step up on second 2014
DESCRIPTION
Step Up on Second is a charity to help house Mentally Ill Homeless in Santa Monica, CATRANSCRIPT
& Daniel’s Place
IT’S
MENTAL ILLNESS AWARENESS WEEK
2014!
Step Up & Daniel’s Place: Providing
Permanent Supportive Housing
Member-driven
Supportive Services
Supported Employment
Opportunities
Because of you, we are providing…
Permanent supportive housing for 166 individuals in Step Up & Daniel’s Place, plus linkage to supportive housing in the community-at-large for hundreds of individuals, many of whom are veterans.
Assistance to over 1,200 Step Up & Daniel’s Place members.
Over 40,000 quality meals yearly.
Because of you, we are providing…
Neighborhood outreach & engagement
2000+ support, educational, and social groups are offered each year.
Supportive employment training & placement
Access to outstanding Psychiatrists for medication support
Educational opportunities
Services for Transitional Age Youth (TAY)
Ongoing Life-Skills Coaching
Service Coordination
Money Management
PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
Stable supportive housing is essential to recovery from mental health issues.
Step Up & Daniel’s Place provide residents with not only a HOME, but also the supportive services needed to reach their self determined goals.
THERE IS HOPE!
Mental health issues are a diagnosis, not a destiny!
We educate and raise awareness.
We bust stigma regarding mental health issues.
We work to abolish prejudice and discrimination.
How to be a partner in this important work DONATE! to Step Up in support
of National Mental Illness Awareness Week!
Visit www.stepuponsecond.org and set up a regular, recurring gift on any major credit card to maintain services for the young people of Daniel’s Place and the adults of Step Up!
THANK YOU
Mission Statement Step Up & Daniel’s Place deliver compassionate
support to people experiencing serious mental illness to help them recover, stabilize, and integrate into the community.
Through dynamic partnerships, Step Up & Daniel’s Place provide positive social and learning environments, vocational training, permanent supportive housing opportunities and recovery services to empower individuals to cultivate lives of hope and dignity.
Step Up exercises innovative leadership and advocacy to increase public understanding, support , and acceptance of all people living with mental illness.