- Hands on Opportunities -
Ocean Park Community Center
(310) 264-6646
www.opcc.net
Since 1983 Ocean Park Community Center has operated a network of
shelters and services that serve homeless adult men and women, homeless
and low-income families, battered women and their children, at-risk
youth, and chronically mentally ill homeless women.
The projects of OPCC include Turning Point Transitional Housing,
Access Center, Campion Counseling, Daybreak Day Center and Shelter,
Night Light, and Sojourn Services for Battered Women and Their Children.
Turning Point Transitional Housing Shelter is located at 1447 16th
Street in Santa Monica. The 55 residents are in the process of job
hunting, job training, and working. After almost nine months at Turning
Point, they usually move into their own apartments.
The members of Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church support several projects of OPCC.
On the third Saturday of every month members serve dinner at
Turning Point from 5:00 to 6:15 p.m. The canned food collection held on
the first Sunday of each month is donated to the Access Center, which
distributes food and clothing and provides counseling to needy
individuals and families.
Some of our women's circles make hygiene bags for Sojourn and
Daybreak. We also donate toys at Christmas for client families.
Members are asked to drop off small containers of toiletries in the
office to be used for toiletry kits for OPCC clients. Volunteers are
needed to make sandwiches at the Access Center, provide resume
assistance at Turning Point, as well as other activities.
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Westside Food Bank
(310) 828-6016
www.westsidefoodbankca.org
The Westside Food Bank was founded in 1981 as a project of the
Westside Ecumenical Council. Its mission is to distribute as much food
as possible to local food assistance charities and to reduce food waste
on the Westside. The incidence of food insecurity on the Westside has
risen dramatically. The food pantries it serves have had a 5% increase
in client visits over the year before. Last year it fed more than
82,000 people, nearly half of them children through deliveries to more
than 60 social service agencies. Palisades Presbyterian members
contribute to the food bank at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and at the
Palisades Hunger Walk.
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Habitat for Humanity
(229) 924-6935
www.habitat.org
Millions of Americans face a housing crisis. In fact, 5.1 million
American families have "worst-case" housing needs, forced to pay more
than half their income for housing, endure overcrowded conditions and/or
live in houses with severe physical deficiencies. Worldwide, the need
is even greater. Some 2 billion people worldwide live in poverty
housing. More than 1 billion live in urban slums, and that figure is
expected to double by 2030. Many of these people earn less than US$2 per
day.
Habitat for Humanity is changing lives. Working in partnership with
low-income families to build decent homes they can afford to buy,
Habitat helps to break the cycle of poverty and hopelessness. By the end
of 2005, more than 1 million people worldwide will live in decent,
affordable Habitat for Humanity houses.
A Brush
with Kindness
http://www.habitatla.org/abwk.asp
A Brush with Kindness seeks to help low-income
homeowners restore their homes so they can continue to live in a safe, decent
and affordable home while bringing volunteers together to live out their values
by helping a homeowner in need. A Brush with Kindness has a scope of work that
includes exterior painting, landscaping and completes minor repairs on homes of
low-income homeowners. With the help of volunteers. A Brush with Kindness
preserves housing stock in the Greater Los Angeles area.
Chrysalis
(310) 401-9400
www.changelives.org
Chrysalis is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping
economically disadvantaged and homeless individuals become
self-sufficient through employment opportunities. Chrysalis' philosophy
is that a steady job is the single most important step in a person's
transition to long-term self-sufficiency. Chrysalis has one site in
Santa Monica, two on Skid Row and one in Pacoima. They provide job
readiness services such as interview skills,resume writing, and job
retention skills and more. There programs include: Chrysalis Staffing, a
full service staffing agency that contracts with local businesses;
Streetworks , a street-maintenance service; a Retention group, and a
Women’s group. It currently helps more than 2,000 individuals a year
change their lives through jobs. 93% of the clients who complete their
job-readiness curriculum get jobs. In 2005 they helped 1775 clients get
jobs. Chrysalis, through its Streetworks program, cleans the sidewalks
in Pacific Palisades. Our church members have helped counsel clients in
job retention workshops, provided beauty makeovers, and donated
clothing. The clients at Chrysalis need nice work clothes (suits, ties, dresses, etc.).
