Sharing Abundance Recipients
2006
Sharing abundance is an important part of Unity Palo Alto Community Church’s sharing prosperity and community outreach.
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| Jan. | Adolescent Counseling Center |
| Feb. | Community Solutions |
| March | Community Services Agency |
| April | Mid-Peninsula Alano Club |
| May | Support Network for Battered Women |
| May | (also) Mother Branch: The East Palo Alto Community Service Center |
| June | Family Connections |
| July | HIP Housing |
| Aug. | C*A*R, Community Association for Rehabilitation
(name changed in 2008 to Abilities United) |
| Sept. | Interfaith Network for Community Help |
| Oct. | Elsa Segovia Center |
| Nov. | Mother Branch: The East Palo Alto Community Service Center |
| Dec. | Partners in Caring |
Adolescent Counseling Center
 The
Adolescent Counseling Center was incorporated in 1975.
ACS emphasizes both intervention and prevention; it works with teens and their families.
Caravan House is a group home for teens who have been physically and emotionally abused.
ACS has two additional programs for at-risk teens in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.
The On-Campus Counseling Program provides counseling at no cost to secondary school students and their families.
The Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Program provides outpatient treatment for teens struggling with drug and/or alcohol abuse.
ACS also provides Community Education.
Contact: Adolescent Counseling Center, Paula Harris,
4000 Middlefield Road (Cubberly), Palo Alto 650-329-9410 www.acs-teens.org
Abilities United
(Formerly: Community Association for Rehabilitation)
Community Association for Rehabilitation, or C*A*R, helps reduce and prevent developmental disabilities
while supporting families and caregivers.
It teaches community living skills and provides job placement and support to its clients.
Each year, over 2,500 people and their families from San Mateo through San Benito counties
use C*A*R services.
The Community Association for Rehabilitation has legally changed its name to Abilities United.
Their web site is www.AbilitiesUnited.org
and their phone number is 650-494-0550.
Community Services Agency
 For
over 40 years, Community Services Agency (CSA) has been providing vital social services
to at-risk residents of Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills.
Understanding that hardship knows no age limits, their goal is to offer wraparound services
for families and individuals of all ages.
CSA clients may be young families in need of temporary shelter or an elderly person looking for companionship.
Our sharing supports the Senior Program, providing emergency transportation, food and supplies
to seniors recently discharged from the hospital.
In addition to senior case management, CSA provides our unemployed, working poor, and unhoused citizens
with services and supplies to improve their level of nutrition, health education, and well-being.
Community Services Agency's creative programs range from providing at-risk kids with backpacks
filled with school necessities to flu shots at their Health Fair.
For more information, contact:
Community Services Agency, 204 Stierlin Road, Mountain View, CA 94043. 650-968-0836.
www.csacares.org.
Community Solutions
Community Solutions has been serving South Santa Clara County residents since 1972.
Their mission is to promote and support the full potential of individuals, the strengths of families,
and the well being of the community by creating opportunities for positive change and lasting solutions.
Programs provide quality, culturally relevant, accessible, and professional direct treatment, prevention, and outreach;
they offer both walk-in and residential services.
Our sharing supports their Youth Centers, which provide after-school homework assistance, tutoring, computer training,
and other activities for low income youth.
Other programs help seriously mentally ill and older adults, domestic violence situations, battered and at-risk children,
and teen parents; they also provide a 24-hour crisis line.
Contact: Community Solutions, P.O. Box 546, Morgan Hill, CA 95038. 408-779-2113
www.communitysolutions.org
Elsa Segovia Center
The Elsa Segovia Center is a one-stop day service center for homeless and low income women, children, and families.
ESC provides basic services such as food, clothing, showers, and laundry facilities.
It also offers case management, medical and dental care, counseling and therapy, a children's program,
and a parent-participation preschool.
All services are offered on site and in collaboration with a number of agencies.
ESC served over 500 people last year, about half of them children.
Contact: Elsa Segovia Center, 795 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025. 650-326-9898.
www.innvision.org/clara-mateo/esc.html
Family Connections
Family Connections is a tuition-free, parent participation preschool for low-income families.
