840 N Ave 66, 90042. (323) 257-9600
September 18, 2019, Bruce and I met Yvonne Sarcedo and [ CFO? guy ] to learn more
about their organization, tell them about our project and see if there are
points of overlap to help each other. Should this be a partner organization for
the HP Project?
This family resource center has many programs on a beautiful
campus that is a mile north of York Blvd and away from public transportation.
Mostly residential neighborhood. This is one of nine Hathaway Sycamores Centers
around greater Los Angeles. This one has a primary local individual donor.
Programs here include Learning Lab, and after school student support, family
clinic services, home-based services and other programs.
They have a Food Bank every 2nd & 4th Saturday
from 10-11am. Serves 50-75 households.
We met Yvonne when she attended the Feb 2019 2-Day Intensive. That 2DI was hosted on the Occidental College Campus as arranged by Oxy-Arts. So we invited Oxy-Arts a spot in the Intensive for one of their staff and another for a community member they work with. Yvonne was the community member who joined and she is great. She fully participated and seemed engaged with the whole Intensive. It was a big group of almost all theater people and she doesn't have theater experience. I like her a lot and was happy when she responded about connecting her workplace with Cornerstone.
The CFO guy whose name I can't remember said that Yvonne's nickname is Miss Highland Park, because she knows everything there is to know about HP and she really loves her community.
Yvonne has had a few different jobs with Hathaway Sycamores
Child and Family Services including working in Non Violent Family Training.
Currently she is Project Coordinator for a Mentorship Program. Currently 17 youth
(13-17 yr olds) meet 2x/month on Wednesdays, 6-7:30p, for meal that they help
plan, conversation- often with guest speakers, and planning activities in the
community. Usually one event each month too, like a visit to Lummis House. They
will be supporting a music festival event at a park on Oct 5 & 6, helping
staff tables and doing some video interviews with participants.
We saw a room where kids were doing homework and getting help with it from adults.
Brents
Club is hosted here, Fridays from 3:30 – 4:30, run by the Rob Shapiro
Foundation. Club that supports sober living for middle & hs aged youth.
There are a variety of spaces at this property. One of the older buildings is shut down currently for code/safety upgrades.
There's a big garden on the property, too.
The CFO guy has been with this organization for maybe a year
(lives in Echo Park maybe?) and is responsible for the financial health of the
org as well as facilities improvements to keep things safe there. He talked
about wanting to go see Always Running at CASA 0101.
We made plans for Bruce to visit and speak at Yvonne’s the
Leadership group on a Wednesday soon.
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