The amount each family pays for services is determined by a sliding fee scale. Larger buses are available for charter by non-profit community service organizations. Traveling within a 50 mile radius of their point of origin, charter buses also transport senior citizens and community groups to special events and recreational facilities, public hearings, conference sites, and similar events. Qualified homeowners receive free assistance in yard clean-up, house painting, minor kitchen and bath repairs, and roof patching. These services can help prevent home accidents and costly major repairs.
Priority is given to low-income senior citizens and disabled homeowners.
These programs benefit not only individual community residents by reducing their monthly energy costs, but also the larger Los Angeles community by reducing the need to build more power plants. Case management and medical emergency services are provided in a homelike environment with an emphasis on individual counseling, patient advocacy and developing linkages with community services. Each client has one roommate and learns cooperative, as well as independent, living skills. When an individual is ready to live alone, he or she receives help in finding a job, housing and trans-portation. Most people remain in the program for six to 12 months.