Since its launch in 2022, Hollywood 2.0 (H20) has been offering an expanding range of community-based care for our neighbors with serious mental illness who often experience homelessness as well.
Do you or someone you know need our support?
Hollywood 4WRD is proud to share the good work and collaboration of the innovative H20 program and its community partners.
OUR SERVICES
TOGETHER, WITH OUR PARTNERS, WE PROVIDE:
STREET OUTREACH
Social workers, nurses, and psychiatrists visit unhoused people across Hollywood every day to build relationships, establish trust, uncover needs, and offer support.
MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
Hollywood Mental Health Cooperative provides therapy, medication, case management, and supportive services both in the clinic and in the streets.
URGENT CARE
Drop-in, outpatient mental health services and short-term crisis stabilization within the Hollywood Respite and Recovery Center, opening soon.
COMMUNITY BUILDING
The Hollywood Clubhouse is a member-run, restorative space designed for people living with severe mental illness to cultivate their sense of self, purpose, and community.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELING
Dedicated counselors regularly meet with individuals to develop and monitor treatment plans based on their mental/medical history and needs.
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
Board and Care housing at Anew Dawn provides 24/7 staffing and assistance with daily activities, like medication management, personal hygiene, meals, and psychosocial rehab.
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING
Mark Twain and Walk of Fame hotels provide safe, private rooms with access to on-site, 24/7 clinical care, designed to assist clients with their transition to permanent housing.
PEER SUPPORT
Non-clinical, community-based crisis support offered 24/7 within the Hollywood Respite and Recovery Center, opening soon.
EMPLOYMENT
Assistance and training for people living with severe mental health illness as they enter, or re-enter, the workforce in Hollywood.
SKILL BUILDING
Training in basic life skills, like cooking and laundry, to build independence, and opportunities to explore personal passions, like gardening, painting, and meditation.
SOCIAL EVENTS
Group and community outings for people with severe mental illness to engage in new activities, experience art, enjoy nature, and socialize in a safe, fun way.
COMMUNITY INPUT
Opportunities for the greater Hollywood community to come together, share ideas, and collaborate on initiatives to support our neighbors in need.
H20 Housing
Thanks to strong community partnership, the H20 program introduced new housing assets -- interim housing at The Mark Twain and Walk of Fame Hotel, a Board and Care facility at Anew Dawn and supported housing for women and children at Butterfly's Haven -- providing much-needed beds and more comprehensive/innovative care for clients.
H20 Staffing
H20’s Hollywood Mental Health Cooperative (HMHC) offers expanded staff and an innovative treatment team approach combining outpatient and intensive field services that center around an individual’s needs. HMHC’s treatments lead to improved client outcomes as interventions are tailored to clients’ needs, and include the continuity of a support team who knows the individual’s history and strengths.
H2O Press
Therapy in a tent: The healthcare many homeless Californians need but aren’t getting
CalMatters, 7/28/26
Article discussing street-based approaches to mental health support, trust-building, access to care, funding limitations, and provider shortages.
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A Los Angeles Woman Was Lost. An Ambitious Mental Health Program Gave Her a Sense of Purpose
KQED, 04/24/26
Profile on the unfolding efforts of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Fountain House Hollywood, Heart Forward, and Hollywood 4WRD through the story of community peer Mignon Poon.
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The human right to work in Italy
Heart Forward podcast, 7/29/25
Interview with Stefania Grimaldi from La Collina about the social cooperative system in Italy and the values associated with supporting people as they pursue purpose.
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Homeless encampment cleanups do little to change numbers of people on the street, study finds
LA Times, 6/26/24
Against a backdrop of discouraging data County wide, the article finds that “several trends are moving in the right direction in Hollywood”, and points to H20 program as one of the reasons why.
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From Strength to Strength: A Glimpse Into What Defines Resilience
Heart Forward podcast, 5/23/24
Interview with Georgette Darby, a profile of resilience who’s overcome many obstacles to become deeply involved in her community, serving on the Board of the Hollywood United Neighborhood Council and as an ambassador member of the new clubhouse in Hollywood which is being created as a part of the Hollywood 2.0 mental health pilot.
