Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteering for L.A. Family Housing (LAFH) is a great way for you to help us continue to provide poor hard-working families with the necessary services they need to regain their dignity and maintain a stable, successful and unsubsidized lifestyle. Click here for our online Volunteer Registration Form.

The following are ways in which you can help our families:

Cafeteria
Help prepare and serve a meal for our residents.
LAFH operates two emergency shelters in North Hollywood. Our transitional living facility (7817 Lankershim) provides housing for families with children and our Valley Shelter facility (7843 Lankershim) provides housing for individual adults. Each facility is equipped with an industrial size kitchen and provides our clients three meals a day.

Youth Activities
Create arts & crafts, sporting activities, storytelling, etc.
You can work with the children and youth residing in our family program to create arts and crafts, hold sport activities or have a storytelling time.

Beautify our Premises
Beautify our premises by painting or gardening.
You can paint our premises or clean up our surrounding gardens. Beautifying our surroundings both helps our clients gain self-confidence and helps revitalize the local neighborhood. Click here for a list of our facilities.

Clerical/Office Support
Filing, faxing, office clean up, etc.
You can assist our agency sites with filing, faxing, answering phones etc. Hundreds of clients use our facilities on a daily basis, and a lot of recordkeeping is necessary.

Teaching/Tutoring
Provide tutoring, etc.
Many of the youth and adults residing at LAFH are in need of educational services such as reading, writing, arithmetic, etc. You can assist by tutoring people on an individual basis or in group mini-courses (e.g. fitness, CPR, first aid, computer skills, horticultural skills, presentation/public speaking skills, basic business and finance skills), or through the provision of employment assistance (résumé preparation, job skills search).

If you would like to volunteer your time and expertise, please contact us at (818) 982-4091.