OUR PHILOSOPHY
If you’re around homeless services for very long, you quickly realize that individuals experiencing homelessness need more than services. Those impacted need acknowledgement, friendship, dignity, and a voice in their own paths. They need a trauma-informed environment where in hope and healing might thrive.
They need a community that’s not just merciful, but restorative.
With our many friends and partners, we’ve come to understand some groundwork principles:
1. Poverty is far more than a lack of material resources, or a lack of access to services. It is a lack of agency for oneself, in all the physical, economic, emotional, social and spiritual dimensions of that.
2. Deficiency-oriented social services models have a hole in them. When we focus solely on poverty as material lack, we can unintentionally reinforce a cycle of habitual need without ever effectively addressing the absence of personal agency. To define individuals only by what they need is to force a needful self-identity on them. It robs them of nuance and dimension.
3. A holistic social services model must be assets-oriented. It meets urgent material needs, but it also intentionally values the skills, knowledge and experiences of each individual and creates avenues to leverage those assets into agency.
4. Holistic poverty reversal takes time. Cycles of impoverishment become deeply ingrained, and it's only through the sustained, long-term support of trusted friends and safe environments that those cycles can be interrupted. Constant encouragement, possibility and shared resilience are game-changing ingredients. This is doubly true for heavily traumatized populations like those experiencing homelessness.
We're exploring new ways to embody these principles in all that we do - from our holistic healing spaces like the RECOVERY CAFE WEST SACRAMENTO and the workforce development initiatives in our J.A.M ACADEMY, to our CalAIM CASE MANAGEMENT TEAM and the supportive services we provide at the City of West Sacramento's PROJECT HOMEKEY. No matter where we are, our goal is to build pockets of restorative community that can empower individuals and break cycles, allowing us all to thrive together.
OUR VALUES:
CULTURAL HUMILITY - We want to hear and understand, not dictate and assume. We seek to identify and harpoon our own entitlement.
DIVERSITY - We are awed by the richness, beauty and strength of the full human kaleidoscope. We seek to live and work in its nexus.
EQUALITY - We are allies and advocates for the marginalized in any context. We consider ourselves to be agents of change wherever there are disparities.
INCLUSION - The unseen, rejected and dismissed are our family. We have a seat at the table for all whose identities have been marred by culture or circumstance.
ENCOURAGEMENT - We see and speak the good. We see and speak the beauty. We see and speak the noble, the laudable, and the admirable.
RESPECT - We honor others. We appreciate alternative viewpoints. We meet people where they are, rather than judging where we think they should be.
ADAPTABILITY - We take joy in our agility when things don’t go as planned. (And let’s face it: things rarely go as planned.)
LOVE - We believe in possibility, in each other, that love and kindness are the keys to successful recovery.
OUR MISSION:
We are a diverse and inclusive community collaborative intent on creating restorative community by providing a circular ecosystem of social and recovery services to the unhoused and underserved of West Sacramento.
OUR VISION:
We want to help build a West Sacramento where everyone has a sustainable pathway to physical, emotional, mental and spiritual shelter, and where acceptance and encouragement are the two resources that encase every other.
We envision a community of people from different backgrounds, different faiths, different races & ethnicities, and different ideologies, linked in unity by a surpassing ethic of selfless service to the most vulnerable, and to one another.
1) Funding for Emergency Food – In 2025, MC provided 28,985 emergency lunches to the City of West Sacramento’s Project Homekey and West Sac social services. However, the need continues to rise as does the price of groceries. While we are grateful for our community partners, we are unable to keep up with the increasing cost on our own, affecting budget allocations and therefore other programming. We need your help to keep up with these demands and ensure that we are able to continue to serve our community.
2) Operating Support - We do so many cool things and we're lucky to have a number of grants and contracts, but those funds remain restricted to specific programs and activities and prevent us from reaching a target liquidity for sustainable operations. In other words, our programs may be funded but we still need your help to keep the lights on! With your help, we can build a Mosaic Village future that does not rely on restricted funding to keep our doors open.
3) Mosaic Village Housing Project - What started as a whisper and a wild idea has turned into multi-organization collaboration that will quite literally transform the landscape of social services on Drever Street. With plans for a new, larger, Recovery Cafe building with commercial kitchen, computer lab, and meeting space, an adjacent building for the operation of a partner non-profit (C4K), community garden, and the construction of 16 to 20 units of permanent supportive housing about to begin, this dream has become a moral imperative. Although we have a decent head start, we need your help to get to the finish line. We want to face the housing crisis head on but we can't do it without you.
4) Capacity Building - We are so excited at how much we've grown over the past few years but we're starting to feel a little cramped. We're reorganizing and finding our fit but that also means we need things like office furniture, supplies, and IT infrastructure. Your monthly donation will help ensure that we are growing at a sustainable pace and therefore able to continue to serve our community and further the reach of our mission.
Mosaic West Sac is passionate about inclusion, equity and diversity, and we strive to foster a sense of belonging and empowerment within our office, across the services we provide, and the community at large. On a daily basis, we strive to provide a host of services and a framework of trauma-informed support to our diverse clientele, staff, and volunteers. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are integral parts of Mosaic West Sac history, organizational culture, and identity.
Organization name
Mosaic West Sac
2017
Mission Category
Human Services
Operating Budget
$500,001-$1 million
Organization Need
Funding: Unrestricted
Demographics Served
Low-income individuals/families, Homeless/Underhoused/Unhoused, Individuals with disabilities
Local Counties Served
Yolo
Equity Statement
Equity Statement
Address
929 Drever St.West Sacramento, CA, US
Yolo, CA, US