“Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it.” That is the motto of The Dream Center. We accomplish that goal by offering all services and programs to the community free of charge through the following outreaches:

Adopt-A-Block: To adopt means to take in as one’s own. Every Saturday morning, an average of 350 volunteers reach out to the residents and the homeless in the surrounding communities of Echo Park, Silverlake, Skid Row, and South Central L.A.

Over 5,000 families are visited weekly on a total of 85 blocks. With the goal of serving, teams ask residents, “How can we help you?” Teams mow lawns, clean homes, paint over graffiti, complete minor home repairs, organize games with the children and visit with the elderly. They also provide emergency assistance, such as food and clothing; furniture is also available.

Mobile Food Truck: Going where they live with what they need is how we feed thousands of people every week. Tuesday through Saturday, at over 28 pre-selected sites, including elementary schools, we provide groceries to over 40,000 people every month. Single mothers, the disabled, the elderly, the unemployed and families living below the poverty line make up the vast majority of our recipients.

City Help Mobile Medical Clinic: City Help, an on-site collaborative agency, makes health care accessible and affordable by providing primary health care and prescriptions to those without insurance free of charge.

The mobile medical clinic goes out to neighborhoods in the surrounding communities, including Skid Row and various homeless shelters each week to provide free comprehensive primary medical care. The mobile clinic is equipped to provide diagnostic services, treatment, lab work and pharmacy services.

Free chiropractic care is also available in the Wellness Center, located on the first floor of the Dream Center.

Dream Center Discipleship: The Dream Center Discipleship program is a residential, one-year Christ-centered program that helps adults ages 18-59 with substance abuse, anger management, and emotional struggles.

“Connections”: An intern program for the adult graduates of the Discipleship program. Through counseling, education and training, participants in this program are able to complete their GED, are taught basic life skills, and receive vocational training and career development assistance as they prepare to re-enter the community.

Dream Center Teen Discipleship: For youth between the ages of 12 and 17 years old, the Dream Center Teen Discipleship program is a residential ten-month Christ-centered program that specializes in academics, substance abuse training, anger management, character development and behavior management.

DC Academy: DC Academy is a private Christian school. The primary purpose of the school is to provide a structured and supervised environment for residents of the Dream Center Teen Discipleship (DCTD) program to continue their education. Recently, we opened our program to the community and now allow non-residents to attend.

Foster Care and Orphan Outreach: Every month, teams will adopt two families referred to our Director of Foster Care and Orphan Outreach, by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). Our role is to assist the family in every way possible by providing food, clothing, furniture, case management and spiritual support; whatever it takes to keep the children in the home.

Hope for Homeless Youth: A one-year residential program for young adults, ages 18-24. A weekly outreach, this at-risk youth program rescues runaways from the streets of Hollywood. The kids come for the lights and the glamour, but soon find themselves homeless and hooked into prostitution or drug dealing in order to survive. This program provides an escape from the streets and options to return to their families or preparation for life as contributing members of the community.

Metro Kidz: Targeting at-risk children with a message of hope, volunteers reach over 1,500 children every week. Using Nickelodeon-style skits to teach character development, the goal is to build relationships with the kids and their families with the purpose of addressing their spiritual and physical needs.

Lord’s Gym Community Center: The Gym is open Monday-Saturday for league play and community center activities. Sports leagues include basketball, soccer, boxing and karate. The café and fitness center offer employment opportunities to the youth of the community.

Under the Bridge: This daily outreach provides 4,800 meals a month to homeless persons living on the streets (literally under bridges and bypasses) and those that are living in motels or shelters.