Introducing the new Friends Outside In Los Angeles County Newsletter!
We launched “Inside Friends Outside” to keep our supporters informed about Friends Outside LA news, successful clients and programs. The newsletter will appear quarterly, beginning with this spring 2026 issue. Please visit and subscribe!
Our Re-entry Employment Is Changing Lives!
We hope you will take a few minutes to watch the video. Why – because all of the trainees in the video with one exception were referred to West Coast Customs through our county-funded SECTOR program. Through SECTOR, Friends Outside in Los Angeles staff provide workshops, mental health services, linkages to vocational trainings, one-to-one supports, and needed basic items such as gas cards. Our staff also helps them obtain jobs which pay living wages in job sectors through which they can pursue their desired careers.
We hope you will find a few minutes to read our Year-end Report for 2024 view here.
Employment through Empowerment – Meet our Exciting Success Stories
Our LA County-funded SECTOR program assist re-entry job seekers to get vocational training in their areas of career interest. As a result, they obtain living-wage employment and become self-supporting! Meet two of them in this powerful video!
I have seen the FOLA chapter grow from an acorn to a “Mighty Oak.”
George Ferrick
About Friends Outside Los Angeles
Here at Friends Outside Los Angeles (FOLA) we assist children and families, prisoners, and former prisoners with the immediate and long-term effects of incarceration, and to act as a bridge between those we serve, the community at large, and the criminal justice system, thereby enhancing the character of justice.
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