Hollywood 2.0
Since its launch in 2022, Hollywood 2.0 (H20) has been offering an expanding range of community-based care for our neighbors with serious mental illness who often experience homelessness as well.
Hollywood 4WRD is proud to share the good work and collaboration of the innovative H20 program and its community partners!
H20 Awareness & Activation
The efforts to inform the Hollywood community about the innovative program accelerated in early 2025 with the release of the H20 awareness campaign.
As posters and 'Care Happens Here' window clings started appearing throughout local neighborhoods, community members began to learn more about the innovative program already making a huge impact on Hollywood's most vulnerable populations.
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Hollywood 2.0
Year Two
A Garden Grows in Hollywood
The seeds planted by the community workgroup process in Year One of the innovative H20 pilot sprouted to the surface in Year Two. The wealth of new resources are already improving the lives of people experiencing mental illness and homelessness in Hollywood – and streamlining work for the providers who care for them.
Download H20 Annual Report 2024H20's First Housing Assets Come Online
H20 Housing
Thanks to strong community partnership, the H20 program introduced three new housing assets in Year Two -- interim housing at The Mark Twain and Walk of Fame Hotel, and a Board and Care at Anew Dawn -- providing much-needed beds and more comprehensive/innovative care for clients.
Number of individuals in H20 Housing (as of 6/6/24): 154
Introducing the Hollywood Mental Health Cooperative
H20 Staffing
H20’s Hollywood Mental Health Cooperative (HMHC) offers expanded staff and an innovative treatment team approach combining outpatient and intensive field services that center around an individual’s needs. HMHC’s treatments lead to improved client outcomes as interventions are tailored to clients’ needs, and include the continuity of a support team who knows the individual’s history and strengths.
Cultivating more community compassion
What's Next for H20?
The remaining parts of the H20 garden to be cultivated include: the official launch of the Hollywood Clubhouse, enhanced residential care for H20's housing clients, academic evaluators to ensure the program remains on track, and a more efficient, comprehensive ecosystem of care for clients.
Hollywood 2.0 Resources
H2O Press
Homeless encampment cleanups do little to change numbers of people on the street, study finds
LA Times, 6/26/24
Against a backdrop of discouraging data County wide, the article finds that “several trends are moving in the right direction in Hollywood”, and points to H20 program as one of the reasons why.
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From Strength to Strength: A Glimpse Into What Defines Resilience
Heart Forward podcast, 5/23/24
Interview with Georgette Darby, a profile of resilience who’s overcome many obstacles to become deeply involved in her community, serving on the Board of the Hollywood United Neighborhood Council and as an ambassador member of the new clubhouse in Hollywood which is being created as a part of the Hollywood 2.0 mental health pilot.
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‘Community Is Therapy’: Why LA Is Getting A Clubhouse For People Living With Serious Mental Illness
LAist, 3/24/24
Profile of the Hollywood Clubhouse from Fountain House, which will be part of “the larger Hollywood 2.0 project, a county Department of Mental Health pilot program that… integrates supportive housing with a mental health urgent care center, clinical space and other services.”
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It Takes a Community: The Importance of Community to Hollywood 4WRD and Hollywood 2.0
H4WRD Blog, 8/17/23
A look back at a busy and rewarding first year of Hollywood 2.0, and a reflection on how integral community is to the innovative solutions the program offers our most vulnerable among.
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LA County Supervisors Ramp Up Support For Project To Help People Living With Mental Illness In Hollywood
LAist, 11/15/22
The LA County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to move forward with a new pilot project called Hollywood 2.0 that aims to help people living with a serious mental illness get care within their own community.
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L.A’.s first street psychiatrist makes his sidewalk rounds, transforming homeless lives
LA Times, 9/7/22
Profile of Dr. Shayan Rab and the innovative brand of street psychiatry he practices, along with H20 Program Manager Karla Bennett, as part of LA County Department of Mental Health’s HOME Team (Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement). This will be a vital component of H20 that will be enhanced and expanded as the program evolves.
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Year One & Origins
The conception and goals of this innovative program
Origins of Hollywood 2.0
The idea for H20 was hatched in Trieste, Italy. People living with mental health conditions there have been treated effectively for decades with community-centered care and compassion. After several visits to Trieste, a delegation of progressive LA leaders in both the mental health and homelessness sectors determined to bring this model of “radical hospitality” to an American community that needed it badly. Hollywood 2.0 was born.
