Our Charities
this season are:
1736 Family Crisis Center
www.1736fcc.org
Since 1972, 1736 Family Crisis Center has worked to protect and empower our
community's most distressed individuals and families... teens on the run from
problems at home... battered women and their children... and others who need
help overcoming depression, anxiety, family troubles, and other traumas.
Help is only a phone call away through our 24-hour crisis hotlines. Our
shelters can offer immediate refuge, and other critical aid is available at
our community service centers. Extensive training, community education, and
advocacy efforts broaden access to life-changing healing and hope. We provide
services in English, Spanish, and other languages
All Life Charities
www.stlm.org/ministries/outreach.html
St. Elizabeth Center in Wilmington is the primary outreach
location. Lety Dominguez is the director of the center and also oversees the
distribution of food and clothing to the area's impoverished families and
homeless people. Additional services provided include family counseling,
medical assistance, and crisis housing. It also enables "community"
development for the area's displaced, distraught, and lonely people.
Comprehensive Child Development & New Harbor Vista
www.ccdlb.org
Providing quality childcare services to low income families who children are 6
months - 5 years old. State funded preschool for children ages 3-5.
We run 7 sites through the Long Beach, San Pedro and Wilmington areas.
National Charity League Peninsula Chapter
www.NationalCharityLeague.org
National Charity League, Inc. has a National
Council Board of Directors, which represents the organization's five Regions
and over 139 local Chapters throughout the United States. NCL continues to
carry out its Mission -- to provide service to its communities while
fostering the mother-daughter relationship. Through our volunteer work
today, we hope to make the world a better place tomorrow.
The Peninsula Chapter of NCL riases funds through a thrift store in San Pedro
called Ticktocker Thrift Store. All monies made at this store get
donated directly to local charities throughout the South Bay.
Prototypes Domestic Violence Programs
www.prototypes.org
Founded in 1986, PROTOTYPES
is one of the nation's leading multi-service, non-profit agencies that helps
women and their families who are dealing with complex problems such as
substance abuse, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, homelessness, domestic violence and
other trauma, and lack of life skills. PROTOTYPES offers a wide range of
programs throughout Southern California that reach more than 15,000 women and
their families each year.
Women Shelter of Long Beach
www.womenshelterlb.org
Domestic Violence
Response and Prevention Programs
Serving the Long Beach Community Since 1977
The mission of WomenShelter
is to help end the cycle of
domestic violence through intervention, prevention and education.
WomenShelter staff are here to help you
with alternatives: you can find counseling, support groups, or a safe
place to stay while you think things through. We're here to help you talk
through the options and decide which one is best for you. Remember, a
phone call is the first step to change.
Building Blocks Shelter
Toberman Settlement House
www.toberman.org
In 1903 the Homer Toberman Mission was founded in Echo Park as a memorial
to the son of James Toberman, a six-term Los Angeles mayor, and his wife,
Emma. It operated as one of the oldest United Methodist Mission Projects.
It provided an infirmary, a residence for single women, and a series of
youth development and delinquency prevention services. To this day
Toberman provides so many services to children, teens, families and
seniors. Some of these services include but are not limited to:
Family Development Network, State licensed child care, Toberman Learning
Center, Gang Prevention, Gang Intervention, Toberman Senior Club, Emergency
Assistance....
Harbor Regional - Toy Lending Library
www.harborrc.org
At the HRC Resource Center you will now find a range of developmental toys
that are available for check-out. From story readers to sentence
building
blocks, parents can borrow toys which promote cognitive, language,and motor
development. Tot Trade has invited us to pick up toys, games, puzzles etc...
for our Toy Lending Library and for families living without.
Local Hurricane Katrina Survivors
