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Meadowlark Service League Helps Provide Meals

June 2010 - The Meadowlark Service League provided a very generous $9,000 grant to the Ventura County Rescue Mission to help provide over 700 meals daily to Ventura County residents. The grant will be applied the purchase of new food services equipment and food staples needed to prepare and serve hot, nutritious meals.

Bank of America Foundation Give Men in Recovery a “Hand-up”

May 2010 - The Bank of America Charitable Foundation awarded a generous $3,000 grant in support of the vocational training and learning center services provided for residential recovery program clients at the Ventura County Rescue Mission. Their contribution to the mission will give men in recovery a “hand-up” by providing transportation to vocational training sites, employment preparation training, and job placement assistance through case management.

Boeing Employees Help the Mission to make Repairs

April 2010 - The Employees Community Fund of Boeing California awarded a generous $3,000 grant to the Ventura County Rescue Mission to make needed plumbing repairs and improvements. Boeing employees across California contribute to the Community Fund, which supports many different social service programs. Boeing has been a faithful supporter of the mission for many years.

Lennar Charitable Housing Foundation Continues to Support the Homeless

April 2010 - The Lennar Charitable Housing Foundation continues to demonstrate its commitment to the community and fulfill its mission of changing lives everywhere through a generous $10,000 grant award to the Ventura County Rescue Mission. The grant will provide emergency shelter and meals for the homeless. The Lennar Charitable Housing Foundation has been a supporter of the mission since 2008.

Easter is Celebrated at the Mission

April 2010 - Entertaining the crowd of more than 200 Saturday were the Hueneme Christian School Choir and a car show sponsored by the Progressive Car Club. There were Easter baskets and candy gifts for the children as well as an inflatable party jumper and an Oxnard City Fire Department fire truck on which to climb. Read more...

Ventura County Recognizes the Need for More Year-Round Homeless Shelters

March 2010 - Three years ago, the county’s 10-year plan called for adding 150 emergency shelter beds, but an accounting last year showed the area had lost 14 beds. The goal is double the amount that exist at the Ventura County Rescue Mission for men and the Lighthouse Women and Children’s Mission, both in Oxnard.

Officials at those two shelters say more beds are needed at a time when the economic slowdown and closures of domestic violence shelters have boosted demand. They expect admissions to increase again in April when the seasonal shelters close. Read the VC Star article

Strangers Gather to Mourn Five Homeless Veterans

March 2010 - On any given night in America, about 107,000 military veterans sleep on the streets. If they die and no one claims their bodies, they risk burial in a pauper’s grave. That won’t be the fate of five Southern California homeless veterans... According to the National Alliance on Homelessness, California has the largest number of homeless people in the nation, and one out of four is a veteran. Read the VC Star article

Swift Memorial Supports Client Health Care

January 2010 - The Swift Memorial Healthcare Foundation awarded a $3,000 grant this month to the Ventura County Rescue Mission to provide over-the-counter medications, nutritional supplements, and to provide assistance with prescriptions for residents of the mission’s drug and alcohol recovery program. The foundation’s on-going, generous support each year also demonstrates the importance of developing personal habits that lead to improved long-term health.

Ailing Homeless have Few Options

January 2010 - Close to a dozen men come to the Ventura County Rescue Mission each month straight out of local hospitals. They’ve been treated for broken limbs, psychiatric disorders, heart, liver and kidney troubles. But there’s often no place to send them when they’re released, officials say. So, many wind up here at the mission in Oxnard, one of the county’s few year-round shelters. Read more...

Children Show the True Spirit of Giving

December 2009 - The kids with us looked at the piles of gifts all around us as we were wrapping, and said, “This is not enough.” They wanted to give more and they wanted to do more. Read blog

Wood Claeyssen’s Foundation Provides Meals and Hope

November 2009 - The Wood Claeyssen’s Foundation, a faithful supporter of the Ventura County Rescue Mission, awarded a very generous $35,000 grant to help the mission purchase food, and food service equipment needed to prepare and serve over 600 meals daily. A hot meal served with love and compassion is often when restoration begins for someone struggling with an addiction, or a family in need of temporary assistance or a place to live, or that person just finding it hard to make ends meet.

Record Numbers of Hungry Guests come to the Thanksgiving Banquet

November 2009 - It was a Thanksgiving feast of epic proportions Wednesday at the Ventura County Rescue Mission, where not only did the cooks prepare a dinner for about 1,000 people, but also for thousands more that were served at missions in Victorville, Santa Maria and San Fernando Valley. Read more... (PDF)

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