Our Drop-In Centers provide a safe place for transition age youth 7 days a week, a place to shower, do laundry, access basic services, resources, and support in finding housing, and connect with community.
The Long Beach Drop-In Center for Transition Age Youth (TAY) is dedicated to providing a safe space for young adults ages 16-25 years old, throughout South Los Angeles and the South Bay areas. Our mission is to eradicate youth homelessness by guiding youth towards their goals of safety, stability, success, and independence. We accomplish this by using a compassionate and wellness approach to inspire growth and hope.
On site services are offered seven days a week from 9:30am-5:30pm and include laundry, showers, computers with internet access, hot meals, hygiene kits, clothing and bus passes.
The Good Seed provides a multitude of support groups in-house and through an extensive collaboration of community partners for transition-age youth that are in our care. We aspire to create an environment that allows our clients to seek help without any fear of embarrassment, rejection or discomfort. We provide assistance with mental health, primary healthcare, substance abuse, education, and social opportunities. Here are some of our programs either provided directly at the shelter or through a community partner that help our youth to overcome barriers in their lives.
The Good Seed is actively involved in community engagement, policy discussions, and constituent outreach, to make sure that we reduce the amount of time youth experience homelessness. Our outreach and engagement program is organized with the help of community partners, and current and former homeless youth. We have found in large part youth experienced longer episodes of homelessness, due to a lack of knowledge about youth services and resources. As a result, we partnered with youth to create advertisement of services in areas highly populated by homeless transition-age youth. Locations include public libraries, medical centers, mental health organizations and other unconventional areas.
The Good Seed is always expanding our outreach and involvement with the community to try and make an impact on the crisis of homelessness that is experienced in the County of Los Angeles.
The Good Seed is actively involved with a number of coalitions, and steering committees regarding Wellness, Mental Health, and Homelessness. We are active on the LA Coalition to end Youth Homelessness Steering Committee, Service Planning Meetings, and the LA County Homeless Policy Summit on Outreach and Engagement.
If you or your agency want to be a partner with The Good Seed to make a difference in the lives of these homeless youth, reach out to us today! Email us at [email protected] or call us at (323) 758-5433.
We partner with entities such as 211, a local information and referral service, to direct youth to emergency shelters and services in Los Angeles County. Our partnership includes the MTA (Market, Train, Assist) Project which advertises in spaces where homeless youth gather.
After countless interviews with homeless youth from throughout Los Angeles County, the number one reason for staying on the streets for months at a time was a lack of knowledge of available homeless youth services.
As a result, Good Seed reached out and coordinated with homeless youth, youth service providers, and government agencies to develop an innovative and ground-up youth focused framework for homeless youth outreach.
Homeless Transition-Age Youth ages 16 – 25 yrs old
This project focuses specifically on policy change, community and stakeholder engagement, and collaboration at “hotspot” locations.
Special project is the outreach and engagement of homeless youth at “hotspot” locations to inform and link to youth focused service providers
The Project began in early 2014, and is currently in progress
After completing hundreds of intakes of homeless youth at Good Seed Shelter, we began to see trends in the homeless youth experiences. We found that upon further questioning, youth were homeless for longer periods if they did not know about youth providers and they often frequented the same locations.
If you are interested in collaborating or volunteering on this project, please contact
The TAY Directory is an organized, comprehensive and accessible resource to help guide your mission to support homeless youth. www.taydir.com
In the County of Los Angeles there are over 56,000 people experiencing homelessness on any given night. Good Seed CDC and the Chair of the SPA 6 Homeless Coalition realized many concerned residents desire to assist in outreaching their neighbors experiencing homelessness, however often do not know how. As a result, they reached out to GISCorps for assistance in building out a customized GIS web and mobile solution for residents of Los Angeles County to request outreach teams for individuals, youth, and families experiencing homelessness.
Our Street Outreach team works directly with individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness within their current encampments and local hotspots to serve as their primary contact to get connected to much needed services.
ASCENT delivers tailored support across key areas of reintegration:
ASCENT is committed to measurable outcomes, including:
Our trauma-informed model emphasizes safety, choice, and empowerment. ASCENT’s dedicated team includes:
The Good Seed Drop-In Center (DIC) offers a safe, stable, and supportive environment aimed at promoting the self-sufficiency and well-being of Transitional Age Youth (TAY) aged 18-24. Our comprehensive, low-barrier support model addresses immediate needs while guiding clients toward long-term independence.
To promote dignity and stability, the DIC provides critical daily resources, including daily hot meals, access to personal hygiene facilities (showers), and on-site laundry services for clients.
The foundation of our service is daily, individualized case management. Our dedicated staff works collaboratively with each client to develop and execute personalized plans focused on achieving measurable goals related to housing stability, economic self-sufficiency, and independent living.
We offer a full spectrum of targeted support designed to address key barriers TAY face:
