Los Angeles County Resources
Sex Offender Counseling
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Community Building
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles focuses on homeownership but we realize there are other issues that come up in peoples lives. Below are links that may be helpful in those situations.
Federal, State and Municipal Services
Disability Services
- Communities Actively Living Independent & Free
- Department of Rehabilitation Services
- Disabled Resource Center
- Disability Community Resource Center
- Disability Rights California
- Eastern Los Angeles Regional Center
- Harbor Regional Center
- Independent Living Center of Southern CA
- Lanterman Regional Center
- Mental Health Advocacy Service
- South Central Los Angeles Regional Center
- Southern California Rehabilitation Services
- Westside Regional Center
Social Services
Consumer Services
- Consumer Financial Protection
- HUD Fair Housing
- Los Angeles County Department of Consumer Affairs
- Los Angeles Fair Housing
- State of California Department of Consumer Affairs
Root & Rebound
This is a large non-profit organization that helps ex-prisoners re-enter society. It offers information, training, and a wide range of other assistance. It works with prisoners throughout California and also a limited number of other States. Whether still incarcerated or already released, the prisoner can contact this organization and ask for assistance with re-entry into society. Root & Rebound will also work with prisoners who must register as sex offenders (290 registration).
- Prisoners (in California) may write and send questions to: Root & Rebound 1730 Franklin Street, Suite 300, Oakland, CA 94612
- Re-entry Legal Hotline (510) 279-4662. California prisoners and ex-prisoners may call for answers to legal questions from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays. Collect calls are accepted from incarcerated persons.
- The Reentry Planning Toolkit is an encyclopedia of California law which affects persons re-entering society after prison. Look at it on-line or order a printed copy.
- Native Americans. Click here for resources for Native American prisoners and former prisoners.
- Resources for former prisoners outside California.
Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL)
ACLU Building
1313 W. 8th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90017
(818) 305-5984
This organization advocates for people who must register in California as sex offenders. Its primary purpose is to get changes to our legal system, but it also has information that might be of assistance to ex-sex offenders who have been released or who anticipate release. The website lists a few other organizations concerned with this issue, including on-line support groups.
When I e-mailed this website in March 2017 on behalf of a prisoner anticipating release, I received an immediate reply from Janice Bellucci, a staff attorney. She asked that the prisoner contact her directly and also referred the prisoner to the organization, Root & Rebound, an organization listed above.
Jobs for Registered Sex Offenders
Sex Offenders Solution and Education Network
Mission: Educate public so that 290 registration laws are reformed. It has private on-line forums where 290 registrants can discuss issues among themselves.