the ADC eBay store!
8.5” x 11”
STAY CONNECTED
By Dr. Charles P. Morgan
25.375” x 11”
Your support sends the message to our students that
you not only care about them, but you also believe in
their ability to change their lives for good. Thank you!
When you make a bequest to the Mission
in your Will, you bring the promise of hope
and transformation to life. Not only does
your generosity continue to provide hot
meals, warm beds and safe shelter to our
hurting, homeless friends and neighbors
today, but you also support our
comprehensive recovery services that
give people a “Fresh Start” for the future.
From Herb Smith
FOLDS TO
Through a wide range of services you help provide—
including spiritual and psychological counseling,
vocational training, life-skills classes and much more—
we offer the opportunity for a real “Fresh Start” to our
students and guests.
Leave a life-changing
legacy
CHANGE IS ALWAYS
IN FASHION
SIZE
Graduation: JUNE 13, 7 P.M.
(dinner reception at 5:30 P.M.)
You’re invited to join us at the Mission
to celebrate our students graduating
from the Fresh Start program. Or watch the
ceremony live online at www.ec1247.com
In this season of transformation, why not make the
commitment to help change lives all year long? Becoming
a monthly donor is a great way to deepen your impact in the
community while ministering each and every month to “the
least of these.”
SIGNS
OF HOPE
LAM APRIL 2014 NEWSLETTER
As I serve my
Skid Row friends
“People can and will
and neighbors, I’ve
change, given the right
learned how to
support, encouragement
become more
and tools.”
generous in spirit.
I’ve learned to
appreciate how
blessed I am to have a heritage of health and opportunity
that many here have never experienced. And I’ve learned
that people not only can but will change, given the right
support, encouragement and tools.
Become a Meals a Month partner today
PARTNERS ON THE
ROAD TO CHANGE
MIS24188-1
President’s Luncheon: MAY 15, 12-1:30 P.M.
Have lunch at the Mission with President Herb Smith
and other staff for a time of fellowship and the
opportunity to learn more about issues related to
homelessness, addiction and the needs of those we
serve. For a schedule of lunches, call the President’s
Office at (213) 629-1227, ext. 305.
Meals a Month partners also help reduce administrative
costs for the Mission because they receive fewer mailings
(that also means less paperwork for you!).
On page three
TITLE
Every day, I experience how the Los Angeles Mission
changes lives—not least of all my own.
ALS
The Mission especially relies on our monthly donors to help
us budget more effectively. With a predictable income each
month, we can better prepare for upcoming needs while
keeping the lights on, the water running, meals on the table,
clean linens on the beds and much more.
Volunteer Orientation: MAY 3, 9-11 A.M.
All who wish to volunteer must first attend an
orientation session at the Mission. To register for
the upcoming volunteer orientation, please visit
us online at LosAngelesMission.org/act
Partners on the road to change
ME
As we say time and time again at the
Mission, “Hope begins with a meal.”
A
Sometimes a hot, nutritious meal at our table
MONTH
is a person’s first taste of a “Fresh Start” in life.
But we couldn’t provide those meals—or any of
our life-changing services—without the help of our donors.
Mission Possible Run: MAY 3, 2014
There’s still time to get involved! Join
us for our first annual Mission
Possible Run and Resource Fair.
Cost is $30 for adults, $20 for kids,
and parking is $6.
On page four
On page one
JOB NUMBER
CROSSROADS
RUSS REID JOB SPECS
MY VIEW
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GARY AND LAUREL HARDT
Career Services Department
The experience is priceless
My wife and I have for many
years volunteered at Thanksgiving,
Easter and Christmas. The
experience is priceless. God
provides love and healing to
the homeless and the volunteers
who serve—and are served.
I also volunteer three days a
week, filing papers, helping write
I love staying connected
I’ve helped out at the large
Thanksgiving and Easter events,
volunteering at the foot-washing
station. The greatest impression
from those times was seeing the
joy of many of the people receiving
a foot washing and new socks.
The most rewarding thing about
volunteering at the Mission is
being able to stay connected to
the Skid Row community—the
people and place that I love.
3
Working with the students
influences my life every day
Three times a year I teach
a 6-week course on personal
finance and banking. I also
regularly teach the FDIC Money
Smart curriculum as part of the
Urban Training Institute program.
