Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh has chosen California Family Life Center as the 2024 California Nonprofit of the Year for the 23rd Senate District. CFLC is one of more than 100 nonprofits honored by state senators and assemblymembers for their outstanding contributions to the communities they serve.
California Family Life Center’s mission is to offer safety, comfort, and healing to children experiencing abuse and abandonment. They aim to teach love and trust, instill self-esteem, values, and hope for the future, and help children who feel hopeless and desperate to become caring and contributing members of the community.
For more than 40 years, CFLC has served foster youth and families, kinship care families, juvenile offenders, group home youth, high school dropouts, homeless youth, youth with disabilities, pregnant and parenting teens, and low-income families and youth.
“We are incredibly honored and grateful to Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh for acknowledging the California Family Life Center as the 2024 California Nonprofit of the Year and for supporting our cause,” Executive Director Mary Jo Ramirez said. “This amazing recognition highlights our commitment to providing foster children with a safe and nurturing environment and community youth opportunities for education and employment. We are dedicated to continuing our mission of transforming lives and bringing hope to our community.”
“California Family Life Center transforms the lives of foster children facing hardship and abuse. By nurturing a community of foster kids and parents, they instill values and a sense of service,” Senator Ochoa Bogh said. “They have received the highest CARF International accreditation for Foster Family and Kinship Care, Group Home Care, and Support programs, which demonstrates their commitment to providing exceptional, personalized care. This recognition emphasizes their unwavering dedication and quality, offering hope and resilience to the foster care community. I am honored to name them the 2024 California Nonprofit of the Year for the 23rd Senate District.”
CARF accreditation is a public seal of trust and commitment to quality based on internationally accepted standards. This accreditation demonstrates California Family Life Center’s dedication to exceptional, personalized care. An organization that receives the highest level of CARF accreditation has undergone a detailed peer review process and has demonstrated to a team of surveyors, during an on-site visit, its commitment to providing programs and services of the highest quality.
California Family Life Center is currently offering the community a chance to support children through their “Send a Child to Camp” campaign. Summer camps are unforgettable, life-giving experiences for youth. However, many kids in foster care do not have the means to attend. California Family Life Center @cflckids provides wrap-around services for kids in their Foster Agency and Kin Care programs. One way to help is by visiting cflckids.givecloud.co/donate or #cflckids to donate so a local CFLC child or youth can attend camp or participate in a meaningful summer activity. Even $25 can help.
CFLC received the 2024 California Nonprofit of the Year recognition as part of a larger celebration of CalNonprofits’ “California Nonprofits Day” held June 5 in Sacramento. This event brings deserved attention to outstanding nonprofits while illustrating the remarkable diversity and vibrancy of California’s nonprofit community.
“Nonprofit organizations touch the lives of millions of Californians in ways that can often go unrecognized. From the childcare program to the soccer team, from the art class to the health clinic, and from the community organizer to the animal shelter – nonprofits improve the lives of all Californians and make our communities stronger,” Geoff Green, CEO of the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofits), a partner for this initiative, said. “Nonprofits are also a key economic driver in our state, accounting for 1 in 14 jobs. It’s important to recognize all they do.”
According to “Causes Count,” a 2019 report commissioned by CalNonprofits, the nonprofit sector is the 4th largest industry in the state, employing more than 1.2 million people. Each year, California nonprofits generate more than $273 billion in revenue and bring in $40 billion in revenue from outside the state. The unpaid labor contributed by volunteers at nonprofits is equivalent to 330,000 full-time jobs every year. Now in its ninth year, the California Nonprofit of the Year initiative provides the opportunity for each California state legislator to recognize a nonprofit organization doing outstanding work in their district. The program culminated with a celebratory luncheon at the Capitol on California Nonprofits Day on June 5. The program is sponsored by CalNonprofits in partnership with the state Senate and Assembly Select Committees on the Nonprofit Sector. CalNonprofits, the leading policy voice for California’s nonprofit sector, focuses on advocacy, education, and research to build a more powerful and politically engaged nonprofit network across the state.
For more information on California Family Life Center and its many programs, please contact Development Coordinator Zach Bell at 951-765-0917 or [email protected] or visit www.cflckids.org.
