Here's Who's Connected
18th Street Arts Center: (310) 453-3711
18th Street Arts Center is a world-renowned hub for 43 artists and 20 arts organizations both local and international. In addition to its residency programs, 18th Street is known for the innovative themes and outstanding roster of visual artists represented in its gallery. The gallery is open from 11am-5:30pm, Monday-Friday and is located at 1639 18th Street, Santa Monica, off of Olympic Boulevard.
www.18thstreet.org
Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica: (310) 393-9629
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica is part of a youth development service for young people in need offering a positive alternative to the streets and unsupervised homes for youth ages 7-18. www.smbgc.org
Broad Theater: (310) 434-3412 www.thebroadstage.com
California Heritage Museum: (310) 392-8537
Not just an historic house, the California Heritage Museum presents fascinating exhibitions on diverse aspects of the State's cultural riches. Recent shows include "Saints and Sinners: Mexican Devotional Art", "Cowabunga: the Santa Monica Bay Surfing Experience 1907-1967" and "Everyday Life in California: Regional Watercolors 1930 - 1960". Friendly, well informed staff welcome visitors to permanent displays of Monterey furniture, California tile and pottery in domestic room settings that bring history home. (Built 1894, designated an Official City Landmark in 1979.) www.californiaheritagemuseum.org
Center for the Partially Sighted: (310) 458-3501
For over 30 years, the nonprofit Center for the Partially Sighted has helped children and adults with impaired sight live independently. Our comprehensive program staff includes low vision optometrists who enhance remaining sight, licensed therapists who help with emotional adjustments to vision loss, and independent living skills and mobility instructors who teach individuals how to manage daily living tasks. www.low-vision.org
Chrysalis: (310) 401-9400
At Chrysalis, we empower our clients to overcome the barriers to employment so they can move out of poverty and homelessness. We provide the tools to help them gain a job and to secure a stable, promising future. Chrysalis provides critical employment services to over 2,500 individuals annually. www.changelives.org
CLARE: (310) 314-6200
CLARE began in 1965 when a group of sober alcoholics began bringing food, blankets, and the message of recovery to homeless alcoholics gathering on the beaches of Santa Monica. CLARE is now a multi-site organization with several locations in Los Angeles County providing compassionate treatment and recovery services for alcoholism and substance abuse. As the only non-medical detox facility on the Westside available to all regardless of their ability to pay, we are serving primarily the homeless and indigent. Each year over 25,000 people turn to CLARE for help. Over 2,600 are admitted to one of CLARE's 11 comprehensive programs; all others are counseled and/or placed at partner agencies. www.clarefoundation.org
Common Ground-Westside HIV Community Center: (310) 314-5480
Over 20 years into the HIV epidemic, Common Ground remains the only comprehensive HIV service provider on Los Angeles' Westside. Over 3,360 people in our Westside Community are living with HIV - and one in four don't know that they're positive. The success of our mission, "to bring together the diverse members of the Westside community in the fight against HIV," is critical to address this growing epidemic, and vital to our community's health and future. www.commongroundwestside.org
Community Corporation of Santa Monica (CCSM): (310) 394-8487
CCSM builds and rehabilitates housing for low- and moderate-income individuals and households in Santa Monica. www.communitycorp.org
Connections for Children: (310) 452-3325
A childcare resource and referral agency committed to improving the education, development and well-being of all children by providing assistance and support to families, childcare professionals, and the community. www.cfc-ca.org
Dispute Resolution Services: (213) 896-6564
The Peer Mediation and Conflict Resolution program at John Adams and Lincoln Middle schools in Santa Monica is part of Los Angeles County Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Services. The program's goals are to empower young people to resolve conflicts and create safer, more peaceful school campuses. Students in the Peer Mediation and Conflict Resolution program learn and practice communication and mediation skills that offer an alternative to verbal and physical violence through use of "problem solving" methods. More than 80 students each year act as Peer Mediators at John Adams and Lincoln Middle schools where they assist fellow students resolve conflict peacefully. Student mediators are trained by the Los Angeles County Bar Association and other professionals. www.lacba.org
Donna Sternberg & Dancers: 310-260-1198
Founded in 1985, Donna Sternberg & Dancers is a non-profit organization whose mission is to challenge and connect through dance. The company is a nexus for art, science and philosophy, working with artists from different disciplines. Our goals are to introduce new ways of creating and presenting dance, new ways for artists to collaborate with each other and to engage and promote dialogue between people from all different paths of life. To fulfill our mission, the company presents compelling live performances and educational programs to audiences that are diverse in cultural outlook, economic class, ethnic background and gender. www.dsdancers.com
