Healthy children and strong families are the cornerstone of a thriving community. At Our Saviour Center in El Monte, California, we provide social services to poverty-level and low-income families and individuals to "share love, hope, and resources with our neighbors in need."

Under the able and creative leadership of parishioner Dorris Dann, Our Saviour Center has grown to be the largest churchbased social services agency in the San Gabriel Valley, reaching more than 75,000 residents of our community who stand in need of help.

The Church of Our Saviour opened the Center in 1985 to offer a hot lunch to the hungry. As the Center's  volunteers and staff began to get to know the area's homeless families, they started a Personal Services Program to offer temporary shelter and personal hygiene items. The Center has continued to grow in this organic, community-based way — as the Center's staff encounters a pressing need, and strives to meet it — until today Our Saviour Center operates a comprehensive array of services that dignify and nourish, respect and affirm, ease suffering and offer hope.

Currently, we offer the following programs:

• Cleaver Family Wellness Clinic offering comprehensive medical and wellness care
• job development and employment training
• temporary emergency shelter
• food distribution
• parenting instruction
• Kid's Campus Youth Center
• CITIES Tutorial and Recreation Program
• youth program curriculum project
• Healthy Youth

As long as a child is hungry or sick, a family is looking for work or shelter, or children need an alternative to the streets, we will be there!

how you can help

We want you to share in the joy of sharing a little of your time with a family in need. You can:

• Help package and distribute food
• Mentor one of our children's programs
• Teach a computer skills course
• Read a child a story

Or, use your imagination and create your own contribution. We invite you to contribute to the health, wellness, and strength of our children, our families, our community.

Call us at 626/579-2190 ext. 112.

The Cleaver
Family Wellness Clinic

feeding the hungry

Our Saviour Center provides over-the-
counter food distribution to an average of 150 households each business day. We also run an Emergency Food and Shelter Program. Volunteers come three days a week to prepare and give out bags of food.

caring for the sick

People who have limited or no access to health care find The Cleaver Wellness Clinic offers personal, compassionate, accessible care to all who enter its doors. We offer primary health care including pediatric care and health-related services such as nutrition and wellness classes.

giving children
a place to grow

Every day children flock to our beautiful Kid's Campus, which sits on 1.6 acres in El Monte and includes a preschool, gymnasium, arts and crafts room, theatre, art gallery, computer lab, and study areas for homework and tutoring.