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Welcome Home

For the MPTF campus, the safety of its residents and staff has long been held as a sacred duty. Safety got a little more complicated on March 9th, 2020, when new Covid-19 protocols were added to the line of duty: health questions, a temperature check, and for those...

Thank You to Our Screeners and Guards for Keeping Us Safe, pictured Don Roberts

Called It

MPTF’s Social Isolation Impact Project and its Director, Maureen Feldman, were honored by the Los Angeles Alliance for Community Health and Aging’s Innovation Committee with its first leadership award.

MPTF’s Social Isolation Impact Project and its Director, Maureen Feldman, were honored by the Los Angeles Alliance for Community Health and Aging’s Innovation Committee with its first leadership award

Measurable Caring

Promoted to Director of Recreational Services in 2021, Wilson Wong started working for MPTF nearly 14 years ago. “I wanted to do something fun that also made a difference,” he says when describing what drew him to the profession and MPTF. Wilson illustrates the...

Wilson Wong promotion Director of Recreational Services

Rising Stars

Jennifer Jorge was first introduced to MPTF as an intern with the Geriatric Social Work Education Consortium (GSWEC) 16 years ago.

Jennifer Jorge was an intern with the Geriatric Social Work Education Consortium (GSWEC) 16 years ago. And now she’s Director of Community Social Services for MPTF

Bringing Oscar Home

On Sunday, April 25, 2021, the Academy honored MPTF, the 40th recipient and first organization, with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

MPTF's Oscar for Humanitarian Work

One in a Million

John (not his real name) was a Gulf War veteran from the ‘90s and until recently an active member of IATSE.

Veteran Benefits at MPTF

Courtenay Colors Outside the Lines

Some may say that Courtenay Valenti’s life began under dramatic circumstances as she found herself with an unlikely fan in President Lyndon B. Johnson (seen above, showing her a basket of puppies) Courtenay’s father, famed MPAA head Jack Valenti, was a trusted...

Courtenay Valenti with Lyndon B Johnson

Ice Cream Man

Donald Desmond is a resident in the Goldwyn Lodge on the iconic Motion Picture Home campus and a gift to everyone around him.

Donald Desmond & Larry Frybarger Ice Cream on Campus

A Heart Connection

Stacey Rigney’s dad, Richard “Duke” Anderson, lived in a cottage and then in Mary Pickford House at MPTF for 8 years

Stacey Rigney Volunteers as tribute to father Richard “Duke” Anderson