Assistance League of Sacramento

Operation School Bell is the flagship program of Assistance League of Sacramento. This program clothed 14,731 school children in K-6th grade. Three hundred seventy-one hygiene kits were provided. The literacy component of the program provided 15,099 students with their own book, and 40 books on diversity were provided to 17 school libraries. Thirty-nine schools in 4 school districts plus one homeless students services program benefited from Operation School Bell. The Book Buddies program was reinstituted in the primary grades, where Assistance League members go into the classrooms and listen to the students read.Operation School Bell - Eyes Right is a component that provides vision screening of preschool children to detect possible eye problems, particularly amblyopia (lazy eye) among other vision problems, or other like services as designated in this agreement. This program served 142 children, 26 of those children were referred for further evaluation by an optometrist.

Scholarship is a philanthropic program designed by Assistance League to award scholarships to local community college students who have overcome difficult life circumstances. This year 90 applications were received, and 33 scholarships were awarded totaling $97,500. Eight of the scholarships were awarded to previous foster youth. The uniqueness of this program is that the students are not required to use the scholarship for tuition or books. If they have a hardship preventing them from getting their education, they can use the scholarship to help with the situation.

Fresh Start is a philanthropic program designed by Assistance League to provide unmet needs in the areas sex trafficking, sexual assault, and foster youth to community based agencies. This program served 3,913 from 6 agencies providing housing kits, laundry essentials, newborn essential kits and hygiene kits and blankets. This program provides baby essential kits to former foster youth who have had babies, and they are also provided cleaning supplies for C.A.S.H.