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Dads Back! Academy Grand Opening Celebration – Sept. 30

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Mary Weaver

Please join us for the Grand Opening of our Dads Back! Academy, fatherhood services for re-entry fathers (and mothers) who are parents (or like parents) to a child under the […]
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Focus On: Fathers, Imprisonment and the Impact on Kids

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Mary Weaver

More than 5 million children in the U.S. have had a parent who lived with them go to jail or prison. That’s one in 28 kids, compared with one in […]
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Department of “Corrections”

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Mary Weaver

In case our followers are wondering what a “Risson,” is (see our last newsletter) . . . some of the letters on my computer keyboard are no longer visible. Hence, […]
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Posted in FOLATagged employment center, grants, LEAP Grant, LEAP initiative, recidivism, South Bay Workfroce Investment Board

Weaver Appointed to Blue Ribbon Commission by Mayor Garcetti

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Mary Weaver

Los Angeles Mayor Eric ­­­Garcetti has appointed Mary Weaver, Executive Director, to his newly-formed Commission on Employment Equity. The Com­mission’s charge is to address the Citywide need to increase ­em­ployment […]
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Speak Up for Families of the Incarcerated! Ask Your Senator to Vote YES on SB 1157

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Mary Weaver

FCLCA is a co-sponsor of Sen. Holly Mitchell’s Senate Bill 1157, Strengthening Family Connections: In-Person Visitation. This bill preserves in-person visitation for people who are incarcerated in local detention and […]
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The mission of Friends Outside in Los Angeles County (FOLA) is to 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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