El Nido Family Centers: (818) 830-3646
El Nido Family Centers provide counseling, parent education and case management services to children, at-risk youth, and pregnant and parenting teens and families. www.elnidofamilycenters.org
EmpowerTech: (310) 338-1597
EmpowerTech assists people with physical, cognitive and developmental disabilities use assistive technology to help them achieve greater independence. www.empowertech.org
The Growing Place: (310) 399-7769
As a non-profit child development center, The Growing Place offers an emotionally secure, educationally challenging environment in which children from 3 months through preschool can grow to their fullest potential. Their full-day, year-round program at two Santa Monica locations seeks to create a learning community of parents, children and teachers. www.growingplace.com
Highways: (310) 315-1459 www.highwaysperformance.org
Jewish Vocational Service: (310) 309-6000
Jewish Vocational Service provides programs related to job seeking, career planning, skills assessment, training and retraining. www.jvsla.org
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA): (310) 899-6200
LAFLA provides free legal services to income-qualified Santa Monica residents in tenant/landlord, family law/domestic violence, government benefits and consumer law. It operates the Domestic Violence Restraining Order Clinic located in the Santa Monica Courthouse. www.lafla.org
Meals on Wheels West: (310) 394-5133
Meals on Wheels West is committed to enhancing wellness by delivering nutritious meals to homebound clients. www.mealsonwheelswest.org
Miles Playhouse: (310) 458-8634 www.milesplayhouse.org
Morgan-Wixson Theatre: (310) 828-7519
The Morgan-Wixson Theatre is one of Santa Monica's oldest arts institutions but - true to its dramatic mission - it perpetually reinvents itself. Mainstage productions connect the community, inspire, entertain, and educate through plays like Fences, Pippin, and The Secret Garden. The Youth Education/Entertainment Series, or Y.E.S. - named Outstanding New Children's Theatre Company for 2008 - seeks to engage young audiences, train young talent, and support literacy through stage adaptations of children's literature. Community volunteers on stage and backstage keep the theatre thriving. The MWT is an artistic home for all with energies and talents to "put on a show!" www.morgan-wixson.org
Music Angelica: (310) 458-4504 www.musicaangelica.org
New Directions: (310) 914-4045
New Directions provides long-term substance abuse treatment and vocational programs for homeless veterans. www.newdirectionsinc.org
OPCC: (310) 264-6646
The five distinct programs of OPCC (Access Center, Campion, Daybreak, Sojourn, Turning Point) create a network of support services and shelters which work to assist community members facing issues of domestic violence, poverty, homelessness, mental illness, abuse and discrimination. www.opcc.net
Pico Youth and Family Center: (310) 396-7101
The Pico Youth and Family Center is a neighborhood-based youth service program providing case management, drop-in center, computer skills training, counseling, music production workshops, tutorial assistance, job preparation and leadership development. www.picoyouth.org
Ruskin Theater Group: (310) 397-3244 www.ruskintheatergroup.com
Saint John's Child & Family Development Center: (310) 829-8921
The Center provides a comprehensive range of mental health, outreach, developmental and educational services in response to community needs. Available in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language, services are offered to children, adolescents, and their families by our multi-disciplinary team. www.stjohns.org
St. Joseph Center: (310) 396-6468
St. Joseph Center provides emergency and long-term services to homeless and low-income people to assure physical and mental health and build confidence and interpersonal skills that will form a basis for personal change. www.stjosephctr.org
Santa Monica Museum of Art: 586-6488
Through its exhibitions, education, and outreach programs, the Santa Monica Museum of Art fosters diversity, innovation, and discovery in contemporary art - local, national, and international. The Museum celebrates: expanding boundaries; exploring individual differences; enhancing public knowledge of art; and broadening the art experience. SMMoA is a collection of ideas. In 2008, the Museum celebrates twenty years of creative accomplishment. www.smmoa.org
Santa Monica College - Pico Partnership/On the Move: (310) 434-4926
Its mission is to encourage the City's at-risk youth to identify and pursue their academic and career goals at Santa Monica College. www.smc.edu/picopartnership
Santa Monica Playhouse: (310) 394-9779 www.santamonicaplayhouse.com
Santa Monica Symphony: (310) 399-1788 www.smsymphony.org
Step Up on Second: (310) 394-6889
Step Up on Second provides housing, case management and advocacy services to adults diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness, as well as those dually diagnosed with substance dependency. www.stepuponsecond.org
TeAda: (310) 998-8765 www.teada.org
Upward Bound House: (310) 458-7779
Upward Bound House offers transitional housing and case management services for homeless famlies at its Family Place facility. www.upwardboundhouse.org
Venice Family Clinic:
Information: (310) 664-7910, Appointments: (310) 392-8636
