Our mission Our Mission is to address the ongoing crisis of homelessness in Sonoma Valley through advocacy, the provisioning of supportive Servies, a temporary emergency shelter and an entrepreneurial spirit to help build and sustain permanent housing efforts for persons to take their next step towards a more inclusive and independent lifestyle.
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The Four Pillars
Homeless Action Sonoma is based upon Four Pillars for success:
1.) EDUCATE Without both the unhoused 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.
1.) EDUCATE Without both the unhoused 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.
- One of the common questions asked of our organization is how our efforts will end homelessness when countless other government and non-governmental organizations have spent millions of dollars; but have made little progress in curbing the growth of the unhoused. HAS believes that the issue of homelessness is a problem that is facing the whole community; and through partnerships in the community and that of the government could we hope to tackle this rising social issue. HAS believes that it truly “will take a village” to address this issue. Through that, we partner with many non-profits throughout Sonoma Valley, and government representatives at the city, county, and national level. Through these partnerships, we can build a comprehensive and integrated approach to tackling the issue of homelessness, with a variety of solutions tailored to the needs of our clients.
successful programs that are building community & solutions:
Home & Safe VillageHAS Home and Safe Village provide transition housing for 20 clients. Each tiny house can accommodate an individual or couple in a safe and comfortable environment. We're going to have a certain number of single occupancy rooms. And the value of that is that's really when people first come off the streets, they need that place to decompress and just get their head back on straight and come up with a plan. As we build our capacity, we plan to have dedicated women and children's apartments available.
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Wrap Around Services HAS provides services for its clients to navigate the countless forms and processes involved with social security, disability, therapy, veteran’s benefits, job training, resume help, section 8 housing, medical, EBT, clothing vouchers, bus passes and so much more. Our temporary housing and wrap around services are totally transitional programs. We have no interest in the permanent “warehousing” of people. We believe in providing our clients with a chance to change their life trajectory by starting with a safe and comfortable place to sleep. When the client is ready, we will pair them with social workers, mental health services, career specialists, and other professionals to provide them with access to the social services they are entitled to and start them on the way back to being housed.
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Sunday night dinnersFor the last few 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 ProgramWith 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, veteran’s benefits, section 8 housing, job training, mediCal EBT, clothing vouchers, bus passes, and so much more.
Sonoma Professionals programThis 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.
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