BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELF- SUFFICIENCY
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Mission Statement
BOSS is dedicated to helping homeless, poor, and disabled people achieve health and self-sufficiency, and to fighting against the root causes of poverty and homelessness. BOSS develops solutions to mass homelessness, mass incarceration and community violence and is dedicated to the inclusion of people marginalized by addiction, trauma, criminality, incarceration, poverty, racism, sexism, homelessness and violence. BOSS programs in Berkeley, Oakland, San Leandro, and Hayward, California serve over 4,000 families and individuals every year.
About This Cause
BOSS operates the following programs, serving over 4,000 homeless, disabled, low income, violence-impacted, and justice system involved individuals every yearin Alameda County. Our programs fall into three core strategies: HOUSING SECURITY: BOSS operates a wide variety of housing solutions to help individuals and families escape homelessness and achieve lasting housing security and stability in the community, including emergency shelters, RV Safe Parking, Tiny Homes, housing navigation and landlord advocacy, rental assistance, supported independent living (permanent housing programs), and reentry housing. WELLNESS AND EMPOWERMENT CAMPUS: BOSS provides comprehensive services to violence-impacted individuals, families, and communities in the City of Oakland, through an alliance with other organizations dedicated to violence prevention, community healing, and socio-economic empowerment. Services on-site at the Campus include: education, training, and employment; health/mental health services; violence prevention and intervention; post-violence support to victims and survivors; community healing activities; leadership development; entrepreneurship opportunities; and more. SOCIAL JUSTICE: BOSS promotes policy solutions, movement-building, and the training and development of new leaders from impacted communities both internally (over 50% of staff and 80% in reentry programs have lived experience, and over 40% of Board Members) and externally, pursuing local, regional, state, and national policy solutions in collaboration with advocacy organizations dedicated to ending racist and systemic socio-economic exclusion - e.g. Californians for Safety and Justice, Alliance for Justice, Time Done, Re-Entry Providers of California, California Black Power Network, and others.