On December 19, 2015, SFVBA members, staff, and their families handed out 1,400 blankets to local homeless and battered women shelters at LA Family Housing in North Hollywood. In addition to distributing boxes of blankets, ARS panel attorneys provided legal consultations to shelter residents and Valley Community Legal Foundation President Laurence Kaldor and Judge Andrea Thompson presented an award to a successful Drug Court graduate, a program supported with grants by the VCLF.