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- EIN 46-0829073
- (408) 847-2018
- 8339 Church St Ste 105 Gilroy CA 95020-4450 USA
- www:\life-advocates.com
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Health
Mission: To empower and enable women in santa clara county to make conscientious decisions when dealing with an unexpected or crisis pregnancy by providing ongoing, non-judgmental support and helpful resources. Further, we also provide material items such as clothing, baby bottles, diapers, car seats, baby carriages, high chairs, and related materials for children from newborn to age two. We further meet with expecting or potential pregnancy vulnerable high school and college-age students and try to successfully interact, advocate, and counsel them at a time of great emotional distress and conflict. Should any high school or college-age student be suicidal, we immediately offer them support, counseling, and a direct referral to public agencies as another part of our purpose.
Programs: In 2013, our first year, our organization hired a full-time executive director and began to solicit volunteers to help the executive director provide our services to the local community. We also began a community outreach program to publicize our mission, and initiated fund-raising to fund our work. We continued our community outreach programs in 2014, 2015 and 2016. With the expansion of a local pregnancy center about two miles away from the life advocates office, there was a duplication of efforts in serving young mothers and their children with unplanned pregnancies, so we have basically truncated this part of our community outreach services by the end of 2016. At the same time,an extreme need to provide these same families with clothing and child related material support became apparent. The officers, with board approval, began a free clothing outreach program to needy families with children ages newborn to age six. The program was named the keeper's closet. Since february 2015 to the present this program has grown steadily in providing free clothes, car seats, play pens, cribs, layettes, blankets , diapers, formula,shoes, baby swings etc to families living at or below the poverty level in our area. In mid 2016, we also began to provide free supplemental food bags to families. The food is chanelled to the keepers closet through the second harvest food bank for santa clara and san mateo county, california and the st joseph center . We receive enough food from st josephs and second harvest to assist about eighty families per month and will hopefully exceed 1,000 families on an annual basis for the year 2017.