Multiple Assistance Center
The Multiple Assistance Center (MAC) is a community-living program for families in transition that combines safe and clean temporary housing with in-depth case management and on-site direct services. Opened in April 2005, the MAC is a year-round, 24-hour staffed facility where families are challenged and supported to move from crisis toward stability and finally to self-sufficiency.
Multiple Assistance Center
Front Office
(707) 269-9590
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The MAC provides a hospitable environment where families with children find respect, dignity, and comprehensive integrated services to assist them in overcoming the challenges of homelessness.
Our goal is to guide each family to achieve increased security, acquire the knowledge and skills to obtain permanent housing, and sustain the healthy lifestyle necessary for stability and growth. To accomplish this goal, the MAC offers a constellation of services to participants, including:
- On-site case management;
- An on-site licensed daycare equipped to provide supportive groups for children ages 2-5 and an array of activities to foster intellectual and emotional development;
- A licensed kitchen that serves three nutritious meals a day;
- Life Skill classes;
- A therapeutic children’s program for children of all ages: and
- Outpatient mental health services on-site, with individual, family and group counseling available.
Each component of the MAC program is designed to both assist participants in reintegration within the larger community and to gain increased physical and emotional health while working toward self-sufficiency. Classes and groups are designed to strengthen family bonds and communication; interrupt the cyclical nature of poverty, homelessness, addiction and violence; and sharpen the life skills necessary to secure and maintain housing.
Recognizing that all individuals are an intrinsically valuable part of the community and differ in their needs, participants of the MAC meet with a case manager to address all facets of the family’s life, including: physical health, mental health, financial planning, educational development, parenting skills, parent/child attachment issues, childcare, housing and employment.
Both parents and children learn to live and contribute to a community, establish new social connections, accept and honor diversity, and work cooperatively with one another.
The MAC is Humboldt County’s largest transitional living program, receiving broad-based support from government, public, private, nonprofit and community sectors.
The development of the MAC began in 1992 as a collaborative community effort including the City of Eureka, County of Humboldt, Redwood Community Action Agency, St. Joseph of Orange County, Humboldt County Children and Family’s Commission and numerous other nonprofit agencies and community service clubs, organizations and private citizens.
As of July 2008, the MAC has worked in collaboration with Humboldt County Department of Health & Human Services—Social Services Branch CalWORKs/Welfare-To-Work Program to serve Humboldt County residents even more effectively. RCAA’s long-term goal is to develop programs through which people can become more self-sufficient and empowered to improve their own lives.
MAC Children’s Program Brochure
