ST JOSEPH CENTER

Founded in 1976 by two Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, today St. Joseph Center (SJC) is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit community benefit organization whose mission is to provide working poor families, as well as homeless men, women and children of all ages, with the inner resources and tools to become productive, stable and self-supporting members of the community. SJC serves over 6,000 clients in Los Angeles County annually. SJC’s Food Pantry and Homeless Service Center on Los Angeles’s Westside offer basic services to address food insecurity and the daily impacts of life of the street, respectively, while serving as a gateway to additional services that have Case Management and Mental Health Services at their core. SJC operates the following array of programs to serve low-income and homeless members of the community:

Intervention Services
• Homeless Service Center provides long-term case management aimed at locating and maintaining permanent housing, offers referrals for critical services such as substance abuse treatment, and makes emergency services, such as shelter placement, showers, and laundry available to homeless clients.
• Bread & Roses Café serves hot, nutritious meals to homeless men, women and children in a welcoming atmosphere of dignity and respect.
• Senior Services provides case management to at-risk housed and homeless, older adults, with an emphasis on eviction-prevention services and housing placement as well as mental health treatment for older adults.
• Homeless Family Solution System provides rental assistance, resource referrals, and case management to homeless and at-risk families in an effort to support housing stability and prevent long-term reliance on housing vouchers.
• Chronic Homeless Initiatives reach out to the most vulnerable homeless individuals (including veterans) in Venice and Santa Monica and helps them transition into permanent supportive housing.
• Housing Services assists people in securing and maintaining permanent housing.
• Monetary Advisory Program provides at-risk, mentally ill adults with case management, money management, financial literacy classes, and help finding and maintaining housing.
• Veteran’s Representative Payee Program provides at-risk veterans with case management, money management, financial literacy classes, and help finding and maintaining housing.
• Vehicular Homeless Outreach Program provides outreach and housing placement services for vehicular-homeless individuals/families in Rancho Dominguez.
• Santa Monica Youth Resource Team works with a cohort of 16-24 year old Santa Monica opportunity youth to help them and their families address issues ranging from basic needs and housing to mental health and educational/vocational services.

Prevention and Education Services
• Food Pantry provides low-income households with supplemental groceries, nutrition education, and workshops designed to increase wellbeing and support progress toward self-sufficiency.
• Family Center serves working poor families and individuals with case management, emergency services and targeted mental health outreach and treatment.
• Culinary Training Program educates unemployed adults in food service and life skills and helps them obtain jobs.
• Early Learning Center provides enriched childcare and parent education that nurtures children’s healthy development while promoting stability and self-sufficiency for their families.
• Code Talk trains women from low-income backgrounds for entry-level jobs in the tech industry as web programmers.