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Welcome Home Bins

Partnering with community agencies, fulfilling an unmet need, giving their unhoused clients the basic household items they need to begin again in a new home

Call to Action

City of Sacramento’s Department of Community Response

The City of Sacramento’s Department of Community Response received a grant to house 100 unhoused individuals through its Street 2 Housing Project. In February 2024, Ya-Yin Isle — someone we’d worked with at Sacramento Steps Forward — reached out to ask if Reaching Out could provide our Welcome Home “Blue Bins” to participants who had secured housing. Starting in March 2024, we supplied 12 fully stocked bins each month, giving people the basic household items they needed to begin again in a new home.

What made this partnership so meaningful was how personal it felt — both for us in giving and for those moving into housing. This was more than a service. It was neighbors supporting neighbors at an important turning point in someone’s life.

Make a Difference

Address One-Time Needs

Community Partners

Unhoused Population Needs

Foster Youth Support

Reaching Out

Reaching Out provides targeted support to people facing significant barriers — filling gaps that other programs don’t cover.

We supply household essentials to individuals moving from homelessness into permanent housing. We provide clothing, work supplies, transportation, and financial assistance to people in probation and collaborative court programs. We offer emergency funds to foster youth in college to help cover unexpected costs that threaten their enrollment. And we support students and families in crisis at Katherine Johnson Middle School.

The results speak for themselves. In 2025, Sacramento’s DUI Treatment Court reached a 78% graduation rate — its highest ever.

We find the gaps. We fill them.