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‘Community Is Therapy’: Why LA Is Getting A Clubhouse For People Living With Serious Mental Illness
LAist, 3/24/24
Profile of the Hollywood Clubhouse from Fountain House, which will be part of “the larger Hollywood 2.0 project, a county Department of Mental Health pilot program that… integrates supportive housing with a mental health urgent care center, clinical space and other services.”
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It Takes a Community: The Importance of Community to Hollywood 4WRD and Hollywood 2.0
H4WRD Blog, 8/17/23
A look back at a busy and rewarding first year of Hollywood 2.0, and a reflection on how integral community is to the innovative solutions the program offers our most vulnerable among.
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LA County Supervisors Ramp Up Support For Project To Help People Living With Mental Illness In Hollywood
LAist, 11/15/22
The LA County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to move forward with a new pilot project called Hollywood 2.0 that aims to help people living with a serious mental illness get care within their own community.
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L.A’.s first street psychiatrist makes his sidewalk rounds, transforming homeless lives
LA Times, 9/7/22
Profile of Dr. Shayan Rab and the innovative brand of street psychiatry he practices, along with H20 Program Manager Karla Bennett, as part of LA County Department of Mental Health’s HOME Team (Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement). This will be a vital component of H20 that will be enhanced and expanded as the program evolves.
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Hollywood 2.0 Origins
Purpose
Create opportunities for people to find purpose in their lives through education, mentorship and employment. The Purpose workgroup spent Year One of H20 envisioning first -- how to create pathways to meaningful, purposeful lives, and second -- how to lead people onto those paths AND keep them there. Many of the ideas hatched by the Purpose workgroup focused on incentivizing not simply potential employees entering the workforce, but also the employers who'd be hiring them. As with People-Systems, the Purpose participants saw their primary purpose as activating the entire community to be part of the solution.
People-Systems
Identify the current gaps that exist for treating individuals experiencing mental illness or homelessness. Participants in the People-Systems workgroup are guided by the principle that our mental healthcare system should be redesigned around the PEOPLE it is serving, rather than around the system itself. That means 24/7 access to care, lower barriers to entry into treatment, and a more ompassionate community that understands everyone has a role in taking care of our most vulnerable. Because of the wider scope of their mission, People-Systems participants wound up contributing to the development of many of the Purpose and Place workgroup ideas.
Place
Help people move off the street and into the best housing opportunities available, from interim shelters to permanent homes. The Place participants may have had the clearest mandate of all the workgroups -- to move folks off the streets and into some form of housing -- but also found themselves confronting the same thorny challenges that have made homelessness in Hollywood the crisis it is today: not enough available beds, overwhelming bureaucracy to navigate, mental health issues that require more time, effort, and training to treat, etc. Fortunately, the Place participants were not deterred, and instead came up with some of the more innovative ideas that will address, when implemented, both mental health AND homelessness.
Resources
Concept Notes & Recommendations
Following the Crosswalk polling process, the workgroups divided up into six subgroups to create Concept Notes for each idea being recommended to DMH for further consideration. The six Concept Notes below represent the product of nearly a year of workgroup meetings and focused community engagement – and the culmination of a 6 year vision of bringing “radical hospitality” to Hollywood:
GET HELP
MAKE A REFERRAL
Do you or someone you know with severe mental illness need our help? For individuals who require a field-based service from our outreach team (i.e. someone with mental illness experiencing homelessness, someone unable to visit the clinic or meet their basic needs, or someone who is housed but needs psychosocial services for continued stability), there are three ways to make a referral:
Hollywood Mental Health Cooperative–Field Team Referral Form
(323) 460-7188
In-person
At the Hollywood Mental Health Clinic 1224 North Vine St.
VISIT THE CLINIC
For in-person mental health care, call the Hollywood Mental Health Clinic to make an appointment. Some walk-in appointments will be available each day.
Hollywood Mental Health Clinic
1224 North Vine St.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
M–F: 8 AM–5 PM
(323) 769-6100
GET SUPPORT
For additional mental health resources, call the LA County Department of Mental Health 24/7 Help Line.
(800) 854-7771