I find great satisfaction when I see
students putting into practice the
principles I teach—for example,
by opening a bank account or
clearing up a bad credit situation.
Volunteering and working with
the students influences my life
every day. I’m reminded of my
good fortune in having a job,
home and family. I take fewer
things for granted and appreciate
all that I’ve been provided.
Now in its second year, the Los Angeles Mission’s
partnership with the Chicago School of Professional
Psychology (CSOPP) is already making a tremendous
impact.
addiction and familial concerns.”
“One of the most important ways that the CSOPP
assists our students is in giving them the insight,
through therapy and the development of effective
coping skills, to process traumatic experiences and
debilitating developmental experiences in a manner
that can bring resolution and healing,” says Dr. Morgan,
the Mission’s VP of Program.
Ivery Wheeler
Fresh Start
Alum
Fresh Start Alum, Ivery
Wheeler says about his
experience with the CSOPP,
“I see things more clearly and
succinctly and have gained
the tools in conjunction
with the LAM
Chaplaincy to
more effectively
deal with my
There are benefits for the volunteer interns as well.
“My new understanding of substance abuse and
homelessness has overall made me a more
compassionate individual,” says Lillian Spost, CSOPP
practicum trainee. “Now my understanding of both of
these issues is much greater and my teachers have been
the students.”
Your gifts help bring healing and hope
The partnership operates under a supervisory staff
(including a licensed psychologist and clinical
supervisor) that provides guidance and oversight for
mental status examinations, psychiatric evaluations,
individual counseling and diagnostic services for a
range of disorders. Group counseling also equips
students with life skills and personal development tools.
Thank you for your support that makes it possible for
us to provide these effective and necessary ways to
address the needs of both mind and spirit as our students
travel the road to recovery.
4
4/8/14 1:48 PM
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REBEKAH BOLIN
Center for Student Missions
BRUCE GAMBINER
Community Bank
4CP
resumes for the students,
driving people to appointments,
and I organize the Annual Career
Fair. My peace and love has been
enlarged because of this
experience.
Equipping students for the journey of a lifetime
70# White Opaque Smooth Book
April is National Volunteer Month and we’d like to give a big “thank you” to those who give their time to help
serve our guests and students! Volunteering is a great way to make an impact in others’ lives as well as your
own. Everyone has something to offer! Register today by visiting us online at LosAngelesMission.org/act
STOCK
Discover the rewards of being a Mission volunteer
Dr. Charles P. Morgan, VP of
Program
INKS
▸ For more information, contact Barbara Reardon at (213) 629-1227,
ext. 331, or Tina Russek at (213) 629-1227, ext. 437.
NEWSLETTER
In the process of mastering important business skills,
students begin to grow in confidence and self-esteem.
judgment. As we learn more about
their lives, we are better able to
address the root causes of their
issues, through prayer, spiritual
and psychological counsel, and—
always—love. Thank you for
supporting us in this ongoing work.
ELEMENT
2
I’d like to thank the donors for being so
generous in helping the women and men they
don’t even know to get their lives straight.
The donors are on our team, and we’re
working together to keep these men and
women from destroying their lives behind
drugs and alcohol.
Helping women achieve success
”
8.5” x 11”
”
”
EBAY STORE MANAGER
“
25.375” x 11”
“
“
The ADC eBay Store helps
women
reclaim their self~ALEJANDRA ANAYA
respect.
Transformation is a key word in
them and treating them with
the process of recovery. At the
dignity. This goes a long way in
Mission we believe—as those who
touching hearts so that our students
lead most
can begin to trust
Love
is
powerful
12-step recovery
others and open
medicine for change.
programs do—
themselves up to
that spirituality
new possibilities.
is a powerful aid
Building a foundation
in permanently overcoming
of trust—with love
addiction and addictive behaviors.
