A letter from a client, February 2009: “I hope this note finds you all doing well – healthy, peaceful and happy. Though we got to know each other over a short period of time – you will always be in my thoughts and prayers. Your presence in our lives was a blessing and we felt very loved and cared for while we were there. Thank you! My children and I are doing well. We finally moved into a place of our own. It is a humble start, but it is a fresh start and it is ours! We were able to salvage some of our belongings but most were lost; a really good lesson in life about materialism vs. necessities and has helped me focus my attitude towards gratitude and the many blessings in my life, such as friends, such as yourselves, health, job and most important, peace of mind for me and my children. Our lives have been peaceful and joyful and we find the small things in life to be a blessing and we are grateful. I will never forget you and will be eternally grateful fore our time together.”
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- EIN 95-3855705
- (310) 548-5450
- 453 W. 7th Street San Pedro CA 90731 USA
- www.rainbowservicesdv.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Domestic Violence, Family Violence Shelters, Homeless & Housing
Mission: Originally started by the Harbor Area YWCA, our mission is to end the cycle of family violence. Incorporated in 1983, we have been serving the community for 25 years. Our programs help women and children to survive and build healthy, safe, violence-free lives. We serve Los Angeles County with a Harbor Area/South Bay focus. Most of our clients have low/no incomes. We provide all services in Spanish and English. We work to improve the quality of life for victims, and to prevent children from repeating the violence they have witnessed. We begin by offering education and support services to protect women and children at a difficult and dangerous time in their lives. Rainbow Services provides a 24-hour hotline, an emergency shelter, transitional housing, individual and family counseling, support groups, parenting classes and legal advocacy. In 2009, we reached out to help 3,204 women and children build future free of violence.
Target demographics: Nine out of ten families we serve live below the Federal Poverty Line. Three of every four families we serve (72.7%) live on between 51% and 75% of the Federal Poverty Line (up to $13,732.50 a year for a family of three). One in five families we serve (20%) live on 50% or less of the Federal Poverty Line ($9,155 a year for a family of three).
Direct beneficiaries per year: over 3,000
Geographic areas served: Los Angeles County
Programs: Rainbow services provides comprehensive services to battered women and their children. According to the national domestic violence hotline, the most requested service for victims is shelter. Rainbow has both an emergency shelter, called the rainbow house, that provides safe housing for up to 45 days, and a transitional shelter, called villa paloma, that provides longer term housing for up to one year for families escaping abuse and violence. For client safety, the locations of the shelters are not disclosed to the public. Our community based service provides a full range of supportive services including counseling, education, childrens counseling, legal advocacy and case management services for victims. Rainbow is the first domestic violence agency in california to employ a family nurse practitioner to help clients with their physical well-being. Rainbow services the spanish language emergency hotline for the los angeles county district attorney's office. In an attempt to address the diversity of the los angeles county, rainbow provides all services in spanish as well as english. Rainbow provides legal services to its clients through a system of volunteer legal professionals, corrdinated by its director of legal services. Services include consultation as well as representation, and they are provided to clients free of charge.