Five years after conception, H20 launches in July of 2022
Community Launch
Once LACDMH received approval to proceed with this innovative program, they recognized the need for a partner who could help activate the Hollywood community. H4WRD was the logical choice. After bringing together a robust coalition of public/private stakeholders invested in creating systemic change, H4WRD helped support DMH with the launch of H20 in July of 2022.
Hollywood 2.0 Workgroups
Workgroups are formed to gather community input
Our weekly newsletters offer a wide range of resources and content – from volunteer opportunities and free produce pickups, to H4WRD-driven initiatives and updates from our service provider partners – curated to activate, educate, and inspire our community.
Purpose
Create opportunities for people to find purpose in their lives through education, mentorship and employment. The Purpose workgroup spent Year One of H20 envisioning first -- how to create pathways to meaningful, purposeful lives, and second -- how to lead people onto those paths AND keep them there. Many of the ideas hatched by the Purpose workgroup focused on incentivizing not simply potential employees entering the workforce, but also the employers who'd be hiring them. As with People-Systems, the Purpose participants saw their primary purpose as activating the entire community to be part of the solution.
People-Systems
Identify the current gaps that exist for treating individuals experiencing mental illness or homelessness. Participants in the People-Systems workgroup are guided by the principle that our mental healthcare system should be redesigned around the PEOPLE it is serving, rather than around the system itself. That means 24/7 access to care, lower barriers to entry into treatment, and a more ompassionate community that understands everyone has a role in taking care of our most vulnerable. Because of the wider scope of their mission, People-Systems participants wound up contributing to the development of many of the Purpose and Place workgroup ideas.
Place
Help people move off the street and into the best housing opportunities available, from interim shelters to permanent homes. The Place participants may have had the clearest mandate of all the workgroups -- to move folks off the streets and into some form of housing -- but also found themselves confronting the same thorny challenges that have made homelessness in Hollywood the crisis it is today: not enough available beds, overwhelming bureaucracy to navigate, mental health issues that require more time, effort, and training to treat, etc. Fortunately, the Place participants were not deterred, and instead came up with some of the more innovative ideas that will address, when implemented, both mental health AND homelessness.
Supporting and listening to those with lived experience.
Community Activation & Focus Groups
Ever since its launch, H20 has continually cast a light on the lived experience of those the program is designed to support. In fall ‘22, that meant hosting a screening of a documentary about the world’s first orchestra comprised primarily of musicians living with mental health conditions. In early ‘23, we gathered three focus groups from the TAY (Transitional Aged Youth), SMI (Serious Mental Illness) and PEH (persons experiencing homelessness) populations, which helped provide the H20 workgroups with invaluable ideas and contributions.
What prevents you from getting or staying housed?
- being appropriately placed
- poor support or none from staff
- rent too high
- vouchers don't work
- lack of motivation
- posessions stolen
- poor case management
- unfair treatmenty
- place closed while i was there
- missed appt or poor follow through
- rent too high & unsafe neighborhood
- not being properly compensated
*Feedback from H20's TAY Focus Group with youth experiencing homelessness
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Workgroups gather to select top ideas for DMH.
In-person Crosswalk
After months of meeting only virtually, our Crosswalk event in February ‘23 brought all 3 workgroups together in person for the first time. The DMH team provided updates from their end, while the workgroups offered an overview of their work so far. The Crosswalk culminated in an engaged polling process, which allowed participants to select the top ideas each group would submit to DMH.
H20 Community Partners
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Resources
Concept Notes & Recommendations
Following the Crosswalk polling process, the workgroups divided up into six subgroups to create Concept Notes for each idea being recommended to DMH for further consideration. The six Concept Notes below represent the product of nearly a year of workgroup meetings and focused community engagement – and the culmination of a 6 year vision of bringing “radical hospitality” to Hollywood:
H20's catchment area
Need help?
Send us an email at H20@Hollywood4WRD.org to stayup to date on our progress.
You can also contact DMH's Program Manager here:hollywood2.0@dmh.lacounty.gov
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