Many come to us from traumaWe provide opportunities for
filled backgrounds that demand
transformation through strengthawareness and sensitivity from our
based approaches designed to build
staff in order to engender authentic
self-esteem and renew the
conversations that can lead to
individual’s self-concept. We help
hope. We strive to lovingly meet
our friends and neighbors learn to
individuals where they are, without
believe in themselves by loving
FOLDS TO
I had some ups and downs. When you’ve lived on
the
streets for so long, you get used to doing what you
I started smoking crack in my late 30s. I was still
want, when you want to, so it was hard having to do
drinking and smoking weed, too. I would go to work
everything at certain times. It was also hard getting
high but I would make sure my work was done—until
through the classes after being
the cocaine overtook me.
out of school for so long, but
The Mission helped me
Eventually I was fired. After a
I kept pressing on.
while I ended up homeless. I made
have more self-respect
Seeing that I was able to do
myself a cardboard box and for
the
work helped build up my
and be able to see that
about 12 years that’s mostly where
confidence. Getting awards
I lived while I was on the streets.
I am somebody.
for completion inspired me and
So many times I told myself that
kept me going. I felt better about
~MARIALICE FREEMAN, ALUM
I would stop smoking, and then I’d
myself. The Mission helped me
AND CHAPLAIN’S ASSISTANT
stay clean for a while, but I didn’t
AT THE ANNE DOUGLAS CENTER have more self-respect and be
know how I’d be able to get a
able to see that I am somebody.
job. Employers would ask,
Now I’m helping others
“What’ve you been
doing for all these
When graduation time came, I started crying as we
years?” and I couldn’t
were walking down the aisle, because it was something
tell them that I’d been
I accomplished. I couldn’t have done it without the help
doing and selling
of my Lord and Savior and the ADC. But I did it!
drugs.
Now I work at the ADC helping the women in the
program. I can relate to what they’re going through,
because I’ve been there. The ADC is like a second home
to me. No matter how you come, they’ll welcome you
and make you feel comfortable. They’ll show you
how to rebuild your character and self-esteem,
and help you have more confidence in yourself.
Working at the Mission has been very rewarding
for me. It is a blessing to see the women at the
ADC have their lives transformed and to
witness their reunification with their families.
By Dr. Charles P. Morgan
SIZE
On February 9, 1999, I finally came into the program
at the Anne Douglas Center—and I haven’t regretted
it since.
The store equips students at the ADC
with the skills to run their own eBay
business, from setting up an Excelbased inventory tracking system and
doing product research to writing item
descriptions, generating sales
reports, budgeting, choosing
shipping methods, and learning
about customer-service phone
etiquette, essential computing skills
and social media promotion.
Proceeds from the eBay store
support the life-changing services
of the ADC, including spiritual
counseling, exercise programs, job
readiness training and placement
assistance, transitional housing, money
management training and much more.
Shop online today at stores.ebay.com/
The-Anne-Douglas-Center-Boutique!
Or if you have high-end, unique,
fashionable items you’d like to donate,
please contact Tina Russek at
(213) 629-1227, ext. 437.
LAM APRIL 2014 NEWSLETTER
I didn’t think I could change—
but God said different
Signs of Hope
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I started drinking at an early age. My mother used
to drink often and when she had parties, I would drink
what was left over in her guests’ glasses. But when
I was around 14 or 15, I started to drink more. Soon
I graduated to smoking weed, dropping pills. I grew
up in the projects and everybody was
doing it, so I did it, too.
As Alejandra Anaya, eBay Store
Manger, put it, “They reclaim their
self-respect, transform their lives, and
regain their dignity or affirm it for the
first time.”
TITLE
Living outside the box
We are continually developing ways
to help women like Marialice make
lasting change in their lives through the
program at the Anne Douglas Center.
One way we’ve recently established is
through our ADC eBay Store.
CROSSROADS
JOB NUMBER
Change is always in fashion at the ADC eBay Store!
RUSS REID JOB SPECS
CROSSROADS
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GARY AND LAUREL HARDT
Career Services Department
The experience is priceless
My wife and I have for many
years volunteered at Thanksgiving,
Easter and Christmas. The
experience is priceless. God
provides love and healing to
the homeless and the volunteers
who serve—and are served.
I also volunteer three days a
week, filing papers, helping write
I love staying connected
I’ve helped out at the large
Thanksgiving and Easter events,
volunteering at the foot-washing
station. The greatest impression
from those times was seeing the
joy of many of the people receiving
a foot washing and new socks.
