Welcome to the nation's leading child personal safety program.

Our mission is to help ensure the personal safety of children and youth through increased awareness, education, advocacy and action. Our goal is to prevent all forms of child victimization by teaching families, professionals and other community members how to recognize, interrupt and report inappropriate behaviors and situations.

CLP/TLP helps children and teens stay safe from sexual abuse, harassment, abduction, drugs and bullying/cyberbullying. This is accomplished through:

• emphasizing every child's right to live free of abuse,
• promoting healthy social relationships,
• nurturing mutual kindness and respect,
• setting personal and digital boundaries,
• teaching age-appropriate Child Lures and practicing proven prevention strategies for each lure,
• identifying trusted adults and
• upholding a zero tolerance environment in which harassment & abuse are openly discussed and disclosed.

 http://www.childluresprevention.com/

Thanks to my guest Rosemary Webb...daughter of Ken Wooden AND co-President of Child Lures for sharing the mission of their organization and all the ways they hope to help educate and PREVENT harm to ANY child...

Hotlines

• RAINN National Sexual Violence Hotline:
  1-800-656-4673 (HOPE)
  At any given moment, RAINN (Rape Abuse and Incest National Network) has over 1100 trained volunteers on duty to help victims at crisis centers across the country.
• National Child Abuse Hotline:
  1-800-422-4453 (4 A CHILD)Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For help or questions about child abuse or child neglect, call the hotline, then push 1 to talk to a counselor.
• National Teen Dating Abuse Hotline:
  1-866-331-9474If you think you may be in an abusive relationship, call to talk with someone about it. Also call for more dating violence info & other resources for teens.
• National Hope Line Network:
  1-800-784-2433 (1-800-SUICIDE)If you, or someone you know, is having thoughts about suicide, call to be connected to a nearby certified crisis center. Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• National Domestic Violence Hotline:
  1-800-799-7233 (SAFE)
  Available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Hotline advocates available to provide crisis intervention, safety planning, information and referrals to agencies in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• National Hotline to Report a Missing Child
  (Natl. Center for Missing & Exploited Children):
  1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST®)
  Report any information regarding a missing child to NCMEC®s Call Center. Operators are available 24-hours a day to receive sightings.

What is the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center?

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center provides a broad array of services for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, welcoming nearly a quarter-million client visits from ethnically diverse youth and adults each year.

Through its Jeffrey Goodman Special Care Clinic and on-site pharmacy, the Center offers free and low-cost health, mental health, HIV/AIDS medical care and HIV/STD testing and prevention. 

The Center also offers legal, social, cultural, and educational services, with unique programs for seniors, families and youth, including a 24-bed transitional living program for homeless youth.

Join us at

An Evening With Women for dinner, drinks and an incredible night of live performances
hosted by Kathy Griffin and featuring Natasha Bedingfield, Sia and Ozzy Osbourne.
All proceeds from the event, produced by Linda Perry, benefit the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s services for women and girls.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

6 p.m. Cocktails & Silent Auction
8 p.m. Dinner & Show
The Beverly Hilton Hotel

Afterparty with Modern Love DJs Kim Anh & Saratonin

Co-chairs

Brent Bolthouse, Shannon Del, Annie Goto, Kelly Lynch and Linda Perry

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Southern California Rotary Club

Our Story

The world’s first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, was formed on 23 February 1905 by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wished to capture in a professional club the same friendly spirit he had felt in the small towns of his youth. The Rotary name derived from the early practice of rotating meetings among members’ offices.

Rotary’s popularity spread, and within a decade, clubs were chartered from San Francisco to New York to Winnipeg, Canada. By 1921, Rotary clubs had been formed on six continents. The organization adopted the Rotary International name a year later.

As Rotary grew, its mission expanded beyond serving club members’ professional and social interests. Rotarians began pooling their resources and contributing their talents to help serve communities in need. The organization’s dedication to this ideal is best expressed in its motto: Service Above Self.

