Dear Friend,
Welcome to the first eNewsletter for LAHH!
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Guido Piccarolo
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Thank you for joining our effort in making the dream
of LAHH come true! On March 6th we celebrated our
first anniversary of incorporation! The little seed
that was planted a year ago has begun to blossom and
we want to keep watering it with you.
The big news is that I will be looking for
employment as a janitor. This will give me the
skillsets necessary to be able to effectively train
our future employees to become janitors and to begin
offering our janitorial service in the community.
We
also started planning our first annual fundraising
dinner and concert scheduled for Fall 2008 with the
help of our wonderful Loyola Marymount University
volunteers.
We are looking forward to carrying on our mission
and keeping you up-to-date on our progress because
we believe that we are walking side by side with you
in this endeavor! Please take a look at "On The
Road" to read about the exciting events that
happened in February.
Thank you to our donors for all their support to us
and our community.
I want to extend my appreciation to Mauro Prina,
Secretary, and Nancy Albin, Treasurer, for their
work on the Board of Directors.
Please feel free to forward this Newsletter to your
friends and loved ones who may be interested in
supporting our mission!
Cordially,
Guido Piccarolo
Los Angeles Habilitation House, President and
Co-Founder
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On the Road |
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Guido and Mr. Walker during the NISH training
session in San Diego
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Guido has been on the road traveling to NISH
conferences and meeting with potential candidates and
partners. In February, he was in San Diego, California
attending a 3-day training class entitled "Custodial
University" organized by
NISH. During this class he was introduced to the
(OS1) program. (OS1) is a complete Custodial Operations
Management System which was developed during the past
two decades by Mr. John Walker and his associates at
ManageMen. LAHH is committed to adopting this system
to carry on its mission in creating and maintaining job
opportunities in the janitorial field for persons with
mental and physical disabilities.
Guido and I had a very positive meeting with Ms.
Danielle Heck at the
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Nancy with Mr. Brandon and Ms. Gasso of EDD |
Harbor Regional Center. We were thrilled to meet
such a competent and encouraging partner in Ms. Heck. We
also met with Mr. William Brandon of the
Employment Development Department. Mr. Brandon's
enthusiasm for a program that will aid the disabled
veterans he services was exciting. Both of these
meetings have enabled us to form two strong partnerships
that will bear the first fruits when prospective
candidates for employment are interviewed starting in
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Affiliation
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We are excited to announce the new
affiliation and collaboration between the Center for
Service and Action of Loyola Marymount University (LMU)
and LAHH.
Guido met with Ms. Lorena Chavez and Ms. Maria Alderete, who
work in the Center for Service and Action at LMU.
From this
meeting, LAHH became one of several companies
highlighted in a undergraduate entrepreneurial
class. Students taking a class geared towards
tomorrow's entrepreneurs, can pick from a list of
companies that have offered a specific project for
these students to complete in one semester's time.
These five women picked LAHH as their company with
the project being a fundraising dinner.
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LAHH Volunteers. Left to
Right: Michelle, Lauren, Sierra, Lalindri,
Jessica
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We want to acknowledge Michelle Stein, Jessica
Hyman, Lalindri Silva, Sierra Smith, and Lauren
Olsen. These five outstanding, brilliant, and hard
working young women,
undergraduate
students at LMU, are putting together the
logistics, marketing, sponsorship, and event
participation for the fundraising dinner.
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Thank You to Our Donors |
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Thank you to each person who has contributed
financially to the mission of Los Angeles
Habilitation House.
We do not
take your generosity for granted.
We gladly accept
this fiduciary responsibility you have entrusted to
us. Deep gratitude goes out to the many volunteers
who have contributed hours of their time, thoughts,
and energy to this company. Each one of you is in
our hearts and on our minds as we work day by day to
grow this blossoming organization.
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Sincerely,
Nancy Albin
Los Angeles Habilitation House, Vice President &
Co-Founder |
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Support
LAHH |
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LAHH is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation in need of
support to develop the programs of the organization.
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Board of Directors Spotlight
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Mauro Prina, Secretary,
Los Angeles Habilitation House
A graduate in Engineering from Politecnico of
Milano University, Dr. Prina is currently
working at Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX),
a new and dynamic space company developing
viable access to space. Prior to joining SpaceX,
Dr. Prina worked at JPL (NASA) for more than 5
years participating to two flight missions to
contribute to the knowledge of the universe,
from cosmic microwave background emitted during
the the Big Bang (Planck Mission) to the surface
of our neighbor planets (Mars Science
Laboratory). In addition to his engineering
career, Mauro has always dedicated his free time
to charitable activities. Since he was in
college, Mauro use to spend at least one
afternoon a week in supporting kids in tough
neighbors in after school programs and families
in difficulties by supporting the sister of
charity in Milan. In the last few years, Mauro
spent good part of his free time supporting LAHH
and the Little Sisters of the Poor in San Pedro,
visiting regularly their nurse home.
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