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Youth and Children
Brave Hearts
Brave Hearts is a club for girls (Kindergarten through 12th grade) that gives then the opportunity to develop relationships with other girls and supportive, Christian women in a fun atmosphere. They participate in Bible study, memorization of scripture, worship, and crafts at their club meetings. www.newportmesa.org/children_bravehearts.php
Calicinto Ranch
- Calicinto Ranch is a children's camp that works with Prison Fellowship Ministries to become known as an official campsite for Angel Tree Camping, hosting children with an incarcerated parent. www.calicintoranch.com
City Lights Dream Center
City Lights Youth Center is an opportunity for youth and their families to discover their vision and unique purposes such that they experience God's plan for them with passion, fun, and excitement. They reach youth in the community through: Bible studies, Fellowship, Sports, Education, and Missions. They currently need people to build a worship team, tear down and set up, and to be mentors. www.citylightsdreamcenter.com
House of Hope
The House of Hope is a battered women's shelter in Santa Ana under the direction of the Orange County Rescue Mission. Vanguard students prepare meals, entertain children, and serve te women and children in any ways needed. Both females and mailes are welcome to come serve. For more info contact houseofhope@vanguard.edu
Kid Works
- Kid Works seeks to restore at-risk neighborhoods through serving, learning, and connecting with the community of Central Santa Ana. Ther are many opportunities to volunteer such as becoming a tutor, a mentor, and voluteering for Youth Works. www.kidworksonline.org
Lighthouse Community Center
- The Lighthouse Learning Center exists to help the community of Minnie Street to reach their dreams and hopes for the future. Volunteer opportunities include tutoring, helping with youth groups, and other children's ministries. www.marinerslighthouse.org
MIKA CDC
- MIKA CDC is a Christ-centered organization that seeks to build communities and serve lower income neighborhoods in Costa Mesa. www.mikacdc.com
Miracles in Motion
- Miracles in Motion is a ministry to motel families at the Costa Mesa Motor Inn. There are several opportunities to volunteer to help with the weekly and monthly activities with the families living in the motel including tutoring, bible studies, and monthly birthday parties for all the kids. www.marinerslighthouse.org/mim/
Oasis
- Oasis works in some of the poorest communities of inner cities such as Los Angeles and around the world. They work especially with children and youth and specialize in Technology training. www.oasisusa.org
OC Youth Commission
- OC Youth Commission provides inner city children and youth with tutoring/homework assistance, sports programs, and biblically based character education. www.ocyouthcommission.com
Save Our Youth (SOY)
Save Our Youth (SOY) is a violence prevention center serving at-risk youth in Costa Mesa. SOY’s objectives are to decrease gang participation, lower the drop-out rate among Latino youth, discourage teenage pregnancy, encourage the pursuit of higher education, raise self-esteem, develop life skills, and especially, to prevent violence. www.save-our-youth.org
THINK Together
- THINK Together's mission is to provide all young people with support they need from family, school and community to enable them to reach their full potential and become productive adults and responsible contributing member of the community. Shalimar Teen Center is a center ran under THINK Together.www.thinktogether.org
Wilson St. Learning Center
- The WSLC is an after-school learning center in the city of Costa Mesa. The WSLC is operated by Harbor Christian Fellowship and provides tutoring, homework help, a daily-nutritional snack, and acedemic support for children in grades 1-12. Volunteers work with students one-on-one or in small groups to help students succeed and excel academically. www.harborchristianfellowship.net
Young Life
- Young Life is a non-denominational Christian ministry that seeks to build relationships with adolescents through volunteers, club meetings, and camps with the ultimate goal to bring them the message of Jesus Christ. www.younglife.org
Homeless and Street Ministries
FISH
- FISH is an organization that seeks to reduce the homeless population by helping the working poor and underemployed before they become homeless or hungry. www.fishharbor.org
Habitat for Humanity
- The mission of Habitat for Humanity is, through God's love, to build and renovate affordable housing with volunteers and responsible families in need. www.habitatoc.org
Loaves and Fishes
- Loaves and Fishes is a non-profit, volunteer driven agency fulfilling a basic need by feeding the hungry. Their vision is that all people, regardless of socioeconomic, cultural or ethnic backgrounds deserve to meet their basic needs for food, dignity and respect. www.loavesandfishes.org
