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.
Choose an amount. Every gift counts as one more neighbor standing with South LA.
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CRSSLA is an initiative of Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Questions about donations email: info@lametrochurches.org
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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.
A record follows a person long after any sentence ends, into clinic waiting rooms, benefits offices, pharmacy counters, and job applications. So does the poverty that so often came first.
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.
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 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.