The most rewarding thing about
volunteering at the Mission is
being able to stay connected to
the Skid Row community—the
people and place that I love.
3
Working with the students
influences my life every day
Three times a year I teach
a 6-week course on personal
finance and banking. I also
regularly teach the FDIC Money
Smart curriculum as part of the
Urban Training Institute program.
I find great satisfaction when I see
students putting into practice the
principles I teach—for example,
by opening a bank account or
clearing up a bad credit situation.
Volunteering and working with
the students influences my life
every day. I’m reminded of my
good fortune in having a job,
home and family. I take fewer
things for granted and appreciate
all that I’ve been provided.
Now in its second year, the Los Angeles Mission’s
partnership with the Chicago School of Professional
Psychology (CSOPP) is already making a tremendous
impact.
addiction and familial concerns.”
“One of the most important ways that the CSOPP
assists our students is in giving them the insight,
through therapy and the development of effective
coping skills, to process traumatic experiences and
debilitating developmental experiences in a manner
that can bring resolution and healing,” says Dr. Morgan,
the Mission’s VP of Program.
Ivery Wheeler
Fresh Start
Alum
Fresh Start Alum, Ivery
Wheeler says about his
experience with the CSOPP,
“I see things more clearly and
succinctly and have gained
the tools in conjunction
with the LAM
Chaplaincy to
more effectively
deal with my
There are benefits for the volunteer interns as well.
“My new understanding of substance abuse and
homelessness has overall made me a more
compassionate individual,” says Lillian Spost, CSOPP
practicum trainee. “Now my understanding of both of
these issues is much greater and my teachers have been
the students.”
Your gifts help bring healing and hope
The partnership operates under a supervisory staff
(including a licensed psychologist and clinical
supervisor) that provides guidance and oversight for
mental status examinations, psychiatric evaluations,
individual counseling and diagnostic services for a
range of disorders. Group counseling also equips
students with life skills and personal development tools.
Thank you for your support that makes it possible for
us to provide these effective and necessary ways to
address the needs of both mind and spirit as our students
travel the road to recovery.
4
4/8/14 1:48 PM
DO NOT PRINT RGB KEYLINES OR TYPE
REBEKAH BOLIN
Center for Student Missions
BRUCE GAMBINER
Community Bank
4CP
resumes for the students,
driving people to appointments,
and I organize the Annual Career
Fair. My peace and love has been
enlarged because of this
experience.
Equipping students for the journey of a lifetime
70# White Opaque Smooth Book
April is National Volunteer Month and we’d like to give a big “thank you” to those who give their time to help
serve our guests and students! Volunteering is a great way to make an impact in others’ lives as well as your
own. Everyone has something to offer! Register today by visiting us online at LosAngelesMission.org/act
STOCK
Discover the rewards of being a Mission volunteer
Dr. Charles P. Morgan, VP of
Program
INKS
▸ For more information, contact Barbara Reardon at (213) 629-1227,
ext. 331, or Tina Russek at (213) 629-1227, ext. 437.
NEWSLETTER
In the process of mastering important business skills,
students begin to grow in confidence and self-esteem.
judgment. As we learn more about
their lives, we are better able to
address the root causes of their
issues, through prayer, spiritual
and psychological counsel, and—
always—love. Thank you for
supporting us in this ongoing work.
ELEMENT
2
I’d like to thank the donors for being so
generous in helping the women and men they
don’t even know to get their lives straight.
The donors are on our team, and we’re
working together to keep these men and
women from destroying their lives behind
drugs and alcohol.
Helping women achieve success
”
8.5” x 11”
”
”
EBAY STORE MANAGER
“
25.375” x 11”
“
“
The ADC eBay Store helps
women
reclaim their self~ALEJANDRA ANAYA
respect.
Transformation is a key word in
them and treating them with
the process of recovery. At the
dignity. This goes a long way in
Mission we believe—as those who
touching hearts so that our students
lead most
can begin to trust
Love
is
powerful
12-step recovery
others and open
medicine for change.
programs do—
themselves up to
that spirituality
new possibilities.
is a powerful aid
Building a foundation
in permanently overcoming
of trust—with love
addiction and addictive behaviors.
