A Sense of Home strives to prevent homelessness by creating first-ever homes and a community for youth aging out of foster care.
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Please watch this powerful video where Raven conveys how her new home allows for her and her family to finally feel safe and ready to achieve their goals. We are incredibly grateful to have partners like Gallery Department and the Stop Being Racist! Foundation for showing up as her community.
Welcome Home, Raven! Everyone at A Sense of Home and Gallery Department will forever cheer you on! Your positivity, endurance, and caring energy is an inspiration to us all.
I love watching this video…
It helps remind me of the feeling I had and still have walking into my home everyday! Even in the video I said I’ll always feel like “omg I can’t believe this” and I still truly can’t believe it. I love the work you guys do and I love you guys beyond measure. Thank you for helping my family and I with a beautiful, safe and loving space.
– Raven, Recipient
- Sponsoring the creation of a home in the individual or family’s apartment
- $8k donation
- Up to 24 volunteers (depends on the size of the home)
- You will receive details of the individual or family you are creating a home for
- Feel free to bring anything your heart desires, for example — welcome home gift baskets
- Videos and photos provided
- ASOH provides all items for the home including refreshments and lunch for you and your family
- Donate $8k to sponsor a home in honor of someone you adore
- We will send an animated card revealing this gift to the individual you are honoring
- We will send you the video of your home creation and can further dedicate it to the individual you are honoring
- You may want to share with your community & colleagues the ASOH wishlist asenseofhome.org/asoh-wishlists.
- This is updated weekly to reflect the items ASOH is in most need of to install all 250+ items in the every home that we create.
- For example if you click on our wishlist you will notice that we are in great need of crib mattresses and decor.
- Your colleagues could shop online for this list, or you might choose to do a decor drive at your company — where everyone brings in decor to the office on a specified date and then you deliver all of the decor donations to the ASOH warehouse on a Tuesday.
Are you ready to change a child's life?
- Take a look at your possessions. What don’t you really need?
- If you are an 8-year-old, and you have out grown your amazing 7-year-old clothes — Please collect and prepare them for a child who needs these right now.
- Neatly fold all of your favorite 7-year-old clothes and place it in one of your largest organizer boxes.
- Then add shoes, socks, schools supplies, books, toys and games.
- Write a note especially for the 7-year-old who is going to receive these items.
- Create a label for the outside of the box and label “7-year-old”. Then tell all your friends to do the same!!
- Schedule 2 hour or 4 hour volunteer activities
- Tuesdays through Saturdays 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Individuals and/or small groups of volunteers
- Create custom kits for homes
- Build furniture
With every new beginning, comes the opportunity to donate furniture & homewares. We thank you for thinking of A Sense of Home for your donations.
- It is important to note that we only accept undamaged items.
- Donors are asked to have all items delivered by their movers or companies, such as Lugg or Dolly.
- Deliveries are made to the ASOH warehouse: 3457 W. El Segundo Blvd. Unit A. Hawthorne CA 90250.
- All donation deliveries must be scheduled.
- Go to asenseofhome.org/donate-furniture-housewares for more information and to complete your donation form.
- Upload photos of all furniture items to ensure the size will work within the small spaces in which we create homes.
We welcome and thank you for undertaking a book drive to inspire and help enhance education for the amazing young people we serve.
- We install a Love Library in each home both for kids and for the young adults we serve.
- To participate in the book drive, you can collect donated books or purchases.
- Go to asenseofhome.org/love-library for our suggested reading list and where you can purchase.
- We ask that you ship your “Love Library” packages to the ASOH warehouse: 3457 W. El Segundo Blvd. Unit A. Hawthorne CA 90250.
- Raise $8,000 to sponsor a home creation on site
- Go to justgiving.com/campaign/asenseofhome
- Your team gets to create the home, or make it a virtual home creation and you will receive a video and dedicate it to a loved one or a group of individuals.
- On-site home creations occur when daily LA COVID caseloads are lower than 500/day.
- Prepare welcome home baskets and kits for ASOH recipients.
- The kits and baskets are designed to serve a specific function or to make a specific room functional.
- For example, cooking kits ensure a fully functional kitchen and yummy cooking.
- Go to asenseofhome.org/welcome-home-baskets for a full list of each kit.
- Watch this video to get inspired youtu.be/kVCBWn9_F7I
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Young adults who age out of the foster system often bring with them a lifetime of trauma. One organization is determined to make them feel at home.
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ASOH Community: We need dining room tables! Donate gently used, shop our wish list, or contribute donations of any amount to ensure that no family has to eat on the floor.
Here’s how you can help:
🛒 Head to the link in bio and purchase a dining room table from our @amazon Wish List.
🪑 Donate your gently used dining room table. Donating is easy thanks to @lugg who can pick up and deliver to our warehouse in Hawthorne!
