Family Shelter I and II Grand Opening
On Monday, March 19th, Century Villages at Cabrillo and Catholic Charities of Los Angeles celebrated the long anticipated Grand Opening of the expanded Elizabeth Ann Seton Residence (also known as Family Shelters I and II). The Grand Opening was very well attended and featured the Most Reverend Jose Gomez, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Oscar Solis, Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese San Pedro Region, Suja Lowenthal, Vice Mayor of the City of Long Beach, Sean Rogan, Executive Director of the LA County Community Development Commission, Susan Price, Bureau Manager in the City of Long Beach Department of Health & Human Services, along with other local and State officials, Board members, partner agencies, current and former clients of the Elizabeth Ann Seton Residence, and friends and colleagues.
The new shelter complex replaces and expands the existing Elizabeth Ann Seton Residence which has operated at CVC since 1998. The new facility features expanded capacity and more appropriate space for the provision of shelter and supportive services for homeless families, including safe and secure family dwellings, shared recreational play space, a community room, counseling offices, a commercial kitchen, and dining facilities.
The main goal of the Elizabeth Ann Seton Residence is to assist families transition from the crisis of being homeless to the stability of long-term housing. The program emphasizes setting realistic goals and gaining the resources and skills to become self-sufficient. Families stay 45 days in order to access stable housing. The new Family Shelter complex expands CVC’s continuum of supportive housing which fosters self-sufficiency and independence. As families matriculate from the shelter complex, they are eligible for the various transitional or permanent housing opportunities on the CVC campus.
Family Shelters I and II are structured as separate and independent projects. With a combined cost of $5.0 million, the Family Shelter projects exhibit a constellation of 7 distinct funding sources, both public and private. CVC and Catholic Charities closed on the omnibus financing package in December 2010, construction began in January 2011, and the shelters were opened in March 2012. This combined project has been more than 8 years in the making, with CVC’s original funding application submitted to HCD in 2004. Click here for a Project Summary.
CVC and Catholic Charities would like to thank their capital and service funding partners including Supervisor Don Knabe, the County of Los Angeles Community Development Commission, the State of California Department of Housing & Community Development, the City of Long Beach Department of Health & Human Services, the Weingart Foundation, the Ahmanson Foundation, and the Dan Murphy Foundation.
The new development was recently featured in the Long Beach Grunion-Gazette, click here for the article.
The main goal of the Elizabeth Ann Seton Residence is to assist families transition from the crisis of being homeless to the stability of long-term housing. The program emphasizes setting realistic goals and gaining the resources and skills to become self-sufficient. Families stay 45 days in order to access stable housing. The new Family Shelter complex expands CVC’s continuum of supportive housing which fosters self-sufficiency and independence. As families matriculate from the shelter complex, they are eligible for the various transitional or permanent housing opportunities on the CVC campus.
Family Shelters I and II are structured as separate and independent projects. With a combined cost of $5.0 million, the Family Shelter projects exhibit a constellation of 7 distinct funding sources, both public and private. CVC and Catholic Charities closed on the omnibus financing package in December 2010, construction began in January 2011, and the shelters were opened in March 2012. This combined project has been more than 8 years in the making, with CVC’s original funding application submitted to HCD in 2004. Click here for a Project Summary.
CVC and Catholic Charities would like to thank their capital and service funding partners including Supervisor Don Knabe, the County of Los Angeles Community Development Commission, the State of California Department of Housing & Community Development, the City of Long Beach Department of Health & Human Services, the Weingart Foundation, the Ahmanson Foundation, and the Dan Murphy Foundation.
The new development was recently featured in the Long Beach Grunion-Gazette, click here for the article.