Empowering families through education and health
Connect to College
The Connect to College Mentoring Program is designed to inspire disadvantaged, low income children to stay in school, go to college and break the cycle of poverty.
Locally Grown, Pesticide-Free Produce!
Through our Community Alliance for Urban Sustainable Agriculture (C.A.U.S.A) program, parents with farming expertise and whose children are in our program, are employed raising local, pesticide-free produce for the community.
Medicine and Mental Health
Medicine for the Economically Disadvantaged (MED) supports idealistic young doctors, dentists, optometrists, and pharmacists who serve in community clinics in low income communities.
- Over 1000 students and families served annually
- 100% of program graduates go to college
- 97% of our college students have been tracked.
- 90% of our college students have completed college, or are on track to do so.
- We produce 22.5 tons of food at 9 farm plots and 230 gleaning locations
- We feed 1,600 low-income children and parents each month
- We are providing educational loan repayment assistance to 170 doctors and other primary care professionals so that they can afford to take jobs serving the poor in community clinics.
- The geographic range of our doctors:
- 34 Cities
- 4 Counties throughout Southern California
- Patients they serve each year: 323,661
- Some of them owe more than $800,000 in educational debt from college and medical school