📲 Please spread the word! Every post, text, and email gets us that much closer to ensuring every #ASOH Home Creation comes with a comfortable place for youth and families to enjoy a meal.
Link in bio for more info or DM us!
#asenseofhome #ASOH #fosteryouthempowerment #communitypowered
This #throwbackthursday we’re remembering ASOH’s first-ever Pay-It-Forward Alumni Wellness Event from earlier this summer.
Our community came together to celebrate #ASOH PIFA that give back as peer mentors, volunteer their time at Home Creations, and advocate for policies impacting fellow foster youth.
Together with our wellness partners, we transformed our Hawthorne warehouse into a space for PIFA to experience self-care, stress management, and intentional rest.
After all, rest is a form of advocacy and social justice that centers your well-being so you can continue challenging systems of inequality.
Watch the full video via link in bio and don’t forget to prioritize wellness in your own lives!
Special thanks again to our wellness partners:
@animamundiherbals
@dsanddurga
@csgardencenter
@oseamalibu
@mysticjourneyla
@featherandstone.house
#cecilemurias
#asenseofhome #fosteryouthempowerment #fosteryouthvoices #communitypowered
Longtime supporters from Selection One have been contributing 🖼️ incredible artwork 🖼️ to countless #ASOH Home Creations and recently came together to help Reyna and her family move into their new apartment.
Sheri Harding, Selection One President, beautifully shares, “We like to think that the art that we provide brings a special happiness to their home and when they come home and they see art on the wall…we hope that people feel a sense of love and comfort.”
They absolutely do, Sheri!
Please join us in thanking Sheri and the Selection One team for celebrating former foster youth like Reyna and spreading love through their hand-selected artwork!
Watch Reyna’s full Home Creation in the link in bio. Interested in partnering and joining brands like Selection One? Email home@asenseofhome.org today!
#asenseofhome #ASOH #fosteryouthempowerment #fosteryouthmatter #communitypowered
This #transformationtuesday we’re celebrating 👑 Reyna 👑!
At 22 years old, this dedicated single mother graduated from a Medical Assistant Program after the birth of her third child and dreams of becoming a pediatrician one day.
Reyna gave it her all and worked hard on accessing resources and enrolling in a local transitional housing program before moving into her new home this summer. 🏠
Reyna - Congratulations on this new chapter and all you’ve accomplished with your unwavering resiliency and dedication to your family!
Special thanks to Selection One, ASOH’s longtime artwork donor, for supporting Reyna in this special moment.
Watch Reyna’s full Home Creation in the link in bio!
#asenseofhome #ASOH #fosteryouthempowerment #fosteryouthmatter #communitypowered
Warehouse volunteer groups are always blowing us away with their building skills!
Shout out to our #ASOH dresser builders, crib experts, side table specialists and furniture staging creatives out there! We hope to see you again soon in the spirit of foster youth empowerment 🛠️
Interested in building furniture at our Hawthorne warehouse for upcoming Home Creations? DM us or email home@asenseofhome.org! Suggested donations encouraged to help purchase urgently needed dressers and more.
#volunteerla #asenseofhome #fosteryouthempowerment #communitypowered
Who remembers that feeling when you’re waiting to say 🎉WELCOME HOME🎉 ?! There’s no feeling like it. You build, lift, hang, drill - all with utmost love and care for the former foster youth #asoh serves. And you never forget it.
Interested in volunteering or sponsoring a Home Creation like these all-stars? DM us or email home@asenseofhome.org!
#asenseofhome #volunteerLA
#fosteryouthempowerment #fosteryouthmatter #communitypowered
✨PIFA Appreciation Post✨
#ASOH Pay-It-Forward Alumni (PIFA) came together last weekend to help a fellow Alumni move into their new home with endless love and kindness in tow.
The peer mentorship, friendship, and empowerment that PIFA provide to one another and to new ASOH recipients is an invaluable part of what makes ASOH so impactful.
Thank you to our incredible, talented, and generous PIFA for showing up time and time again to pay it forward to new youth and their families!
#pifa #peermentorship #asenseofhome #ASOH #fosteryouthempowerment #fosteryouthmatter #communitypowered
Harness Prime Day for good! Check the link in bio and shop our curated Amazon Wish List full of discounted furniture and home goods perfect for upcoming #ASOH Home Creations. Our warehouse inventory is low on dining room tables, couches/sofas, coffee tables, and side tables especially. Every purchase helps former foster youth thrive and every share is vital to our mission!
#primeday #communitypowered #asenseofhome #primeday2024 #primedaydeals
Our common humanity is what binds us 🙏❤️
📚Welcome to the ASOH Love Library, where volunteers at our warehouse can thoughtfully select books to place in each youth and their children’s home.
