BAY POINT COMMUNITY ALL N ONE
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Mission Statement
Bay Point Community All N One, Inc. (All N One) has made its mission to improve the quality of life primarily for the men, women, children and families of Bay Point, an unincorporated town of approximately 24,000 people. We do this by providing assistance with food, clothing, furniture and educational seminars in health, nutrition and financial management. Additionally, our non-profit distributes food and clothes to other charitable organizations within Contra Costa County. Our primary focus is to have accessible and consistent social, economic and educational services to the financially disadvantaged, underfed, at-risk, displaced and homeless, who are approximately 22 percent of our population (U.S. Census American Community Survey 2012-2016). In unison with local churches, other non-profits and individuals, we accomplish our goals and promote solutions that enhance a better quality of life for our residents.
About This Cause
All N One implements its services by feeding the hungry, at-risk and homeless. Every third and fourth Saturday morning, we join First AME Church at their kitchen in Bay Point to prepare and to serve breakfast to all who enter its doors. Without fail, each Saturday All N One's meal team is at Anuta Park, off Willow Pass Road, to provide lunch from 11 a.m. to noon. During those lunchtime meals, we dispense hygiene products, fresh produce and groceries as well as clothing to the homeless. These items are given out on a regular basis at all our town events; furthermore, they are available to anyone, who contacts us and asks for them or other various means of aid. Working hand-in-hand with other nearby organizations enables All N One to have the ability to provide resources through an extensive network of partnerships. We are thankful and blessed for our connection with Fruit of the Spirit Community Church; through them we have established our organization’s physical home location. One of our principle associates is White Pony Express; they contribute the much needed fresh, excellent quality vegetables and fruit, the shoes and new apparel for most of our local events. This is but one of our methods to better serve the community. Currently, we are in search of a local open field that can be developed into a large community garden, so that many of the underfed whom we serve can then learn to be self-sufficient by growing seasonal vegetables on their plots of land. Contact with the rich, earthy soil combined with exposure to the open air and sunlight have many lasting benefits: access to fresh produce, improved nutrition and health, money saved by growing some food, a sense of ownership in the community, new found interest as a steward of the land and self-pride as the individual accomplishes the acts of cultivating and harvesting one's vegetables and fruit. These are personal growth opportunities when one learns about horticulture, but also there are employment possibilities. One can develop skills in soil analysis, learning garden management, operating a produce stand as a micro-business, establishing a seed library, grafting fruit trees, and so forth. Homelessness is a significant social and health problem not only in large metropolitan areas, but also in small towns such as ours. Within Bay Point there is a disproportionate number of men, who are vagrant and living on the community trails, in the pockets of densely wooded areas and isolated plots of undeveloped land. Another local charitable organization has a women’s shelter that takes in single women and women with children. We have studied the issue over several years and have plans for a small, leased men’s shelter that will offer one-stop services: linked to social services for physical, mental and dental health care, visiting barbers, visiting clothing boutique, transportation service by van (will be owned by All N One) to ensure timely arrival to medical and dental appointments, on-site manager, house rules, personal mentors for each individual, an established work schedule for both inside and outside of the shelter that will include: maintenance of the shelter building and its surrounding property as well as to help clean the trails, paint over graffiti, and work in the garden. When the individuals have been vetted and are prepared, they will have access to retraining by way of skilled trade program that exists in Pittsburg and through courses offered at Los Medanos College and Diablo Valley College. Both junior colleges are within 10 miles of Bay Point. This gradual process will lead to employment within Bay Point and neighboring cities. All N One and its partners will help our men transition into private housing. The items necessary to have a proper, functioning household will be provided and the mentor will guide the individual on how to regularly and fully maintain his household. If any man is a father, whose family lives in the local women’s shelter, then he will be in proximity to his loved ones. As each member of the family is reintegrated into society as an interconnected group, All N One and our associates will follow a similar arrangement that benefited the individual men, so too, the family can adapt to their new lifestyle. Having limited space available to create a men’s only shelter is the best temporary