California's Capital Region: The Sacramento Valley

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
SOCIETY, ROSEVILLE
Top: Clients picking up cartload of groceries at Saint Vincent’s food locker.
Middle: Volunteer serves a hot meal to guest at Saint Vincent’s dining room..
Bottom: A senior client receives food delivered to her home by volunteers.
The Saint Vincent de Paul Society, Roseville Conference,
was founded in August 1983 as a project from Saint Rose
Catholic Church in Roseville. It originally started as a small
thrift store and office that provided free furniture and financial
help towards rent and utilities for Roseville residents.
Today, its new Kollect-a-Knacks & More thrift store sells
clothing, household goods, and furniture at very low prices
and maintains a free clothes closet for those who cannot
afford to purchase clothing.
The primary goal of Saint Vincent de Paul is to provide
essential services to individuals and families in its
community who are homeless, low-income, unemployed,
physically or mentally ill, and victims of abuse, emergency
or disaster situations. The immediate goal is to provide
the fundamental necessities of life—food, clothing, and
medical assistance.
In December 1983, the Saint Vincent de Paul, Roseville
opened its dining room and immediately began serving
between forty and fifty free hot meals per day. Currently, the
dining room serves a hot lunchtime meal five times a week to
more than sixty guests daily.
A month later, it started its Food Locker program. In the
first month of the program, groceries were provided to
approximately two hundred households. The Food Locker
program is its largest and now provides supplemental
groceries to more than 750 households monthly.
Since then, the organization has added three more
programs. Assisted by a grant from the City of Roseville in
2003, Saint Vincent de Paul created its Bags program,
enabling them to deliver groceries to homebound seniors
and handicapped individuals. They currently serve more
than eighty-five people in this capacity.
In addition, medical clinics offer free urgent and triage
medical care on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. In
2017, the clinic had 477 patient visits and provided 199
prescription medicines. The fifth and most recent program is
a collaborative effort with Advocates for Mentally Ill Housing
(AMIH), Stand Up Placer, St. Vincent de Paul, Roseville, and
Kids First, known as a collaborative “ASSK.”
This collaboration has received funding from the City of
Roseville’s Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing grant
for 2018. Its purpose is to assist low income and qualifying
homeless individuals with short-term rental assistance and
utility assistance. In addition to rent and utility assistance, its
goal is to ensure social services among community agencies
are utilized to the fullest.
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