Union Station Homeless Services

Union Station Homeless Services believes everyone deserves a safe place they can call home. We support thousands of families and individuals at every stage of their housing journey with dignity, using a trauma-informed and housing first approach to care. Our interim housing and continuum of housing navigation and supportive services for those experiencing homelessness in the San Gabriel Valley and Northeast Los Angeles are an important step towards permanent housing, which is essential for individuals and families to thrive and succeed.

Ending homelessness requires dispelling myths about the causes and experience of homelessness and building support for equitable policy solutions. Changing public perception can only be achieved by ensuring those who have experienced homelessness have equitable access to opportunities to have their voices heard, educating the public, and impacting policy. Union Station will train and support people with lived experience to lead community engagement and discussion to create momentum for change.

Ending homelessness in LA County requires effective community engagement to educate people and dispel myths in order to build support for systemic change and equitable policy solutions. Union Station’s Lived Expertise Advisory Panel (LEAP) amplifies the voices of people who have experienced homelessness in an advisory capacity on policy and program planning. With LA2050 funds, we will provide training and civic participation opportunities to LEAP members and launch a texting campaign to educate and engage others in advocating for change.

The Community Allies Program was launched in response to the isolation and loneliness reported by families and individuals we served as they settled into their new homes. The program seeks to increase housing retention rates, improve community connection, and foster community integration of currently homeless families and individuals in bridge-housing and those that are formerly homeless in permanent supportive housing by providing social and recreational activities and pairing individuals with a supportive community volunteer ally.