By 1925, Rotary had grown to 200 clubs with more than 20,000 members. The organization’s distinguished reputation attracted presidents, prime ministers, and a host of other luminaries to its ranks — among them author Thomas Mann, diplomat Carlos P. Romulo, humanitarian Albert Schweitzer, and composer Jean Sibelius.

Our Ambitious Campaign: End Polio Now!

Our Mission:
A Window Between Worlds is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using art to help end domestic violence. Through creative expression, battered women and children gain a sense of renewal and power. Their images of hope, survival and strength educate the public and become "a window between worlds" for survivors taking steps to change their lives.

Since 1991, AWBW has provided creative expression as a healing tool for over 112,000 battered women and their children in crisis shelters, transitional homes, and outreach centers throughout the United States.

By providing an environment that promotes healing, art workshops help
women and children to develop a renewed sense of hope and possibility
that profoundly impacts future decisions regarding the direction of
their lives, their relationships, and how to stay safe. Art empowers survivors to transform how they view themselves, allowing them to see past the abusive messages they learned from their batterers and rebuild their self-confidence.

2013 Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation Celebrity Poker Tournament & Party. It begins at 5 p.m. at the Saban Theatre, 8440 Wilshire Blvd., in Beverly Hills.

The foundation provides financial assistance to families of police officers who were killed in the line of duty.

The evening will begin with red carpet arrivals and include food, cocktails, music, photobooth,
raffles and auctions with prizes. Patrons may purchase tickets to attend the star-
studded party or to sit by side their favorites in the tournament.

Tickets range from $100.00 to $375.00 and can be purchased here:http://www.itsmyseat.com//events/520386.html

Check out the foundation’s website for more information here: http://www.lapmf.org/

The Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF), Universal Pictures and Pale Girl SPEAKS invite you to join us for the Second Annual Miles for Melanoma at Universal Studios 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, May 4, 2013!  

The Second Annual Miles for Melanoma at Universal Studios 5K Run/Walk will be co-hosted by actor Rob Lowe and his wife, Sheryl. It promises to be a lot of fun, featuring celebrity participants, on-site skin checks, a private VIP reception, great swag, and the opportunity to explore some of the most iconic movie sets in history – all while raising critical funds to fuel new treatments, education and advocacy for melanoma. Last year's event was a star-studded blast, so if you haven’t registered yet, there’s still time! To learn more about sponsorship opportunities, click here.

Tomorrow, April 16th, TOMS Shoes challenges YOU to walk for just one day with out shoes to bring global awareness to childrens health, the need for shoes & education.

If you live in the LA area, you can meet at the TOMS headquarters in Santa Monica, CA & walk barefoot to the Santa Monica Pier.

Whether you plan on walking to the peir or simply walking around your office with out shoes, we encourage you to do it & spread the word using hashtag #withoutshoes! The more bare feet there are, the bigger the footprint! 

CLICK HERE for more info on TOMS 6th Annual One Day Without Shoes!

Follow TOMS on Twitter

Like TOMS on Facebook

Students Invited to Apply for Jerry Herman Awards and win their way to BROADWAY!

Los Angeles area high school students have another route to the Broadway stage!

The Pantages Theatre and Nederlander Organization are inviting local high schools to participate in an actors' showcase that will see the best male and female performers take home $1,000 plus an all-expenses-paid trip to New York. The competition, slated for May 19 at the Pantages, is the local award ceremony for the National High School Musical Theatre Awards, also known as the Jimmy’s, which takes place each year at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre in New York City.  While in Manhattan, the Los Angeles-area winners of the second annual Jerry Herman Awards will also get five days of private coaching, master classes, and rehearsals with theater professionals. That will help them prepare for the grand finale of the competition, where they'll appear before a panel of industry experts. The chosen finalists will compete for the Jimmy Awards for Best Performance by an Actress and Actor as part of the National High School Musical Theater Awards, which culminate in a performance at the Minskoff. All high schools in the Los Angeles-area are invited to participate. Representatives may still register their musical theater productions for consideration by filling out the online participation form. Awards are also given out for Best Musical and Best Choreography, in addition to the acting honors. Winners merit scholarships, professional advancement and other prizes.