In this innovative bilingual school (English/Spanish), parents participate in preschool classes with their children,
ages newborn to five.
While their children develop the skills necessary to succeed in Kindergarten and beyond,
parents learn skills in positive parenting and leadership.
The three schools currently serve 103 families, over 300 individuals, in the Ravenswood City School District,
at two locations in Menlo Park and one in East Palo Alto.
Contact: Missy Bechtel, P.O. Box 358, San Carlos. 650-369-6467.
email: info@familyconnections.org,
For more info, see familyconnections.org.
Interfaith Network for Community Help
The Interfaith Network for Community Help (INCH) is an all-volunteer organization.
INCH provides vehicles in good condition to those in need and has donated 131 cars n the past 3 years.
More donations of cars are welcomed!!
Other programs include a "Congregation for Kids" offering clothing and other needed items
to agencies serving low income families, a prison ministry through the juvenile system,
and an after-school program for Pacific Islanders that is raising high school grades from D to B+ this year.
Contact: Stewart Wobber, INCH, 260 State Street, Los Altos CA 94022. 650-941-1366.
Mid-Peninsula Alano Club
 The
Mid-Peninsula Alano Club offers a place to go for recovering people, their families and supporters to meet
and socialize in a clean and sober environment with people who understand the process of recovery.
The club is supported by member donations and by rent from the autonomous groups, such as AA, which meet there.
About 50 groups hold meetings, representing a range of issues and demographics.
Our contribution will be used to help install a kitchen for the facility.
For more information, www.midpeninsulaalano.org
Mid-Peninsula Alano Club, 1155 Reed Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086.
408-247-0950 or email Robin Ellner, President@midpeninsulaalano.org
Mother Branch
Mother Oneida Branch, East Palo Alto Community Service Center, received a special contribution in May.
As many of you know, for more than 50 years Mother Branch has been providing food, shelter, clothing and
assistance to those in need in her community.
She tirelessly serves the homeless and needy in East Palo Alto, and this year also worked to help Katrina victims.
If you'd like to contribute, send checks, money orders, or grocery gift certificates (no cash) payable to
“East Palo Alto Community Center,” or you can deliver food, clothing, and money gifts directly.
Also, if you have information regarding a local storage facility
available for free or a nominal fee, please contact Mother Branch directly.
Mother Branch is at 2584 Farrington Way, East Palo Alto; cross street Kavanaugh, off University.
Call 650-325-2848.
Partners in Caring
Partners in Caring (PIC) was established in 1996 and is a joint partnership between Stanford Hospital and Avenidas.
The mission is to deliver innovative services to improve the lives of older adults and to advocate on their behalf.
PIC provides practical services such as helping homebound individuals to remain independent in their own homes.
Support may include friendly visiting, caregiver relief, transportation, shopping assistance, light cooking
and/or housekeeping.
PIC recruits and trains volunteers to provide non-medical assistance and matches volunteers with individuals.
For more information:
www.stanfordhospital.com/forPatients/patientServices/partnersInCaring.
Contact info: Director Candace Mindigo, Coordinator Linda Lounsbury.
PIC is located at 300 Pasteur Drive, Room HG003, Stanford, CA 94305.
Phone 650-725-4137 or 650-498-3333.
Support Network for Battered Women
 The
Support Network for Battered Women is the only domestic violence agency in northern Santa Clara County.
Our contribution goes for a much-needed secure door to the laundry room in the shelter.
Last year staff and volunteers answered 4,358 crisis calls, sheltered 245 women and children,
assisted 834 clients with 7,819 counseling sessions, 2402 advocacy and referral services and 3,146 other essential items.
SNBW is implementing a multicultural strategic plan, which includes making services to children a priority,
providing culturally competent services to the Latino community and providing support services to the whole family.
For more info, www.snbw.org.
24-hour Crisis Line (English and Spanish): 1-800-572-2782
Contact: Paula Kean, SNBW, 1257 Tasman Drive, Suite C Sunnyvale, CA 94089. Office: 408-541-6100 or
email pkeane@snbw.org.
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