A path to stability with the Community Resouce Center
Community Resource Center (CRC) works to help those in need create paths to healthy food, stable homes and safe relationships. Programs include a domestic violence emergency shelter, hotline and prevention/education outreach; a Therapeutic Children’s Center; professional counseling; legal advocacy; food and nutrition distribution center; homelessness prevention and rental and housing assistance.
Last year, CRC, which had focused its work near its Encinitas headquarters, expanded services to Oceanside. Recent services include:
- Aiding families in repaying back rent, keeping them in their homes and preventing homelessness.
- Providing emergency motel vouchers for clients on low, fixed incomes, as they await admittance to permanent, Section 8 housing programs.
- Working with property owners to dispel negative stereotypes of those using Section 8 housing subsidies. CRC staff explain that their clients have supportive services to help them succeed and that Section 8 vouchers are guaranteed payments from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
If you or someone you know has rental property and you’d like to help CRC clients move into permanent housing, please contact Integrative Services at intake@crcncc.org or call (760) 753-8300.
CRC’s homelessness prevention programs provide assistance to help you remain in your home. If you or someone you know needs assistance, please contact Integrative Services at intake@crcncc.org or call (760) 753-8300.
Catch the CRC in the news!
Have you heard of Clubhouse, the newest social media platform in the cloud? This audio-only experience has received a lot of attention due to the vast conversations being held on it, which range from controversial to inspiring. We’re left inspired by the Community Resource Center and how they’re using Clubhouse to educate different communities on ending gender-based violence. Click here to read how they’re making a difference!
The Leichtag Foundation provides annual grants for general operating support
Stacie and Jeff Cook understand commitment. They live it.
Black, Jewish and Queer. These three identities weave the fabric of who I am, but it took a long time to believe that they could exist together.
Lee and Toni Leichtag established the Leichtag Foundation in 1991 following the sale of their business. Lee and Toni were lifelong entrepreneurs with a passion for innovation and for supporting talent. They believed that only with big risk comes big reward. Both born to families in poverty, Toni to a single mother, they strongly believed in helping those most in need and most vulnerable in our community. While they supported many causes, their strongest support was for young children and the elderly, two demographics who particularly lack voice in our society.
Lifelong Baltimoreans, Rabbi George and Alison Wielechowski and their sons, 11-year-old Lennon and 9-year-old Gideon, are more than pursuing the good life in Southern California. Having moved to San Diego more than three years ago, they are fulfilling a lifelong dream.
You would think that as the executive director of San Diego LGBT Pride, Fernando Zweifach López Jr., who uses the pronoun they, has done all the coming out they possibly can. A queer, non-binary individual who has worked for many years on civil rights issues, López also speaks openly and often about their father’s family, Mexican-American migrant workers who tilled the fields of rural California.