CRSSLAAn Initiative of Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches
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CRSSLAAn Initiative of Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches
The California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative (CACHI) trained our community responders. Your dollar puts them to work in South LA.
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CRSSLA is an initiative of Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
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donors so far, of our first 100.
Last updated October 8, 2026.
raised to launch the Wellness Fund, before a single dollar was asked of residents.
Since 1995, Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches has brought South LA’s churches, community leaders and partners together to advance health and economic equity. In March 2020, that work grew into CRSSLA: a network of congregations, health workers and community organizations that residents already know and trust. The CRSSLA Wellness Fund keeps that network ready for the seniors, families and neighbors who are struggling to hold on to care, food and stability.
A past arrest or conviction can follow a person for years, into clinic waiting rooms, benefits offices and job applications. It is one of several barriers that make it harder to get care, food and steady work. The Wellness Fund serves everyone, with or without a record.
U.S. adults live with an arrest or conviction record. Nearly one in three adults of working age.
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, state criminal history repositories; Brennan Center for Justice.
10 in every 30 adults
More Americans carry a record than hold a four-year college degree.
4 in every 20 residents
of Los Angeles County’s 9.7 million residents are estimated to live with an arrest or conviction record. That is about 1 in 5, and many of them are our neighbors in South LA.
people were convicted in LA County courts from 2010 to 2021 alone, the most recent county count. It leaves out arrests and older records.
Estimate applies the statewide rate (about 1 in 5 Californians has a criminal record, LA County Board of Supervisors, 2023) to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2025 county population of 9,694,934. Conviction count: California Policy Lab, University of California, Who Benefits from Automatic Record Relief in California? (2024), using California Department of Justice data.
adults under correctional supervision, in prison, jail, on probation or parole, on any given day.
Bureau of Justice Statisticsunemployment among formerly incarcerated people, higher than the national rate at the peak of the Great Depression.
Prison Policy Initiativemore likely to experience homelessness than the general public after release.
Prison Policy Initiativelegal restrictions on the books that can block housing, employment, licensing, and public benefits.
National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of ConvictionNational and Los Angeles County figures from the public research sources listed on each statistic.
CRSSLA formed in March 2020, when South LA could not wait for systems that were never built for it. The network delivered:
Food distributed
COVID tests given
Masks & PPE shared
Laptops to students
Healthcare and public benefit rules keep changing. Seniors, low-income families, immigrants, and people managing serious health conditions are often left trying to understand what changed, whether they are still covered, and where they can turn for trusted help.
The CRSSLA Wellness Fund supports community-led solutions that keep residents connected to care, strengthen food access, and bring reliable information into the neighborhoods, congregations, and organizations people already trust.
Protect seniors' access to healthcare, benefits, and trusted navigation
Help low-income and immigrant families understand changing rules without giving up essential services out of fear
Strengthen local food access and South Los Angeles' community food economy
Support trusted community organizations, faith leaders, health workers, and resident-led solutions
Share timely health and emergency information in clear, culturally relevant language
Trusted navigation, health education, and real connections to care, from people older adults already know.
Clear information about benefits, coverage, and community resources, so no family drops essential services out of fear.
Support for local food networks, home cooks, pantries, and the community food solutions South LA already built.
This is more than charity. It is community-funded protection for health, food access, and human dignity.
Senior stories, trusted health information, and why keeping older adults connected to care cannot wait.
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Benefit navigation, local cooks, food businesses, pantries, and families facing rising food costs.
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Every donor gives, shares, and invites five others, while health plans, hospitals, banks, and businesses are asked to match what residents raised.
Hover for detailsOne evening for everyone who put a dollar behind South LA. Join neighbors, congregations, health partners and local businesses to celebrate what small gifts built together.
South LA's Giving Circle
The $1 Campaign is how we start. The Community Push is how we keep going: a standing circle of neighbors, congregations and partners who give together, month after month, for as long as South LA needs it.
Support trusted community organizations, faith leaders, health workers, and resident-led solutions.
CRSSLA has already raised $100,000 to launch the Wellness Fund. Now we are asking South Los Angeles residents, friends, congregations, businesses, healthcare partners, and allies to help carry the work forward.
One dollar may feel small, but when a community gives together, small dollars become shared power.
Give $1 Today One dollar. One voice. One stronger South LA.