Venice Family Clinic is the largest free clinic in the country, serving more than 23,000 low-income and uninsured patients per year in LA County. It provides primary care; pediatric care; teen health; women's health; chronic disease management; wellness; integrative medicine; homeless health care; HIV/AIDS testing and treatment; specialty care; vision; dental; mental health; and other services to treat the whole person. www.venicefamilyclinic.org, vfcinfo@mednet.ucla.edu
Verdi Chorus: (310) 394-1902 www.verdichorus.org
Virginia Avenue Project: (310) 394-1902
For sixteen years, the Virginia Avenue Project has provided free, after-school programs that use the performing arts in conjunction with one-on-one mentoring to help underserved children realize their full potential. Through an on-going sequence of arts and academic programs, Project kids work in collaboration with adult mentors to develop life skills and give voice to their creativity. 100% of our Project kids graduate from high school, 95% go on to college and 98% are the first in their family to do so. www.virginiaavenueproject.org
Vista del Mar Child & Family Services/Family Service of Santa Monica: (310) 451-9747
Family Service of Santa Monica, a division of Vista del Mar Child & Family Services, is a private, non-profit organization fully accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Children and Families and staffed by licensed professionals and interns. They provide a range of mental health services including psychotherapy, counseling, psycho-educational groups and trauma recovery programs. Services are provided at local schools and at the agency. The agency offers a sliding fee scale and services in Spanish. www.vistadelmar.org
Westside Center for Independent Living (WCIL): (310) 390-3611
WCIL assists people with disabilities and seniors to achieve and maintain independence. Services are provided in a non-residential environment and include advocacy, peer counseling, independent living skills, case management, information and referral, and personal assistance services. www.wcil.org
Westside Food Bank: (310) 828-6016
Westside Food Bank distributes food to over 60 social service agency food pantries on the Westside of Los Angeles County. www.westsidefoodbankca.org
WISE & Healthy Aging: (310) 394-9871
WISE & Healthy Aging promotes the well-being, independence and self-esteem of the elderly through the provision of innovative support services. The Center is a private, community-based social service and healthy care agency that provides mental health, health education, and physical health services to older adults and their caregiver. In-home and Spanish speaking services are available. www.wiseandhealthyaging.org
18th Street Arts Center is a world-renowned hub for 43 artists and 20 arts organizations both local and international. In addition to its residency programs, 18th Street is known for the innovative themes and outstanding roster of visual artists represented in its gallery. The gallery is open from 11am-5:30pm, Monday-Friday and is located at 1639 18th Street, Santa Monica, off of Olympic Boulevard.
www.18thstreet.org
Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica: (310) 393-9629
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica is part of a youth development service for young people in need offering a positive alternative to the streets and unsupervised homes for youth ages 7-18. www.smbgc.org
Broad Theater: (310) 434-3412 www.thebroadstage.com
California Heritage Museum: (310) 392-8537
Not just an historic house, the California Heritage Museum presents fascinating exhibitions on diverse aspects of the State's cultural riches. Recent shows include "Saints and Sinners: Mexican Devotional Art", "Cowabunga: the Santa Monica Bay Surfing Experience 1907-1967" and "Everyday Life in California: Regional Watercolors 1930 - 1960". Friendly, well informed staff welcome visitors to permanent displays of Monterey furniture, California tile and pottery in domestic room settings that bring history home. (Built 1894, designated an Official City Landmark in 1979.) www.californiaheritagemuseum.org
Center for the Partially Sighted: (310) 458-3501
For over 30 years, the nonprofit Center for the Partially Sighted has helped children and adults with impaired sight live independently. Our comprehensive program staff includes low vision optometrists who enhance remaining sight, licensed therapists who help with emotional adjustments to vision loss, and independent living skills and mobility instructors who teach individuals how to manage daily living tasks. www.low-vision.org
Chrysalis: (310) 401-9400
At Chrysalis, we empower our clients to overcome the barriers to employment so they can move out of poverty and homelessness. We provide the tools to help them gain a job and to secure a stable, promising future. Chrysalis provides critical employment services to over 2,500 individuals annually. www.changelives.org
CLARE: (310) 314-6200
CLARE began in 1965 when a group of sober alcoholics began bringing food, blankets, and the message of recovery to homeless alcoholics gathering on the beaches of Santa Monica. CLARE is now a multi-site organization with several locations in Los Angeles County providing compassionate treatment and recovery services for alcoholism and substance abuse. As the only non-medical detox facility on the Westside available to all regardless of their ability to pay, we are serving primarily the homeless and indigent. Each year over 25,000 people turn to CLARE for help. Over 2,600 are admitted to one of CLARE's 11 comprehensive programs; all others are counseled and/or placed at partner agencies. www.clarefoundation.org
