ABOUT US

City Help was created to address the growing healthcare needs and disappearing health care availability for the city’s homeless, low-income, and uninsured; to meet the nutritional needs of the city’s food insecure population; to provide a safe and supportive place for youth after school; and to help the city’s youth and young adults prepare to enter the workforce.

In Los Angeles County:

Approximately 2.7 million people have no health insurance.On any given day there are an estimated 82,000 people that are homeless. Approximately 15% of these are children under the age of 18. An estimated 957,000 adults in Los Angeles County are classified as “food insecure”. Only 17% of the population of the Rampart District has graduated high school. Los Angeles County’s unemployment rate has soared to 10.5%