Thank you for all your help.

Mr. & Mrs. Medina

Now I have a place to call home.

Thank you HRC!

Pamala & Puppy

This has been a great partnership, and we are thrilled that the WCR has, once again, selected HRC to benefit from the proceeds of today’s event.

Last year, HRC housed a total of 82 families — 320 individuals — living homeless in Monterey County.  

Families like Mrs. Johnson’s – a mother trying to escape a domestic violence relationship with her 4 lovely girls.  These children are, in her words, “the reason I breathe.”  In gathering her courage to leave this abusive relationship, she – and her girls – became homeless, in order to be “safe.”

Depressed and discouraged, she lived in her car, and stayed in occasional motels. However, she never gave up on trying to establish a solid foundation for her girls.

“When I was referred to HRC, my blessing came true.  I had previously been denied an apartment due to the ongoing domestic disputes when the girls’ father would track me down.

However, I wrote a letter and the manager informed me I had been pre-approved for a 3-bedroom, 2-bath apartment.

HRC has made a big impact on my life and I will never forget this blessing, or take it for granted.  I hope and pray that HRC remains a source of hope that continues and changes people’s lives in the future.”

Mrs. Johnson is just one of so many families who come through our doors seeking hope.

So, thank you, again, everyone for your support of HRC. Your generosity today will help maintain critical housing services for those experiencing homelessness in our community.  Most of all, it will help transform lives.

On behalf of all our neighbors, friends and family living homeless in our community, we deeply appreciate your friendship and support.

The mother said she “felt like a failure,” because she wasn’t able to provide adequately for her children, and was especially concerned that the children weren’t getting sufficient nutrition: living in a motel room, they were unable to cook, and had to subsist primarily on fast food. It was also difficult to keep the children quiet—there was no place for them to run or play and whenever the children made noise, other guests complained, and the family was threatened with eviction.

Of the six children, four have special needs, which proved to be an additional barrier with a number of landlords. (Some landlords never even got far enough to get to know the family—they were unwilling to even consider renting to a family of this size at all.)

After much persistence, an HRC Housing Specialist was able to identify a landlord whose heart went out to the children and who agreed to rent his beautiful home to this family. “It’s all about the children,” he told our staff. HRC continues to assist the family, including providing beds, case management, and other assistance, as needed, and is in the process of purchasing a refrigerator for the family. Both parents are working again, and the mother also attends Hartnell College, where she is pursuing a degree in Early Childhood Development.