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2025 Los Angeles Wildfire Emergency Resources

JVS SoCal has compiled a list of emergency resources for those impacted by the fire, or those who want to help. The list includes shelters, food resources, animal services, emergency response services, and volunteering/donation opportunities.


CAREERS CHANGE LIVES

Last year, tens of thousands of people turned to JVS SoCal for help. With your support, we directly assisted over 30,000 clients, with thousands of additional individuals accessing our job training and career services. We are building better lives, one job at a time, by empowering individuals to achieve dignity and economic independence through sustainable employment.

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Veteran Services

We assist all military Veterans with a special focus on women veterans and post-9/11 veterans by providing professional career coaching, assessments to identify transferable skills, training in high growth career sectors, plus job search skills and job placement assistance.

Career Centers

Our skilled and dedicated team is here to help you in your job search. Whether you are currently unemployed, working part-time, looking for training or certification opportunities, transitioning to a new career or re-entering the workforce, we have resources to assist you.

Mentoring for Women

Our innovative six-month career development program offers women with defined career objectives the unique opportunity to be paired with a mentor who has an established career in the participant’s chosen field.

Scholarship Program

In partnership with private donors, the JVS Scholarship Program provides qualified Jewish students whose primary residence is in the Greater Los Angeles area with need-based financial aid, in the belief that education represents the first step to career success.

Ezra Network

The Ezra Network is an initiative of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles in partnership with JVS SoCal, offering career coaching, job search and placement support and is located in various synagogues in Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley and the South Bay.

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    Southern California is facing an unprecedented emergency throughout our region that is impacting all of us in one way or another.  JVS SoCal stands in solidarity with all those directly affected by the fires. Our hearts are with the individuals, families, and communities who have lost everything in  this devastating event. We are committed to…

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    JVS SoCal’s Supervisorial District 5 Veterans Peer Access Network (VPAN) team in Palmdale was recognized as the District of the Year by the Los Angeles Veterans Collaborative, which brings together community groups and organizations who work on behalf of former members of the armed forces. Among those recognized individually were Program Manager Jimmy Guevara, program…

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    LOS ANGELES – Dec 6, 2024 — JVS SoCal, a leading human services agency focused on workforce development, has become one of the newest partners in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment Navigator and Partnership Program (ENPP) as a part of an expansion of its Transition Assistance Program under the Veterans Employment and Training Service…

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