With this most urgent need met, other programs and groups can concentrate on long-term solutions. In Los Angeles County people are becoming homeless each day. As the economy fluctuates, thousands lose their jobs, end up on the streets and cannot seem to re-enter the mainstream of life. These people include men, women and children. Downtown, service agencies are overcrowded and demands placed on individuals turn many away.
Many groups only serve women and children.
Those who cannot wait or submit to demands, most men, and those ineligible or unrehabilitative, have nowhere to turn. Frontline's food means life to these people. The non-profit organization's program is innovatively simple. It begins when food is collected from various sources such as food drives in schools, in front of supermarkets, and from companies. Instead of securing food from manufacturers, which can be very time consuming, Castellani goes directly to the people, involving thousands in the entity of giving, and gaining new volunteers at the same time.