San Joaquin County Community Service & Support Digest

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS ARE proving that they play a vital role when it comes to public safety in California. The California Reentry Institute, directed by Collette Carroll to help potential parolees, has graduated more than 230 incarcerated individuals in San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.

Get the details about the Manteca Soroptimist annual holiday fundraiser held on December 11 and learn more about their support for the Teen Crisis Counseling Crisis project and other services in the community.

Volunteers with the Emergency Food Bank of Stockton/San Joaquin annual Thanksgiving Food Giveaway passed out Thanksgiving meals to 2,801 families on November 26. Read on to learn more.

Winter is coming, and the Ripon Rotary Club has launched its Winter Coat Drive to assist those in need in keeping warm and dry. Learn how you can help.

Learn about the 52nd annual Manteca Chamber of Commerce hosted Christmas Parade scheduled for December 7.

Help Bikes for Kids meet their goal of refurbishing 300 previously owned bikes to be donated on December 14 to underprivileged children. Learn more and volunteer.

On October 30, the Tracy Rotary presented a donation of $10,000 to support the McHenry House Family Shelter expansion project.

Learn more about the annual fundraising day on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, this year falling on December 3.

Learn more about the Tracy Connects event held on October 22 and the donations made to five groups working in the community.

The Manteca Chamber of Commerce is seeking a volunteer to coordinate the distribution of flags for placement throughout the city on holidays.

Measure R, calling for drug screening of recipients of aid, was approved to go on the November ballot by the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors.

With its opening still months away, the Thomas Toy Teen Center is seeking donations and volunteers, and is hosting an open house on August 15.

Beginning Monday, 150 households in Fresno County are expected to receive a $500 prepaid card to spend on anything they’d like — no strings attached. It will be the first of 12 monthly recurring payments those Southwest Fresno and Huron residents will receive as part of a guaranteed basic income program for low-income families.

TNT Fireworks donated $15,000 to six Lodi nonprofits who had been unable to operate firework stands because of a clerical error.

The new Thomas Toy Community Center in Manteca is calling for volunteers as it prepares to open in September.

Connie Meintasis, Marion Thibodeau, and Jan Brown were memorialized on May 28 by the Manteca Soroptimists with new trees planted in the Soroptimist Grove public park at Snowcap Drive and Pestana Avenue.

Sacramento State will be home to the central office for the $10 million Black student advancement drive on all 23 California State University campuses.

The Thomas Toy Community Center at Fremont and Yosemite Avenue held an open house on May 17 ahead of its official opening in September.

Gov. Gavin Newsom launched the community school initiative with $4.1 billion in grants to connect students and their families to medical care, counseling and other services.

Lodi House Executive Director Shelby Young announced she is resigning after leading the organization for the last eight years.

CEO Carrie Grover officiated at the ribbon cutting of the new Tracy Tracy Community Connections Center at 95 West 11th Street.

Central Valley District 9 Congressman Josh Harder announced $850,000 in federal funds towards construction of a new community center in Manteca for American Legion Post 249.

The April 27 Love Lodi event saw a turnout of nearly 1,000 volunteers completing 60 projects throughout the city.

The Lathrop Police Department announced the hiring of Gabrielle Johnson as a new Community Services Officer.

The San Joaquin Board of Supervisors approved a $10,000 grant to the Tracy Boys and Girls Club to support youth sports programs.

The Pathways Project homeless shelter is set to open in the fall to provide services to the city's estimated 900 homeless.

Located at Yosemite and Fremont Avenues in Manteca, the two-story 8,000 square foot building is being renovated to as a meeting and connection space for local teens and is expected to open with limited services summer of 2024.

The donation will help fund the club Teen Room Transformation Project.

The County is inviting residents, businesses and local organizations to participate in upcoming cleanup events to help clear refuse and debris from community locations and waterways.

Spending an early morning picking up parking lot trash only to return in a few days to it being just as litter-filled is a defeating feeling, according to 19-year-old clean-up participant Darius Jacobs.

The San Joaquin County Commission on the Status of Women will honor 10 women on Feb. 15. Honorees include Tracy Mayor Nancy Young and former Councilmember Rhodesia Ransom.

Tracy Community Connections Center, a nonprofit organization committed to aiding the homeless and those at risk of homelessness, recently appointed Caroline Grover as its new CEO.