With support from the California Arts Council, Urban Voices Project will strengthen its organizational operations as it continues to provide music engagement programs to Skid Row and Los Angeles County residents marginalized by homelessness, mental health struggles, and unemployment, using music as a bridge to community, health, and social services. During the grant period, we anticipate our programs (inclusive of singing workshops, Music Labs, events, and more) will directly engage more than 2,000 individuals—more than 90% of whom will have current or former experience with homelessness—and reach approximately 22,000 audience members.
To place music & singing community spaces in every medical and social service site across Los Angeles, to create community and a more comprehensive, holistic system for engaging individuals coping with the conditions of homelessness.