Care First Community
Investment (CFCI)
CFCI
From Measure J to Care First and Community Investment:
A Continuing Commitment
The Board of Supervisors has committed to advancing Care First, Jails Last and Care First Community Investment (CFCI) is a significant investment to achieve that vision. The timeline below details the steps involved in establishing this ongoing commitment in support of this vision — which the Board has maintained despite legal challenges to the underlying ballot measure (Measure J).
The linked documentation includes a description of the methodology involved in annually calculating 10% of the County’s locally generated unrestricted revenues to address the disproportionate impact of racial injustice through direct community investment and alternatives to incarceration.
Year 2 Care First Community Investment (CFCI)
Spending Plan Approved by Board of Supervisors
The Board of Supervisors approved a $100 million Care First Community Investment (CFCI) Spending Plan—with Year 2 allocations to further advance Los Angeles County’s Care First, Jails Last vision with direct community investments and funding for alternatives to incarceration.
This second annual investment of $100 million advances the County’s commitment to build up to the full CFCI set aside by 2024 and it adds to the first year’s CFCI investment of $187.7 million, which includes American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding. The total CFCI investment is now $287.7 million.
The approved spending plan funds all 22 programs recommended by the Care First Community Investment Advisory Committee. The 23-member committee held marathon public meetings and engaged the community via virtual and in-person listening sessions, a community survey and the engagement of trusted community-based organizations.
The plan was developed with an equity lens, with a primary focus on chronically under-resourced communities to address negative outcomes caused by racially-driven criminal justice inequities and long-term community economic disinvestment.
Highlights of the funding plan include:
- More than $45 million will be dedicated to housing, with more than $42 million dedicated to permanent housing for the County’s most vulnerable populations.
- More than $40 million will be administered by a third-party administrator with the majority of funds passing through to community-based organizations. County departments will be encouraged to distribute most of their funding directly to community-based providers as well.
- Nearly $20 million will be dedicated to programs prioritizing youth development.
- More than $14.5 million will fund violence prevention.
- More than $11 million will fund programs for non-carceral diversion or to support residents returning to the community after incarceration.
- More than $8 million will fund education or job training.
A summary of the Care First Community Investment spending plan is here
Details of programs funded are here
The CFCI Advisory Committee’s report and recommendations are here
The board letter and relevant documents are here.
YEAR 2 FUNDING AWARDEES!
CFCI, through third-party administrator, Amity Foundation, has been successful in awarding $104,358,750 in our Year 2 process! Funding has been distributed to organizations providing services in Program Areas 9 through 21, which include:
- Program Area 9: Community Operated Youth Centers
- Program Area 10: Expanding Safety in Los Angeles
- Program Area 11: Job Readiness, Training, and Placement for Adults
- Program Area 12: Healing-Informed Arts Project
- Program Area 13: Satellite Sites in Gang Impacted Communities
- Program Area 14: Increasing Food Access in Los Angeles
- Program Area 15: Bridge Housing
- Program Area 16: Release, Education, Neighborhood Treatment
- Program Area 17: Residential Treatment for Survivors of Sexual Exploitation
- Program Area 18: Indigenous Youth Empowerment Program
- Program Area 19: Youth Justice Program
- Program Area 20: End Exploitatin and Create a Safer Community for Women
- Program Area 21: From Treatment, Diversion, or Jail to Work
Year 2 Funding Awardees
Awardees in Program Area 9:
PROGRAM AREA 9: Community Operated Youth Centers – 34 AWARDS
- Everyday Heroes
- Youth Justice Coalition
- Urban Recovery Los Angeles
- Pomona Pride Center Inc
- Antelope Valley Community Training Center
- Color Compton, Inc
- Los Angeles Communities Advocating for Unity, Social Justice, and Action, Inc.
- READY AIM FIRE
- SCV Counseling Center
- Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club
- Just Who I Am
- Youth With A Purpose
- Artsy Kids
- Sanctuary of Hope
- Finally Family Homes
- The Learning Center at Fairplex
- A New Beginning Resource Center
- Inspire Together
- Venice 2000 dba HELPER Foundation
- African Soul International
- Greater United Faith Apostolic Church
- Hope Central Watts
- Gente Organizada
- Youth Mentoring Connection
- Beat the Streets Los Angeles
- New Beginning Community Ministries
- Unearth and Empower Communities
- The Children’s Center of the Antelope Valley
- Living Advantage, Inc.
