MARTHAS VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC

Martha's Village and Kitchen, located in the City of Indio, has served homeless and impoverished families and individuals in the Coachella Valley for over 26 years. The mission of Martha's Village and Kitchen is to help our neighbors in need break the cycle of homelessness and poverty by promoting self-sufficiency through an innovative continuum of care, multi-disciplinary programs, and partnerships that come together in the spirit of our CREED (Compassion, Respect, Empathy, Empowerment, and Dignity) to teach, learn from, and challenge our neighbors and one another.

At Martha's, we envision a community in which all people have the opportunity to live to their full potential – a community in which everyone has access to and the ability to maintain meals, housing, healthcare, and education. As one of the largest homeless services provider in the region, our on-site programs include:

• Transitional Housing: Our 120-bed residential facility offers 95 beds for homeless families and 25 beds for homeless single adults. The physical address of Martha's Village and Kitchen is 83-791 Date Avenue, Indio, California 92201-4737.
• Employment Services: Our highly qualified staff provides residents with job preparation, adult education, career development and job placement assistance.
• Food Services Program: We provide three meals a day to residents of our transitional housing facility and daily lunch to community members in need.
• Case Management: Our individualized case plans, counseling, and information and referral services ensure that residents successfully exit Martha's with permanent housing and income.
• Children's Services: Our on-site licensed children's program provides free childcare year-round, and parenting resources such as workshops, seminars and a resource library. Martha's Childcare Program has always maintained an above average rating for the facility and classroom performance when reviewed by both the State and County.
• Recovery Services: We offer group and individual services to address drug, alcohol and gambling addictions.
• Emergency Assistance: We provide homeless and low-income community members with rental assistance, transportation assistance, food baskets, clothing vouchers and infant supplies.
• Integrated Health Care: The onsite state-licensed medical clinic operated by our partner, Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo, provides free and sliding-scale preventive, primary and psychiatric care to Martha's residents and our neighbors in need.

Martha's is a nonprofit public benefit corporation led by a board of accomplished and compassionate community leaders from diverse areas of the community, business and social services. Specifically, Henry Burdick, Board Chair, has provided board leadership to Martha's for over 12 years. Mr. Burdick has over 36 years of experience as a company founder and executive leader in the wellness and nutrition industry. Mr. Burdick also has experience in property development.
Bill DeMucci serves as Board Vice Chair and has provided Martha's board leadership for over a decade. Mr. DeMucci was the co-founder and President of Titron Media Co. Ltd., the world's largest independent manufacturer of VHS video cassettes. Mr. DeMucci has over 40 years of business expertise and currently serves as a consultant to start-up companies and organizations in the United States and China.
Day-to-day organizational leadership and oversight is provided by our President and CEO Linda Barrack. Ms. Barrack has spent more than 26 years working to address the needs of individuals and families experiencing homelessness in the Coachella Valley. She was previously the Director of Riverside County Operations for Jewish Family Services of San Diego and the Episcopal Community Service of San Diego. Ms. Barrack authored, secured HUD funding and successfully operated the first Permanent Supportive Housing in Riverside County. Over the course of her career Ms. Barrack has supervised Emergency Shelters, Drop in Centers, Transitional Housing, numerous Supportive Services Programs under the successful management of HUD, ESG (County and State), CDBG (Cities and , County), EHAP, EFSP, Foundations, Cities, Riverside County, etc funding. Ms. Barrack is the past Co-Chair of the Riverside County Continuum of Care Council, and an active member of numerous collaborations and committees related to serving homeless and impoverished individuals in the Coachella Valley.

One of Martha's Village and Kitchen's greatest accomplishments has been its ability to seamlessly identify and subsequently reduce barriers for the chronically homeless. Martha's has continuously worked to strengthen itself as a crucial geographic hub in Riverside County's Continuum of Care.

Over the past 27 years, Martha's has been tremendously successful assisting homeless and impoverished clients with obtaining and remaining in permanent housing through the following optional means and activities:
a. Housing First Model / Supportive Services
b. Participating in the Process of Retaining Housing
c. Developing an Individual Housing Plan
d. Skill development

Martha's is dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness. It is a central principle of Martha's mission and our daily work to identify and reduce program barriers for the homeless and chronically homeless in the Coachella Valley and Riverside County as a whole. With the support of our volunteers, partners, and funders, Martha's will continue to work to end homelessness in our community.