Constitution and Me 2024

Constitution and Me 2024

The Constitution and Me program, created and first implemented in 2019 by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Firdaus Dordi, VCLF’s Co-Chair of Education, will be presented again in the Spring of 2024.  Once again, the participating high school students  will be given a...
Constitution and Me 2024

Constitution and Me

Home 9 Category: Columns 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). In this program — created by Los Angeles Superior...
Defamation, the Play

Defamation, the Play

Home 9 Category: Columns 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...
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...
Safe Passages and The VCLF

Safe Passages and The VCLF

Home 9 Category: Columns One Woman’s Strength to Break the Cycle of Abuse… and Thrive! by thevclf | Nov 16, 2017LISA HERNANDEZ HAD AN IDEAL CHILDHOOD, surrounded and cared for by loving parents. She attended college where she majored in business...
Boys and Girls Club and the VCLF

Boys and Girls Club and the VCLF

Home 9 Category: projects Rising to New Heights by thevclf | Nov 16, 2017JANNYDA SRE FIRST participated in the Boys and Girls Club of Pomona Valley the summer before her freshman year of high school and has been intimately involved ever since. She attributes the...
CASA and the VCLF

CASA and the VCLF

Home 9 Category: Columns CASA: Reuniting a Child with His Mother by thevclf | Jan 30, 2018THE 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...
Blanket the Homeless

Blanket the Homeless

Home 9 Author archive for thevclf ( Page 2 ) 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...