NVCS's mission is to empower North Hills and surrounding neighborhood residents to build a vision of their community's future and actively solve local challenges.
NVCS is a BIPOC-led nonprofit that annually serves more than 244,000 people who are at-risk or are experiencing homelessness. NVCS is proud to be the largest single-site food distribution center in the San Fernando Valley while upholding the grassroots approach.
The integrity of NVCS's identity as a local community-based nonprofit is essential to the organization. NVCS treats everyone with dignity, respect, and compassion, regardless of their background or circumstances. NVCS fosters a multi-pronged approach to tackling food, housing, and job insecurity through its programs and services.
NVCS’ Safe Parking program started in 2018 as the first of its kind in the SFV and offers an array of onsite services that address the homeless community’s ongoing needs. Our program helps participants become self-sustaining, develop a path to housing, and focus on making their homelessness as short as possible.
Since its launch, our Safe Parking program has served hundreds of people living in their vehicles and provided them with a safe place to sleep at night with onsite security, restrooms, showers, employment resources, and case management. Our participants have access to our child education and adult skills programs, job training, and dozens of outside agency referrals ranging from pet boarding to legal aid, housing and obtaining government benefits. NVCS welcomes all: the disabled, veterans, senior citizens, students, LGBTQ+, families, those who are working and those who are unemployed.
| (818) 891-0481 ext. 1023 | |
| lrathbone@nvcsinc.org | |
| Laura Rathbone | |
| Safe Parking Director | |
| https://www.nvcsinc.org/safe-parking#:~:text= |
