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About Us

Volunteers of America, is a national, nonprofit, faith-based organization dedicated to helping those in need rebuild their lives and reach their full potential.

Founded in 1896 by social reformers Ballington and Maud Booth, Volunteers of America was envisioned as a movement whose mission would be to "reach and uplift all" – to "go wherever we are needed and do whatever comes to hand."

Those principles have guided Volunteers of America’s outreach efforts ever since.


For additional questions regarding Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada, see our FAQs page, call us at 916.442.3691, or e-mail info@voa-sac.org.

For more information on Volunteers of America's history, visit the national office's home page at www.volunteersofamerica.org.
For your inspiration
The object of every Volunteer, as well as the movement as a whole, will be to sacrifice and suffer for others –– to bring hope to the hopeless, gladness to the saddened heart ....

Ballington and Maud Booth, founders, Volunteers of America

Homeless services
Housing Assistance Program
Substance abuse counseling
Homeless shelters
Bannon Street Shelter
A Street Shelter
Open Arms
Winter Shelter
Treatment & recovery services
Options for Recovery [treatment]
Alcohol Treatment Center
Substance abuse counseling
Residential Treatment Center
Mental health services
Community Outreach Service
Halcyon Place
Senior services
Senior Safe House
Affordable housing coordination
Transitional housing
Mather Community Campus
Independent Living Readiness
Options for Recovery [transitional]
Former foster youth housing
Transitional Housing for Women
Transitional Housing for Families
Permanent supportive housing
Hope House
Nova House
Omega Project
Halcyon Place
Youth services
Former foster youth housing
Children's Emergency Shelter