OUR MISSION
Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to alleviate poverty and restore self-sufficiency and dignity.
Would you like to help make Christmas wishes come true? Transition House’s Secret Santa program ensures that children living in our family shelter will not go without on Christmas morning, and parents will not worry about being able to provide gifts for their children.
Helping families find stable housing is our number one goal at Transition House, and our clients cannot achieve that goal until they have the necessary income to pay rent and cover their household expenses. For most families in our community…
Transition House’s Family Support Center is FREE and OPEN to the community! We offer free evening classes including English as a Second Language, Parenting, Job Club Workshop, Financial Literacy Workshops, as well as an Open Computer Lab.
The vast majority of shelter families came from the Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria areas.
Children from the shelter, our other housing locations, and from the community participated in a variety of our programs.
Nearly all parents gained, maintained, or increased employment income while in our program.
The majority of families succeed in transitioning to stable housing.
Transition House conducts ongoing programs for homeless children who are living at our emergency shelter, or past clients depending on need.
Our children’s program includes:
