Janice Journal: $500,000 for Precious Lamb Preschool

This new campus is more than just classrooms and playgrounds—it is proof for children and families experiencing homelessness that their futures matter.

I am proud to support this mission, and as part of yesterday’s event, I presented them with $500,000 to cover the costs of one of these beautiful infant care centers. 

Congratulations to the staff, families, and everyone who helped make this dream possible. 

This week the Board of Supervisors approved my motion to declare September as Suicide Prevention Month, and Sept. 8 as 988 Day, here in LA County. 

I also wrote a letter to Transportation Secretary Toks Omishakin, asking for his help to improve cell service on the Vincent Thomas Bridge. I have been worried about this issue because we know the bridge is a place many people go when they are in crisis and considering suicide. We have installed signs there about the 988 lifeline, but how helpful are they if people can't call it? 

The bridge is already under construction— there is no better time to solve this problem and help save lives. 

From our ports to our coffee shops to our hospitals and beyond, labor is the backbone of this country—and the fight for fair wages and working conditions continues. 

Some friends of mine brought my attention to a PBS documentary that aired last week about how Los Angeles led the country in our fight against air pollution—and the role that my father played in that fight while he served on the Board of Supervisors. 

After scientific research made it clear that cars were the number one contributor to smog in the Los Angeles area, my dad worked tirelessly to hold auto manufacturers accountable—writing hundreds of letters to their executives and even persuading the Department of Justice to investigate them for anti-trust violations. 

As journalist Chip Jacobs said in the documentary, “Kenneth Hahn turned out to be a very influential political figure in the LA smog fight—in fact, maybe the most influential.”