St Vincent de Paul of Contra Costa County

Donations of clothing, furniture, and household items, automobiles and recyclable materials are received, sorted and distributed to needy individuals or sold in our thrift stores. Work force training and employment in the stores and warehouse are provided to low income or unemployed individuals. Furniture, clothing and household items are provided free or at low cost to needy individuals.

The free medical clinic program, "rotacare pittsburg free medical clinic at St. Vincent de Paul": the free clinic was developed and built by St. Vincent de Paul, providing urgent and primary/chronic care for adults with no insurance. All patients lack medical insurance, and 98% have income below 200% of the fpl. All medical care, pharmaceuticals, lab services, x-ray/diagnostic testing, nutritional and healthy cooking classes, diabetes health classes, social worker assistance, and referrals to specialty care/surgical care are free to our patients. The licensed clinic is staffed by volunteer medical professionals including physicians, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, pharmacy techs, certified diabetes educators, bi-lingual translators, social workers, and administrative staff. Over 14,000 patient visits have been resolved to uninsured patients since opening in 2011. Achievements not directly measured is the well-being and suffering, productivity gains achieved by patients able to return to work or prevent loss of employment due to medical conditions being resolved. Additionally, significant expenses that would have otherwise been incurred by local emergency rooms for patient care have been prevented.

Assistance with housing, utilities, furniture, food and clothing; referral to other social services is provided directly to needy individuals by our conferences, a network of community-based conferences staffed by volunteers.