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2024 New Year’s Mixer and Superbowl Squares Fundraiser

2024 New Year’s Mixer and Superbowl Squares Fundraiser

On January 9, 2024, the SFVBA will be hosting a free mixer for members to ring in the New Year at the Sagebrush Cantina in Calabasas, CA. At this event, the VCLF will be sponsoring a Superbowl Squares fundraiser in anticipation of the big game on Sunday, February 11, 2024. Please join the festivities and be sure to participate in the Superbowl Squares fundraiser, which will help support all of the VCLF’s wonderful programs, including Constitution and Me and student scholarships.

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Constitution and Me

Constitution and Me

In the Spring of 2019, the VCLF inaugurated an interactive educational program called Constitution and Me (True Threats v. Pure Speech: Drawing the Line between Safety and Freedom)…

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Defamation, the Play

Defamation, the Play

In 2017 and again in 2018, the VCLF sponsored performances at Calabasas High School Performing Arts Center of the nationally-acclaimed drama, DEFAMATION, a professional, traveling, theatrical courtroom drama about race, religion and class.

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CASA: Reuniting a Child with His Mother

CASA: Reuniting a Child with His Mother

THE MISSION OF CASA OF LOS Angeles is to improve the lives of children in the dependency system by pairing them with trained volunteer advocates. CASA seeks to reduce and reverse the effects of child abuse and neglect. Nowhere in the nation is the problem greater than in Los Angeles County, where 30,000 children who have been abused or neglected are under the jurisdiction of the Dependency...

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Safe Passages and The VCLF

Safe Passages and The VCLF

Safe Passages is supported by
the generous contributions of
 many individuals, companies, and organizations. The VCLF is proud to support Safe Passages and amazing people like the people in these stories.

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Boys and Girls Club and the VCLF

Boys and Girls Club and the VCLF

The Boys & Girls Club of San Fernando Valley is a youth and family-oriented nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the educational, vocational, social, and character developments of boys & girls between the ages of 6 and 17.

The Boys & Girls Club is a great example of an organization the VCLF proudly supports,” says VCLF President Laurence Kaldor. “They are providing great and necessary services to our community, and we are proud to support their efforts.”

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CASA and the VCLF

CASA and the VCLF

The mission of CASA of Los Angeles is to improve the lives of children in the dependency system by pairing them with trained volunteer advocates. CASA seeks to reduce and reverse the effects of child abuse and neglect. Nowhere in the nation is the problem greater than in Los Angeles County, where 30,000 children who have been abused or neglected are under the jurisdiction of the Dependency Court.

CASA is supported by the VCLF and the generous contributions of civic-minded organizations, companies and individuals like Rosemary Enzer.

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Blanket the Homeless

Blanket the Homeless

Blanket the Homeless:  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…

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One Woman’s Strength to Break the Cycle of Abuse… and Thrive!

LISA HERNANDEZ HAD AN IDEAL CHILDHOOD, surrounded and cared for by loving parents. She attended college where she majored in business administration, and soon found herself with a rewarding career. In 2001, Lisa met a man, they fell in love, three years later they were married and Lisa soon became pregnant with her first child. Her life was pleasant, and she was happy.

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2018

Anti-Recidivism Coalition and Root & Rebound Announce New Partnership to Expand Reentry Legal Services in Southern California
July 11, 2018 – The Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) and Root and Rebound (R&R) are thrilled to announce a new partnership – the Southern California Reentry & Advocacy Project – that will pair comprehensive reentry support with high-quality legal services to ensure that individuals returning home from incarceration to Los Angeles County are able to live healthy, fulfilling lives, breaking the cycle of poverty and incarceration. READ MORE>

January 2018 Edition, p. 41.

February 2018 Edition, p. 43.  

March 2018, p. 43-44.

2017

January 2017, pp. 41-43.

February 2017, pp. 41-42

March 2017, p. 41.

April 2017,pp. 41-43

May 2017, p. 41

June 2017, pp. 37-40

July 2017, pp. 41-42

August 2017 pp. 41-42.

September 2017, p. 41.

October 2017, pp. 41-42.

November 2017, p. 41-42.

December 2017, p. 41-42

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