Dr. Adams Kellum’s Management Saved Lots of of Lives
Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum has introduced her intention to step down as CEO of the Los Angeles Homeless Companies Authority.
Dr. Adams Kellum has devoted her life to serving to essentially the most marginalized and deprived members of our society and he or she has saved a whole bunch if not 1000’s of lives right here in Los Angeles.
She started her profession serving to former foster youth efficiently transition out of the system and into stability. From there, she grew to become CEO of St. Joseph’s Heart. When she arrived, the non-profit helped almost 100 folks annually – Dr. Adams Kellum constructed it right into a mannequin service supplier now serving 1000’s of unhoused Angelenos annually.
“After serving as CEO, Dr. Adams Kellum labored with my workplace to create Inside Protected – the primary and solely citywide program to resolve whole encampments and convey folks inside,” mentioned Mayor Karen Bass.
“Dr. Adams Kellum spent her profession tackling the challenges of homelessness – silos, providers, accountability, value – and regardless of understanding that LAHSA was a damaged system, she answered the decision of service to function CEO of LAHSA as a result of she is aware of that above all else, we should work to save lots of lives. And regardless of this damaged system, whereas homelessness rises throughout the nation, Los Angeles is bucking that pattern – avenue homelessness declined for the primary time in additional than six years, and early experiences present that this progress continues for a second 12 months. This could not have been potential with out Dr. Adams Kellum’s management and daring imaginative and prescient for what’s potential.
“Dr. Adams Kellum’s management of LAHSA has helped us transfer the needle to save lots of lives, restore neighborhoods and present that homelessness might be solved. She is an agent of change. I thank her for her work and need her the perfect in all that she is going to do shifting ahead. We are going to proceed to construct on the muse she has helped to put in order that we are able to transfer towards ending the humanitarian disaster of homelessness in LA.”
Inside Protected has launched operations at 80 encampments, lots of them notoriously harmful and entrenched, and has helped save lives of many by shifting unhoused Angelenos off the streets. The County launched their Pathway Residence initiative many months later, which can also be modeled after Inside Protected and has addressed about half of that quantity all through the County.
Road homelessness in Los Angeles has decreased for the primary time in years and for the primary time in consecutive years because the disaster exploded.
In keeping with the Mayor’s Workplace, “Los Angeles thanks her for her work to save lots of lives and transfer this metropolis ahead and can proceed to construct on the muse she has helped to put in order that we are able to transfer towards ending the humanitarian disaster of homelessness in LA.”
