Program Sites

Our Story
CAUSE began as two separate organizations, CAUSE in Ventura County in 2001 and PUEBLO in Santa Barbara County in 2003, which both emerged during the nationwide living wage movement and won milestone victories to create a living wage region on the Central Coast, lifting wages for thousands of workers. In 2013, the two organizations joined forces, and CAUSE took on PUEBLO’s work in Santa Barbara County, creating a regional organization for social, economic and environmental justice.

CAUSE's Mission
CAUSE is a base-building organization committed to social, economic, and environmental justice for working-class and immigrant communities in California’s Central Coast. We build grassroots power through community organizing, leadership development, coalition building, civic engagement, policy research, and advocacy.  

CAUSE's vision is that together we can create a global community where we all contribute to, and benefit from, a sustainable economy that is just, prosperous and environmentally healthy.

Students are approved to serve at the following Centro del Pueblo sites:

1. Main Office: 3008 Broadway, Eureka
2. Jardín Santuario/Sanctuary Garden sites at 11th & F Streets, Arcata
3. 3750 Rohnerville Rd, Fortuna
4. 45 Fellowship Way, Bayside (Greenhouse)
5. 2292 Newburg Rd,...

Vision Statement
Honoring the Past, Living in the Present, Looking Towards the Future.

Mission Statement
The mission of the Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria is to preserve and promote our cultural and traditional beliefs; improve quality of life and self-sufficiency; uphold tribal sovereignty; create positive partnerships; and protect the environment in order to provide a healthy community, honor our elders, and guide our youth.

Guiding Principle
It is with faith in The Creator that we undertake these tasks and it shall be with a spirit of respect and cooperation that we reach these goals.

The Chicken Ranch Rancheria Me-Wuk Indians of California historically flourished as a relatively moderate sized community of Me-Wuk natives in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Our original hunting and gathering territories stretched from the Table Mountain area of New Melones to the rolling hills of the lower Red Hills area. The proliferation of the land by mining and logging operations over the past 150+ years, intertwined with with western settlers purchasing repatriated land in the area, the historical territory of our Chicken Ranch Rancheria was reduced to their current 2.85 acre parcel just below the south eastern face of Table Mountain.

In 1985 we received our Federal Recognition as an autonomous Native American Tribe of California. In efforts to be economically self sustaining, we opened one of the first Native bingo halls in the state of California. Since 1985 we have expanded the bingo hall into our currently operating casino, medical clinic, and hotel, in addition to our new Tribal government building which oversees operations and policy of the organization as a whole.

The Chicken Ranch Rancheria Me-Wuk Indians of California are dedicated to provide an empowering and enlightening environment for current and future generations of this Tribe, whilst acknowledging that our local non-native community is also a cherished vessel of friends, family, and cohorts.

The Children’s Legacy Center is a nongovernment agency partnering successfully with multiple government agencies and medical partners to drive real change through procedure, practice, and policy. This collaboration is changing the trajectory of children’s lives and will ensure the next generation of adults has the foundation to reach their ultimate potential.

City Net was formed in Long Beach, CA, in 2003 in part to streamline homelessness services in the city by establishing and leading a collaboration among faith congregations, city government, and nonprofit organizations. City Net worked in partnership with these providers to develop collective, systems-wide goals, strategic action plans, and measurable results and thus—by promoting collaboration over competition—helped create and lead an initiative that was partially responsible for a 26% reduction in homelessness in Long Beach (City of Long Beach, 2015).

By 2014, City Net’s work proved so effective that the City of Anaheim asked us to replicate our impact in Orange County. Since then, we have expanded our services through contracts across all of California. The multi-sector collaborations we lead through these contracts have transitioned thousands of people from the streets to housing.

Today, we work together to provide services that will result in ending street-level homelessness through the provision of street-outreach, case management, housing navigation, bridge-housing, non-congregate shelter operation, reunifications, census coordination, and more. City Net also works to mobilize community resources, including meals, volunteers, donations and advocacy, to coordinate care in emergency shelters, parks, and other public areas where homeless neighbors live. These efforts seek to reduce wasteful duplication and fill missing gaps in the continuum of care, with the long-term goal of ending homelessness by providing homeless neighbors a stable context in which their emergency needs are met, so they can work on long-term housing plans.

City of Arcata: Environmental Services includes the following:

• Parks, Facilities & Natural Resources Division (also known as Community Services)
• Parks & Recreation Division
• Streets/Utilities Division
• Water/Wastewater Division

The Arcata Police Department (APD) welcomes Cal Poly Humboldt students in for-course-credit experiences, and might be able to accept a couple of students per semester, depending on current needs and staff availability. Please be aware of the following:

1. Students interested need to first read over...