- Los Angeles United Methodist Urban Foundation
- The Academy Project
- MEN TAKING OVER REFORMING SOCIETY INC
- United American Indian Involvement, Inc.
- Whole Systems Learning
Awardees in Program Area 10:
PROGRAM AREA 10: Expanding Safety in Los Angeles – 35 AWARDS
- Positive Results Center
- Sidewalk Project
- Olive Support Services
- Here to Help Foundation
- Justice for Murdered Children
- Boys 2 Gentlemen LLC
- Transition to Greatness Foundation
- BETTER TODAY BETTER TOMORROW
- Moving Mountains by Illumination
- Resilient Agency
- Arise & Go
- Inglewood Wrapping Arms Around the Community (IWATC)
- Two Lifestyles Inc
- Valley Family Center
- Loving Hands Community Care
- Inner City Visions
- Advocates for Peace & Urban Unity
- Urban Community Action Network, Inc
- Building Futures Incorporated
- Positive Outlook Housing
- The TransLatin@ Coalition
- Operation Street Kidz
- Bryant Temple AME Community Development Corporation
- SOUTH ASIAN NETWORK, INC
- Understanding Needed Integration, LLC.
- New Star Family Center
- Just Us 4 Youth
- On My Grind, Re-entry Services Inc.
- One Place One Race DBA Through Peace
- Chapter Two Inc
- Champions in Service
- Christ-Centered Ministries fbo Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership
- God’s Pantry
- Alliance for Community Empowerment
- Soledad Enrichment Action, Inc.
Awardees in Program Area 11:
PROGRAM AREA 11: Job Readiness, Training, and Placement for Adults – 14 AWARDS
- Anchor of Hope International Ministries, Inc.
- Starfish Stories, Inc DBA The Francisco Homes
- Pico Youth & Family Center
- Paving the Way Foundation
- Ronnie’s House
- Homies Unidos, Inc
- Miguel Contreras Foundation
- PCS Family Services
- Manna Feast
- Total Restoration Ministries
- Justice for My Sister, a project of Community Partners
- Transcal Services, LLC
- Workmates Employment Services, Inc.
- Advancing Communities Together, Inc. (ACT)
Awardees in Program Area 12:
PROGRAM AREA 12: Healing-Informed Arts Project – 9 AWARDS
- Project KnuckleHead
- ECM Community Development Corporation
- Fear For Breakfast
- Astrids Heart Foundation
- ROC ERA CORP
- Teapot Gardens
- Spirit Awakening Foundation
- Street Poets Inc
- Alacarte Professional Services
Awardees in Program Area 13:
PROGRAM AREA 13: Satellite Sites in Gang Impacted Communities – 6 AWARDS
- Cease for Peace
- P2P Community Development Inc
- 2nd Call
- United We Stand Up
- High Point Community Development Corporation
- Healing Urban Barrios
Awardees in Program Area 14:
PROGRAM AREA 14: Increasing Food Access in Los Angeles – 5 AWARDS
- Green Arrow CoLab
- LA COMPOST
- Jubilee Consortium
- Grow2Zero FARMS
- Pauly’s Project
Awardees in Program Area 15:
PROGRAM AREA 15: Bridge Housing – 4 AWARDS
- Veteran Social Services Inc.
- COMMUNITY BRIDGE HOUSING CORP
- Measure of Hearts Foundation
- Wheeler Management LLC
Awardees in Program Area 16:
PROGRAM AREA 16: Release, Education, Neighborhood Treatment – 4 AWARDS
- Transcendence/Prison Education Project
- After Life Initiative
- South Central United
- Chances 4 Change, Inc.
Awardees in Program Area 17:
PROGRAM AREA 17: Residential Treatment for Survivors of Sexual Exploitation – 2 AWARDS
Awardees in Program Area 18:
PROGRAM AREA 18: Indigenous Youth Empowerment Program – 3 AWARDS
- Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory
- Sacred Path Indigenous Wellness Center
- Pukúu Cultural Community Services
Awardees in Program Area 19:
PROGRAM AREA 19: Youth Justice Program – 2 AWARDS
Awardees in Program Area 20:
PROGRAM AREA 20: End Exploitation and Create a Safer Community for Women – 2 AWARDS
Awardees in Program Area 21:
PROGRAM AREA 21: From Treatment, Diversion, or Jail to Work – 3 AWARDS
Transformative Year 1
$187.7 Million “Care First Community Investment” Spending Plan Invests in Equity and Community
The Board of Supervisors approved an unprecedented $187.7 million spending package to advance its care first, jails last vision with a series of direct community investments and funding for alternatives to incarceration—accelerating the transformative process of creating a more just and equitable Los Angeles County for all residents.