Help us fill up the library by hosting a book drive or donating your gently used or new cookbooks, coffee table books, children/ baby books, and inspirational books!
Link in bio for more info or contact volunteer@asenseofhome.org 🙏🫶
With back-to-school season upon us, we’re reminded of the inspiring awardees from our 2023-2024 A Sense of Home Scholarship cohort.
🧠 In its inaugural year, ASOH awarded 12 Alumni with a $18,750 Scholarship to help achieve their educational goals!
🎓 Three of the 12 recipients are pursuing their Associates Degree, three are working towards their Bachelor’s Degree, four are pursuing their Master’s Degree (some who just graduated!), one is in Law School at Columbia, and one is working towards obtaining her Doctorate at USC.
👏🏼 ALL of the 2023-2024 Scholarship Recipients are women and ALL are studying in fields that will allow them to give back to their community, such as health care workers, lawyers, social workers, and psychologists.
Congratulations again to our 2023-2024 ASOH Scholarship awardees!
📣 ASOH Alumni! Applications for our 2024-2025 Scholarship are NOW OPEN! Check the link in bio for more info! Applications are due July 29th at 5pm PST.
We need an all-hands-on-deck approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness and we’re proud to be a part of the solution together with our #ASOH community.
The recent 2024 @lahomelessservices count data recently revealed that homelessness in LA has decreased for the first time in 6 years. And Transitional Aged Youth (age 18-24) homelessness has decreased by 16.2%!
We are honored and humbled to work alongside such a generous and compassionate village of individuals, organizations, donors, and advocates who helped make this possible, and we are committed to continuing our work to ensure that every foster youth in Los Angeles has a safe place to call home and a caring community supporting them ❤️
#losangeles #homelessnessdata #asenseofhome #fosteryouthempowerment #communitypowered
ASOH Community: WE NEED DINING ROOM TABLES!
Help us ensure that no family has to eat on the floor, and that every home we create comes with a comfortable place for our youth and their children to enjoy a meal.
Here’s how you can help!
🛒 Head to the link in bio and purchase a dining room table from our Amazon Wish List. A $100 donation will provide one family with a life long gift!
🪑 Donate your gently used dining room table to us. Donating is easy thanks to our friends @lugg who can pick it up and deliver to us!
❤️ Please spread the word! Share our need with friends and family any chance you can.
#asenseofhome #ASOH #fosteryouthempowerment #fosteryouthmatter #communitypowered
After graduating from 💙UCLA💛 in 2022 under Global Studies, Kristen started working as a Participant Coordinator at a local transitional housing site for a major homeless services agency. Her big heart shines bright as she plans to one day travel around the world helping people in need ✈️🌎
Kristen, we are truly honored to have you in our ASOH community!
Shout out to @jesse_king14 and friends for volunteering their time to help create such a beautiful home 🏠
Check the link in bio to explore how students and friends can get involved to support inspirational individuals like Kristen!
#asenseofhome #ASOH #fosteryouthempowerment #fosteryouthmatter #communitypowered
We are so grateful to have partners like Angel Montanez, Executive Director from the Stop Being Racist! Foundation at @gallerydepartment who helped make Raven’s Home Creation possible.
Angel shares, “One of the things that we loved about A Sense of Home is really connecting with a family and giving them something super meaningful.”
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you @gallerydepartment, Angel and the Stop Being Racist Foundation for helping create a beautiful home for Raven and her family and for showing up as her community. LA is a better place with intentional, community-focused industry leaders like you.
Check out Raven’s full Home Creation Youtube video in the link in bio!
Interested in sponsoring a home creation like @gallerydepartment? DM us or contact home@asenseofhome.org for more info!
#asenseofhome #ASOH #fosteryouthempowerment #fosteryouthmatter #communitypowered
This #transformationtuesday, we’re highlighting Raven, a mother of three working full-time at the Department of Children & Family Services (DCFS) AND studying to complete her Associate’s Degree in Behavioral & Social Sciences. Raven radiates motherly love and thoughtful care in her family with a deep sense of community in her heart. She’s exploring careers in elementary school education or nonprofit management while dabbling in starting her own balloon arrangement business.
After her Home Creation with @gallerydepartment and the Stop Being Racist Foundation, she shares, “I’m at the point where nothing is impossible and I just want to conquer the world right now!”
👏🏼 Everyone at A Sense of Home and @gallerydepartment will forever cheer you on, Raven! Your positivity, endurance, and caring energy is an inspiration to us all!
Watch Raven’s full Home Creation in the link in bio ❤️ Please be sure to like, comment, and share with a friend so that we can continue creating homes for the incredible individuals and families we serve!
#transformationtuesday #asenseofhome #ASOH #fosteryouthempowerment #fosteryouthmatter #communitypowered
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