During continued challenging times for our communities, we hope you are taking time for yourselves to breathe, meditate, and connect with your families and friends.
In this time, Dignity and Power Now's staff and community members continue to fight for our communities in creating systems of care that are rooted in dignity and in power.
Learn more about what we've been up to in the month of July.
Since its inception, Dignity and Power Now's Emergency Fundhas helped over 8000 community members in Californiawith essential needs.
The Emergency Fund is set in place to aid in connecting community members to essential supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Essential items include cleaning supplies, pantry items, face masks, diapers and baby wipes.
While supplies last, Dignity and Power Now is also offering COVID-19 test kits to any member of a household who is an essential worker or has been exposed to someone with COVID-19 recently in California.
Over the past two weekends, Dignity and Power Now collaborated with Palmdale based organization the W.O.W Flower Project and theEarthlodge Center for Transformation (Long Beach)to bring healing justice to our Antelope Valley community. We organized a Wellness Kit + vegetable box drive through where over 125 wellness kits, 300 masks, 125 hand sanitizers, and 50 twenty pound veggie boxes were picked up by the local community.
Spiritual leaders led a healing ritual at the tree where Robert Fuller was found, to honor his life and all lives lost to the systems that continually fail Black, Brown, LGBTQIA+, and economically poor communities.
As we fight for a world free of police violence, we must remember to care for ourselves and our community.
Dignity and Power Now hosts monthly webinars to connect with organizations to share policies, thought-provoking ideas, and best practices within the nonprofit sector.
Watch our first two webinars on compassionate grassroots organizations and transformative leadership in the age of COVID-19.
LA COUNTY BOS WINS
Earlier this month, Dignity and Power Now, along with JusticeLAand partner organizations, won big during LA County’s Board of Supervisors meeting. The BOS committed to taking the next step in closing Men’s Central Jail, creating an ATI Reserve Fund to begin funding Alternatives to Incarceration, and reducing incarceration while investing in the health and well-being of our communities.
These wins are reflective of the changes that our communities deserve.
This week, the LA County Board of Supervisors voted yes to moving forward and taking steps to get #ReimagineLA on the November ballot.
It's time to invest in community counseling, mental health services, youth development programs, small businesses, job creation, and affordable housing. #ReimagineLA is about dismantling system racism by investing in health, housing, and economic justice.
DPN’s Healing Justice legacy is one that has created healing portals outside of L.A. County jails for the past 7 years! Connecting with families visiting their loved ones is at the heart of our work. We know that without healing, there is no justice.
This concert will raise awareness of Dignity and Power Now’s efforts to defund prisons and imagine alternatives to incarceration. The muti-media experience will feature a variety of music including Hip-Hop, Cumbia, Jazz and R&B and feature poetry and the works of visual artists.
Dignity and Power Now is a grassroots organization that fights for the dignity and power of all incarcerated people.
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