LAMP Community is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization located in Skid Row that seeks to permanently end homelessness, improve health, and build self-sufficiency among men and women living with severe mental illness.

Lamp Community also played a prominent role in the movie The Soloist

The Soloist

The Soloist is a 2009 American/French/British drama film directed by Joe Wright, and starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. The screenplay by Susannah Grant is based on the book, The Soloist by Steve Lopez...

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Services

Lamp Community operates under, and helped to pioneer, the Housing First

Housing first

Housing First, also known as "rapid re-housing", is a relatively recent innovation in human service programs and social policy regarding treatment of the homeless and is an alternative to a system of emergency shelter/transitional housing progressions...

 model. It offers immediate access to affordable, safe and permanent housing without requiring sobriety or participation in treatment. Once settled in their home, new tenants are surrounded with customized services such as mental health treatment, drug recovery, healthcare, budgeting, visual performing arts, job opportunities, and other supports to help them achieve their goals and become part of their community.

Media

• "Saving for the future, a dollar a time", a radio story originally aired on Marketplace Money
  Marketplace (radio program)
  Marketplace is a radio program that focuses on business, the economy, and events that influence them. Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, the show is produced and distributed by American Public Media, in association with the University of Southern California...
  
  on May 16, 2010. The highlights Lamp Community's Money Management Program, which offers personal banking services and financial literacy courses to hundreds of Skid Row residents.

External links

• Lamp Community Website