The spending plan fully embraces the spirit of the voter-approved Measure J and also takes the innovative step of leveraging one-time funding from the American Rescue Plan to ensure a strong foundation as programs ramp up and full funding levels are reached by 2024.
The plan includes a $100 million year one down payment for Board-approved programs spelled out in Measure J and now known as “Care First Community Investment” programs, and also leverages $87.7 million from the American Rescue Fund for a wide range of supportive, complementary programs. These include interim and permanent supportive housing, grants to community-based organizations, and employment opportunities for adults and youth.
The approved spending plan has broad crossover with the Measure J Re-imagine LA Advisory Committee’s recommendations and meets or exceeds 91 percent of the committee’s recommendations and funds 29 new or expanded programs (click here to view the spending plan).
The plan was developed with an equity lens, with a primary focus on chronically under-resourced communities to address negative outcomes caused by racially-driven criminal justice inequities and long-term community economic disinvestment.
Highlights of the funding plan include:
- $42 million to support the closure of Men’s Central Jail
- $8 million for community-based pretrial services in highly impacted communities, replacing law-enforcement supervision and pretrial incarceration for eligible individuals
- $20.9 million to support youth at risk of involvement with the justice system or already involved in the justice system
- $16 million for housing and related services to meet a variety of needs including for people experiencing homelessness with complex health needs; people with substance use disorder and at-risk and system-impacted youth and transition-age youth
- $15 million to support residents returning to the community after incarceration
- $9 million in supports for people experiencing substance use disorder and to prevent drug-related harm and death
A summary of the Care First Community Investment spending plan is here.
Details of programs funded are here.
In a separate action, the Board of Supervisors modified the Measure J Advisory Committee to the Los Angeles County Care First & Community Investment Advisory Committee (CFCI Advisory Committee), a 24-member board made up of a variety of community representatives, people with lived experiences, County department leaders and labor representatives. The new iteration of the advisory committee will continue to advise on related spending and will support the County’s creation of an online dashboard to monitor Care First Community Investment data.
YEAR 1 FUNDING AWARDEES!
CFCI, through third-party administrator, Amity Foundation, has been successful in awarding $47,175,000 in our Year 1 process! Funding has been distributed to organizations providing services in Program Areas 1 through 8, which include:
- Program Area 1: Re-Envisioning Youth After-School and Summer Programs
- Program Area 2: Career/Education Pathway Programs
- Program Area 3: Youth-Specific Housing Interventions
- Program Area 4: Culturally Relevant Family Reunification, Pre-Trial Family Support
- Program Area 5: Support Services for Returning LGBTQI+ Residents
- Program Area 6: Reentry Programming for Women
- Program Area 7: Youth Centers
- Program Area 8: Grants to Justice-Focused CBOs
Year 1 Funding Awardees
Awardees in Program Area 1:
PROGRAM AREA 1: RE-ENVISIONING YOUTH AFTER-SCHOOL AND SUMMER PROGRAMS – 22 AWARDS
- America Scores Los Angeles
- Awoke
- Books & Buckets (Fiscal Sponsor: Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs)
- Bridging the Gap Enterprises
- Building Futures Incorporated
- Camp Journeys
- Advancement through Opportunity and Knowledge Incorporated DBA Children Youth and Family Collaborative
- Church of the Epiphany
- Dream Live Hope Foundation
- Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians
- G.IRL | Compton G.IRLS Club
- First Assembly of God of North Hollywood (DBA Grand Central Collective)
- Huma House
- Inglewood Wrapping Arms Around the Community
- LA Promise Fund
- Life Builders Incorporated
- Mentoring and Partnership for Youth Development
- Pukuu Cultural Community
- Students Run America dba Students Run LA
- The Advot Project
- THE H.E. through the ARTS INC.
