Ok, if everyone is safe but evacuated, now it's time to find solutions for Emergency Housing Resources, a plan for Thanksgiving, Services and Showers.  Here are some links that can keep people resilient while grieving.  You can hum or laugh as a form of yoga anywhere, but in the meantime here are some resources that could help or refer you to the people who can.

I picked up a brochure for the San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission in Northridge that provides showers, hot meals, and emergency services to different populations.

It's probably time  to find a substitute for Thanksgiving plans or new places to go for the services needed after or during the Woolsey Fires. Don't be shy.  The Cities and Counties are working with nonprofits to find more programmatic solutions and ongoing temporary or bridge support.  

Whether Chatsworth, NOHO, Pacoima, Chatsworth or Long Beach, Glendale, LA, Oxnard, Los Alamitos, Canoga Park, Van Nuys you can call to get help, volunteer, sign up for Thanksgiving or services.

Burbank Coordinating Council needs volunteers for the holiday gift packs and there are emergency housing resources for youth, women, men, battered women, families, single men or women, pregnant women, battered anyone, disabled seniors, sex trafficked, vets, recovery, women with children listed in the Homeless Resource Directory.

Call 818-785-4476 for the SFV Rescue mission, call 211 (info line), call their lists of members (get the brochure or go online on your phone).  You and/or your family won't need to recover alone.  Remember the phone, a bulletin board, a friend or service providers and agencies or colleges, churches, synagogues, interfaith, and nonprofits or volunteers from ROP or Neighborhood Councils are mobilized to help.

We are in a huge community called Ventura and LA County and whether VIC, Jewish Family Services, YWCA to Children of the Night and so many others with food banks, showers, services, and emergency housing resources there is some sort of hot meal to resource from the Independent Living Centers to weekly jazz.

Find out.

Emergency Housing, donate, volunteer, more:

www.sfvrescuemission.org

Food Bank:

www.churchofthechimes.org

Red Cross:

www.redcross.org

Independent Living Center:

http://www.ilcsc.org

Mental Health call in:

www.didihirsch.org 

Valley Community Health Care (health and dental services and more):

https://valleycommunityhealthcare.org

Affordable child care:

www.kidsfirst.la

Find something therapeutic to do:

http://bestofdrawsomething.com/drawings/of/wildfire