| Action | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Helping out Vulnerable Neighbors in Need | IRV - Affordable Housing |
Learn about the City’s affordable housing program and find information about other resources available through our nonprofit partners. |
| Helping out Vulnerable Neighbors in Need | OC - 211 |
2-1-1 Orange County was founded in 1984 as People for Irvine Community Health. Since its inception, the agency has been connecting residents in need to critical social services in Orange County such as housing, job placement, food, and health insurance. |
| Helping out Vulnerable Neighbors in Need | IRV - Homelessness Resources |
Irvine has implemented compassionate outreach with the creation of the Irvine Police Department’s Mental Health Team, which includes a dedicated Homeless Liaison Officer. And we’ve partnered with nonprofit organizations including Human Options and Families Forward to provide help for those in need. |
| Helping out Vulnerable Neighbors in Need | IRV - Senior Services |
Irvine Senior Services provides resources, services, and activities for those ages 50 and older at three dedicated centers: Lakeview Senior Center, Rancho Senior Center, and Trabuco Center. |
| Helping out Vulnerable Neighbors in Need | IRV - ICCP |
The Irvine Child Care Project (ICCP) provides tuition assistance to income-eligible families, based on funds available, which provides help paying for your child to attend an ICCP child care program. An ICCP child care program is located on each Irvine Unified School District elementary campus. |
| Building Resiliency and Connection on Your Block * | IRV - Community Programs |
Programs and activities in the City of Irvine |
| Building Resiliency and Connection on Your Block * | IRV - CERT |
The Irvine CERT program provide private citizens with the basic skills they will need to protect themselves, their family, and neighbors, and to respond to the immediate needs of the community in the aftermath of a disaster when emergency services are not readily available. |
| Reducing Toxic Products in Your Household | LA - Sanitation Districts of LA County Hazardous Waste |
The Household Hazardous Waste and Electronic Waste Collection Program (HHW) gives Los Angeles County residents a legal and cost-free way to dispose of unwanted household chemicals that cannot be disposed of in the regular trash. |
| Reducing Toxic Products in Your Household | LA County Hazardous Waste |
The Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program gives Los Angeles County residents FREE and convenient ways to dispose of unwanted items that cannot be thrown in the regular trash. |
| Reducing Toxins from Toilets | LADPW Stormwater |
LA Department of Public Works stormwater resources. |
Our neighborhood. Our planet.
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“Cities are the platform for change in our world today. The Cool Block links the challenges facing our planet to the intimate, personal, social scale of the city block. This program starts and ends with the premise and promise—that the individual, household, and neighbors are the way forward in the face of seemingly insoluble global problems.”
