Our Community LA
Our Community LA’s (OCLA) mission is to leverage technology to connect youth, families, and adults experiencing homeless or resource insecurity to essential resources that can help them make positive changes in their lives.
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LIVE ·2023 Grants ChallengeThe What I Need (WIN) App
The free, confidential What I Need (WIN) Mobile App, available in English and Spanish, empowers those who are unhoused or struggling to avoid homelessness to easily locate over 2300 free programs offered around LA County. WIN offers unique support to vulnerable youth, families, seniors and adults while tackling homelessness and the homelessness pipeline by breaking information barriers that too often prevent those who are struggling from finding help. New in Aug 2023, WIN will offer users a survey to learn if they qualify for HUD housing.
- LIVE ·2022 Grants Challenge
South LA "WIN" Direct Outreach
The South LA WIN Direct Outreach test pilot, launched in Fall 2021, is a place-based outreach program designed to introduce the free WIN What I Need mobile app to this high need, largely Spanish-speaking community. We will expand from 1 to 4 outreach staff and will prioritize hiring SLA youth and residents with lived experience with resource insecurity. Staff will be trained to introduce WIN to the SLA community at-large and teach resource-insecure/homeless residents how to use WIN to find housing and other free supportive services.