Department:
Chief Executive Office

Program Description:
Guaranteed income is a monthly cash payment given directly to individuals. It is unconditional, with no strings attached on how to spend it and no work requirements. It is meant to supplement, not replace, the existing social safety net. Early research suggests that cash may be the simplest yet most powerful way to do the most good for the most people. It can be powerful for three reasons. First, it moves quickly. Even with U.S. Treasury problems, 80 million American households have already received a check the government just mandated several months ago. Second, it allows for flexibility. No two American households are identical in their needs. While one will need funds for rent, others will need it for childcare, and yet others will need it for a laptop so their child can engage in distance learning. And of course, most families need something different every month. Third, many people are only partially covered by or completely left out of existing social safety net programs. Cash could help fill these gaps and help people recover more quickly from negative financial impacts experienced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Guaranteed Basic Income project will provide 1,000 Los Angeles County residents with $1,000 per month for three years. This is an independent research project that will be used to study the effects of guaranteed income so that LA County and other jurisdictions can learn about the project’s impact on the economic stability of participants and their communities, as well as its impact on participants’ overall health and well-being. This will help with future policy development and add to the data on best practices for delivering effective supports and services to residents. Participants will be randomly selected from census tracts falling at or below the County’s Area Median Household Income (AMI). Over 80% of these census tracts have also been identified as moderately, high, or highest negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Program participants do not need to participate in the research study or any other activity to remain in the program and receive their monthly payments.

Budget:
$16,300,000

Launch Date:
March 31, 2022

Website:
https://ceo.lacounty.gov/pai/breathe/

Department:
Internal Services Department

Program Description:
On October 20, 2020 the Board of Supervisors authorized ISD as the lead agency on the Delete The Divide Initiative (DTD). Through an innovative public-private partnership model, Delete the Divide seeks to unify efforts to provide youth and small businesses in disadvantaged communities who are adversely impacted by the digital divide with direct access to modern technologies, as well as training and support services, educational programs, technical certifications, job shadowing, mentoring, corporate tours, paid internships, academic scholarships, practical hands-on experience, and pathways to well-paying careers.

Budget:
$2,900,000

Launch Date:
March 30, 2022

Website:
https://www.deletethedivide.org/

Department:
Department of Workforce Development, Aging and Community Services

Program Description:
During the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses in the Film and Digital Media industry businesses were all but shuttered and operations ceased for many. As production sets begin to re-open, Los Angeles County residents have an opportunity to seek employment in this industry. The Film and Digital Media Career Pathway Program is designed to expose and connect youth to career pathways and internships and/or jobs in the film and digital media industry, including BIPOC, women, justice-involved, former/current foster, unhoused, LGBTQ+, and low-income youth. The program will use our America’s Job Centers of California (AJCCs) to recruit youth participants for internships and pre-apprenticeship training. This program provides at least 20 youth, largely from communities most impacted by the pandemic, with industry exposure, skills training, and work-based learning through paid internships and apprenticeship pathways with film and digital media employers. The Film and Digital Media Career Pathway Program will result in employers being able to hire a much needed and qualified talent as the industry and production sets reopen.

Budget:
$9,000,000

Launch Date:
March 1, 2022

Website:

Department:
Department of Health Services

Program Description:
Support the Department of Health Services’ (DHS) Housing for Health Homelessness Prevention Unit, a proactive, collaborative, data-driven effort to identify people in LA County who are at-risk of losing their housing and provide them with support services and flexible cash assistance to address an array of needs, including rent and utility arrears, and connection to mainstream services and benefits.

Budget:
$13,750,000

Launch Date:
Launched

Website:
https://dhs.lacounty.gov/housing-for-health/our-services/housing-for-health/

Department:
Department of Health Services

Program Description:
Provide Intensive Case Management Services (ICMS) and move-in assistance for approximately 1,500 federal subsidy recipients who are coming out of homelessness and matched to a permanent housing opportunity.

Budget:
$16,700,000

Launch Date:
Launched

Website:
https://dhs.lacounty.gov/housing-for-health/our-services/housing-for-health/

Department:
Department of Health Services

Program Description:
Support the operation of 261 interim housing beds in 10 different sites located throughout LA County, including at three new Recuperative Care Centers opened on DHS hospital campuses in response to COVID-19.

Budget:
$6,000,000

Launch Date:
Launched

Website:
https://dhs.lacounty.gov/housing-for-health/our-services/housing-for-health/

Department:
Department of Health Services

Program Description:
Support the Safe Landing Program, which provides interim supportive housing to people experiencing homelessness who can be diverted from jail or from the emergency room, including 24/7 admissions and onsite health and mental health clinical
assessment and care.

