Community Impact

Build Safe & Healthy Relationships for the Future February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month (TDVAM), a month-long campaign dedicated to raising awareness about teen dating abuse. Every February, young people and their loved ones join together across the country for a national effort to raise awareness about...

Meet some of our program participants as they share their housing needs and journeys Welcome to the first installment in our series, “Meet your unhoused neighbor”. The goal of this series is to introduce the community to their unhoused neighbors who are experiencing homelessness and hopefully connect CRC program participants...

Meet Your Unhoused Neighbor Series #4 A senior and lifelong Encinitas resident, William participated in Jewish Family Services’ Safe Parking Lot program here in Encinitas and then made his way to CRC. When William connected with CRC he was considered an individual experiencing chronic homelessness, living over a year in...

Helping Teens Learn Skills to Build Healthy Relationships for Life By Luis Canseco, CRC Domestic Violence Education and Prevention Program Manager The first Teen Dating Violence Awareness event that was held on February 1st, Teens for Healthy Relationships Conference 2023 was quite a success. Thanks to the community’s support, there...

Last night the City of Carlsbad passed their updated Homeless Action Plan. As a part of their presentation, they shared this short video highlighting the great work the City and their community partners are doing to address, prevent, and reduce homelessness in Carlsbad. CRC is so proud to be a...

Congratulations to Holiday Baskets Shopping Captains, Anastacia Grenda, Wendy Rees and Kathy Ling! These three were an integral part of the leadership team that made Holiday Baskets such a smooth and successful program for 2022. Cathie Byrd, Holiday Baskets Project Coordinator writes: “I first worked with Wendy and Anastacia for HB21...

Ted is college graduate, husband and father. He had a family, home, a great job and at a certain point in his life, he lost it all.

After five years living in his car Ernest came to Community Resource Center for help to find housing.

Series 2: Meet Your Unhoused Neighbor Christine and her family have been experiencing homelessness in the City of Carlsbad for over two years. She and her husband have seven children, two of whom are adults. Christine and her eldest daughter are caregivers at an assisted living facility, and her husband...

Sometimes the switch from summer to fall and winter can pass in the blink of an eye. But for people experiencing a season of hunger, homelessness or hurt, the days are unbearably long.

Meet Your Unhoused Neighbor, Series 1 Welcome to the first in our series, “Meet Your Unhoused Neighbor” This is a monthly series where you will meet some of our program participants as they share their housing needs and journeys. Matthew* has been experiencing homelessness in Encinitas for the last 3...

With no family or friends close by to provide help, Mariana and two of her children, Joseph and Eva, turned to CRC’s Domestic Violence emergency shelter for safety and help. Mariana and her children also received assistance from our other wraparound services, such as healthy food, counseling and case management...