solution we have for now, Under our purview, the public is welcome to attend our financial and health education seminars, which are held every other month. It is our goal to have bi-monthly seminars varying in related themes. Residents of Bay Point do openly participate through question and answer sessions, in which they receive informative, bi-lingual literature because our population is predominately Latino. In keeping with our focus on community wellness, we invite AA to hold its meetings in our space every Saturday evening throughout the year. Annually we promote various functions from January through December. They all have developed in response to the need coming from our town’s people. During this past chilly winter on Saturday, the 20th January 2018, we and Fruit of the Spirit Community Church held a Winter Clothing Giveaway for our residents. In partnership with Ruah Community, Bay Point All N One helps with Black History Month education in the month of February. The Bay Point Annual Get-To-Know-Your-Neighbor Community Picnic is held in April on the back lawn of the Ambrose Community Center. The annual April Bike Rodeo sponsored by the Contra Costa Sheriff’s department is an occasion in which we participate by donating bicycles and helmets for the youths of Bay Point. During one day in both the months of May and October, members of Bay Point Community All N One, our local Sheriff’s deputies and volunteers work together to remove litter and debris from various open trails and paint walls to cover graffiti. As a number of these trails are used by our children to reach their schools, we do not want to normalize blight as acceptable living condition in our town. By mid-June the Emancipation Proclamation event shares the history of Juneteenth along with a lecture and a free lunch. For the past three years, the Grown Women's Collective invites up to 20 of our local children, who are blessed with the opportunity to see live dance performances, hear music and the spoken word for which Juneteenth is celebrated. All the dancers had careers in eminent American professional ballet troupes. Recently, All N One has accepted an administrative role to host the Unity in the Community Day, which is held on the side lawn of the Ambrose Center. This activity also occurs in June. As many as 55 agencies and non-profit organizations have tables set with health, financial and educational resource materials, which are made available to the residents of Bay Point. Before school starts, All-N-One and Ambrose Recreation and Park District co-sponsor the Backpack Giveaway in August. As the name implies, students accompanied by a parent attending this event will receive a backpack filled with school supplies along with some new clothing and free new books for pleasure reading. Vouchers for vaccines are dispensed and immunization appointments for school-age children can be made. Our students in 2017 were blessed to receive 1,500 backpacks with supplies. When the year-end holidays approach, All-N-One, Ambrose Recreation and Park District and various partners gather together to organize a traditional Thanksgiving feast on the actual holiday. For the past five years dining tables have been set-up at Ambrose Community Center, where individuals, couples and families have been graciously served. Our Senior citizens, shut-ins and homeless (who don't want to be in the auditorium or dining room) have their meals delivered by sheriff deputies, who warmly greet each person. In 2017, 1,000 residents were fed during this event. The approach of December is a reminder that Christmas is near. A wonderful dinner and toy giveaway in Bay Point is sponsored by the Contra Costa Sheriff’s department also within our beloved Ambrose Community Center. All-N-One donates toys for this event. Later in December, we join with Ruah Community to teach and to celebrate Kwanzaa in rotation at all of our schools. Currently, we seek financial donors, who will aid Bay Point Community All N One, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization with funds to continue its good work. We look to such donors, who have a culture that promotes local engagement, encourages its staff to volunteer and enables us to strive for improved health and well-being within our town. In order for Bay Point Community All N One to carry on with its various civic traditions that advance a better quality of life for the local inhabitants, benefactors are necessary to provide life support to buoy the outreach programs which serve a significant population beset with issues of poor health, unemployment, substance abuse and poverty in our urban area (U.S. Census American Community Survey 2012 – 2016), (Disadvantaged Community per California State Office of Environment Health Hazard Assessment). Upon receipt of funding, not only we will prominently recognize our donors on our website, but also invite representatives of your company or corporation to witness the progress made possible through your generous financial support. Join with us, in the spirit of unity and respect, to make advancement in our little part of the world. We do our best to bring individuals together, who share a core belief in the dignity of humankind, irrespective of one’s economic status, faith, race or sexual orientation in society, to make a positive transformation within our community. Peace be with you.