The Placer ARC On The Go program relies on donations and grants to operate a unique service for special needs students to venture out in group activities to explore the greater Roseville community. With the On The Go program, participants experience new venues and gain independence. Students choose from many different excursions or experiences including game nights, shopping trips, cultural events, and bowling.
Alta California Regional Center is one of 21 centers funded by the California Department of Developmental Services to connect developmentally disabled adults or at risk infants and their families to existing community resources such as Child Services, the California Department of Rehabilitation or local schools and community groups. The goal of the centers is to provide access to health care, safe housing and maximize choices for its clients.
What Would Jesus Do? is a nonprofit mobile ministry staffed with volunteers that deliver breakfast as well as another prepared meal to the homeless in the Placer County area. There six scheduled morning stops that include the St. Vincent De Paul food locker on Guiseppe street near downtown on Wednesdays. The van and its volunteers deliver meals to more than 30,000 in need yearly as well as provide nurses or doctors if immediate medical assistance is needed.
The Salvation Army is a church center with an emphasis on helping the local community. A shower ministry is offered for the general public on Fridays at 7am and lunch is served from 11am to 2:30pm. This center provides housing programs for adults, casework services, group homes, emergency shelter, traditional housing and education programs. Breakfast is served on Saturdays from 9am to 10pm and Bible study is held on Wednesdays at 7pm.
Roseville Home Start is nonprofit transitional housing facility that is open to homeless single-parent families, couples and grandparents raising grandchildren. Families must agree to live on-site for one year, attend counseling sessions, be drug and alcohol free and work toward a G.E.D. if they have not graduated from high school.
Kids First is located on Main Street in old historic Roseville and provides services for children and families in need. Services available to the community include counseling and therapy for abused or neglected children, anger training and management for parents, assistance in finding low cost health care as well as after school activities for kids.
