A Look Inside the PPTFH Wednesday Beach Meetup BYLINE: Loren Levine, Psy.D. PPTFH Volunteer Response Team Member It’s a regular Wednesday morning meetup for PPTFH and I am standing with Mother Theresa, or as she is otherwise known, Glanda, from The People Concern. Her partner is Jessi, whose knowledge and effectiveness make them quite the […]
Category Archives: PPTFH 2022
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Sep
Sep
Enhanced LAPD Beach Detail: Keeping the Palisades Beaches and Hillsides Safe for Everyone BYLINE: Sharon Kilbride Chair, Volunteer Response Team Budget cuts to the West LA division of LAPD threatened to undermine the two extra Beach detail officers normally deployed to our beaches and hillsides in the summer during prime fire season. However, Captain Tom, […]
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Jul
Jul
PPTFH Volunteer Response Team Assists LAPD Multi-Agency Task Force Event BYLINE: Sharon Kilbride Chair, Volunteer Response Team WLA LAPD Commanding Officer Jonathan Tom and Senior Lead Officer Brian Espin hosted the second Multi-Agency Task Force Event with a Command Post set up at Will Rogers Beach at 7:00 am on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. The […]
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Apr
Apr
A Successful Partnership: Volunteer Response Team, Outreach Team and LAPD BYLINE BY: Sharon Kilbride Chair, Volunteer Response Team This success story about Brenda is one of many about how our volunteers, Outreach Team, LAPD, and unsheltered contacts work together to create happy endings! On March 16, 2022, while I was engaging some unsheltered individuals along […]
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Mar
Mar
A Gift of Compassion from the Brown Bag Brigade BYLINE BY: Glanda Sherman, Outreach Team, The People Concern The year was 2017. The Pacific Palisades Ministerial Association accepted an invitation to meet and discuss how they could support the efforts of the Outreach Team. The group agreed to provide 20 lunches twice a week to […]
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Jan
Jan
First Glance through Eyes of New Volunteer Response Team Member BYLINE Loren Levine, PsyD, Volunteer Response Team Homelessness is a complicated situation that usually involves mental illness or drug abuse and often both. The days of homelessness being confined to downtown’s skid row are long gone. Out of college, I worked with homeless teens in […]