Hollywood 2.0

Hollywood 4WRD is proud to share the good work and community collaboration of the innovative Hollywood 2.0 program in our 2024 H20 Annual Report for Year Two!

This year's report celebrates the many strides taken by the H20 program over the last 12 months -- led by our partners at Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) -- and the literal and figurative garden that has sprung up in our community as a result.

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.

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H20'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

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H20 -
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.

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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

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

Resources

Concept Notes & Recommendations

Workgroups create/submit Concept Notes for top ideas.

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:

Job Placement for
Target Population

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Highly Enriched
Residential Facility

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Psychiatric
Urgent Care

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Supported
Employment

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Pilot Within
A Pilot

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Safe
Landing

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H20's catchment area

With greater resources and greater reach, Hollywood 2.0 offers services to an area that extends slightly beyond H4WRD's boundaries.
Contact Us

Need help?

Send us an email at [email protected] to stayup to date on our progress.

You can also contact DMH's Program Manager here:[email protected]

Hollywood 2.0
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