Many come to us from traumaWe provide opportunities for
filled backgrounds that demand
transformation through strengthawareness and sensitivity from our
based approaches designed to build
staff in order to engender authentic
self-esteem and renew the
conversations that can lead to
individual’s self-concept. We help
hope. We strive to lovingly meet
our friends and neighbors learn to
individuals where they are, without
believe in themselves by loving
FOLDS TO
I had some ups and downs. When you’ve lived on
the
streets for so long, you get used to doing what you
I started smoking crack in my late 30s. I was still
want, when you want to, so it was hard having to do
drinking and smoking weed, too. I would go to work
everything at certain times. It was also hard getting
high but I would make sure my work was done—until
through the classes after being
the cocaine overtook me.
out of school for so long, but
The Mission helped me
Eventually I was fired. After a
I kept pressing on.
while I ended up homeless. I made
have more self-respect
Seeing that I was able to do
myself a cardboard box and for
the
work helped build up my
and be able to see that
about 12 years that’s mostly where
confidence. Getting awards
I lived while I was on the streets.
I am somebody.
for completion inspired me and
So many times I told myself that
kept me going. I felt better about
~MARIALICE FREEMAN, ALUM
I would stop smoking, and then I’d
myself. The Mission helped me
AND CHAPLAIN’S ASSISTANT
stay clean for a while, but I didn’t
AT THE ANNE DOUGLAS CENTER have more self-respect and be
know how I’d be able to get a
able to see that I am somebody.
job. Employers would ask,
Now I’m helping others
“What’ve you been
doing for all these
When graduation time came, I started crying as we
years?” and I couldn’t
were walking down the aisle, because it was something
tell them that I’d been
I accomplished. I couldn’t have done it without the help
doing and selling
of my Lord and Savior and the ADC. But I did it!
drugs.
Now I work at the ADC helping the women in the
program. I can relate to what they’re going through,
because I’ve been there. The ADC is like a second home
to me. No matter how you come, they’ll welcome you
and make you feel comfortable. They’ll show you
how to rebuild your character and self-esteem,
and help you have more confidence in yourself.
Working at the Mission has been very rewarding
for me. It is a blessing to see the women at the
ADC have their lives transformed and to
witness their reunification with their families.
By Dr. Charles P. Morgan
SIZE
On February 9, 1999, I finally came into the program
at the Anne Douglas Center—and I haven’t regretted
it since.
The store equips students at the ADC
with the skills to run their own eBay
business, from setting up an Excelbased inventory tracking system and
doing product research to writing item
descriptions, generating sales
reports, budgeting, choosing
shipping methods, and learning
about customer-service phone
etiquette, essential computing skills
and social media promotion.
Proceeds from the eBay store
support the life-changing services
of the ADC, including spiritual
counseling, exercise programs, job
readiness training and placement
assistance, transitional housing, money
management training and much more.
Shop online today at stores.ebay.com/
The-Anne-Douglas-Center-Boutique!
Or if you have high-end, unique,
fashionable items you’d like to donate,
please contact Tina Russek at
(213) 629-1227, ext. 437.
LAM APRIL 2014 NEWSLETTER
I didn’t think I could change—
but God said different
Signs of Hope
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I started drinking at an early age. My mother used
to drink often and when she had parties, I would drink
what was left over in her guests’ glasses. But when
I was around 14 or 15, I started to drink more. Soon
I graduated to smoking weed, dropping pills. I grew
up in the projects and everybody was
doing it, so I did it, too.
As Alejandra Anaya, eBay Store
Manger, put it, “They reclaim their
self-respect, transform their lives, and
regain their dignity or affirm it for the
first time.”
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Living outside the box
We are continually developing ways
to help women like Marialice make
lasting change in their lives through the
program at the Anne Douglas Center.
One way we’ve recently established is
through our ADC eBay Store.
CROSSROADS
JOB NUMBER
Change is always in fashion at the ADC eBay Store!
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CROSSROADS
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GARY AND LAUREL HARDT
Career Services Department
The experience is priceless
My wife and I have for many
years volunteered at Thanksgiving,
Easter and Christmas. The
experience is priceless. God
provides love and healing to
the homeless and the volunteers
who serve—and are served.