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Crop Walk
The Palisades Hunger Walk takes place annually on a Sunday in March or
April at 1:00 PM starting at the Palisades Recreation Center. 25 % of
the money raised from this activity benefits the Westside Food Bank and
75 % goes to the World Council of Churches to fight hunger nationally
and internationally.
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Helping Hands
Men’s Mission
This is a new program, which allows adult men to travel together in
fellowship and contribute to projects around the world. Our first trip,
in November of 2006, took six men to an orphanage in the Dominican
Republic, where they taught English and helped to build a wind-powered
generator. Plans are underway for a return trip.
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Women’s Mission
Adult women travel together in fellowship. In February of 2007, eleven women
flew to New Orleans and spent several long days performing Katrina volunteer
clean-up work in one of the most heavily damaged neighborhoods. trip.
Contact us / request more information.
Youth Mission
Our junior and senior high students travel each spring to the Campo Indian Reservation, where
they work building houses for families in need. Each summer, 30-40 high
schoolers spend a week or more serving a distant community. Recent
trips have included New Orleans, Scotland, Hawaii and Budapest.
Contact us / request more information.
- Financial Support -
Heifer International
www.heifer.org
Church members support giving gifts of animals to small groups around
the world. The recipient community receives training on caring for the
animals, how to market the products, etc. Offspring of the animals are
passed on. Hunger is relieved and hope and opportunity are cultivated.
Please contact Janet Devine through the church office when you donate an animal.
Habitat for Humanity
(229) 924-6935
www.habitat.org
Millions of Americans face a housing crisis. In fact, 5.1 million
American families have "worst-case" housing needs, forced to pay more
than half their income for housing, endure overcrowded conditions and/or
live in houses with severe physical deficiencies. Worldwide, the need
is even greater. Some 2 billion people worldwide live in poverty
housing. More than 1 billion live in urban slums, and that figure is
expected to double by 2030. Many of these people earn less than US$2 per
day.
Habitat for Humanity is changing lives. Working in partnership with
low-income families to build decent homes they can afford to buy,
Habitat helps to break the cycle of poverty and hopelessness. By the end
of 2005, more than 1 million people worldwide will live in decent,
affordable Habitat for Humanity houses.
Tumaini Children’s Home:
Nyeri, Kenya
www.theparkerplace.org
The Outreach Foundation
“Tumaini” means hope in Swahili. This facility houses 150 children,
primarily orphans of parents who have died of AIDS. In addition, the
local parish operates the nearby Huruma Children’s Home, which presently
serves 50 physically and mentally challenged children.
The medical clinic, for the entire local community, was completed and
dedicated in February of 2007.
Our church, along with 6 other Presbyterian Churches have joined
forces to support the program. In 2006, we provided approximately
$20,000 to support these projects. Several members of our church have
also traveled to Kenya to volunteer.
Jobs for a Future/ Homeboy Industries
(323) 526-1254
www.homeboy-industries.org
“Nothing stops a bullet like a job!”
Homeboy Industries mission is to assist at-risk and former gang
involved youth to become contributing members of our community through a
variety of services in response to their multiple needs. Free programs
-- including counseling, education, tattoo removal, job training and job
placement -- enable young people to redirect their lives and provide
them with hope for their futures.
The Mary Magdalene Project
(818) 988-4970
www.mmp.org
The Mary Magdalene Project gives women who have been victimized by
street prostitution the opportunity to turn their lives around. Through
an intensive and comprehensive program, the women face, cope with and
then overcome the many obstacles that life has dealt them. New
relationships are formed, skills and strengths are discovered. The Mary
Magdalene Project is a successful program that begins the transformation
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