The COTS Collective: July 2024

July COTS’ Collective.

This month, at the start of the new fiscal year, COTS would like to reflect on our incredible growth over the last twelve months. We are incredibly proud of our service to the community and look forward to another successful fiscal year.

* PSH- Permanent Supportive Housing

Since July of last year, the community kitchen at the Mary Isaak Center (known as Mary’s Table) has increased production to over 10,000 meals per month. Every day, our kitchen opens its doors to those we serve alongside the broader community—anyone in need of a hot, nutritious meal is invited to join us for lunch or dinner seven days a week, every day of the year. By the end of 2024, our monthly kitchen output is anticipated to grow to over 12,000 meals per month.

To start serving the residents of Santa Rosa, CA., COTS launched a comprehensive Rapid Rehousing and Homelessness Prevention program. This program, in partnership with Catholic Charities, serves individuals and families throughout Santa Rosa with emergency rental assistance, housing search and placement assistance, assistance with transportation and groceries, and ongoing therapy services for individuals, couples, and families.

COTS worked tirelessly to improve the behavioral health services available in all our programs. In the last year, COTS received funding to support a licensed clinician for our housing team, increased the number of hours of mental health services provided to our clients, partnered with Petaluma People Services to provide onsite groups and individual therapy options, and is in the process of adding bilingual mental health services for our clients in Santa Rosa, CA.

To support this growth, COTS has grown its workforce exponentially and added an office in Santa Rosa, CA. We anticipate adding a second office in Santa Rosa in 2024 as we continue to experience an increased demand for services in the area.

We invite you to support us in serving all of Sonoma County by donating to our mission at cots.org/donate/.

Warmly,

Chris Cabral, CEO

Mission Moment.

Grace came to COTS after spending almost a year in hospitals and rehab centers recovering from a stroke and a heart attack. While she was in care, still learning how to speak, walk, comb her hair, and handle a pencil, her roommate died in their shared apartment.

With COTS’ help, she was housed in Healdsburg and is now enjoying the free concerts in the Plaza and the view of redwood trees out her bedroom window. Best of all? She is able to invite her two children to her apartment for home-cooked meals.