Budget:
$4,250,000

Launch Date:
Launched

Website:
https://dhs.lacounty.gov/housing-for-health/our-services/housing-for-health/

Department:
Workforce Development, Aging, and Community Services

Program Description:
Provide a variety of job placement programming for individuals returning from serving sentences in jail or prison, with a focus on women and the LGBTQIA+ community, including the Careers for a Cause, Skills and Experience for the Careers of
Tomorrow (SECTOR), and Fire Camp programs.

Budget:
$2,600,000

Launch Date:
February 22, 2022

Website:
https://wdacs.lacounty.gov/services/job-training-and-placement-services/

Department:
Los Angeles County Office of Education

Program Description:
In partnership with the Greater LA Education Foundation, the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) , private sector partners and nonprofits, support Teen Tech Centers as
after-school spaces equipped with cutting-edge technology and staffed by youth development professionals who provide a safe, supporting learning environment.

Budget:
$2,000,000

Launch Date:
RFA available now!

Website:
https://www.greaterlaedfund.org/community-impact-hub/

Department:
Department of Consumer and Business Affairs

Program Description:
Expand upon the success of the LA Regional COVID Fund by providing additional grant opportunities to nonprofits that provide safety net services in communities hardest hit by the pandemic.

Budget:
$15,000,000

Launch Date:
Existing Program with Additional ARPA Funded-Grants Available Soon

Website:
https://www.lacovidfund.org/

Department:
Department of Consumer and Business Affairs

Program Description:
Expand upon the success of the LA Regional COVID Fund by providing additional grant opportunities to small businesses and microentrepreneurs, including veteran-owned businesses and disadvantaged businesses.

Budget:
$20,000,000

Launch Date:
Existing Program with Additional ARPA Funded-Grants Available Soon

Website:
https://www.lacovidfund.org/

Department:
Workforce Development, Aging, and Community Services

Program Description:
In partnership with nonprofit legal services providers, offer legal advice and landlord-tenant support for income-qualified small businesses.

Budget:
$1,500,000

Launch Date:
Launching February 2022!

Website:
https://wdacs.lacounty.gov/

Department:
Department of Health Services

Program Description:
Extend funding for the Office of Diversion and Reentry’s (ODR) “Covid19 Jail Release,” which are interim housing beds to provide housing for people who are experiencing homelessness and have severe mental illness and physical health issues who were released during pandemic-caused jail decompression.

Budget:
$5,000,000

Launch Date:
Launched

Website:
https://dhs.lacounty.gov/housing-for-health/our-services/housing-for-health/

Department:
Library

Program Description:
Expansion of the Park & Connect Wi-Fi (Access Points) throughout 49 LA County Library locations. Support of the economic recovery and equity investments priorities by bridging the Digital Divide. In LA County Library’s service area, a high percentage of the population depend on smartphones data plans as opposed to household internet access. Many residents in these areas are people of color. At the break of the COVID 19 Pandemic, videos of community members sitting on sidewalks next to fast food chains or coffee shops to connect to the internet made headlines in both, media, and social media channels. With the closure of all Library Locations during the early phase of the pandemic, our communities were left without access to the on-premises free Wi-Fi access. Moreover, COVID-19 expanded the digital divide more than ever, creating a significant obstacle for our most disadvantaged populations. COVID exacerbated the already existing poor social conditions that disproportionately impacted the health and jobs of minority communities. The library department seeks to increase access to valuable resources by enhancing and supporting the free internet access. LA County Library is leveraging the current Gigabit infrastructure at library locations to extend broadband network connectivity to the library’s parking lots. The Library Department realizes that access to resources such as broadband infrastructure is critical for work education, healthcare, and civic participation during a public health emergency.

