Welcome to the Westside Coalition

Wendy Burch from KTLA to Host
​31st Annual Celebrating Success Breakfast

The Celebrating Success Breakfast brings together community partners, service providers, supporters, and leaders to recognize collective impact across the west side and celebrate the people and partnerships that make this work possible.

For more information and sponsorships, please contact Chris Baca at [email protected].

Welcome Newly Elected Westside Coalition Board Members

Branda Valiente, Miriams House Los Angeles - Executive Director

Debbie Williams, SGI-USA, Sr. Member Services Center

Susan Herbert, SHARE! - Dir of Clinical and Peer Support Svcs.

Sonya Grey, St. Joseph Center - Faith Based Coordinator

Learn More about WC

The Westside Coalition is an alliance of 81  organizations, public agencies, faith communities and individual and families, all committed to working collaboratively on issues of housing, hunger and health through service coordination, public education and advocacy. 

The Westside Coalition is a non-profit volunteer organization whose monthly Coalition meetings take place at Mount Olive Lutheran Church.

​The coalition was founded in 1982 to serve the Westside of Los Angeles County and is reportedly the oldest coalition in the county working on behalf of the poor and homeless. Since that time the Westside Coalition (Formerly the Westside Shelter & Hunger Coalition) merged with the Westside Health Coalition. Throughout its history, the Westside Coalition has proven to be an effective tool in providing collaborative, high-quality programs and services for those in need in our community.

Although individual agencies have the ability to provide separate services for people in need, the efforts of the Westside Coalition help coordinate all services on the Westside in order to provide a true continuum of service care for the community. Members work together to provide services that include initial intake and service referrals; showers, food and clothing; on-going case management; emergency, transitional and permanent housing; medical care; mental health treatment; HIV medical and social services; job training and placement; and substance abuse treatment. The coalition has been instrumental in advocating for low income and homeless people at the local, state and national levels.

Coalition Monthly Meetings


We offer hybrid meetings for our monthly Coalition meeting. They are in-person at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church and also offer Zoom to those that cannot attend in person.  Contact us to be added to our email group (link below) and you will receive notifications and links about the Coalition meetings. 

All are welcome, you don't need to be a member to visit the monthly Coalition meetings.


​​Contact Us:

 [email protected]

Your Upcoming Meetings

10/29 Next round for food providers 
and nonprofits to work on collaboration to meet the growing crisis. At the Oct 29th Westside Coalition meeting you will find out how we, as a coalition, can TAKE THE ACTION STEPS to feed our neighbors who will be losing their SNAP benefits this month. Bring all those ideas you have been thinking about for years on feeding people and building community.

RSVP Here!

11/19 The service clubs are our partners
Local service clubs will come in, tell us how they want us to to work with them, including how they can support our missions with time and resources

12/17 Holiday Happy Hour
time and place and level of happiness to be announced
In Person

Meeting topics on your mind?
email: [email protected]

Thanks for Attending Our Last Meeting!

Your 9/24 Westside Coalition meeting recap:
​Finding the Creases to keep CalFresh Benefits
Thanks to Ge Moua from DPSS for walking us through the eligibility changes for CalFresh and the landscape  of exemptions and actions to meet the new work requirements.

Ge Moua: [email protected]
Here is the link to his slideshow

1. DPSS customer service telephone number is: 866-613-3777.
2. DPSS main website is: Department of Public Social Services
3. Three (3) months on CalFresh benefit. In California, the state has a fixed statewide clock. The current fixed statewide clock is from January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2028. CalFresh participants must meet the work requirement to continue receiving CalFresh, if not they will only receive 3 months.

To learn more on CalFresh Work Requirements, please visit this link:
Department of Public Social Services

For the Medi-Cal related issues, please check the DPSS website and register to attend one of the webinar sessions.


​Join Us!

Become a member of​ the
​Westside Coalition!

​Or renew your membership, even individuals and families can become members!
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To learn more about the benefits of being a coalition
​member click here. ​​

We look forward to seeing you at meetings and having the opportunity to partner with you for the sake of our community.

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@W-Coalition

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