Prom night is made possible for homeless students with help from nonprofit and LAUSD

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Prom night is a big event in any young person's life, and being homeless should not keep them from attending.

So a nonprofit organization and the Los Angeles are making prom night possible for dozens of homeless students by providing everything from dresses to makeup.

"An event like today truly helps inspire them, motivate them, build some confidence, and just a really wonderful day, to help them feel part of a right of passage, part of what most other students get a chance to experience," said Greg Kovacs, CEO of the Assistance League of Los Angeles. "It's really just a magical day for them."

Paris Jones, a senior at the Santee Education Complex, said in picking out her dress she was "going with a color scheme of a Disney princess, so either green and black like Tiana or pink and blonde like Rapunzel or Aurora. This will make it very easy for me."

Said Kovacs: "It's like coming to a prom. So it's starting that experience, starting that feel of something special and different, opportunity, and then choice as well."

Nasya Granados, a senior at Francisco Bravo Senior High Medical Magnet, said that when she arrived and she "saw everything, I was like, this is a lot more than I expected."

Kovacs said the participants "walk away feeling not just special, not just cared for, but beyond the person that they came into the event today."