Mercy House
- Mercy House provides housing and comprehensive support services for a variety of homeless populations that includes families, adult men and women, mothers and their children, persons living with HIV/AIDS, individuals overcoming substance addictions, and some who are physically and mentally disabled.www.mercyhouse.net
New Life Men's Shelter
- This shelter reaches out primarily to homeless men between the ages of 18 and 65. They come from backgrounds that include: substance abuse, criminal activity, educational failure, medical issues, probation, and incarceration. New Life seeks to minister God's Word showing them that God loves them by providing a safe living environment. http://www.rescuemission.org/1programs/men/men.htm
OC Food bank
- Community Action Partnership of Orange County Food Bank is a non-profit organization that distributes 17 miliion pounds of food anually and provides food and personal care items to 300 non-profit service organizations. http://www.orangecountyfoodbank.com/
Orange Coast Interfaith Center
OC Rescue Mission
- OC Rescue Missions seeks to "minister the love of Jesus Christ to the Least, the Last, and the Lost of our community through the provision of assistance in the areas of guidance, counseling, education, job training, shelter, food, clothing, health care and independent living communities." www.rescuemission.org
Qoheleth Ministries
Qoheleth Ministries includes a large-scale food distribution project every 2nd Saturday of the month in Costa Mesa California, as well as regular personal trips throughout the week to provide for those in need. www.qohelethministries.com
The Salvation Army in Compton
- This center serves the communities of Compton, North Carson, Lynwood, and East Gardens by providing youth activities, sports, after school programs, and it also provides a social services program and a children's performing arts program that serves children, adults, seniors and the homeless. www.salvationarmy-compton.org
Someone Cares Soup Kitchen
- Someone Cares Soup Kitchen serve 250-300 meals a day to those in need and also offers a tutoring program for local children grades kindergarten through third grade. www.someonecaressoupkitchen.com
Working Wardrobes
Working Wardrobes is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping men, women and at risk teens enter the workforce with a major boost to their confidence and self – esteem. www.workingwardrobes.org
Elderly Ministries
Mesa Verde Convelescent
- The Mesa Verde Convelescent Home seeks to provide the highest level of resident care for the chronically ill, aged, and infirm. Each resident is to be made to feel wanted, respected, and admired as an individual. www.mesaverdehealthcare.com
Milestone Health Center
Senior Meals and Services
Victoria Healthcare Center
- Victoria Healthcare Center is a skilled nursing facility offering long and short-term care. www.victoriacares.com
Environmental
Earth Resource Foundation
Earth Resource Foundation (ERF) is an environmental educational non-profit organization developed to empower the general public with the resources needed to make environmentally sustainable choices and changes. www.earthresource.org
Environmental Resource Center
- The ENC is a combination of 14 California native plant communities, wildlife habitats, and walking trails and seeks to provide opportunities for increasing our community's knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the natural world. www.encenter.org
Talbert Nature Preserve
- Talbert Nature Preserve is a park that operates regional recreational facilities and manages historical and natural resources. www.ocparks.com/talbert
Upper Newport Bay
Upper Newport Bay seeks to Restore and preserve the native habitat of the Bay and surroundings. They also want to educate the public about the ecological value of the Bay and achieve good water quality, healthy native flora and fauna, and compatible public use of a protected ecosystem in a dense urban environment. www.newportbay.org
Other Volunteer Opportunities
Best Buddies
- Best Buddies is an organization that seeks to build relationships between people with development dissabilities and people from the community through a mentoring/friendship program. www.bestbuddies.org
Birth Choice Health Center
- Birth Choice is a licensed medical clinic that gives medically accurate information so men and women are more equipped with the knowledge to make informed and thoughtful decisions. www.birthchoiceclinic.org
Teen Challenge
- Teen Challenge is a year long Christian training program for drug addicts and alcoholics who want freedom from their addiction. www.teenchallenge.com/santaana
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