Community Connections

Community Connect has a wide impact on Riverside County, serving all areas in a variety of capacities including: rental assistance, housing, transportation, professional and self development, counseling, senior services and so much more.

In the past year, Community Connect:

◦Served more than 266,000 individuals throughout Riverside County
◦Provided hundreds of nonprofits with additional development and skill building opportunities through educational workshops, forums and networking events
◦Coordinated community service, monitoring and youth programs for nearly 12,700 court referred clients
◦Referred 76,911 residents to agencies for various critical needs such as food, medical care and shelter
◦Responded to a 20 percent increase in requests for assistance through 211 Riverside County
◦Recognized volunteer heroes throughout Riverside County at the Annual Volunteer Hero Awards & Banquet
◦Answered more than 8,000 crisis/suicide prevention calls
◦Succeeded in helping 97 percent of youth that attended our drug and alcohol prevention programs to not reoffend
◦Safeguarded the elderly with more than 7,500 visits to skilled nursing facilities
◦Coordinated an annual Celebration of Children event for the local community
◦Distributed bus tickets to 10,898 individuals who have no other transportation option, helping them do anything from getting to a job interview or going to the grocery store
◦Assisted 380 individuals with housing placement
◦Coordinated the distribution of nearly 1,000 Christmas Baskets to the needy