HRC Connect with Rep. Adam Schiff & Supervisor Sheila Kuehl

HRC Connect with Rep. Adam Schiff & Supervisor Sheila Kuehl Wednesday, May 30 The Abbey Food & Bar - West Hollywood 692 N. Robertson Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90069 @theabbeyweho | #MeetMeAtTheAbbey RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/2QITaxBhn87nCi583 Learn the latest from Representative Adam Schiff and Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl about what is going on both locally and abroad in the fight for equality. Get an update on what the Human Rights Campaign is doing across the country to support equality for all. Meet & mingle with other HRC members and allies, and invite your friends! This is a FREE event but you MUST register to attend. RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/2QITaxBhn87nCi583 Sign up to Volunteer here: https://goo.gl/forms/DlUhR6UjsiGquEdG2 About Congressman Adam Schiff: Congressman Adam Schiff represents California's 28th Congressional District, and throughout his tenure in Congress, he has focused on growing the economy, bolstering national security, strengthening our communities, helping small businesses, and improving education, safety and health care for our children. In his 9th term in the House of Representatives, Schiff currently serves as the Ranking Member, or top Democrat, of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and is on leave from the House Appropriations Committee. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence oversees all of the nation’s intelligence agencies. Before he was elected to Congress, Schiff served as State Senator for California's 21st State Senate District, chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Select Committee on Juvenile Justice and the Joint Committee on the Arts, and he served with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles for six years, most notably prosecuting the first FBI agent ever to be indicted for espionage. About Supervisor Sheila Kuehl: Supervisor Sheila James Kuehl, representing Los Angeles County’s Third District, was elected on November 4, 2014, assumed office on December 1, 2014, and is currently the Chair of the Board of Supervisors. In her first three years on the Board, she has undertaken or collaborated in a number of initiatives and motions to improve the quality of life and reform systems in the County, including increasing the minimum wage, creating a Sheriff’s Oversight Commission, providing unprecedented funding and services for our homeless population and those trying to find and keep affordable housing, increasing services and support for relative caregivers for our foster children, supporting the creation of the Office of Child Protection, creating oversight of the Probation Department, innovating on issues of water conservation and recycling, creating a County-led Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) JPA to bring green power choices to County residents, protecting our arts venues and productions, spurring the construction and re-opening of the John Anson Ford Theatres, reforming both our adult and juvenile justice systems to emphasize and enhance “second chance” and anti-recidivism programs, including the opening of Campus Kilpatrick, a state-of-the-art juvenile justice facility that emphasizes rehabilitation and preparation for a constructive future, protection of the Santa Monica Mountains, as well as the Coast, kicking off a Women and Girls Initiative to build toward a County-wide collaboration on needed changes and programs in all County departments and services, bringing together three County health departments into a new Agency model to break down barriers to service for those who need physical health, mental health and substance abuse treatment, bringing a focus in County Departments on better serving and supporting our LGBTQ youth who comprise almost 20% of our foster kids, and much more.