Budget:
$1,500,000

Launch Date:
June 6, 2022

Website:
https://lacountylibrary.org/Wi-Fi/

Department:
Chief Executive Office

Program Description:
As a part of the State of California’s Department of Housing and Community Development’s  (HCD’s) Homekey Round 2 program, the County of Los Angeles is jointly applying with affordable housing developers and homeless services providers (co-applicants) for funding to acquire properties that will be used as permanent and temporary housing for people experiencing homelessness. The County will provide ARPA funding to support the local match required in some instances for the acquisition, rehabilitation, and operation of these properties. The properties will provide housing to the most vulnerable residents of the County of Los Angeles, all of whom have been impacted by COVID-19. After the onset of the pandemic, the number of deaths among people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in LA County increased, going from  1271 deaths pre-pandemic (March 31, 2019-April 1, 2020) to 1988 deaths (April 1, 2020-March 31, 2021). While COVID-19 became the third leading cause of death among PEH in the post-pandemic onset year, the overall increase was driven to an equal or more considerable degree by increases in overdoses, homicide, congenital heart disease, and traffic injury deaths. Evidence shows the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated stressors already present in the lives of PEH, leading to increases in other causes of death, even as we redoubled our COVID-19 prevention efforts in this population. The Homekey Round 2 program will help reduce these stressors and create more stability for PEH, increasing their ability to secure safe housing and comprehensive supportive services to stabilize and maintain their housing. Properties designated for interim housing will serve families, single adults, or transition-aged youth (TAY) experiencing homelessness. They will provide health and mental health services, employment services, access to benefits, and support in identifying and securing permanent housing. Properties designated for permanent supportive housing will be used to provide homeless, disabled adults with long-term rental subsidies and intensive case management services (ICMS), a model that has been proven to the highly effective in enabling chronically homeless households to retain their housing.

Budget:
$115,000,000

Launch Date:
May 12, 2022

Website:
https://homeless.lacounty.gov/homekey/

Department:
Department of Parks and Recreation

Program Description:
The presence of recreational programming has been shown to greatly increase health equity and the number of persons engaging in moderate to vigorous physical activity in parks and other recreational settings. Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, recreational programming that occurs during out-of-school-time offers mental, physical, and social benefits to children’s development and can reduce the toxic stress associated with adverse early childhood experiences (ACEs) (Ergler et al., 2013; Feng & Astell-Burt, 2017; Lewis & Burd-Sharps, 2018; Santoro, 2021). Approximately 31.1% of children residing in Los Angeles County report experiencing one or more ACEs, and 15.7% of youth have experienced two or more ACEs (Kidsdata, 2021). Older adults ages 60+ report feeling high levels of loneliness and isolation, which has been exacerbated by COVID-19, and can lead to early onset of dementia and even death (CDC, 2021).

Budget:
$8,800,000

Launch Date:
January 2022

Website:

Department:
Department of Health Services

Program Description:
Create permanent supportive housing for individuals and families with complex health or behavioral health conditions who are experiencing homelessness by providing rental subsidies that can be used in the private rental market, for master leasing, and for project-based sites without rental subsidies, among other options, without any upfront capital costs.

Budget:
$30,000,000

Launch Date:
Launched

Website:
https://dhs.lacounty.gov/housing-for-health/our-services/housing-for-health/

Department:
Workforce Development, Aging, and Community Services

Program Description:
Safer at Work is a public education campaign to improve workplace compliance with public health orders and encourage health and safety and economic resiliency of businesses, workers and patrons. This campaign empowers small businesses, employees, and consumers to follow up-to-date guidance from the Department of Public Health while educating small businesses about additional resources offered to them by the County of Los Angeles. To further improve compliance, Safer at Work distributes much needed personal protective equipment to small businesses, essential businesses, businesses heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and businesses that employ low-wage workers. The use of Street Teams that target high vulnerability communities (as noted in the Equity Explorer) supplement the information outreach effort.

Budget:
$500,000

Launch Date:
February 2022

Website:
https://www.saferatwork.la/

Department:
Los Angeles County Development Authority

Program Description:
Support small businesses (and their landlords) in unincorporated areas who are struggling to pay rent due to COVID-19.

Budget:
$7,500,000

Launch Date:
November 17, 2021

Website:
No longer accepting applications for 2022

Department:
Department of Consumer and Business Affairs

Program Description:
Expand and sustain Stay Housed LA County, a first-of-its-kind partnership between LA County, community-based organizations, and nonprofit legal services providers to provide outreach, education, full-scope legal representation, and emergency rental assistance to low-income residents facing eviction.

Budget:
$12,000,000

Launch Date:
Existing Program with Additional ARPA Funding Launching Soon

Website:
https://www.stayhousedla.org

Department:
Department of Consumer and Business Affairs

Program Description:
Provide additional funding for DCBA’s Tenant Protections Hotline and its Small Claims Advisor program as they field inquiries from tenants and landlords seeking to understand their rights and responsibilities, as well as the required judicial process under new state laws for unpaid rent during the pandemic.

Budget:
$500,000

Launch Date:
March 22, 2022

Website:
https://dcba.lacounty.gov/noevictions/