Common Ground-Westside HIV Community Center: (310) 314-5480
Over 20 years into the HIV epidemic, Common Ground remains the only comprehensive HIV service provider on Los Angeles' Westside. Over 3,360 people in our Westside Community are living with HIV - and one in four don't know that they're positive. The success of our mission, "to bring together the diverse members of the Westside community in the fight against HIV," is critical to address this growing epidemic, and vital to our community's health and future. www.commongroundwestside.org
Community Corporation of Santa Monica (CCSM): (310) 394-8487
CCSM builds and rehabilitates housing for low- and moderate-income individuals and households in Santa Monica. www.communitycorp.org
Connections for Children: (310) 452-3325
A childcare resource and referral agency committed to improving the education, development and well-being of all children by providing assistance and support to families, childcare professionals, and the community. www.cfc-ca.org
Dispute Resolution Services: (213) 896-6564
The Peer Mediation and Conflict Resolution program at John Adams and Lincoln Middle schools in Santa Monica is part of Los Angeles County Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Services. The program's goals are to empower young people to resolve conflicts and create safer, more peaceful school campuses. Students in the Peer Mediation and Conflict Resolution program learn and practice communication and mediation skills that offer an alternative to verbal and physical violence through use of "problem solving" methods. More than 80 students each year act as Peer Mediators at John Adams and Lincoln Middle schools where they assist fellow students resolve conflict peacefully. Student mediators are trained by the Los Angeles County Bar Association and other professionals. www.lacba.org
Donna Sternberg & Dancers: 310-260-1198
Founded in 1985, Donna Sternberg & Dancers is a non-profit organization whose mission is to challenge and connect through dance. The company is a nexus for art, science and philosophy, working with artists from different disciplines. Our goals are to introduce new ways of creating and presenting dance, new ways for artists to collaborate with each other and to engage and promote dialogue between people from all different paths of life. To fulfill our mission, the company presents compelling live performances and educational programs to audiences that are diverse in cultural outlook, economic class, ethnic background and gender. www.dsdancers.com
El Nido Family Centers: (818) 830-3646
El Nido Family Centers provide counseling, parent education and case management services to children, at-risk youth, and pregnant and parenting teens and families. www.elnidofamilycenters.org
EmpowerTech: (310) 338-1597
EmpowerTech assists people with physical, cognitive and developmental disabilities use assistive technology to help them achieve greater independence. www.empowertech.org
The Growing Place: (310) 399-7769
As a non-profit child development center, The Growing Place offers an emotionally secure, educationally challenging environment in which children from 3 months through preschool can grow to their fullest potential. Their full-day, year-round program at two Santa Monica locations seeks to create a learning community of parents, children and teachers. www.growingplace.com
Highways: (310) 315-1459 www.highwaysperformance.org
Jewish Vocational Service: (310) 309-6000
Jewish Vocational Service provides programs related to job seeking, career planning, skills assessment, training and retraining. www.jvsla.org
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA): (310) 899-6200
LAFLA provides free legal services to income-qualified Santa Monica residents in tenant/landlord, family law/domestic violence, government benefits and consumer law. It operates the Domestic Violence Restraining Order Clinic located in the Santa Monica Courthouse. www.lafla.org
Meals on Wheels West: (310) 394-5133
Meals on Wheels West is committed to enhancing wellness by delivering nutritious meals to homebound clients. www.mealsonwheelswest.org
Miles Playhouse: (310) 458-8634 www.milesplayhouse.org
Morgan-Wixson Theatre: (310) 828-7519
The Morgan-Wixson Theatre is one of Santa Monica's oldest arts institutions but - true to its dramatic mission - it perpetually reinvents itself. Mainstage productions connect the community, inspire, entertain, and educate through plays like Fences, Pippin, and The Secret Garden. The Youth Education/Entertainment Series, or Y.E.S. - named Outstanding New Children's Theatre Company for 2008 - seeks to engage young audiences, train young talent, and support literacy through stage adaptations of children's literature. Community volunteers on stage and backstage keep the theatre thriving. The MWT is an artistic home for all with energies and talents to "put on a show!" www.morgan-wixson.org
Music Angelica: (310) 458-4504 www.musicaangelica.org
New Directions: (310) 914-4045
New Directions provides long-term substance abuse treatment and vocational programs for homeless veterans. www.newdirectionsinc.org
OPCC: (310) 264-6646
