Pops Purpose Inc chose to partner with 1736 Family Crisis Center because they are dedicated to serving vulnerable community members in the greater Los Angeles area. Its mission is comprehensively to help children, women, men, and families through crises, including domestic violence, sexual assault, homelessness, joblessness, poverty, human trafficking, suicide ideation and attempts, addiction, post-traumatic stress, and emotional and life-survival challenges, thereby improving their prospects for long-term housing, psychological wellness, financial stability, and success. The agency serves approximately 6,000 individuals directly through in-depth residential and nonresidential programs, and 20,000 through educational and street outreach.

1736 Family Crisis Center began in 1972 as a single Emergency Youth Shelter for runaways and street kids, including girls and boys who were abandoned and kicked out of their homes by parents or guardians. Programs progressively expanded beyond housing and basic life necessities to 24-hour emergency and longer-term counseling (including suicide intervention), advocacy, life education, schooling support, as well as detailed counseling and networking with schools, hospitals, police, child protective agencies. In 1981, the Center opened its first confidential emergency domestic violence shelter. In 1984, the agency developed Los Angeles County’s first – and for nine years, only – confidential transitional domestic violence shelter to give survivors and their children the broad-based counseling, job preparation, life-skills education, and self-confidence tools needed to rebuild safe, independent lives.

To find out more, visit their website at: https://www.1736fcc.org/