I also volunteer three days a
week, filing papers, helping write
I love staying connected
I’ve helped out at the large
Thanksgiving and Easter events,
volunteering at the foot-washing
station. The greatest impression
from those times was seeing the
joy of many of the people receiving
a foot washing and new socks.
The most rewarding thing about
volunteering at the Mission is
being able to stay connected to
the Skid Row community—the
people and place that I love.
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Working with the students
influences my life every day
Three times a year I teach
a 6-week course on personal
finance and banking. I also
regularly teach the FDIC Money
Smart curriculum as part of the
Urban Training Institute program.
I find great satisfaction when I see
students putting into practice the
principles I teach—for example,
by opening a bank account or
clearing up a bad credit situation.
Volunteering and working with
the students influences my life
every day. I’m reminded of my
good fortune in having a job,
home and family. I take fewer
things for granted and appreciate
all that I’ve been provided.
Now in its second year, the Los Angeles Mission’s
partnership with the Chicago School of Professional
Psychology (CSOPP) is already making a tremendous
impact.
addiction and familial concerns.”
“One of the most important ways that the CSOPP
assists our students is in giving them the insight,
through therapy and the development of effective
coping skills, to process traumatic experiences and
debilitating developmental experiences in a manner
that can bring resolution and healing,” says Dr. Morgan,
the Mission’s VP of Program.
Ivery Wheeler
Fresh Start
Alum
Fresh Start Alum, Ivery
Wheeler says about his
experience with the CSOPP,
“I see things more clearly and
succinctly and have gained
the tools in conjunction
with the LAM
Chaplaincy to
more effectively
deal with my
There are benefits for the volunteer interns as well.
“My new understanding of substance abuse and
homelessness has overall made me a more
compassionate individual,” says Lillian Spost, CSOPP
practicum trainee. “Now my understanding of both of
these issues is much greater and my teachers have been
the students.”
Your gifts help bring healing and hope
The partnership operates under a supervisory staff
(including a licensed psychologist and clinical
supervisor) that provides guidance and oversight for
mental status examinations, psychiatric evaluations,
individual counseling and diagnostic services for a
range of disorders. Group counseling also equips
students with life skills and personal development tools.
Thank you for your support that makes it possible for
us to provide these effective and necessary ways to
address the needs of both mind and spirit as our students
travel the road to recovery.
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REBEKAH BOLIN
Center for Student Missions
BRUCE GAMBINER
Community Bank
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resumes for the students,
driving people to appointments,
and I organize the Annual Career
Fair. My peace and love has been
enlarged because of this
experience.
Equipping students for the journey of a lifetime
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April is National Volunteer Month and we’d like to give a big “thank you” to those who give their time to help
serve our guests and students! Volunteering is a great way to make an impact in others’ lives as well as your
own. Everyone has something to offer! Register today by visiting us online at LosAngelesMission.org/act
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Discover the rewards of being a Mission volunteer
Dr. Charles P. Morgan, VP of
Program
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▸ For more information, contact Barbara Reardon at (213) 629-1227,
ext. 331, or Tina Russek at (213) 629-1227, ext. 437.
NEWSLETTER
In the process of mastering important business skills,
students begin to grow in confidence and self-esteem.
judgment. As we learn more about
their lives, we are better able to
address the root causes of their
issues, through prayer, spiritual
and psychological counsel, and—
always—love. Thank you for
supporting us in this ongoing work.
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I’d like to thank the donors for being so
generous in helping the women and men they
don’t even know to get their lives straight.
The donors are on our team, and we’re
working together to keep these men and
women from destroying their lives behind
drugs and alcohol.
Helping women achieve success
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EBAY STORE MANAGER
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The ADC eBay Store helps
women
reclaim their self~ALEJANDRA ANAYA
respect.
Transformation is a key word in
them and treating them with
the process of recovery. At the
dignity. This goes a long way in
Mission we believe—as those who
touching hearts so that our students
lead most
can begin to trust
Love
is
powerful
12-step recovery
others and open
medicine for change.
programs do—
themselves up to
that spirituality
new possibilities.
is a powerful aid
Building a foundation
in permanently overcoming
of trust—with love
addiction and addictive behaviors.