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Sara Mann LULLABIES: CD release party Benefiting the PKD Foundation @ Upstairs at Vitello's

Thursday, April 18, 2013, 8:00 pm  Vitello's Jazz and Supper Club, 4349 Tujunga Ave, Studio City, CA $20.00

 

The album Lullabies by Sara Mann is now available on iTunes, with the proceeds going to the PKD Foundation. Sara is a back-up singer for Miley Cyrus and Katharine McPhee. She lost her infant son to ARPKD in 2011 and recorded this album to comfort parents of ARPKD children, as well as others who are living with kidney disease or who have lost a loved one. Lullabies features the song Tears In Heaven, with Sara joined by Billy Ray Cyrus, along with nine other soothing tracks

https://www.pkdcure.org/

Nominations For First-Ever Music Educator Award Now Open! Vote for your FAVORITE Music teacher by April 15th!

http://www.grammy.org/

http://www.revolutiondancecenter.com/

Thanks to my guest RDC owner/founder Julie Kay for sharing her passion for dancing, teaching and wanting to help kids w/disabilities at the above special event!

The tale of the creation of STAGE is as heartwarming as its performances. Back in 1984, during a time of mass fear and confusion regarding AIDS, a small group of friends in the theatre community came together in an effort to combat the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on their friends and family. The event was created by actor/writer/director Michael Kearns and the late writer/director James Carroll Pickett in a coffeeshop in Silverlake, California. The two approached the accomplished director David Galligan, who signed on immediately and has continued to direct STAGE ever since.

When asked about his ongoing commitment to the event, Galligan responded, "STAGE gives back in every sense." He described the common bond between the performers when they all gather together backstage. "It is the most loving place you'll ever be other than your mother's arms because of why everyone has come together with what we hope to achieve. I think most would agree that it is the best time of our lives because it has such meaning." The theatrical community has enthusiastically responded ever since, and STAGE, the world's longest running AIDS benefit, has become a venue for the community to raise consciousness while expressing love, concern, sadness, and support. Since its inception in 1984, STAGE has raised millions of dollars for HIV/AIDS services and charities throughout Southern California, including:

• AIDS Healthcare Foundation
• AIDS Project Los Angeles
• AIDS Service Center
• Being Alive/Los Angeles
• GLASS
• LA Gay & Lesbian Center, Jeffrey Goodman Clinics
• Laguna Shanti
• Los Angeles Free Clinic
• The Neil Bogart Fund / T.J. Martell Foundation
• Project Angel Food
• Project New Hope

Thank you to my fab guest Joely Fisher for coming on the show to tell us ALL about the big night! ;)

JOELY FISHER has done lots of stuff...some of which she is proud! Highlights include Ellen... Wild Card for Lifetime... ’Til Death, opposite Brad Garrett! Inspector Gadget, starring Joely with Matthew Broderick! On the Great White Way... Rizzo in Grease and in Cabaret...Sally Bowles. Currently she is in the long running “wife and mother in Los Angeles”...opposite Christopher Duddy and Cameron, Collin, Skylar, True and Olivia Luna!!! 

http://www.stagela.com/home.php

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On April 15, join the movement at Walk MS to bring us one step closer to a world free of MS!

Come and celebrate with thousands of fellow friends, co-workers and families that, like you want to stop MS in its tracks. There will be fun for the whole family as you enjoy a beautiful 5K walk, roll or stroll around the Rose Bowl. There will also be entertainment on the route and at the finish festival with food, music, jugglers, face painters, team booths, fun give-a-ways and more.

What: Walk MS: Greater Los Angeles 
When: April 15.
Opening Ceremonies: 9:30 am; Start: 10:00 am
Where: The Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA
Email  walkms@cal.nmss.org

Phone  1.800.344.4867

Website http://walkcal.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR/Walk/CALWalkEvents?pg=entry&fr_id=18105

Thank you to my sweet friend/co worker JILLIAN for coming on the show...click below to join her awesome team!! ;)

http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR/Walk/CALWalkEvents?team_id=321971&pg=team&fr_id=19932