Programs

  • Program 1 [2020]

    Despite the challenges related to a global pandemic Solutions for Change (Solutions) continued its national leadership presence and unwavering commitment to address and solve the root causes of family homelessness. Responding to a record outpouring of unmet needs within the Southern California region Solutions remained focused on delivering its two-decade proven programmatic interventions. Through its innovative servant leadership-based academy, its workforce training farming initiatives and its accountability driven transformational housing programs Solutions provided a veil of protection to over 600 once homeless parents and their children, housed in six cities within seven residential communities spread throughout a 30 mile radius. Perhaps its top achievement was implemented by its alumni group. Seeing unprecedented negative impacts the graduates of Solutions mobilized resources and initiated a series of actions that included our current residents to help serve others in dire need; 1) delivered over 8 tons of organic food grown at its farm completely free to other nonprofits and low income persons in need, 2) rallied its graduate base and built large City approved outside patio decks for three struggling restaurants suffering from the pandemic at zero cost, saving them from closing, 3) Partnered dozens of program graduates with current parents who were ordered into lockdown thus guiding and coaching them through a frightening and uncertain timeframe, which then greatly minimized the relapse, child welfare and isolation issues that plagued others in similar situations.
    Geographies
    Not indicated
    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
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    $3.8M

  • We Are One Us Initiative

    With increased emphasis on its workforce development, child welfare interventions and adult empowerment programs, Solutions for Change continued its decades long promise to operate its residential family recovery programs drugfree and accountability based. Due to an aggressive multibillion dollar expansion of the dependency-making Housing First approach, a systemwide set of policies that enable the once homeless to use illicit drugs, remain unemployed and refuse services while living in public funded housing, Solutions is now one of the last remaining homeless housing and service orgs that deliver results that end dependency. The decision to stand firm on its core values to solve the root causes of family homelessness resulted in the nonprofit making the decision to voluntarily return over $83 million in hard fought family housing resources. The decision was made after years of legal wrangling when it became evident that no federal, state, or local resources would help protect homeless parents and their children from the explosion of an enabled drug culture riddled with overdose, deaths and criminal impacts, all of which pointed back to Housing First. Although those losses greatly impacted the people and programs of Solutions for Change, the organization recommitted to a multiyear repurposing effort, free of government funding, that began in earnest in 2022. Called We Are One Us, the effort involves over 100 Solutions for Change graduates, called Overcomers, who have rallied around the nonprofit to advance its mission and vision of solving the root causes of family homelessness. With the Overcomers leading the way the question they are asking is: What if the answer to the homeless problem is staring us all in the face? What if the solution is the homeless themselves, engaged in a purposeful way and equipped and inspired into jobs that end dependency for others like them, through initiatives like what Solutions for Change builds and implements?
    Geographies
    Not indicated
    Dates
    Jan 1, 2024 – Dec 31, 2024
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
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    $3.1M