The five distinct programs of OPCC (Access Center, Campion, Daybreak, Sojourn, Turning Point) create a network of support services and shelters which work to assist community members facing issues of domestic violence, poverty, homelessness, mental illness, abuse and discrimination. www.opcc.net
Pico Youth and Family Center: (310) 396-7101
The Pico Youth and Family Center is a neighborhood-based youth service program providing case management, drop-in center, computer skills training, counseling, music production workshops, tutorial assistance, job preparation and leadership development. www.picoyouth.org
Ruskin Theater Group: (310) 397-3244 www.ruskintheatergroup.com
Saint John's Child & Family Development Center: (310) 829-8921
The Center provides a comprehensive range of mental health, outreach, developmental and educational services in response to community needs. Available in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language, services are offered to children, adolescents, and their families by our multi-disciplinary team. www.stjohns.org
St. Joseph Center: (310) 396-6468
St. Joseph Center provides emergency and long-term services to homeless and low-income people to assure physical and mental health and build confidence and interpersonal skills that will form a basis for personal change. www.stjosephctr.org
Santa Monica Museum of Art: 586-6488
Through its exhibitions, education, and outreach programs, the Santa Monica Museum of Art fosters diversity, innovation, and discovery in contemporary art - local, national, and international. The Museum celebrates: expanding boundaries; exploring individual differences; enhancing public knowledge of art; and broadening the art experience. SMMoA is a collection of ideas. In 2008, the Museum celebrates twenty years of creative accomplishment. www.smmoa.org
Santa Monica College - Pico Partnership/On the Move: (310) 434-4926
Its mission is to encourage the City's at-risk youth to identify and pursue their academic and career goals at Santa Monica College. www.smc.edu/picopartnership
Santa Monica Playhouse: (310) 394-9779 www.santamonicaplayhouse.com
Santa Monica Symphony: (310) 399-1788 www.smsymphony.org
Step Up on Second: (310) 394-6889
Step Up on Second provides housing, case management and advocacy services to adults diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness, as well as those dually diagnosed with substance dependency. www.stepuponsecond.org
TeAda: (310) 998-8765 www.teada.org
Upward Bound House: (310) 458-7779
Upward Bound House offers transitional housing and case management services for homeless famlies at its Family Place facility. www.upwardboundhouse.org
Venice Family Clinic:
Information: (310) 664-7910, Appointments: (310) 392-8636
Venice Family Clinic is the largest free clinic in the country, serving more than 23,000 low-income and uninsured patients per year in LA County. It provides primary care; pediatric care; teen health; women's health; chronic disease management; wellness; integrative medicine; homeless health care; HIV/AIDS testing and treatment; specialty care; vision; dental; mental health; and other services to treat the whole person. www.venicefamilyclinic.org, vfcinfo@mednet.ucla.edu
Verdi Chorus: (310) 394-1902 www.verdichorus.org
Virginia Avenue Project: (310) 394-1902
For sixteen years, the Virginia Avenue Project has provided free, after-school programs that use the performing arts in conjunction with one-on-one mentoring to help underserved children realize their full potential. Through an on-going sequence of arts and academic programs, Project kids work in collaboration with adult mentors to develop life skills and give voice to their creativity. 100% of our Project kids graduate from high school, 95% go on to college and 98% are the first in their family to do so. www.virginiaavenueproject.org
Vista del Mar Child & Family Services/Family Service of Santa Monica: (310) 451-9747
Family Service of Santa Monica, a division of Vista del Mar Child & Family Services, is a private, non-profit organization fully accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Children and Families and staffed by licensed professionals and interns. They provide a range of mental health services including psychotherapy, counseling, psycho-educational groups and trauma recovery programs. Services are provided at local schools and at the agency. The agency offers a sliding fee scale and services in Spanish. www.vistadelmar.org
Westside Center for Independent Living (WCIL): (310) 390-3611
WCIL assists people with disabilities and seniors to achieve and maintain independence. Services are provided in a non-residential environment and include advocacy, peer counseling, independent living skills, case management, information and referral, and personal assistance services. www.wcil.org
Westside Food Bank: (310) 828-6016
Westside Food Bank distributes food to over 60 social service agency food pantries on the Westside of Los Angeles County. www.westsidefoodbankca.org
WISE & Healthy Aging: (310) 394-9871
WISE & Healthy Aging promotes the well-being, independence and self-esteem of the elderly through the provision of innovative support services. The Center is a private, community-based social service and healthy care agency that provides mental health, health education, and physical health services to older adults and their caregiver. In-home and Spanish speaking services are available. www.wiseandhealthyaging.org
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