Many come to us from traumaWe provide opportunities for
filled backgrounds that demand
transformation through strengthawareness and sensitivity from our
based approaches designed to build
staff in order to engender authentic
self-esteem and renew the
conversations that can lead to
individual’s self-concept. We help
hope. We strive to lovingly meet
our friends and neighbors learn to
individuals where they are, without
believe in themselves by loving
FOLDS TO
I had some ups and downs. When you’ve lived on
the
streets for so long, you get used to doing what you
I started smoking crack in my late 30s. I was still
want, when you want to, so it was hard having to do
drinking and smoking weed, too. I would go to work
everything at certain times. It was also hard getting
high but I would make sure my work was done—until
through the classes after being
the cocaine overtook me.
out of school for so long, but
The Mission helped me
Eventually I was fired. After a
I kept pressing on.
while I ended up homeless. I made
have more self-respect
Seeing that I was able to do
myself a cardboard box and for
the
work helped build up my
and be able to see that
about 12 years that’s mostly where
confidence. Getting awards
I lived while I was on the streets.
I am somebody.
for completion inspired me and
So many times I told myself that
kept me going. I felt better about
~MARIALICE FREEMAN, ALUM
I would stop smoking, and then I’d
myself. The Mission helped me
AND CHAPLAIN’S ASSISTANT
stay clean for a while, but I didn’t
AT THE ANNE DOUGLAS CENTER have more self-respect and be
know how I’d be able to get a
able to see that I am somebody.
job. Employers would ask,
Now I’m helping others
“What’ve you been
doing for all these
When graduation time came, I started crying as we
years?” and I couldn’t
were walking down the aisle, because it was something
tell them that I’d been
I accomplished. I couldn’t have done it without the help
doing and selling
of my Lord and Savior and the ADC. But I did it!
drugs.
Now I work at the ADC helping the women in the
program. I can relate to what they’re going through,
because I’ve been there. The ADC is like a second home
to me. No matter how you come, they’ll welcome you
and make you feel comfortable. They’ll show you
how to rebuild your character and self-esteem,
and help you have more confidence in yourself.
Working at the Mission has been very rewarding
for me. It is a blessing to see the women at the
ADC have their lives transformed and to
witness their reunification with their families.
By Dr. Charles P. Morgan
SIZE
On February 9, 1999, I finally came into the program
at the Anne Douglas Center—and I haven’t regretted
it since.
The store equips students at the ADC
with the skills to run their own eBay
business, from setting up an Excelbased inventory tracking system and
doing product research to writing item
descriptions, generating sales
reports, budgeting, choosing
shipping methods, and learning
about customer-service phone
etiquette, essential computing skills
and social media promotion.
Proceeds from the eBay store
support the life-changing services
of the ADC, including spiritual
counseling, exercise programs, job
readiness training and placement
assistance, transitional housing, money
management training and much more.
Shop online today at stores.ebay.com/
The-Anne-Douglas-Center-Boutique!
Or if you have high-end, unique,
fashionable items you’d like to donate,
please contact Tina Russek at
(213) 629-1227, ext. 437.
LAM APRIL 2014 NEWSLETTER
I didn’t think I could change—
but God said different
Signs of Hope
MIS24188-1
I started drinking at an early age. My mother used
to drink often and when she had parties, I would drink
what was left over in her guests’ glasses. But when
I was around 14 or 15, I started to drink more. Soon
I graduated to smoking weed, dropping pills. I grew
up in the projects and everybody was
doing it, so I did it, too.
As Alejandra Anaya, eBay Store
Manger, put it, “They reclaim their
self-respect, transform their lives, and
regain their dignity or affirm it for the
first time.”
TITLE
Living outside the box
We are continually developing ways
to help women like Marialice make
lasting change in their lives through the
program at the Anne Douglas Center.
One way we’ve recently established is
through our ADC eBay Store.
CROSSROADS
JOB NUMBER
Change is always in fashion at the ADC eBay Store!
RUSS REID JOB SPECS
CROSSROADS
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Help transform more
lives—all year long
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Herb Smith, President
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@TheLAMission
Subscribe to our video channel:
youtube.com/ILoveLAMission
Many thanks to the BET Networks, John W. Carson Foundation,
Northbound Treatment Services and City National Bank for graciously
sponsoring our 77th gala.
