RISE

Interfaith Community Services, founded in 1979 and headquartered in Escondido, Calif., offers various services to sick and underprivileged community. The center provides many services, such as food assistance, clothing and transportation vouchers, and tokens. It also offers assistance with identification cards, health care services, and medication to senior citizens and community. The organization offers shelter, housing and employment services to senior, women, men and adolescents. Its Transitional Youth Academy works with county probation, foster care, juvenile court, and tri-city schools to identify people with various needs. The academy offers academic training and high school diploma, career assessments, one-on-one mentoring, paid pre-apprenticeship programs and placement services in various trades. It offers financial literacy training to the needy. The organization also provides soft skills training, vocational case management, behavioral health and case management services, and gang prevention and intervention services.