3:00pm | Every year at the Holidays, the Substance Abuse Foundation of Long Beach, Inc. (SAF) opens their doors to feed not only their clients and their families, but also those in need within the community, and no one is turned away. Last year, Substance Abuse Foundation served 1200 dinners on Thursday and Friday of the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend and 800 dinners on Christmas Day. To accomplish this again this year, SAF is asking for donations, as well as seeking volunteers.
 
The the SAF helps homeless and low-income individuals and families to overcome substance abuse, mental health issues, poverty, homelessness, HIV/AIDS and other life challenges, stabilize in the community, improve their health and well-being, and gain the skills, training and assistance they need to secure living-wage employment, rise out of poverty, build a drug-free and crime-free life, and become self-sufficient within affordable housing in the community.
 
Founded in 1988, SAF is the largest provider of comprehensive residential and outpatient drug/alcohol rehabilitation and treatment, mental health care, HIV prevention and services-enriched transitional housing in the greater Long Beach/South Bay area of Los Angeles County, serving approximately 2,000 people per year in its state licensed and certified facilities. SAF is non-profit, and all donations are tax-deductible.
 
For additional information on how to volunteer or how to make a donation, please contact Curtis Sanders at (562) 987-5722, ext. 237.