Nonprofit Seeks To Ease Housing Crisis By Transitioning Families In Need Into Permanent Homes

The nonprofit Caterina’s Club is celebrating a major milestone when it places its 250th family into their own permanent home through its Welcome Home Program. Most are working families who can afford the monthly rent but lack the initial first, last and security deposit required. Caterina's Club 451 West Lincoln Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92805, United States Website https://www.caterinasclub.org Phone +1-562-225-9981 Email prc.pressagency@gmail.com

Caterina s Club family home Welcome home Program month Program live

Caterina s Club family home Welcome home Program month Program live

Caterina's Club Reaches Milestone By Placing 250
Families In Their Own Homes
The nonprofit Caterina's Club, which is best known for serving some 5,000 pasta dinners each
night throughout Southern California to underprivileged families, is celebrating a major milestone
when it places its 250th family into their own permanent home through its Welcome Home Program.
Many of these families had been living in in crime-ridden, derelict motels
and though many are able to pay the monthly rent to live in a safer, cleaner
apartment, they lack the security deposit and first and last month's rent that
is often required to move in.
Welcome Home offers them that assistance and
a fresh start to a new life.
According to Sir Bruno Serato, founder of
Caterina's Club, since pandemic-related financial
support programs end this month, many more
families will require assistance so that they avoid
living on the streets, in shelters or in cheap
motels.
"We are already seeing a growing demand for
our Feeding the Kids and Welcome Home
programs due, in great part, to the ending of
emergency pandemic funds, which had been
helping those in need ride out the Covid crisis,"
says Serato.
"While we are excited to place our milestone 250th family in their new home, we
expect demand for permanent housing to grow and we are asking the public -
individuals, corporations, other nonprofits, etc.
- for any kind of support so that better fulfill our
mission." The program Serato is alluding to is the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that
offered emergency allotments - temporary benefit
increases - to provide economic stimulus during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Those allotments ended after the
February 2023 issuances.
Starting this month, SNAP benefits will reduce the benefits by between $95
and $250/month, leaving its beneficiaries in a more precarious position for
meeting their daily need including food and housing.
Caterina's Club partners with the Illumination
Foundation to identify families in need, provide
necessary case managing, financial advising,
and eventually the deposit and first and last
months' rent required to move in.
Caterina's Club collects donated
furniture, appliances, and other
home goods to jump-start these
families' new lives.
Find Out More At
https://www.caterinasclub
.org