Volunteers of America Celebrating 100 Years in Sacramento
A century in California's capital!
A simple soup kitchen and a makeshift chapel. That's how Volunteers of America introduced itself to Sacramento's citizens in need back in 1911, just 15 years after social reformers Maud and B
allington Booth founded the national office.
In the century that's passed, we continue to follow the Booths' mission to “reach and uplift” all people, and we are committed to our goals of ending homelessness, supporting the most vulnerable, and transform communities into safer, healthier places to live and work.
Honoring the Booths’ pledge to “go wherever we are needed, and do whatever comes to hand” – Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento has expanded its services, and its service area, and now includes Northern Nevada through the efforts of more than 300 professional staff and some 400 volunteers.
Volunteers
of America is now one of the area’s largest providers of human
services, providing those in need with emergency shelter, transitional
and affordable housing, substance-abuse treatment, mental-health
services, job training, as well as independent-living and
parenting-skills classes.