Community Care Kits

November 14, 2021

Community Care Kits was a free family-oriented event that provided an opportunity for parents and their school-aged children to spend meaningful time together assembling hygiene kits for our neighbors experiencing homelessness.  

Attendance: 145
Artists served: 3

Assembling hygiene kits is an empathy building activity that facilitates conversations between parents and their children around homelessness. In over four hours, families help pack 500 kits for distribution across multiple service organizations in Skid Row, including Downtown Women's Center, Brown Bag Lady, and Inner City Arts.  Community Care Kits was facilitated by homeLA collaborator, artist and activist, Emily Marchand and organizer and advocate, Caitlyn Montgomery.  The two have been working together for years to bring more essential resources to Angelenos living in Skid Row by finding creative ways to energize their communities into supporting people experiencing homelessness.   

This event is a part of The We in Me, homeLA’s pilot education program that considers homelessness through the lens of empathy and civic engagement and furthers homeLA’s mission to promote intersectionality and cultivate inclusivity through the embodied exchange of ideas around varied contextual imaginings of “home.”

The We in Me: Community Care Kits is produced in partnership with The Box, artists Corazón del Sol and Emily Marchand, and advocate, Caitlyn Montgomery.

This programming is made possible through the generous donations of many socially-conscious and concerned Angelenos who donated over $6000 in two weeks for the purchase of kit items. This activity is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov.