Location: 2251 Florin Road, Suite #129
Sacramento, CA 95822
(916) 410-6888 / Fax: (916) 427-1843 / Email: thegardens@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.thegardensfamily.org
“The Gardens” mission are two- fold: To promote healthy lives through education, prevention, intervention, compassion and understanding and to address the social ills of our community with a diverse outlook, leaving no-one behind
“The Gardens” began in 1999 as a grassroots, faith base community effort to address the gang violence and the spread of HIV/AIDS epidemic facing vulnerable and marginalized African American and Latino youth in a South Sacramento neighborhood. In 2001, “The Gardens” incorporated as an independent 501c3. “The Gardens” has provided a variety of social services through formal programs including: Providing stable and transitional housing services for “Veterans” implementation of a Healthy Eating Program, which teaches healthy cooking and eating habits; the AIDS Awareness project, which provides the community with information about HIV/AIDS and infection prevention, the importance of healthy nutritional diet, and the Youth Service Program, which is an after-school program providing healthy snacks, tutoring, mentoring, counseling and anger management to at-risk youth. “The Gardens” has been providing these primary programs and services since 2014 and has served over 14,721 families/youth/veterans/children/ teens over the last four years.
Safety Net Service Programs: (A Hand Up, Not a Hand out Emergency Food Closet)
The activities, program and service is part of the Nourishing Neighbors Community Relief Program, we provide healthy snacks/lunches to kids/children/teens, we also provide services to low income, underserved ethnic minority individuals, our Client base includes HIV+ individuals, “Veterans” & their families, Senior Citizens, youth, homeless or displaced individuals, single parents, and teenage mothers. These funds support our non-perishable food distribution of non-perishable items, nutritional, perishable fruits, vegetables, meats, beans and grains, which also includes pet foods, toiletries items, and personal hygiene product for men and women. The “Brown Bag” Lunch Program provides sack lunches/snacks to kids/children/youth/teens, with a focus on those out of school due to the corona-virus as part of our outreach and direct services activities.
Case Management/Outreach Services:
Aggressive Outreach activities, supported by intensive case management services, which includes conducting assessments of families, data collection of individuals/families to provide them with supportive services and referrals to services, these early efforts were built on a foundation of coalition development, community mobilization, community empowerment activities and reaching out to underserved low-income youth and families within our community.
Leaving No “Veteran” Behind: Providing supportive services to our “Veterans” seeking stable, support “Veterans” in getting their 214 document, transitional, permanent housing, support in knowing, understanding and obtaining their benefits, referrals to medical, mental services, support groups, AA/NA.
T.R.U.E. Project: (Trust, Respect, Unity, Empowerment) – BASSA “Brothers and Sister’s Stopping AIDS!
This project focus on HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, peer pressure, tobacco use and gang violence prevention/intervention using an evidence based proven curricula, including pre/post survey instruments, used in SAMHSA funded project. This model of T.R.U.E. interjects a peer to peer option using scientifically proven curricula and adds new facets to the T.R.U.E. Project. It provides skills training to youth and develops them into youth health educators who will then deliver the proven educational intervention through peer to peer education.
Referral Services Available: “The Gardens” is in partnership with other community agencies, service providers that support the activities, services and programs we provide, which includes mental health services, housing, employment services and other social services programs.
You can help us promote health living by giving what you can.