The City of West Hollywood periodically conducts a review of funding priorities of the City’s Human Services Division. As an initial activity of the City’s social services funding process for 2025 to 2028, the City is seeking feedback from community members about its social services funding priorities.

On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at 5:30 p.m., the City of West Hollywood’s Human Services Commission will include a Public Hearing on Social Services funding priorities. This meeting will take place at the City of West Hollywood’s Council Chambers/Public Meeting Room, located at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard. Validated parking will be available in the adjacent West Hollywood Park 5-Story garage on a first-come, first-served basis. Meeting agendas for Commissions and Advisory Boards are posted on the City’s website at www.weho.org/agendas. This agenda is available at www.weho.org/home/showpublisheddocument/61630.

Community members are invited to provide public comment to offer input and feedback about unmet social services needs and suggestions for future programming. Members of the public who wish to comment by telephone are required to register to speak via Zoom by sending an email to HSCPublicComment@weho.org no later than 12 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 to be added to the remote public speaker list. For details, please call the City’s Human Services Division at (323) 848-6510.

The Human Services Commission meeting will be live-broadcast and streamed. It will be available on Channel 10 on Spectrum within West Hollywood, by visiting the City of West Hollywood’s website at www.weho.org/wehotv, or by visiting the City’s WeHoTV YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/wehotv. In addition, WeHoTV-televised meetings can also be viewed on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, and Roku streaming platforms by searching “WeHoTV” within the search functions of these services.

The City of West Hollywood’s Human Services Division offers West Hollywood community members social service programs, valuable health education, and essential information. Programs and services embody the City’s core values of Respect and Support for People and address a range of community needs, including food and shelter, HIV/AIDS prevention, early childhood education, help finding a job, legal guidance, mental health resources, and more. In addition to offering immediate assistance, the City is deeply invested through its Human Services Division in supporting vulnerable community members through thoughtfully designed programs, strategic initiatives, and policy development responsive to community needs. For more information, please visit www.weho.org/humanservices.

The Human Services Commission was created in 1985 and is comprised of five members appointed by individual City Councilmembers and two members appointed at-large by the West Hollywood City Council. The Commission: Makes recommendations on priorities for development of the City’s efforts in Human Services, including leisure programs, social services programs, human rights, and older adults affairs; Assists the West Hollywood City Council and Department of Human Services and Rent Stabilization in identifying and determining the human service needs of the City; cooperates with other agencies in assessing these needs and identifying service gaps; and promotes citizen participation in the decision-making process and brings the government process closer to the residents of the City regarding human services programming.

For more information, please call the City of West Hollywood’s Human Services Division at (323) 848-6510. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing dial 711 or 1-800-735-2929 (TTY) or 1-800-735-2922 (voice) for California Relay Service (CRS) assistance.

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