- Youth Mentoring Connection
Awardees in Program Area 2:
PROGRAM AREA 2: CAREER/EDUCATION PATHWAY PROGRAMS – 28 AWARDS
- Avance Schools Inc. DBA Academia Avance
- Be Creative STP Foundation Venice Art Walls
- Better Youth
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles
- Brothers Against Banging Youth (BABY)
- Collective REMAKE
- Concerned Citizens Community Involvement
- Connected to Lead
- Driving Hope Foundation
- East Los Angeles College Foundation / Addiction Studies
- Educating Students Together
- Hands4Hope LA
- Hollenbeck Police Business Council/Hollenbeck Youth Center
- Lost Angels Children’s Project
- Meztli Projects
- New Beginning Community Ministries
- Plaza Comunitaria Sinaloa
- South Bureau Ministerial – SBMA
- STEM To The Future
- The Valley of Change
- Timelist Group Inc.
- Transition to Greatness Foundation
- Transitions 2 Success
- Understanding Needed Integration
- United American Indian Involvement
- URBAN TXT: Teens Exploring Technology
- Whole Systems Learning
- Willowbrook Inclusion Network – WIN
Awardees in Program Area 3:
PROGRAM AREA 3: YOUTH-SPECIFIC HOUSING INTERVENTIONS – 18 AWARDS
- 249 G Acres
- Advancing Communities Together Inc. (ACT)
- Beloved (Fiscal Sponsor: Young Women’s Freedom Center)
- Broom Homestead Inc
- Coalition for Responsible Community Development-CRCD
- Here To Help Foundation
- Just Us 4 Youth
- King’s Care – A Safe Place, Inc.
- Mikayla’s House of Hope
- Nehemiah Project LA
- New Directions for Youth
- Peregrinos De Emaus
- Sanctuary of Hope
- Seed House Project
- The AMAAD Institute
- The Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC)
- The RightWay Foundation
- Youth With A Purpose
Awardees in Program Area 4:
PROGRAM AREA 4: CULTURALLY RELEVANT FAMILY REUNIFICATION, PRE-TRIAL FAMILY SUPPORT – 17 AWARDS
- A Step to Freedom
- CASA of Los Angeles
- Center For Restorative Justice Works
- Choices for Freedom Inc
- Steward’s Village of Collaboration
- God’s Pantry
- Grow UR Potential (Fiscal Sponsor: LA Metro Churches)
- Korean American Family Services Inc.
- L.A.U.R.A. – Life After Uncivil Ruthless Acts
- Miriam’s House
- New Life Center for New Beginnings
- Parent Organization Network (Fiscal Sponsor: Community Partners)
- projectQ
- SCV Counseling Center (Fiscal Sponsor: New Horizons Child & Family Services)
- Ten Toes In
- Two Lifestyles Inc
- Valley Family Center
Awardees in Program Area 5:
PROGRAM AREA 5: SUPPORT SERVICES FOR RETURNING LGBTQI+ RESIDENTS – 8 AWARDS
- LGBQA Alpha & Omega Support Center
- Mass Liberation
- Queer Works
- Self Determined Futures LLC
- Somos Familia Valle
- T.D.D. Supportive Living Inc
- Unseen Faces Foundation
- Van Ness Recovery House
Awardees in Program Area 6:
PROGRAM AREA 6: REENTRY PROGRAMMING FOR WOMEN – 16 AWARDS
- A New Way of Life Reentry Project
- Cannon House – Sober Living
- Center for Living and Learning
- Crossroads
- Downtown Women’s Center
- Every ONE Free
- Finish First Academy
- New Reflections Inc
- Ohana Center AV
- Olive Support Services
- Paving The Way Foundation
- PCS Family Services
- The City Lights Gateway Foundation
- Unite A Nation-Youth/Housing/Advocacy/Education
- Wheeler Management/The Wheeler Way
- Young Women’s Freedom Center
Awardees in Program Area 7:
PROGRAM AREA 7: YOUTH CENTERS – 9 AWARDS
- Al Wooten Jr. Youth Center
- East Side Riders Bicycle Club
- House of Haven
- Inspire Together
- Latino Equality Alliance
- New Earth
- Street Poets Inc
- Sylvia Nunn Angels
- Taking The Reins
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WEBINAR SUCCESS!
Our third-party administrator, Amity Foundation shared vital information to aid in the successful submission of proposals for CFCI Care Grant funding. Follow the link to access the resources:
‘How to Craft Winning Proposals’ – Technical Assistance Webinar Resources
Please submit any questions related to this information to: TPAGrants@amityfdn.org
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