Our mission extends beyond the Charity and into the communities that we serve.

“The Gardens” mission is two-fold: To promote healthy lives through education, prevention, intervention, compassion and understanding: To address the social ills of our community with a divers outlook, leaving no-one behind.

Our programs and services are steps to out greater vision: “To promote healthy lives.”“The Gardens” conduct aggressive outreach activities, followed up with intensive case management services, offer counseling services, health and well-being workshops, referrals to transitional housing, support groups, workshops, referrals to mental health services, stable housing for individuals seeking assistance with substance abuse, provide referrals for supportive services and other vital resources.

The focus of “The Gardens” is creating an accessible positive environment for youth/teens, men, woman, families, “Veterans” and their families in our communities to receive supportive service and assistance in guiding back to living a sustainable and healthy lives, providing information and resources which protect their health and well-being in what may be otherwise overlooked.

With funding from Until There’s A Cure “The Gardens” initiated community efforts with the implementation of Brothers and Sisters Stopping AIDS (BASSA) through a series of HIV/AIDS education and prevention workshops, conducted in local black churches, barber and hair salon shops., “The Gardens” did not just stop there, with a grant from Bristol Myers Squibb, “The Gardens” went out into the community and implemented the first HIV/AIDS testing site in the South Sacramento area, this funding allowed “The Gardens” to be of a collaborative effort, called “Hookin” U UP” which was a two million dollar funding from SAMHSA, that allowed us to provide HIV/AIDS educational workshops, outreach activities, testing, counseling, supportive housing services, medical and mental health treatment testing, in collaboration with MAAP, Sacramento Black Alcohol Center, UC Davis, CARES, Harm Reduction, and Sacramento County.