The Children’s Lifesaving Foundation (CLF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to changing the lives of at-risk and homeless children and their parents by providing comprehensive child and family services that transform lives. Our unique programs work together to promote self-sufficiency, confidence, leadership skills and a sense of family that inspire the children to become real contributors to their local and global communities. Our programs are offered free-of-charge to at-risk and homeless youth, from the ages of 5 through 17.
We help and support homeless families to move into new homes, provide a year-round “Care through College” Learning Center for their children, a Summer Camp FUN Enrichment Program for them-and an additional 500 shelter-bound children each year, as well as an amazing Project Angel Wings Holiday Program, which provides outstanding Thanksgiving Day, Holiday, and gift-giving events for over 1,500 LA-area residents of homeless shelters and very low-income and at-risk elementary school students. These programs uniquely bring children, their families, and the local community together with lasting volunteer and corporate sponsorship opportunities.
Since 1993, the CLF has:
Enriched the lives of over 45,000 at-risk, homeless and very low-income children and parents through its Summer Camp FUN Enrichment, Project Angel Wings Holiday and Adopt-A-Family Programs and services.
Transitioned over 40 Families into their own homes
Awarded 41 College Scholarships to deserving teens and young mothers.
The Children’s Lifesaving Foundation was originally formed by Maria D’Angelo in 1993 to provide primary and preventative health care to homeless and at-risk children. These children were either chronically or terminally ill with cancer, pediatric AIDS, asthma or diabetes, or needed specialized or reconstructive surgery, skin grafts due to burns, along with subsequent medical & psychological attention.
In finding and working with these children, we realized that some needed much more than medical attention. Many of these children had never been out of their dangerous, inner-city environment; they had never been to the ocean, to Disneyland, certainly never to a camp setting.
We found that there are a large number of economically deprived children who suffer emotionally, psychologically and, quite often, physically - from the harsh urban environment in which they live and endure on a daily basis. As we began bringing children into the peaceful and naturally beautiful environment of the Santa Monica Mountains, we realized how quick, transforming and truly life-changing the results really were. They are at great risk of perpetuating the cycle of poverty and despair in which they are growing up. This is the vital reason why Maria D’Angelo, Founder, President and CEO, founded the Spring and Summer Camp Enrichment Program. The main goal and focus of the CLF soon became to bring shelter bound, low-income and at-risk youth up into the Santa Monica Mountains to have the absolute summer of a lifetime!
At the Circle X Ranch in Malibu, over 30,500 children, teens and their parents have attended the Children's Lifesaving Foundation's camps to date. They have come throughout the year from shelters, missions, Boys and Girls Clubs, elementary and high schools, churches and other organizations dealing with at-risk youth.
By creating two additional programs in 1994, the Adopt-A-Family Program and Project Angel’s Wings Program, and Kids Helping Kids, and most recently, the “Care through College” Learning Center in Santa Monica, the CLF has found more positive, affirmative and permanent ways to further the great benefits and advantages realized for these at-risk and homeless children, teens and their families.
Today, we have served well over 45,000 children, and additionally, several hundred parents and families, through our unique and collaborative programs.
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