Homeless Action Sonoma, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit organization started in 2020
with a goal to end homelessness in the Community of the City of Sonoma.
We believe that the homeless are members of our whole community. We are working to unite the whole community behind a working concept, so that our community can take responsibility for transitioning the unhoused into housing.
This concept is based on four pillars to success:
1. EDUCATE
Without both the homeless community and the housed community educated to an understanding of the needs and fears of each, there can be no "one" community.
2. INTEGRATE
Create avenues where these two communities can get to know one another to alleviate the fears that exist in both, with an end goal being, create a desire to help and be helped.
3. INNOVATE
So much money has been put into homelessness and it hasn't reduced the numbers or made either community happy. It's time to innovate and approach the situation from different directions.
4. CREATE
When there is an understanding in the communities that there is a viable path out of homelessness, a successful facility can be built supported by these four pillars.
Three active and successful HAS activities that are building community and solutions :
~ Sunday night dinners - For the last two years we have been holding Sunday night dinners for all community members. It is an opportunity to get a hot meal on Sunday for the hungry and an avenue for the homeless and the housed to sit at a table together and get to know each other as fellow members of the same community.
~ Befriending - With this program a housed person befriends a homeless person and with trust together they navigate the existing programs to get available help; ie. social security, social security disability, therapy, veterans benefits, section 8 housing, job training, mediCal EBT, clothing vouchers, bus passes, and so much more.
~ Sonoma Professionals Share - This program matches a professional with a homeless person with the agreement that they would offer pro bono services for one year - such as, dentists, oral surgeons, life coaches, doctors, hairdressers, therapists and so many more.
with a goal to end homelessness in the Community of the City of Sonoma.
We believe that the homeless are members of our whole community. We are working to unite the whole community behind a working concept, so that our community can take responsibility for transitioning the unhoused into housing.
This concept is based on four pillars to success:
1. EDUCATE
Without both the homeless community and the housed community educated to an understanding of the needs and fears of each, there can be no "one" community.
2. INTEGRATE
Create avenues where these two communities can get to know one another to alleviate the fears that exist in both, with an end goal being, create a desire to help and be helped.
3. INNOVATE
So much money has been put into homelessness and it hasn't reduced the numbers or made either community happy. It's time to innovate and approach the situation from different directions.
4. CREATE
When there is an understanding in the communities that there is a viable path out of homelessness, a successful facility can be built supported by these four pillars.
Three active and successful HAS activities that are building community and solutions :
~ Sunday night dinners - For the last two years we have been holding Sunday night dinners for all community members. It is an opportunity to get a hot meal on Sunday for the hungry and an avenue for the homeless and the housed to sit at a table together and get to know each other as fellow members of the same community.
~ Befriending - With this program a housed person befriends a homeless person and with trust together they navigate the existing programs to get available help; ie. social security, social security disability, therapy, veterans benefits, section 8 housing, job training, mediCal EBT, clothing vouchers, bus passes, and so much more.
~ Sonoma Professionals Share - This program matches a professional with a homeless person with the agreement that they would offer pro bono services for one year - such as, dentists, oral surgeons, life coaches, doctors, hairdressers, therapists and so many more.