Check out our photos on Instagram:
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giving website page at LosAngelesMission.org/give or call Leisha SmithTownsend at (213) 629-1227, ext. 421. Thank you!
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REWARDS OF BEING
A VOLUNTEER
Three volunteers share why
they give their time to the Mission
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303 E. 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
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–MARIALICE FREEMAN
ADC ALUM
Please make your check payable to: Los Angeles Mission
and mail to: P.O. Box 60127, Los Angeles, CA 90060-0127
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the box
After 12 years on Skid Row, Marialice found
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FOR THE JOURNEY
OF A LIFETIME
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Psychology is helping our students
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Become a fan on Facebook:
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“I didn’t think I could do it,
but God said different.”
▸ To learn how you can leave a transformative legacy
that keeps on giving, visit LosAngelesMission.org/
give/wills-and-trusts/ today. You may also contact
Herb Smith at (213) 629-3227, ext. 305 or
hsmith@lamission.net
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Los Angeles Mission
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donate.losangelesmission.org
LosAngelesMission.org
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Blessings,
CROSSROADS
APRIL 2014
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make safe online donations and more.
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STAY CONNECTED
By Dr. Charles P. Morgan
25.375” x 11”
Your support sends the message to our students that
you not only care about them, but you also believe in
their ability to change their lives for good. Thank you!
When you make a bequest to the Mission
in your Will, you bring the promise of hope
and transformation to life. Not only does
your generosity continue to provide hot
meals, warm beds and safe shelter to our
hurting, homeless friends and neighbors
today, but you also support our
comprehensive recovery services that
give people a “Fresh Start” for the future.
From Herb Smith
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Through a wide range of services you help provide—
including spiritual and psychological counseling,
vocational training, life-skills classes and much more—
we offer the opportunity for a real “Fresh Start” to our
students and guests.
Leave a life-changing
legacy
CHANGE IS ALWAYS
IN FASHION
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Graduation: JUNE 13, 7 P.M.
(dinner reception at 5:30 P.M.)
You’re invited to join us at the Mission
to celebrate our students graduating
from the Fresh Start program. Or watch the
ceremony live online at www.ec1247.com
In this season of transformation, why not make the
commitment to help change lives all year long? Becoming
a monthly donor is a great way to deepen your impact in the
community while ministering each and every month to “the
least of these.”
SIGNS
OF HOPE
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As I serve my
Skid Row friends
“People can and will
and neighbors, I’ve
change, given the right
learned how to
support, encouragement
become more
and tools.”
generous in spirit.
I’ve learned to
appreciate how
blessed I am to have a heritage of health and opportunity
that many here have never experienced. And I’ve learned
that people not only can but will change, given the right
support, encouragement and tools.
Become a Meals a Month partner today
PARTNERS ON THE
ROAD TO CHANGE
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President’s Luncheon: MAY 15, 12-1:30 P.M.
Have lunch at the Mission with President Herb Smith
and other staff for a time of fellowship and the
opportunity to learn more about issues related to
homelessness, addiction and the needs of those we
serve. For a schedule of lunches, call the President’s
Office at (213) 629-1227, ext. 305.
Meals a Month partners also help reduce administrative
costs for the Mission because they receive fewer mailings
(that also means less paperwork for you!).
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Every day, I experience how the Los Angeles Mission
changes lives—not least of all my own.
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The Mission especially relies on our monthly donors to help
us budget more effectively. With a predictable income each
month, we can better prepare for upcoming needs while
keeping the lights on, the water running, meals on the table,
clean linens on the beds and much more.
Volunteer Orientation: MAY 3, 9-11 A.M.
All who wish to volunteer must first attend an
orientation session at the Mission. To register for
the upcoming volunteer orientation, please visit
us online at LosAngelesMission.org/act
Partners on the road to change
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As we say time and time again at the
Mission, “Hope begins with a meal.”
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Sometimes a hot, nutritious meal at our table
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is a person’s first taste of a “Fresh Start” in life.
But we couldn’t provide those meals—or any of
our life-changing services—without the help of our donors.
Mission Possible Run: MAY 3, 2014
There’s still time to get involved! Join
us for our first annual Mission
Possible Run and Resource Fair.
Cost is $30 for adults, $20 for kids,
and parking is $6.
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