Foothill Unity Center

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We provide critical support, in the form of food, clothing, motel vouchers, and referrals/advocacy to our neighbors in crisis. As the need for food brings people to us, we listen to their problems and help them find solutions. We work with other agencies to provide long-term shelter, counseling, medical, educational, employment and spiritual assistance depending on the person's needs. In this way, Foothill Unity Center helps people return self-sufficiency. All services are provided with love and dignity, regardless of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, physical or emotional disabilities or veteran's status. Our program goals are to:Provide low-income families and children with sufficient nutrition to maintain good health, Increase employment and educational opportunities for those at risk because of poor job skills or illiteracy, Educate the community with facts (and thereby overcoming negative stereotypes) about homeless and low-income people who are trying to stabilize and improve their life situations. HistoryThe Foothill Unity Center has been operating continuously in Monrovia for 28 years. In the years since it began in a small closet at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Monrovia, the need for providing help to low income families and the homeless has grown. Food, shelter, clothing, needs assessment, and referrals are provided by Foothill Unity Center to individuals and families in crisis in the cities of Altadena, Arcadia, Azusa, Baldwin Park, Bradbury, Duarte, Irwindale, Monrovia, Pasadena, Sierra Madre and South Pasadena. Last year, over 2,200 families received over 2,000,000 pounds of groceries from our pantry and clothes from the Rainbow's End, our boutique/thrift store. We filled 8,545 food orders which provided over 27,000 people with more than 823,000 meals. Continuing to provide many programs and ways of helping people return to self-sufficiency, Foothill Unity Center is often called the "agency with a heart."

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Pasadena's Foothill Unity Center seeks partnerships for job referral program Pasadena Star-News; 8/15/2009 The Foothill Unity Center is awarding grants of up to $40,000 each to local agencies interested in the creation of a job referral collaborative. Selected... ...more

More than 1,600 children receive free back-to-school supplies at Foothill Unity Center's annual distribution Pasadena Star-News; 8/20/2009 ...look forward to coming to Foothill Unity Center's annual Back to School...uniforms for her children. Foothill Unity Center's distribution provides...event, said Joan Whitenack, Foothill Unity Center's executive director... ...more

Foothill Unity Center leader to be honored Pasadena Star-News; 7/10/2009 ...Whitenack, Executive Director of Foothill Unity Center, will be honored with the...community. Whitenack came to Foothill Unity Center in 1995 when it was a small...Agency for the Foothill Area. Foothill Unity Center has three key annual distribution... ...more